Medical center people

Joachim Hallmayer

Jed Black, MD, has been promoted to associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, as of March 1. Much of his research focuses on sleep disorders. Black also serves as medical director of the Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic.

David Cornfield, MD, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine, has been elected vice president of the Society for Pediatric Research. He serves as director of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital's Pulmonary Care and Cystic Fibrosis Center of Excellence and the hospital's chief of pediatric pulmonary medicine.

Joachim Hallmayer, MD, has been appointed associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, as of March 1. A main focus of his research is to find genetic

markers linked to autism and pervasive developmental disorders. Hallmayer is also interested in resolving the heterogeneity of clinical phenotypes such as schizophrenia into genetically simpler, quantifiable components, thus facilitating the search for susceptibility genes for these disorders.

Cheryl Koopman, PhD, associate professor (research) of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, has been voted the president-elect of the International Society of Political Psychology. Koopman's research focuses largely on psychosocial reactions to political trauma, serious illness and other stressful life events, and evaluation of intervention programs to help people cope with such events.

Michael Longaker, MD, the Deane P. and Louise Mitchell Professor in the School of Medicine, has been selected by the Michigan State University men's basketball program to receive the distinguished alumnus award. He played from 1976 to 1980 on the team, which won the NCAA men's championship in 1979.

Rebecca Smith-Coggins

Norman Rizk, MD, the Berthold and Belle N. Guggenhime Professor in Medicine and senior associate dean for clinical affairs, was honored as the first recipient of the Denise O'Leary Award for Excellence for his contributions to patient care at Stanford Hospital & Clinics. O'Leary is a former leader of SHC's Board of Directors.

Rebecca Smith-Coggins, MD, associate professor of surgery (emergency medicine), has been elected to the board of directors of the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

Smith-Coggins' research interests include the effect of work schedule on work performance, mood and sleep architecture in attending emergency medicine physicians and residents.

P.J. Utz, MD, associate professor of medicine (immunology and rheumatology) has been appointed associate director for education in Stanford's Immunity, Transplantation and Infection Institute. For the last seven years, Utz has directed the CCIS Summer Student Intern Program which he founded for high school students interested in

P.J. Utz

immunology. The program, an introduction to biomedical research, has been expanded throughout the institute.

Irving Weissman, MD, the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Clinical Investigation in Cancer Research and director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, will receive an honorary doctor of science degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York at commencement on May 11. Weissman isolated the first bone marrow-derived blood-forming stem cells from mice. Soon after, he and colleagues identified human blood-forming stem cells.