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Tell us about your awards and accomplishments, or those of your colleagues. Send your contributions to Sara Selis by e-mail selis@stanford.edu or fax (650) 723-7172, or call her at (650) 723-7798.

ANN ARVIN, Lucile Packard Professor of Pediatrics and professor of microbiology and immunology, was presented the 15th Annual John F. Enders Distinguished Lectureship in Medical Virology Award on Oct. 16 in Chicago, at the 40th annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. At the event, Arvin delivered a lecture on "Varicella-Zoster Virus Infections: Genetic Ingenuity Encounters the Human Host." At the same meeting, DAVID RELMAN, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases and geographic medicine) and of microbiology and immunology, gave a plenary presentation titled "Improving the bedside practice of infectious diseases: Why genomics is in your future."

IRIS GIBBS, assistant professor of radiation oncology, was honored Oct. 11 with a Presidential Citation for Outstanding Achievement from the University of Delaware, her undergraduate alma mater. The award recognizes distinguished alumni who graduated within the last 20 years and who have exhibited great promise in their professional or public service activities. Gibbs received a BS in chemistry from the University of Delaware in 1990 and her medical degree from Stanford in 1995. Her current work involves using highly focused radiation beams to treat tumors of the brain and spinal cord.

LINDA GIUDICE, the Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor in the School of Medicine, was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the IOM announced Oct. 14. Giudice serves as associate chair for research and chief of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and as director of Women's Health @ Stanford.

RICHARD L. KEMPSON, professor of pathology emeritus and co-director of surgical pathology at the medical center from 1968 through October 2002, was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as a fellow of AAAS is an honor bestowed upon members by their peers. Kempson, whose research focuses on clinicopathologic studies of uterine, ovarian and soft-tissue tumors, was recognized by the AAAS in the section on medical sciences for his contributions emphasizing the importance of the discipline of surgical pathology in science and medicine.

MARK A. MUSEN was promoted to professor of medicine (medical informatics) and, by courtesy, of computer science. He is renowned for the development of knowledge-intensive systems and, in particular, for ProtŽgŽ, a system that is used worldwide. At Stanford he has used ProtŽgŽ to build applications that assist physicians with the management of chronic diseases and that monitor data for evidence of potential bioterrorism. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

FARR NEZHAT, a gynecologic surgeon and a voluntary clinical educator, was awarded first prize at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' 2002 Film Festival, held in Los Angeles in May as part of ACOG's Annual Clinical Meeting. Nezhat received the award for a video demonstrating the laparoscopic staging procedure in a patient who was diagnosed with an occult fallopian tube carcinoma after undergoing laparoscopic surgery for presumed benign disease five weeks earlier.

MAHMOOD RAZAVI was promoted to associate professor of radiology. Razavi, an outstanding interventional radiologist and an accomplished clinical scholar, is recognized for his investigations into endovascular stenting of arterial and venous disease and local/regional therapy of cancer. He joined Stanford in 1996, serving first as acting assistant professor and from 1998 as assistant professor of radiology. He served as acting chief of the cardiovascular interventional radiology section at the medical center from August 2000 to July 2001.

GARY K. SCHOOLNIK, professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology and senior fellow, by courtesy, of the Institute for International Studies, was selected by the Ellison Medical Foundation to receive a 2002 Senior Scholar Award in Global Infectious Disease. Schoolnik received the award for "The Molecular Ecology of Vibrio cholerae in the Gangetic Delta- Whole genome expression profiles as ecosystem bioprobes." The Ellison foundation also selected STANLEY N. COHEN, professor of genetics and the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the School of Medicine, to receive a 2002 Senior Scholar Award in Aging. Cohen received the award for "Genetic Mechanisms Regulating Replicative Aging in Differentiated Human Cell Populations."

LAWRENCE M. SHUER, chief of staff at Stanford Hospital & Clinics since 1996, was promoted to professor of neurosurgery. Shuer trained in surgery, neurosurgery and neuropathology at Stanford and joined the clinical faculty in 1984. He has been on the medical center faculty since 1990. His interests in clinical neurosurgery include the management of craniofacial anomalies, degenerative spine disorders, syringomyelia, surgical treatment of epilepsy and hypothermic brain protection. He is president of the California Association of Neurological Surgeons and is chair of the California Medical Association Scientific Advisory Panel on Neurosurgery.

KELLEY SKEFF, professor of medicine, was honored with the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education at the 113th annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, held Nov. 9 in San Francisco. The prestigious award, which was established by the AAMC in 1958, recognizes extraordinary individual contributions to medical schools and to the medical education community as a whole. Skeff, associate chair for educational programs in the Department of Medicine, created the internationally known Stanford Faculty Development Center based on the systematic educational model he developed to improve the craft of teaching medicine.

MELANIE SMITT was promoted to associate professor of radiation oncology at the Washington-Stanford Radiation Oncology Center. She has served since 1992 as medical director of the Washington-Stanford center, a freestanding satellite facility affiliated with Washington Hospital in Fremont. Smitt, whose research focuses on the management of breast cancer, serves as principal investigator for Washington Hospital for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and for the Clinical Trials Support Unit. Smitt received the Henry S. Kaplan Teaching Award in 2001.

JUDITH L. SWAIN, the Arthur L. Bloomfield professor and chair of medicine, was presented the Duke University Medical Center Distinguished Alumna Award Oct. 18 at a luncheon ceremony during Medical Alumni Weekend at Duke. Swain, who received her medical degree from UC-San Diego, completed postdoctoral training in internal and cardiovascular medicine at Duke University. She served on the Duke medical faculty from 1979 to 1991, joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Health System in 1991 and came to the Stanford School of Medicine as chair of the Department of Medicine in 1996.

CHING WANG was appointed associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences. Wang, whose research focuses on spinal muscular atrophy, was one of the first scientists to localize and define the gene defect associated with SMA. He is also interested in research and treatment of autism. Before joining Stanford, he served on the faculty at the University of Missouri as assistant professor of pediatric neurology and biochemistry. In recognition of his research and service in pediatric neuromuscular disease, he received the Outstanding Physician Gold Award from the Muscular Dystrophy Association in 2002.

ERIC A. WEISS, assistant professor of emergency medicine; LOU SAKSEN, vice president of general services; the Palo Alto Medical Foundation; and the staff of the VA Palo Alto National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder were recognized by Congresswoman Anna Eshoo on Sept. 11, 2002, for their efforts in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Eshoo read the above names, along with others in the community, into the official Congressional Record of the House of Representatives "to honor the extraordinary women and men of the 14th District for their heroic responses to the tragic events of a year ago." She cited Weiss, Saksen and PAMF for forming a Bioterrorism Preparedness Group "to respond immediately and appropriately to any suspected cases of bioterrorism." She cited the VA Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Center for "providing the Department of Defense guidance and assistance for the psychological response efforts following 9/11."