SUMC in the News (12/12/06)

Press release

Stanford surgeon discusses Doctors Without Borders work in Ivory Coast
Sherry Wren, professor of surgery, discusses her recent experiences working in Ivory Coast, where a civil war has been raging since 2002 and medical facilities are lacking.

Print media coverage

San Jose Mercury News, 12/12/06
Free helicopter trips, financial aid are brainchild of SJPD officer Brain Simuro, a cancer survivor
This article describes the annual Christmas Fantasy Flight event, for children battling cancer, sponsored by the Cops Care Cancer Foundation. This Saturday, Santa will arrive at the San Jose Police Department's Moffett Field helicopter hangar. The foundation provides financial aid to families of children with cancer and also donates money to the Packard Children's Hospital and a survivor's scholarship fund. Analisa Velasquez, a social work clinician at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford, is quoted.

Asbury Park Press (Asbury Park, N.J.), 12/12/06
Study: Mid-shift nap boosts doctors
This HealthDay article discusses a recent Stanford study that showed that doctors and nurses who were allowed a short nap while working the night shift in an emergency room showed improved mood, a higher alertness level and the ability to complete a simulated I.V. insertion more quickly. Steven Howard, associate professor of anasthesia at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System, is quoted.

Canton Repository (Canton, Ohio), 12/12/06
Caught in the web: Internet obsession
This Washington Post article discusses a recent study on Internet addiction in which Stanford researchers that found more than one out of eight Americans exhibited at least one possible sign of problematic Internet use. Elias Aboujaoude, clinical assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences and director of Stanford's Impulse Control Disorders Clinic, is quoted.

Wichita Eagle (Wichita, Kan.), 12/12/06
Potion of youth?
In this article originally from the San Jose Mercury News, Sunil Dhawan, an adjunct clinical assistant professor, provides comment on whether or not various skin care products live up to their claims.

Broadcast media coverage

KGO-AM, 12/11/06
This segment discussed Norovirus. Lucy Tompkins, the Lucy Becker Professor in Medicine, was interviewed.

KQED-FM, 12/11/06
This segment discussed new guidelines from the CDC on preventing hepatitis. Samuel So, the Lui Hac Minh Professor in the School of Medicine and director of the Asian Liver Center, was interviewed.

KNTV-TV, 12/11/06
This segment discussed GeneSat-1, a project involving NASA and students from several universities including Stanford, in which E. coli bacteria are to be launched into space aboard a small satellite. GeneSat-1s goal is to help devise protocols for the study of genetic changes arising from the unique space environment.

KTXL-TV (Sacramento), 12/11/06
This segment discussed the new four-year medical school at UC Davis. Stanford is mentioned as one of only two other four-year medical schools in the area.