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FRANCIS BLANKENBERG, assistant professor of radiology, has received a $917,548 three-year-grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's Heart Research Program to support his studies in the use of a radio-labeled human protein, Annexin V, to image dying cells during heart transplant rejection. He will work under the direction of H. WILLIAM STRAUSS, professor of radiology and chief of the Division of Nuclear Medicine, and with ROBERT ROBBINS, assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery.
W. LEROY HEINRICHS, professor emeritus and past chair of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, presented the keynote lecture at the 12th Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, on June 19 in Stamford, Conn. The title of his talk was "The Critical Path from Tissue Slices to Surgical Simulation: What do Surgeons Want?"
ROBERT
C. MALENKA,
who joined the Stanford faculty this year after a decade at UCSF, has been
named the new Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences. He also assumes directorship of Stanford's Nancy Friend Pritzker
Laboratory, one of the few facilities in the country focusing on interdisciplinary
research on the basic biology of brain function and human behavior.
THOMAS A. RAFFIN, has been named the first Colleen and Robert Haas Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics. He is chief of Stanford's Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and co-founder and co-director of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics.
GABRIELLE BERGMAN, chief of the musculoskeletal radiology section at Stanford Hospital since 1989, has been promoted to associate professor of radiology. Her research and clinical expertise focus on the use of imaging techniques in the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions.
PHYLLIS DENNERY, whose research focuses on the protection of the neonatal lung against oxidative injury, has been promoted to associate professor of pediatrics (neonatology) with tenure. She joined the Stanford faculty in 1990.
EUGENE BUTCHER, who directs the serology and immunology section at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, has been promoted to professor of pathology. He has been a faculty member since 1982.
CHARLES SEMBA, a recognized expert in endovascular therapy and intervention for venous disorders, has been promoted to associate professor of radiology. He has served as associate director of the Divison of Cardiovascular Interventional Radiology since 1997.
SHARON GEAGHAN, director of clinical laboratories at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, has been promoted to associate professor of pathology and of pediatrics. Her research in the evaluation of pediatric age- and gender-appropriate reference ranges resulted in international recognition of Packard as a reference lab.
RICHARD L. GOODE, professor of surgery (otolaryngology), was the guest of honor at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, held last April in Palm Desert, Calif. Each year the organization selects one of its members to be honored based on outstanding achievement in the specialty.
