Medical Staff Update


Volume 23 • No. 8 • August-September 1999--9
C O L U M N S: N E W S x I T E M S: University presidents call for restructuring of UCSF Stanford Health Care Medical Staff Elections Under Way Memory Clinic Psychiatry News Gorilla House Call Clarification PAST ISSUES Search archives
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			Stanford Blood Center's bloodmobile received a larger-than-life gift, full-coverage photographic wrapping. At the unveiling ceremonies, models Mark Tovar, a long-time platelet donor from San Jose, and Lynn Lertzman, a blood donor from Cupertino, posed in front of their own images. Blood Center administrator Vince A. Yalon noted that in other cities where they have been used graphics have helped draw attention to the need for blood donations. Stanford's wrap, valued at about $10,000, was a gift of the 3M Corp. of Minneapolis and former hospital patient Brian LaBadie, founder of SuperGraphics Inc., of Sunnyvale.

	University presidents call for restructuring of UCSF Stanford Health Care	Gavel Changes Hands at Oct. 18 Medical Staff Meeting
		At the next general meeting of the Stanford Hospital and Clinics medical staff is scheduled from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 18 in Fairchild Auditorium. Martin I. Bronk, a Menlo Medical Clinic general surgeon, will assume the staff presidency from Edward D. Harris, a rheumatologist and full-time faculty member who has headed the organization for the past two years. A wine and light dinner reception from 5 to 6:15 p.m. precedes the business meeting scheduled for 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. The meeting will include reports by Chief of Staff Lawrence M. Shuer and Chief Medical Officer Peter Gregory, according to the Medical Staff Office, which hosts the meeting. Bronk, a clinical assistant professor of surgery, will lead the Stanford Hospital and Clinics medical staff for the next two years. Bronk joined the Menlo Medical Clinic in 1984 after completing both medical school and a surgical residency at Stanford and additional fellowship training in gastrointestinal endoscopy. His special interests include gastrointestinal, breast, and thyroid/parathyroid surgery as well as laparoscopy. He has participated in an overseas surgical trip to Tanzania. Bronk served as vice president for the past two years and as an elected at-large member of the Medical Board from 1991 to 1993.
	Stanford and the University of California are conducting a joint review of the UCSF Stanford merger with an eye to restructuring the organization in a way that might better serve both partners. The review was initiated on August 5 by Stanford President Gerhard Casper and UC President Richard Atkinson, who said that while the merger has proved valuable in some respects, the "current structure has not given us the flexibility to deal with the complexities unique to our respective institutions." Four days after the announcement of the review, Peter Van Etten, president of UCSFStanford, and William Kerr, the organization's chief operating officer, offered their resignations, which became effective August 16. Isaac Stein, chairman of the board of directors of UCSF Stanford Health Care, has put the Hunter Group in charge of UCSF Stanford for the interim. The Hunter Group is a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based health care consulting firm. In the meantime, the assets, accountability and management of UCSF Stanford will revert to local control at the north and south campuses, Eugene Bauer, dean of the School of Medicine, informed the Stanford faculty at an August 11 meeting.
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