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BRUCE REITZ, chair of cardiothoracic surgery, has also been named acting chair of surgery,
effective July 1, while a national search, led by Department of Medicine chair JUDITH SWAIN,
is under way for a long-term successor. CHRISTOPHER ZARINS, who served as acting chair of
surgery for nearly two years, will continue as chief of vascular surgery, medical school dean
EUGENE BAUER has announced. WILLIAM C. DEMENT, the Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of the Stanford Sleep Center, received the second annual Mark O. Hatfield Public Policy Award at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies meeting in San Francisco in June. The award honors the long-time Oregon senator, credited as a friend and supporter of sleep medicine. LINDA GIUDICE, professor of gynecology and obstetrics, will chair through 1998 the NIH Population Research Study Section, of which she has served as a member since 1994. HERBERT L. ABRAMS, professor emeritus of radiology, served in June as the fourth annual Fleischner Lecturer and Visiting Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. NORMAN RIZK has been appointed senior associate chair of the Department of Medicine, responsible primarily for activities relating to patient care service, announced JUDITH SWAIN, chair of medicine. FRANK SARNQUIST, formerly associate chair of anesthesia, has been appointed acting chair of the department effective June 12. He succeeds DONALD STANSKI.
BARBARA BARRES, assistant professor of neurobiology, received this year's Kaiser Award for Outstanding and Innovative Contributions to Medical Education.
Recipients of the Kaiser Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching were ERIC F. GLASGOW,
professor of surgery (human anatomy); WILLIAM T. NEWSOME,
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Operations Improvement 8 teams reach targets after months of effort Johnson Center combines obstetrics and neonatology Discharge summaries must be dictated before patients move to SNF Thrombosis and Bleeding Disorder Service opens for referrals Urogynecology center forges ahead with new director, collaborations Physician volunteers sought for RotaCare clinic in East Palo Alto Rizk succeeds Rosenthal as head of ICUs Winning nurses find uses for stipends If it's clean, it goes in green
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