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AUG./SEPT 2006 Volume 30 No. 8

At-large and deputy chief memberships
Filled by election to Medical Board


Medical Board election results were completed Sept. 20 pending approval by the board of a fourth member-at-large slot to accommodate a two-way tie among candidates vying for three open slots.

Meanwhile, election of deputy chiefs was also completed and announced on Sept. 20.

The winning candidates in a seven-person field for the three-year at-large slots were:

James Badger - General Surgery
Christopher Sharp - Internal Medicine
Richard Whyte - Thoracic Surgery
Harvey Young - Gastroenterology (incumbent)

The tying candidates were Badger and Whyte, announced Medical Staff President Kent Garman, who said he would ask the Medical Board to approve the fourth at-large position at the group’s October meeting.

Members at-large are elected by and represent the entire medical staff for staggered three-year terms. Continuing at-large members include Myriam Curet, general surgery, and Kelley Skeff, medicine.

Garman also certified the election of three contested deputy chief positions:

Neurology - Peter Cassini
Orthopedics - John Lannin
Psychiatry - Diana Adams

Eleven uncontested deputy chief positions announced in August included:

Anesthesia - Richard Novak
CV Surgery - Philip Oyer
Dermatology - Mary [Shannon] Sheu
Medicine - Sue Sorensen
Neurosurgery - Paul Jackson
OB/GYN - John Wachtel
Ophthalmology - Judy Nevitt
Otolaryngology - Winston Vaughan
Radiation Oncology - Sarah Donaldson
Surgery - Michael Trollope
Urology - Jeffrey Reese

Garman noted that one department, Diagnostic Radiology, has no deputy chief because no private community physicians were nominated for the position.

Deputy chiefs are elected for each three-year terms by voting-eligible private service (non full-time faculty) staff members. Generally, only private community members of a given service elect a deputy chief, who is expected to attend regular monthly meetings of the Medical Board. (Faculty service chiefs can appoint a deputy chief in those services with no community Medical Staff members).         

In the current election cycle, at-large Medical Board member Sue Sorensen resigned to accept an uncontested slot as deputy chief of medicine.

A complete list of elected Medical Board members and their email addresses are:

Kent Garman - President, kgarman@stanford.edu
Bryan Bohman
- Vice President, bdbohman@yahoo.com
Bruce Adornato
- Past President, adornato@gmail.com
Diana Adams
- Psychiatry, diana.adams@med.stanford.edu
James Badger
- MAL, traumasurg@sbcglobal.net
Peter Cassini
- Neurology, pcassini@stanfordmed.org
Myriam Curet
- MAL, mcuret@stanford.edu
Sarah Donaldson
- Radiation Oncology, sarah2@stanford.edu
John Lannin
- Orthopedics, lanninj@pamf.org
Judith Nevitt
- Opthamology, seaandski100@yahoo.com
Richard Novak
- Anesthesia, rjnov@yahoo.com
Philip Oyer
- Cardiovascular Surgery, oyer@stanford.edu
Jeffrey Reese
- Urology, urovmc@ix.netcom.com
Christopher Sharp
- MAL, sharpc@stanford.edu
Mary Sheu
- Dermatology, marysheu@yahoo.com
Kelly Skeff
- MAL, skeff@stanford.edu
Susan Sorenson
- Medicine, sksorensen@comcast.net
Mike Trollope
- General Surgery, drpolyp@med.stanford.edu
Winston Vaughan
- ENT, sinusmd@aol.com
John Wachtel
- OB/GYN, jwachtel@stanfordmed.org
Richard Whyte
- MAL, rwhyte@stanfordmed.org
Harvey Young
- MAL, hyoung888@earthlink.net

(The Medical Board also includes chiefs of service and other ex officio members).