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. Or contact him at (650) 725-5376 or 723-6911, by fax at 723-7172, or by e-mail. |
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 JOHN W. FARQUHAR, professor of medicine and director of the Stanford Wellness Center, is one of two recipients of the 1999 Joseph Stokes Award in Preventive Cardiology for outstanding achievement in furthering education, research and the clinical practice of preventive cardiology. He received the award from the American Society of Preventive Cardiology at the group's annual meeting in Orlando in March. GRIFFITH R. HARSH IV, who came to Stanford in 1998 from a faculty position at Harvard, has been appointed professor of neurosurgery. He served as neurosurgical oncology director and Brain Tumor Center executive director at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he focused on stereotactic surgery and research in molecular mechanisms of tumor development.
JOSEPH LIPSICK, who came to Stanford in 1993, has been promoted to professor of pathology. His primary research involves investigations of oncogenes. ERIC OLCOTT, coordinator of the ultrasound section at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, has been promoted to associate professor of radiology. He joined Stanford in 1993 and is active in clinical leadership roles at UCSF Stanford Health Care. JOSEPH C. POEN, director of the Gastrointestinal Comprehensive Cancer Clinic / Multidisciplinary Tumor Board has been promoted to associate professor of radiation oncology. His current clinical research focuses on developing pre- and post-surgical strategies to fight gastrointestinal tract malignancies; he remains active on the teaching front as radiation oncology residency program director. YUEN T. SO, renowned for his contributions relating to the neurological complications of HIV infections and for his expertise in electrodiagnostic medicine, has been appointed associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences. He joined Stanford this year from a faculty post at the Oregon Health Sciences University. BRUCE B. STORRS, director of the UCSF Stanford Health Care pediatric neurosciences service line, has been appointed professor of neurosurgery. A national expert on the pathophysiology and treatment of spasticity in children with cerebral palsy, he came to Stanford last year from the University of New Mexico. ALAN C. YEUNG, director of Stanford's Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Laboratory, has been promoted to associate professor of medicine (cardiovascular). Yeung's scholarly work includes the pathogenesis of transplant coronary artery disease and modulation of atherogenesis via local drug delivery using new catheterization technologies. KENNETH R. PELLETIER, clinical associate professor of medicine, has been invited to give a presentation on Stanford's complementary medicine program to the Medical Board of California. The talk is scheduled on May 8 in Sacramento. |
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JACK REMINGTON, chair of immunology and infectious diseases at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute and professor of medicine at Stanford, received the Osler Gold Medal from the Royal College of Physicians in London in March. He also received the Dr-Friedrich-Sasse Award and the Commemoration Medal from the Dr-Friedrich-Sasse Foundation on March 27 at the Freie Universitat in Berlin, where he spoke on "Taxoplasmosis: From the Cradle to the Grave."