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Compiled from Stanford Medical School Dean Philip Pizzo's Newsletter http://deansnewsletter.stanford.edu/ and other sources.

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REBECCA SMITH-COGGINS, associate professor of surgery (emergency medicine), has been appointed by the American Board of Emergency Medicine to a six-year term on the Residency Review Committee for Emergency Medicine of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

SAMUEL LEBARON, associate professor of medicine, has received the AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award. LeBaron, who is trained both as a psychologist and a family practice physician, was recruited to develop Stanford medical schoolÕs required core clerkship in family and community medicine. He is now the director for the Center of Education in Family and Community Medicine.

DAVID SPIEGEL, professor of psychiatry, has been named the 2004 recipient of the Marmor Award and the Marmor Award Lectureship by the American Psychiatric Association. The award honors an individual who has made research contributions that significantly further the understanding of the multifactorial biopsychosocial elements involved in mental health and illness. The award has been given only four times.

HAL HOLMAN, Berthold and Belle N. Guggenhime Professor of Medicine, has been named the recipient of the John Phillips Memorial Award for Outstanding Work in Clinical Medicine by the American College of Physicians.

KELLEY SKEFF, George DeForest Barnett Professor in Medicine and an SHC medical board member, has been elected to Mastership in the American College of Physicians.

A P P O I N T M E N T S i& xP R O M O T I O N S :

KEVIN LEMLEY and MINNIE SARWAL were appointed to associate professors of pediatrics (Nephrology).

KULDEV SINGH was appointed to professor of ophthalmology.

RICHARD SHAW was promoted to associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and associate professor, by courtesy of pediatrics.

KEITH STOCKERL-GOLDSTEIN was promoted to associate professor of medicine.