JASMINKA M. CRILEY, recently appointed adjunct clinical assistant professor of medicine, received the 2006 Society of General Internal Medicine [SGIM] Award for the best precourse at the SGIM’s annual meeting in Los Angeles. The course was entitled “Virtual Patient Examinations: Improving Cardiac Clinical Skills Teaching for Clerkships and Residency Programs.”

DAVID RELMAN, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases and geographic medicine) and of microbiology and immunology has been selected as one of the recipients of Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award for Excellence in “Bench to Bedside” Research from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. He will receive $1.5 million over five years.

JULIE PARSONNET has stepped aside as senior associate dean for medical education after five years and return to her roles as an investigator and clinician. In his Dec. 4 Dean’s Newsletter, Dean Philip A. Pizzo thanked Parsonnet for her five years of service and “the extraordinary job she has done in significantly enhancing medical education at Stanford.” Pizzo cited her leadership in curriculum design, as well as her help in developing the advising system. He further praised her as “a champion for improving the lives and personal development of our students.”

Appointments & Promotions:

EUAN A. ASHLEY has been appointed to assistant professor of medicine (cardiovascular medicine).

TANDY AYE has been appointed to assistant professor of pediatrics.

NIKOLAS BLEVINS has been promoted to associate professor of otolaryngology (head and neck surgery).

HELEN BRONTE-STEWART has been promoted to associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, of neurosurgery.

THOMAS A. BURDON has been promoted to professor of cardiothoracic surgery.

BERTHA H. CHEN has been promoted to associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology.

ANTHONY G. DOUFAS has been appointed to associate professor of anesthesia.

LORRY R. FRANKEL has been promoted to professor of pediatrics (critical care).

RALPH HORWITZ has been appointed to professor of medicine.

 

WILLIAM T. KUO has been appointed to assistant professor of radiology.

LAWRENCE H. MATHERS has been appointed to professor (teaching) of pediatrics and of surgery.

GREG ZAHARCHUK has been appointed to assistant professor of radiology.

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