VA study points to higher fitness levels as predictor of longer life
New leaders named to emergency medicine residency program
Medical center team needs help exporting hope at 11,000 feet
Bioterrorism plan widely available
Volume 26 • No. 4
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APRIL 2002
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CHANDRA RAMAMOORTHY was appointed associate professor of anesthesia. Educated in India, the UK and the United States, she held faculty posts at Loyola University in Illinois and at the University of Washington. She served as director of cardiovascular anesthesia at Children's Hospital, Seattle. She joined Stanford in May 2001. Her area of interest, expertise and research involves pediatric anesthesia issues in children undergoing cardiovascular surgery.
CAROL CLAYBERGER was promoted to professor (research) of pediatrics and of cardiothoracic surgery. She joined Stanford in 1984 as a research associate and received a faculty appointment in 1989. She pioneered a new field of investigation - immunoregulatory peptides derived from HLA molecules. One aspect of her research involves the effect of synthetic peptides corresponding to various regions of MHC molecules to inhibit or enhance the immune response in vitro and in vivo.
PATRICK
BARNES was appointed associate professor of radiology. He held
faculty posts at Harvard through 2000 and served as senior associate neuroradiologist
for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Faculty Physicians
Inc. He joined the Stanford clinical faculty in August 2001. He is a nationally
known leader in the relatively new field of pediatric neuroradiology.
His research interests focus on the development and use of new technology
with an emphasis on neuro-oncology, perinatal injury and child abuse.
BEN BARRES was promoted to professor of neurobiology and of developmental biology. He joined Stanford in 1993 and received tenure as an associate professor in 1997. His research focuses on glial cells, which constitute 90 percent of the cells in the brain but whose function remains poorly understood. His approach involves separating all the component cells in the developing nervous system and studying their interaction in vitro and in vivo by means of innovative techniques.
JACK REMINGTON, professor of medicine (infectious
diseases), was selected by the Department of Medicine faculty to receive
the Albion Walter Hewlett Award, which recognizes the "physician of care
and skill who is committed to discovering and using biologic knowledge,
wisdom and compassion to return patients to productive lives." The annual
award - given to physicians with a Stanford background and "well-known
as dynamic role models for future academicians and practitioners of scientific
medicine" - honors Hewlett, a leading professor and chair of medicine,
who died in 1925.
JAIME LOPEZ was promoted to associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, of neurosurgery. He trained in internal medicine, neurology, clinical neurophysiology and neuromuscular diseases at Stanford. In 1992 he joined the clinical faculty, served at the VA and received a faculty appointment in 1994. He has expertise in intraoperative monitoring, using neurophysiologic techniques to assess the functional integrity of the nervous systems during operative procedures.
IRVING
WEISSMAN, the Karel and Avice Beekhuis Professor in Cancer Biology,
was named California Scientist of the Year for 2002 by the California
Science Center and Foundation in Los Angeles in recognition of his "outstanding
research involving the discovery of mammalian stem cells." Weissman is
the 44th winner of the annual award, which highlights scientific accomplishments
and brings them to the attention of a broader audience.
HARLAN PINTO was promoted to associate professor of medicine (oncology) at the VA Palo Alto. He came to Stanford in 1988 as a postdoctoral fellow and joined the faculty in 1991. He has served as chief of the oncology section at the VA since 1995. In addition to his work as a clinical oncologist with the general medical service, inpatient consult service and weekly clinic at the VA, he provides consultation and oncologic care for patients with cancers of the head and neck at the medical center and participates in tumor boards in ENT and radiation oncology.
EMMANUEL
MIGNOT, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, was named
president-elect of the Sleep Research Society board of directors. He will
begin his term as an officer in June at the 16th annual meeting of the
Associated Professional Sleep Societies, to be held in Seattle. APSS represents
the SRS and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, which promote the
understanding of sleep and its disorders and advance sleep medicine and
related research.
