Volume 24 • No. 8 • AUGUST/SEPTEMBER2000
Nurses Return to Work After Approving Agreement
Physicians Unite on Need to Retain Welch Road Medical Offices
Vaccine Program Receives Federal Grant to Study Immune System Response to Viruses
Researchers Encourage Minority Patients to Participate in Cancer Studies
Otolaryngology head and neck surgery crosses a number of disciplinary grounds and has been recognized at Stanford as a department with a long tradition of clinical and research innovation. This month Fact File talks with Richard L. Goode, acting chair, and recent past chair Willard E. "Bill" Fee Jr., who between them have 60 years of service in the department.
1. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, a division of the Department of Surgery, is located in room R135 at the Medical Center (300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5281). The division phone number is (650) 725-6500, the fax is 725-8502, and the Clinic appointment line is 723-5281.
2. Last year, the division had 12,509 patient visits. During that period, the division performed 1,566 surgical procedures.
3. Subspecialty services include head and neck surgery directed by Willard Fee; facial plastic and reconstructive services, led by Richard L. Goode; the Stanford Sinus Center, led by Winston C. Vaughan (staff physician); pediatric otolaryngology, Anna M. Messner (assistant professor of surgery); sleep apnea, David Terris (assistant professor) and Goode; and laser peel and facial plastic surgery, James A. Koch, (assistant professor).
4. The division has an active teaching collaboration with the California Ear Institute at Stanford. CEIS physicians - including Rodney Perkins, Joseph B. Roberson Jr., Katrina Stidham and others - teach and augment research and receive otology referrals from Stanford.
5. Affiliated teaching hospitals of the department include the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, where Richard L. Goode and faculty member James A. Koch practice. House staff serve at affiliated programs under the tutelage of voluntary clinical faculty at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center and Kaiser Santa Clara.
6. On Jan. 1, Willard E. Fee Jr. stepped aside as chair after 20 years. Richard L Goode serves as acting chair during a nationwide chair search.
7. Willard E. Fee Jr., professor of surgery and former chair, received his MD magna cum laude from the University of Colorado Medical School. He completed his residency at the University of California Los Angeles and joined the Stanford faculty in 1974. He was appointed the Edward C. and Amy H. Sewall Professor in Otorhinolaryngology in 1995. An active researcher, Fee serves on the editorial board of many national and international medical journals and is past president of the California Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Society and the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery.
8. Richard L. Goode, professor of otolaryngology-head and neck Surgery and acting chair of the division, received his MD from the University of Southern California Medical School in 1961. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1966 after completing his residency here. In addition to his practice at Stanford, he serves as chief of otolaryngology at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. Goode has published more than 150 papers in his field and is a past president of the American Academy of Otolaryngology/ Head & Neck Surgery and the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
