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ELLIOTT WOLFE, associate dean of student affairs, has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation to support a new "primary care continuity experience" for medical students. Participants in the elective will serve a clerkship with a team of clinicians in a Stanford clinic or other participating clinic over sufficient time to be able to develop continuing relationships with patients. MAREN MONSEN, former Stanford emergency medicine resident and current fellow with the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, received a "One From the Heart" Award on Oct. 29 from the MidPeninsula Hospice Foundation. Monsen's two innovative end-of-life care educational films, The Vanishing Line and Grave Words, earned her the award. D. CRAIG MILLER, professor of cardiovascular surgery, delivered the 1998 Rollin A. Daniel Jr. Lecture at Vanderbilt University in Nashville on Nov. 8. His topic for the 21st annual lectureship was "The First Generation of Endovascular Stent-Grafts for the Thoracic Aneurysms - Wisdom or Folly?"
RONALD LEVY, professor of medicine and chief of medical oncology, has been granted a second five-year MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) award from the National Cancer Institute to continue his studies of anti-idiotype antibody therapy for B-cell lymphoma. The research builds on his finding that unique tumor antigens (idiotypes) on the cell surface of B-cell lymphomas can be used for targeted immunotherapy. RICHARD GOODE, professor of surgery (otolaryngology), received a Distinguished Service Award from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. The 10,000-member group presented the award to Goode and six other members during its annual meeting in September in San Antonio. HERBERT ABRAMS, emeritus professor of radiology, delivered the Charles T. Dotter Memorial Lecture Nov. 10 at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in Dallas. The topic of his talk was "Cardiovascular Imaging: Past, Present and Future."
MARY ELLEN FONTANA, has been appointed administrator of Stanford's Clinical Cancer Center and will also serve as administrator of UCSF Stanford Health Care's Clinical Cancer Program. A longtime administrator, she will work closely with cancer program director CHARLOTTE JACOBS, professor of medicine (oncology), as the admiistrative liaison for all relevant clinical cancer programs at UCSF Stanford. HANS STEINER, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, will head a study of serious juvenile offenders housed by the California Youth Authority, where he has served as a longtime consultant. The study, funded by the National Institute of Justice, seeks to develop an assessment tool that can be used to determine the mental health of juvenile offenders sent to the CYA. |
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VAUGHAN BOWEN, professor of functional
restoration, has been appointed chief of the Division of Hand Surgery, effective Oct.1, to
succeed VINCENT R. HENTZ, professor of functional restoration, who, after
13 years as hand surgery's first division chief, has decided to step aside to devote more
time to his work at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. 
SAUL
ROSENBERG, a Stanford emeritus professor whose work revolutionized the treatment
of Hodgkin's disease, has received the American Cancer Society's highest award, the 1998
Medal of Honor. He received the honor for his clinical research at the ACS' annual meeting
in Atlanta on Nov. 15. 
JULIE
PARSONNET, associate professor of medicine and of health research and policy, has
been named chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, effective
Jan. 1. She will succeed GARY SCHOOLNIK, professor of medicine, who has
been division chief since 1984. 
THOMAS A.
STAMEY, professor of urology, has been made an honorary member of the German
Urological Society, an honor extended to only one urologist internationally each year. He
also received the Distinguished Member Award from the American Urological Association's
western section - an honor bestowed annually to a single urologist. 
G. RANDALL
GREEN, chief resident in cardiovascular surgery, won the 1998 Vivien Thomas Young
Investigator Award presented at the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American heart
Association, Nov. 8-11 in Dallas. His project, entitled "Mitral Annular Dilation and
Papillary Muscle Dislocation Without Mitral Regurgitation in Sheep," used
sophisticated imaging technology designed to help cardiac surgeons make appropriate
decisions about valve repair.