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STUART B. GOODMAN, head of the division of orthopaedic surgery, who has often served as a guest speaker in Beijing, China, and Keishwan Taiwan, will return to Taiwan next October to speak at the annual congress of the Joint Reconstruction Society, Republic of China, and at the International Committee Meeting of SICOT, the world's largest group focusing on orthopaedic surgery and traumatology. He also has been selected for membership on the Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Review Subcommittee for Surgery in the Medical Research Service, a national committee that reviews grant proposals twice yearly in Washington.

DAVID GABA, associate professor of anesthesia, has received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, given by the Association for Health Services Research and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He will use the $170,000 award to support 19 months of a study of "Organizational Structures, Cultures, and System Aspects of Safety in Tertiary Health Care: A Comparison with Other High-Risk Industries."

GARY K. STEINBERG has been promoted to professor of neurosurgery. He serves as chair of neurosurgery and co-directs the Stanford Stroke Center.

LEE J. LEVITT has been appointed professor of medicine (hematology) at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, where he serves as chief of the hematology/ oncology division.

ANN F. BOLGER has been promoted to associate professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine) at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, where she has directed echocardiography since 1987.

DAVID K. STEVENSON, the Harold K. Faber Professor of Pediatrics and chief of the division of neonatal and developmental medicine, has been elected to the council of the American Pediatrics Society for a seven-year term ending May 2004.

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