Volume 24 • No. 8 • AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2000
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 the Medical Center 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 Office of News and Public Affairs, 701 Welch Road, Suite 2207, Palo Alto, CA 94304.
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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
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L.B. ROSENSTOCK, of Associated Anesthesiologists, has was recently
chosen president elect of the Santa Clara County Medical Association [SCCMA]
and is slated to become president in July 2001. Other new officers of
the SCCMA chosen during mailed balloting in July are Palo Alto obstetrician/gynecologist
TANYA SPIRTOS, to a one-year term
as secretary, and Palo Alto general surgeon JAMES
BADGER, elected to a one-year term as councilor (representative)
from Stanford.
ANTHONY ORO, assistant professor of dermatology, in June received one of four Charles E. Culpeper Scholarships in Medical Science from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. He is to receive a three-year, $300,000 scholarship to study the pathogenesis of basal cell carcinomas.
CARLOS
ESQUIVEL,
director of pediatric and adult liver transplantation, has been named
to the newly created Arnold and Barbara Silverman Professorship in Pediatric
Transplantation. The professorship will facilitate both research in pediatric
liver transplantation and develop new programs.
USHA CHITKARA, who came to Stanford in 1991 from Mount Sinai School of Medicine as an associate professor, has been promoted to professor of gynecology and obstetrics. She is a recognized expert in prenatal diagnosis and therapy and in the management of life-threatening complications in high-risk pregnancies.
STEPHEN P. FISCHER, medical director of the surgical admission unit, has been promoted to associate professor of anesthesia. He came to Stanford in 1993 from private practice and the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in 1993.
RICHARD A. JAFFE, who joined the faculty in 1989, has been promoted to professor of anesthesia. The holder of a PhD in neurophysiology in addition to his MD, he specializes clinically in neuroanesthesia.
GREER MURPHY has been promoted to associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. With a PhD in biological anthropology and in anatomy, he bridges the gap between clinical psychiatry and molecular biology in neuroscience.
JOSEPH C. PRESTI has joined the faculty as professor of urology after eight years at UC San Francisco, where he played an important role in the development of the genitourinary oncology program. His interests include the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer and the genetics of genitourinary malignancies.
STEVEN L. SHAFER, assistant chief of anesthesia services at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System since 1998, has been promoted to professor of anesthesia. He has a special interest in the development and application of tools for studying pharmacokinetics.
PAUL SHAREK, a pediatrician with an MPH in epidemiology, has joined Packard Children's Hospital as medical director of quality management, announced Ken Cox, LPCH chief medical officer. In his new position, the seven-year UCSF faculty member will focus on establishing hospital-wide quality of care goals that are expected to include an emphasis on improving medication error rates and improving pain management.
