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 CHRISTIAN GUILLEMINAULT, professor of psychiatry and
behavioral sciences and associate director of the Sleep Disorders Clinic and Research
Center (SDCRC), will lead a training program in sleep medicine funded by the National
Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The SDCRC was one of only 20 centers nationally - and the
only one west of Iowa - to receive funding for this program, which aims to increase
awareness of sleep disorders medicine among undergraduates, medical students, residents
and physicians. STANLEY ROCKSON, assistant professor of medicine, is one of 15 researchers in 1998 to receive a Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation research grant. He will receive up to $200,000 over two years from the foundation to support his "Prospective Objective Evaluation of Treatment Strategies for Post-Mastectomy Lymphedema." PETER SMALL, assistant professor of medicine, delivered the keynote address at the recent quadrennial "Global Congress on Lung Health," held in Bangkok as part of the 29th World Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. The speaker talked about techniques in treating lung disease, noting that TB is expected to be eliminated worldwide by the end of the 21st century.
RICHARD D. KLAUSNER, director of the National Cancer Institute, was the 1998 Kovitz Visiting Professor. He spoke Dec. 10 on "Cancer Genetics: Where We Are Going and a Case Study," as part of the endowed lectureship, designed to bring physicians of prominence to Stanford to lecture and round on topics of medicine and surgery. PHYLLIS A. DENNERY, assistant professor of pediatrics, has received a four-year, $1.2 million award from the National Institutes of Health for her research on the role of heme oxygenase in hyperoxic lung injury. She presented the highlights of this work at a conference in Newport, R.I., last August. SCOTT SOIFER, a cardiologist and professor in residence and vice chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at UCSF, has been named director of the pediatric cardiovascular service line at UCSF Stanford Health Care. The service line will link cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, neonatologists, physicians specializing in critical care medicine, anesthesiologists and radiologists in the diagnosis and treatment of congenital or acquired heart disease in children. |
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SANDRA J.
HORNING has been promoted to professor of medicine (oncology/bone marrow
transplantation). Her clinical research in Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
focuses on improving therapeutic outcomes, reducing treatment complications and further
explaining the diseases' underlying biology.