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Tell us about your awards and accomplishments, or those of your colleagues. Send your contributions to Sara Selis by e-mail selis@stanford.edu or fax (650) 723-7172, or call her at (650) 723-7798.

AARON J.W. HSUEH, professor of gynecology and obstetrics, received the Roy O. Greep Lecture Award from The Endocrine Society for outstanding contributions to research. As award recipient, Hsueh presented a plenary lecture titled "Completing the Genomic Puzzle: Pairing Polypeptide Hormones and Receptors" at ENDO 2002, the 84th annual meeting of the society in June in San Francisco. He has contributed to the field of ovarian research by investigating follicular cell apoptosis, the molecular biology of gonadtropin receptors, and the gonadtropin and growth factor actions in the ovary.

TINA M. COWAN was appointed associate professor of pathology and of pediatrics. A diplomate of the American Board of Medical Genetics (biochemical/molecular genetics), Cowan joins Stanford from a faculty post at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, where she directed the biochemical genetics laboratory. She directs the newly established biochemical genetics laboratory at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Her research focuses on inborn errors of galactose metabolism.

LONNY LEIGHTON ROSS joined the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery as a cranio-maxillofacial fellow in July. Ross received his medical degree in 1997 from the University of Manitoba, where he completed a five-year plastic surgery residency in June 2002. Currently he is a co-investigator for a clinical trial study titled "Complicated Skin and Skin Structure Infections." Ross is a member of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and is a resident member of the American Society of Plastic Surgery.

BRUCE BUCKINGHAM was appointed associate professor of pediatrics at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Formerly the director of pediatric endocrinology and metabolism at Children's Hospital of Orange County, he joined Stanford in 1998 as a clinical associate professor and staff physician and director of pediatric endocrinology at Valley Medical Center. He focuses on the prevention and treatment of diabetes. His publications relate to diabetes and to other areas of pediatric endocrinology including hypoparathyroidism, Turner syndrome and congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

IRIS GIBBS, assistant professor of radiation oncology, was selected as a featured guest speaker for the seventh annual National Brain Tumor Foundation conference, to be held Sept. 20 and 21. The annual meeting and first interactive video-broadcast will take place simultaneously in the Bay Area, Denver and Phoenix. The conference, titled "Connecting in the Present, Looking Toward the Future," is for brain tumor patients, family members and health professionals.

RAMONA L. DOYLE was promoted to associate professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care medicine) and, by courtesy, of pediatrics. Doyle, who has been with Stanford since 1995, serves as co-director of the Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease and medical director of the heart-lung/ lung transplant program. Her scholarly work focuses on problems of rejection, acute and chronic, in lung transplantation, and on pulmonary vascular disease and pulmonary hypertension.

ALBERT C. KOONG, assistant professor of radiation oncology, was selected for a Damon Runyon-Lilly Clinical Investigator Award for research on "Modulation of protein kinase C as a novel hypoxia-specific therapeutic strategy." The award, which totals $1.2 million, is granted to outstanding young physicians and their research mentors with the aim of addressing the national shortage of clinical investigators available to translate scientific breakthroughs into new patient treatments. Koong's mentors are radiation oncology faculty members Sarah Donaldson, the Catharine and Howard Avery Professor, and Amato Giaccia, an associate professor.

DANIEL J. MURPHY was appointed associate professor of pediatrics (cardiology). Murphy joined Stanford in 2001 as a staff physician. His scholarly work focuses on non-invasive techniques for the evaluation of complex congenital heart disease and long-term follow-up of patients with surgical repair or palliative treatment of congenital heart disease.

MARLENE RABINOVITCH was appointed professor of pediatrics, with tenure, and, by courtesy, of developmental biology. She joins Stanford from the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, where she served as director of cardiovascular research. Rabinovitch will direct research and pediatric cardiology research at the Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease. Her research focuses on extracellular matrix in vascular remodeling and on the role of elastases and its inhibitors in the development of pulmonary hypertension, atherosclerosis and post-transplant graft coronary diseases. Her work has led to new ways to re-engineer blood vessels and to reverse established disease.

SAMUEL SO, associate professor of surgery and director of Stanford's Asian Liver Center, was recently recognized by the City and County of San Francisco for his work on liver cancer and hepatitis B among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. The city and county passed a resolution commending the Asian Liver Center and its Jade Ribbon Campaign for "spearheading education, outreach and advocacy efforts to spread awareness about hepatitis B and liver cancer prevention in the Bay Area's Asian and Pacific Islander community."