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Volume 24 • No. 3 • March 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. Or contact him at (650) 725-5376 or 723-6911, by fax
at 723-7172, or by e-mail
(goodkind@leland.stanford.edu).
THOMAS
F. NAGY,
practicing psychologist and clinical assistant professor in the Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, has authored Ethics in Plain English:
An Illustrative Casebook for Psychologists (American Psychological Association,
2000, 261 pages). The book uses vignettes to amplify "plain English" interpretations
of APA ethical standards..
KENNETH R. PELLETIER, clinical professor of medicine and a senior research scholar at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention, has just published The Best Alternative Medicine: What Works? What Does Not? (Simon & Schuster, 2000, 449 pages). The book uses scientific criteria to help consumers and practitioners sort out the potential efficacy of an array of alternative medical practices.
Memorial Services were held Feb. 22 in Menlo Park for CHARLES BECKMAN BEAL, a longtime clinical faculty member most recently in the Department of Health Research and Policy, who died Jan. 30 at age 77. He was an inventor of medical devices and also had a special interest in tropical medicine, serving numerous times as a physician and teacher in emerging nations. (Donations may be sent to the Charles Beal Memorial Fund at Monterey Bay Bank, 1400 Munras Ave., Monterey, Calif. 93940).
DAVID TERRIS, assistant professor of surgery (otolaryngology/head and neck surgery) will receive the Harris P. Mosher Award from the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society (Triological Society) at the group's annual meeting in Orlando, May 16. His award-winning paper on the importance of oxygen in the treatment of head and neck cancer, was selected from 33 submissions.
LAWRENCE CASALINO, a clinical assistant professor of medicine who practices at Stanford Coastside Medical Clinic, recently received a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award for a three-year project titled "Public Policies, Private Policies, and the Organization of Physician Practice." During this project, he will analyze the effects of corporate and government health insurance purchasing decisions and of federal and state regulatory policies in 13 metropolitan areas around the nation.
