For the COS position, the Nominating Committee selected anesthesiologist Bryan D. Bohman, currently the elected staff president; and William Maloney, chair of orthopedic surgery. Candidates for vice COS/COS-elect are faculty diagnostic radiologist Geoffrey Rubin and internal medicine specialist Rose Vasquez. Also, eligible staff members who receive valid signatures from 25 or more active medical staff members by Feb. 20 are eligible to run as petition candidates.

Bylaws revision e-ballots were sent to Medical Staff members the week of Feb. 11. Eligible staff members who didn’t get a ballot by e-mail by Feb. 18, should send their preferred e-mail address to medstaff@stanfordmed.org or call (650) 725-6021.

The Nominating Committee had been appointed by the Medical Executive Committee (formerly the Medical Board) in January to screen candidates and create a ballot slate. The slate was officially announced by Kent Garman, chair of the Nominating Committee and immediate past president of the Medical Staff, at the Feb 6 meeting of the Medical Executive Committee.

The nominating committee, in addition to Garman, included Palo Alto neurologist Bruce Adornato; surgeon Marty Bronk, CEO of Menlo Medical Clinic; faculty surgeon Myriam J. Curet, senior associate dean for graduate and continuing medical education; Ralph Horwitz, chair of medicine; Robert Jackler, chair of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery; Cardiothoracic Surgery Chair Robert Robbins; neurosurgeon Larry Shuer, currently the chief of staff jointly appointed by the hospital and dean; and Palo Alto gastroenterologist Harvey Young, a member-at-large of the MEC. Adornato and Bronk are former Medical Staff presidents.

Both the chief and the vice chief positions are designated as part-time and will be compensated. The bylaws call for the chief to be succeeded by the vice chief after two years, creating a two-year election cycle.

The shift to an elected chief position is a key feature of an overhaul of medical staff governance intended to give SHC’s medical staff greater autonomy and assure compliance with laws and standards mandating a self-governing medical staff.

For further information about the process, contact SHC medical staff services, (650) 497-8920. Further information, including candidate statements, are expected to be posted here and in the March Update.

ELECTION SCHEDULE

CHIEF OF STAFF:

2/06/08 MEC approves nominating committee's proposed slate
2/20/08 Deadline for nominations by petition
2/25/08 E-mail med staff: final slate and candidate statements
3/10/08 E-mail ballots to med staff — begin voting
3/24/08 Close of voting
4/02/08 MEC certifies election results

BYLAWS:

2/06/08: MEC approves non-controversial bylaws revisions.
Week of 2/11/08: Submit bylaws revisions for approval (electronic vote) by medical staff.
3/05/08: MEC approves remaining bylaws revisions.
April: Submit remaining revisions for vote by medical staff. (After COS elections over)