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Our New Chief of Staff

 Renowned physician and researcher Hugh O’Brodovich, MD, has been named chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Stanford University’s School of Medicine and chief of staff at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. The appointment fills a vacancy left by the departure of Harvey Cohen, MD, PhD, who held the posts from 1993 until November 2006. O’Brodovich, a pediatric respiratory specialist, is the former chair of pediatrics at the University of Toronto and pediatrician-in-chief at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. He will assume his duties at Stanford and Packard Children’s on January 3, 2008.  
O’Brodovich was trained as a pediatric respiratory specialist at Canada’s University of Manitoba before completing a research fellowship in pediatric pulmonology at Columbia University in New York. He began his faculty career at McMaster University in Ontario before moving in 1986 to the University of Toronto as an associate professor of pediatrics. He was instrumental in establishing the Medical Research Council’s Group in Lung Development, and he was the inaugural head of the lung gene-based therapy research program at the Hospital for Sick Children.
 
In 2006, O’Brodovich stepped down after a 10-year tenure as the pediatrician-in-chief and chair of pediatrics at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto. These institutions have a mandated 10-year limit for leadership positions. During this time he became well known for increasing the number of full-time pediatric faculty members, overseeing a significant expansion in the fellowship and postdoctoral training programs, and establishing a new division of developmental pediatrics. He also developed a novel, performance-based career development and compensation program, some of which has been adopted across Canada.

Program Directors

In March 2007, we welcomed Dr. Bill Rhine as our Interim Pediatric Program Director.  He has been a leading physician with our Neonatology Department for many years as well as completing his residency at Stanford and brings much wisdom, experience, and guidance to our residency program.

Along with Dr. Rhine, we welcome as our Associate Program Directors:

Dr. John Mark, Pulmonology- Associate Director for Program Development, Recruitment and Head of the Diversity Committee

Drs. Laura Bachrach, Endocrine, and Rebecca Blankenburg, General Pediatrics- Associate Directors for Advising and Career Development.

Drs. Grace Cheng, General Pediatrics, and Arun Rangaswami, Hematology/Oncology- Associate Directors for Curriculum and Evaluation.

Dr. Carrie Loutit, General Pediatrics- Associate Director for Continuity Clinic Experience.

Philosophy and Mission

The philosophy of the Pediatric Residency Program at Stanford is to teach pediatric medicine by providing a broad-based exposure to the field through an optimal balance between general pediatrics, critical care and the pediatric subspecialties. We are committed to integrating service and education by offering:
- Comprehensive inpatient and outpatient sites of care
- Multiple interfaces between research and clinical care
- Diverse opportunities for child advocacy

The mission of our training program is to educate physicians who will be prepared at the end of their training to become leaders in the field of Pediatrics as healers, teachers, researchers, and advocates.

We do this by stimulating and developing:
- Excellence and responsibility in patient care
- Critical thinking and questioning
- Technical competence
- Sound medical judgment and professional integrity
- Commitment to self-directed and life-long learning

                    (not pictured: Drs. Loutit and Rangaswami)