May 2007 Volume 31 No. 5
This new status is shared with the Fremont-based Northern California Cancer Center, which worked with Stanford to achieve the designation.
Martha Marsh, president and CEO of SHC, said that the designation “validates to our patients and our community that Stanford is one of the premier cancer treatment centers in the nation.”
Because of the enhanced support and the network that cancer center support brings, patients are expected to have greater access to clinical trials, and those eligible for Medicare can receive coverage for their participation in NCI clinical trials. “We can expect to see a larger number of clinical trials, in a wider area of cancers, that patients coming to Stanford can participate in,” said Dean Philip A. Pizzo. (See story.)
Hugh O’Brodovich, a pediatric respiratory specialist, has been named chair of the Department of Pediatrics and chief of staff at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, effective Jan. 3, 2008.
O’Brodovich, a renowned physician and researcher, is the former chair of pediatrics at the University of Toronto and pediatrician-in-chief at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children.
The appointment, announced in April by Stanford and LPCH, fills a vacancy left by Harvey Cohen, MD, PhD, who held the posts from 1993 until Nov. 2006. Currently the department is led by interim chair Kenneth L. Cox, professor and chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, associate chair of pediatrics, and senior associate dean for pediatrics and obstetrics. Cox is splitting interim leadership duties with Christy Sandborg, professor of pediatrics and Division Chief for Pediatric Rheumatology, who is serving as interim chief-of-staff at LPCH. (See story.)
