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Rizk succeeds Rosenthal as head of ICUs
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Norman Rizk, associate professor of medicine, has been appointed medical director of SHS
intensive care units effective July 1, announced Lawrence M. Shuer, SHS chief of staff. Rizk succeeds Myer (Mike) Rosenthal, professor of anesthesia, who headed Stanford University Hospital ICUs for 21 years. "Dr. Rizk has been given the charge of creating an interdisciplinary ICU service that will create an environment to foster quality care at a time when we have had to be creative in reducing costs," Shuer said in an announcement last month to SHS staff. "To effect changes there will also be a revitalized ICU committee that will be the vehicle to create change as well as handle interdisciplinary QA/QI [quality assurance/quality improvement] activities," Shuer added. Rizk, a specialist in pulmonary and critical care medicine, is considered an authority on the management of pulmonary disease in bone marrow transplantation patients. He is a graduate of Yale University School of Medicine. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1991, Rizk served for eight years as a staff physician in the pulmonary and critical care division, of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. "On behalf of the medical staff I would like to publicly thank Mike Rosenthal for the outstanding work and service to the hospital. The ICU service at Stanford has been an extremely strong point in clinical care of very sick patients. Mike Rosenthal is responsible for the development and ongoing success of that service. As Norm Shumway [professor emeritus and former chair of cardiothoracic surgery] has stated, Mike is a superb clinician." Rosenthal, who received his MD from the University of Vermont, served as director of the intensive care unit at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Md., and as a faculty member at George Washington University, Washington, D.C., before joining the Stanford faculty in 1975. |
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