Volume 25 • No. 8 • AUG.-SEPT. 2001

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Implementation of physician order entry system continues

Hospital officials call bond rating "disappointing", but say financial picture is improving

PAMF places temporary freeze on new primary care patients

Gregory retires, duties split between COS, associate dean

Health insurance options announced for employees at Stanford, Packard hospitals

EB Bikers

RICHARD GREENE, chair of the pediatric department at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and a clinical professor of pediatrics at Stanford, was honored June 24 in a ceremony that inaugurated the 1,500-sq. ft. Dr. Richard Greene Children's Play Area. The pediatric cardiologist has practiced at the foundation for 35 years.

THOMAS A. STAMEY, professor of urology, has received the American Urological Association's Eugene Fuller Triennial Prostate Award. The award, presented June 6 in Newport Beach, Calif., recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the study of the prostate gland and its associated diseases.

FRANK L.HANLEY, professor and chief of the division of cardiothoracic surgery at UCSF, and VADIYALA MOHAN REDDY, associate professor of surgery and director of pediatric cardiac surgery at UCSF, will join the Packard and Stanford hospital staffs in November. MARK WELTON, a colorectal surgeon formerly at UC-San Francisco, has joined the staff as an acting associate professor of surgery in the division of general surgery.

Three medical school faculty members recently received endowed professorships.

W. JAMES NELSON, former chair of molecular and cellular physiology and current senior associate dean for research, graduate and postdoctoral education, was named the Rudy J. and Daphne Donohue Munzer Professor in the School of Medicine;

RALPH S. GRECO, chief of general surgery, was appointed the Johnson & Johnson Distinguished Professor of Surgery; and

Dean PHILIP A. PIZZO, professor of pediatrics and of microbiology and immunology, has become the Carl and Elizabeth Naumann Professor for the Dean of the School of Medicine.