SUMC in the News (09/13/07)
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Forum with Michael Kransy (KQED-FM), 09/14/07
Michael Alvarez, director of the School of Medicine career center, will be part of a panel discussing why doctors are choosing specialties over family medicine.
Print media coverage
Time.com, 09/13/07
Experimental cooling used on Everett
Buffalo Bills player Kevin Everett suffered a spinal cord injury on Sunday and was put into a hypothermic state as part of his early treatment. Gary Steinberg, the Bernard and Ronni Lacroute-William Randolph Hearst Professor in Neurosurgery and Neurosciences, provides comment in this Associated Press piece, which also appears on Boston.com, CBS.com, FOXNews.com, and in the Arizona Daily Sun, Denver Post, Houston Chronicle, Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles Times, New Orleans Times, New York Times, Newsday (New York), Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Times and USA Today.
Stanford Magazine, September/October 2007
Stanford opens human embryonic stem cell lab
This article discusses embryonic stem cell research at Stanford. Renee Reijo Pera, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and director of human embryonic stem cell research and education for Stanford's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, is quoted. Christopher Scott, director of the Program on Stem Cells in Society in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, is also featured in a sidebar on stem cells and clinical trials.
Screen savers
Maren Grainger-Monsen, senior research scholar and director of the Biomedical Ethics in Film Program at the SCBE, is profiled in this feature.
Learning the ropes
This article discusses the Goodman Simulation Center at Stanford. Mary-Anne Purtill, clinical assistant professor of surgery; Sandra Feaster, program director of the center; and Catherine Mohr, an instructor in the Department of Surgery, are featured.
Student-athletes and mental health
Hans Steiner, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, is featured in this article on his program aimed at combating stress among student athletes.
Broadcast media coverage
KNBC-TV (Los Angeles), 09/11/07
New research shows that lowering blood levels of an inflammation-linked amino acid called homocysteine won't help people with serious kidney disease live any longer. The work was led by Rex Jamison, professor of medicine, emeritus, who was interviewed during this segment.
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