Volume 25 • No. 3 • MARCH 2001
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Mitchell retires but will stay until new CEO is on board
MedRec archival system set for April launch; complements LastWord physician order entry
Dermatology expands outpatient services for skin cancer, aesthetics and rejuvenation services
Books on the desktop: e-Books available through Health Library
Plastic surgery resident Kim dies in Tahoe ski accident
J.
EDWIN ATWOOD
co-director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at the Veterans
Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, has been promoted to professor of
medicine (cardiovascular medicine).
RAMSEY C. CHEUNG,
who serves with the endoscopy units at Stanford Hospital and the Veterans
Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, has been promoted to associate professor
of medicine (gastroenterology and hepatology).
RALPH GRECO, formerly chief of the division of general surgery and vice chair of surgery at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (Rutgers), was appointed professor of surgery and chief of the Division of General Surgery at Stanford effective in January. His research has been devoted to understanding surgical infection as it relates to implanted devices.
ERNLƒ YOUNG co-director of Stanford's Center for Biomedical Ethics, has been appointed professor of medicine (teaching). He provides leadership for several Stanford Hospital-based ethics panels.
CORRY L. DEKKER, medical director of the vaccine program at Stanford and Packard hospitals, has been appointed associate professor (research) of pediatrics.
DALE T. UMETSU, professor of pediatrics, chief of the Division of Allergy and Immunology and director of the Center for Asthma and Allergic Diseases at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology for a six-year term ending in 2007.
RAJINDER K. CHITKARA associate professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care) and chief of the Division of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, and LORRY FRANKEL, associate professor of pediatrics and director of pediatric critical care services at Packard Children's Hospital, were inducted as fellows in the American College of Critical Care Medicine at a ceremony in San Francisco on Feb. 11.
MICHAEL D. AMYLON, director of Packard Hospital's bone marrow transplant program and a physician in the adult BMT program at Stanford Hospital, has been promoted to professor of pediatrics. His research and clinical work includes pediatric oncology and bone marrow transplantation and the diagnosis and treatment of T-cell lymphomas.
DARRELL M. WILSON, director of Packard Hospital's pediatric diabetes center since 1984 and chief of the pediatric endocrinology and diabetes division since 1988, has been promoted to professor of pediatrics.
