SUMC in the News (12/19/08)
Print media coverage
San Jose Mercury News, 12/19/08
Mountain View family appreciates the little things after rare double surgery saves mom, son
Doctors at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital helped deliver the unborn, premature baby of a woman who slipped into a liver-failure-induced coma. They performed a cesarean section, immediately followed by liver transplant surgery at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. The team of doctors includes: William Benitz,? the Philip Sunshine, M.D., Professor and chief of neonatology; Maurice Druzin, the Charles B. and Ann L. Johnson Professor and chief of obstetrics; Carlos Esquivel, the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Professor in Pediatric Transplantation and chief of transplant surgery; and Tami Daugherty, clinical assistant professor of gastroenterology and hepatology.
Palo Alto Weekly, 12/19/08
A home away from home
This article profiles a Palo Alto family who lends their guest cottage to families with hospitalized children being treated at Packard Children's. Erin Champion, manager of the LPCH housing program, provides comment.
Internet/ New media coverage
Forbes.com, 12/18/08
An immune rhythm
A new Stanford study has found that the body's immunity may be stronger at night. Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, a postdoctoral scholar in microbiology and immunology, is quoted in this article.
Broadcast media coverage
KGO-AM, 12/18/08
In an essay in the journal Immunity, Mark Davis proposes that the current mouse-centered, small-laboratory approach to studying the immune system be supplemented by a broad, industrial-scale “systems biology” approach akin to the one that unraveled the human genome. Davis, the Burton and Marion Avery Family Professor and director of the Stanford Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, was interviewed during this segment.
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