We hope that each of you will make this your personal column. We are interested in accomplishments, honors or other news involving members of the medical staff or SHS community. Please tell us about your friends and colleagues. Or tell us about yourself. Send your contributions (they don't need to be neat or typed) to Mike Goodkind, Update, Stanford Medical Center News Bureau, 701 Welch Road, Suite 2207, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1702. Or contact him at (415) 725-5376 or 723-6911, by fax at 723-7172, or by e-mail |
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 STEVEN D. FEINBERG,
a partner with Alpha Omega Pain Medicine Associates Inc., on Welch Road, has received the 1998 Professional of the Year Award from the California Governor's Committee for Employment of Disabled Persons. The statewide honor - given to "a professional who has made extraordinary contributions to the employment of persons with disabilities" - was presented Oct. 14 in Anaheim.
DONALD J. PROLO, a longtime area neurosurgeon and clinical faculty member at Stanford, has received the Distinguished Service Award of the American Association of Tissue Banks, an organization he advises in neurosurgical uses of allograft tissue and in the development of standards to help ensure the safe use of tissue allografts. The award was presented in August in New Orleans. UTA FRANCKE, professor of genetics and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been appointed to serve on the NIH National Advisory Neurological Disorders and Stroke Council for a four-year term, which began in August. GREGORY HAMMER, associate director of the pediatric intensive care unit at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, has been promoted to associate professor of anesthesia and, by courtesy, of pediatrics. ALLAN REISS, Robbins Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has been selected this year's Distinguished Alumni Scholar by George Washington University, where he graduated from medical school in 1981. BRUCE STORRS, a pediatric neurosurgeon most recently affiliated with the University of New Mexico's Children's Hospital, has been appointed by UCSF Stanford Health Care officials to head the newly created neurosciences service line of Lucile Packard Children's Health Services. CARL FEINSTEIN, a renowned child psychiatrist and expert in biological develomental and pschodynamic psychiatry as applied to children and adolescents, has been named a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and, by courtesy, of pediatrics. RAYMOND GAETA, director of the nationally renowned Stanford Pain Clinic, has been promoted to associate professor of anesthesia. In addition to his clinical duties, he serves as a physician-architect for health information databases at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. SUSAN GALEL, a nationally recognized authority in the field of blood procurement, transfusion medicine and infection risks associated with transfusion, has been promoted to associate professor of pathology. Since 1992, she has served as an associate director of the Stanford Blood Center. L. BING LIEM, an expert on tachyarrhythmias and director of the Holter laboratory, has been promoted to associate professor of medicine (cardiovascular). PAUL YOCK, associate chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, has been promoted to professor of medicine (cardiovascular). The highly regarded interventional radiologist is an innovator in catheter design. |
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