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Commencement 2008
On Saturday June 14th, in its Centennial year, the Stanford University School of Medicine held its commencement on the Dean's Lawn. This year 22 students received a Master of Science degree, 98 a Doctor of Philosophy and 96 a Doctor of Medicine degree. The accomplishments of this year's graduating class in science and medicine are truly outstanding and we are proud of each and every one of them. Their names are listed below along with their degree program and thesis and, for medical students, the residency program they will commence in the next days.
This year is special since it represents 100 years of Stanford Medicine. In the May 5th edition of this Newsletter I reflected on our past, present and future in my comments entitled "Tradition or Transformation: Celebrating the Past or Creating the Future" (see: http://deansnewsletter.stanford.edu/archive/05_05_08.html#1). Stanford has played – and will continue to play – a unique and transformative role in the worlds of science and medicine and in their integration. Past contributions by students and faculty have certainly been remarkable but now require a redoubled effort, as elegantly reflected by this year's Medical School Commencement Speaker, Dr. Roger Kornberg, Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
I hasten to add that it took a lot of organizing, planning and hard work to have the Commencement events run so smoothly. Many thanks to Zera Murphy, Suzanne Bethard, Char Hamada and their team – Kristin Fabbro, Molly Aufdermauer, Joann Berridge, Jana Baldwin, Mira Engel, Lorie Langdon, Velissa Peairs , Erica French-Arnold, and Cass Sooter – for a job well done!
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Graduate Student Speaker: Gilbert Martinez (PhD candidate in Biophysics)
I know I'm supposed to use my limited time to talk about graduate school, but I wanted to make sure I thanked some of the people who have made the Stanford school of medicine such a great place to work.
Over the course of my many, many, many years at Stanford I've had the opportunity to work with the Dean's office and can say with confidence that a big reason the School of Medicine is such a great place to be is because of Dean Pizzo and the work done by the Dean's office. I'd also like to mention Ellen Porzig's tireless advocacy for graduate students. I greatly appreciate everything you've done for us. Our department administrators have contributed so much to making sure that we succeed without ever having to know about everything that goes on behind the scenes. Zera Murphy, Suzanne Bethard and many others have done a wonderful job getting this ceremony together. Thank you all.
I have to thank all the faculty who do more for each of us than we know. They have given their time, and spent a lot of money making sure we were able to be here today. I never cease to be amazed by the commitment the faculty has for their own students as well students not in their lab. I can't tell you how many times I've been stopped in the hall by a faculty member I haven't seen in years and be asked about my research. They must gossip about us as much as we gossip about them.
Finally, I'd like to thank all our friends and family who may or may not be here today. We would not be here without their constant support and encouragement. Thank you all so much. Now you no longer have to ask when we will be finishing.
Over the course of the last week, as I was pondering what to say, I realized that I'm supposed to come up here today and condense all of graduate school and talk about our futures in five minutes.
I wrote down a bunch of hilarious anecdotes, found some awe inspiring quotes that will motivate us all, and some tear-inducing stories that will get us all to reflect on what we've accomplished and what lies ahead. After seeing the pages and pages of notes I realized that I might not finish in the five minutes they said it should take. The whole experience was so reminiscent of graduate school. I was told it would take five, five and half years to finish. They were a wee bit off. I hope I am excused if I run a minute or two (or three) over. It is theoretically possible that I finish a minute faster, and I will do my best to make that happen, but we all know that some things are beyond our control.
I have to say that it's an honor to have my classmates select me to speak for them today. You all are such a talented and knowledgeable group. When I found out you had chosen me, it was a lot like my committee coming out of the room after my defense and telling me that I had passed. How did I fool so many brilliant people? You see, there are many parallels to giving this speech and to graduate school in general.
Of course, you could have chosen me to get back at me for all the emails I sent out as BioMASS chair. I was supposed to use the week after turning in my thesis to relax a little. Instead I was worrying about this speech. Again, just like grad school. Every time you think you're finally finished, something pulls you back in.
But it's worth it. I've enjoyed my time here at Stanford not only because the science is great and because of my colleagues. I'm always asked about advice that I have for first year students and the answer for me is always very simple: take advantage of your classmates. No, I don't mean always asking them for rides to the airport at 5 a.m., though sometimes that was necessary. Take advantage of their talents, their expertise, their quirks, their friendship, their conversations.
Looking around I can see just how right that advice is. You are smart, funny, shy, awkward, and ambitious. And you are all pretty good scientists. I know. I've been to some of your talks or talked with you about your research. I've learned so much from so many of you. And we've all learned from each other. We helped teach each other how to run the perfect Western. We shared our secrets on how to record from cultured neurons or how to program in Perl. But we've also learned how to salsa dance together, how to snowboard, how to rock climb and many other hobbies we've picked up along the way. And perhaps, most importantly, some of us have helped each other learn how to function at 2 a.m. after a night out at the Nut House or the BBC.
When I look back at our time here, its clear that we learned a lot. We learned a lot about science and a lot about ourselves and each other. But, personally, it's the friendships and relationships that I developed that I will remember most fondly. From the BioMASS first year camping trip, to the late night study session and practicing for our quals and our defense, we created friendships that will last our lifetimes. During my second year at Stanford, I had the opportunity to follow my original adviser to San Diego. I chose to stay and because of you, I'm glad I did.
Now that we are finished we will be going our separate ways. Some of us will go on to have successful careers in academia. Some of us will run far away from bench science as fast as we can. But we are all scientists and experts in our respective fields. Few know the awesome potential that the future of science holds than us.
Unfortunately, there are many challenges facing science today. Those of you pursuing the academic route will soon learn how hard it is to receive funding. Those of you working with stem cells know the hoops you have to jump through to do some of your science. Every year tens of millions of dollars are spent trying to confuse people about the basic principles of evolution. Many of us are hoping that this will all change in January of 2009. But there is to meaningful change, we must all take a more active role in protecting the future of science. There are many little things that we all can do. A letter to the editor or to our political leaders can go a long way to inform people of our challenges. We can spend a morning or an afternoon answering questions from school children. Or even informing our friends and family about science. As we leave here today, I hope that we all do a small part to make sure that current and future scientists will be able to fulfill the full potential of all the work we have done over the last several years.
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Medical Student Speaker: Graham Walker
Good Afternoon Dean Pizzo, family and friends, colleagues, The Guy Who's Totally Uploading This To YouTube Right Now, The Undergrads Who Heard There's Free Alcohol Afterwards, and of course, my fellow classmates, the Graduating Class of 2008,
Britney Spears once famously said, "Hit me baby—." That was my ORIGINAL version of the speech. You weren't supposed to hear that. Awk! Ward! Blarg. Wow. Uhm, okay. Let's just pretend that didn't happen.
Hannah Montana once famously said, "We. Need. Single-payer national health insuran—." Okay fine, she didn't. But, I'm kind of known for ranting about health care reform, so everyone probably thinks that's what I'll talk about today. But don't worry. I won't. Today, I would like to talk about something that's been bothering me: name-calling.
During medical school (and my entire life) I've answered to just about any variation on the theme: Graham, Graham Cracker, Grahamazon, Grahambo, Grahamakin Skywalker, "Hey you," Kilo, Graham Stain, Graham Positive, Graham Negative, and even, as one attending who didn't care to learn the names of her students called me, "a medical student," with the same tone one might use to ask, "Could you hand me a pen?" Man, I'm really going to miss medical school!
But lately, most people have been calling me doctor, and I'm not sure if I like it. Sure, people have said it all throughout medical school, but I always had sufficient grounds to correct them: "No no, not yet, I've still got 6 more months to go," or "Gosh, I wish, but I still have to pass my boards!" But lately, I haven't had a leg to stand on.
It's almost as if I don't want Graduation Day to be here. But too late now. Change happens. Today, we're becoming doctors.
I remember at orientation an upper-classman saying that we probably thought becoming a doctor was a noble, selfless act—but any of you in the audience can easily vouch for how selfish it can be. We have demanded your patience, love, understanding, compromises, and support for all these years. So up front, I want to say to each of you, from all of us up here, I am sorry. But I promise to do better next time. Not to forget slash have to reschedule: your birthday, our anniversary, the dinner reservations we had, or that trip to Mexico.
But truly, we could not have made it this far without you. Not to get all Mr. Rogers on you, but to us, you are special. You are why we are dedicated to this: because our patients have their own families and friends like you. You are the selfless ones...not us. So from the deepest reaches of our hearts and souls, thank you so very, very much. Today, we celebrate becoming doctors as much as we celebrate you.
I guess I really worry about how the title of Doctor defines you. How it changes you. That I'm becoming a little bit more Doctor Walker, and a little bit less Graham. Sure, the title affords me some prestige and privilege—for example, complete strangers will now feel totally comfortable whipping out their strange moles at dinner parties—but at the same time, it makes people see me as primarily—or only—a doctor, not as a son, brother, partner, computer nerd, or Trader Joe's enthusiast.
Maybe this is how it's supposed to be. Maybe that's the purpose of the title. To remind us and others of the Oath we take, or that patients' needs are to come before our own.
But if becoming a doctor will change how people view me, there are several values I've learned here at Stanford that should get to represent me, too. And I have numbered these values, as I am going into Emergency Medicine, and have a short attention span. Oh, and just a sidebar: The next time you want to complain about your hospital's Emergency Department, please remember that we're probably getting distracted by... oh, I don't know, coding patients, big traumas, (mumbling) bodily fluids being flung... at... us, or... shiny... things.
Sorry. Back to my values:
Number one: I will continue to use objectivity, without forgetting the subjective.
Medicine is an art grounded in science. I'll do my best to know the studies, the data, and the pathophysiology, and try to apply them objectively.
But I won't forget the patient. I'll listen. I'll be compassionate. I'll try to keep social context, "chief concern," and patient perspective in mind.And number two: I promise to ask questions, and on occasion dare to admit: "I don't know." And thank you to Stanford for encouraging this—in Gil Chu's class, where we weren't allowed to leave until we had collectively asked him 10 questions; with Dr. Wolfe, who teaches students to admit their own "Areas of Ignorance." We are a generation of physicians who are unfortunately (or fortunately) still human. We are not gods. We still make mistakes, and we still don't have all the answers. But, hopefully, we'll know where to find them.
Number three: Don't mess with the pancreas. Or, in the famous words of master pancreatic surgeon Dr. Norton, "I'm tellin' you, don't mess with the pancreas! You gotta believe me!"
And number four: I promise to be involved. Whether it's researching, teaching, advocating, or volunteering, I will remember that health and medicine are often advanced and affected more by time spent outside a hospital than within one.
While passing clerkships and boards and memorizing facts may make us doctors today, it's our values that will drive us to become great doctors, like the many we have met here at Stanford. Because the great physician is dedicated to the truth, but also to patient. She is a scientist, but also a healer. He tempers prognosis with hope. I think Kurt Vonnegut sums up medicine's curiosity and compassion better than I ever could: "We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."
So, today, fellow classmates, this is it, for better or worse. When our patients call us doctor, they'll finally be right. (How scary is that?) While our profession may change how we see the world, or even how the world sees us, we must keep a part of ourselves the same. That part—our goals and our values—is what has gotten us to this point, up on this stage. You can call me Dr. Walker now, but I promise to remain just Graham. I'm too proud of each title to be dropping either anytime soon. Thank you.
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Commencement Speaker: Roger Kornberg, Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor in Medicine and 2006 Nobel Laureate
Dean Pizzo, members of the faculty, families, friends, and most of all, class of 2008.
It is a privilege to speak on this occasion and to offer some observations on our profession and our times.
Many of you will be aware, from the signs posted all around, that this is not only a special year for the graduates of Stanford Medical School, but also for the school itself, the 100th anniversary of its founding. What fewer may know is that modern medicine, or more particularly, medical science, is only about 100 years old as well. Little over a century ago, disease was attributed to an imbalance of humours, and the only treatments were bleeding and violent purgatives. Medical schools were trade shops funded by fees from the students, who gained licenses to inflict their ignorance on the general population. Change began in Europe in the latter part of the 19th century, with the germ theory of disease and the work of Pasteur, Koch, Ehrlich, and others. Charles Eliot, then president of Harvard, was aware of these developments and of the appalling state of American medical education, and proposed to introduce medical science in the curriculum at Harvard medical school. The most powerful member of the faculty objected "Eliot actually proposes to have written examinations for the degree of doctor of medicine. I had to tell him that ... more than half of [our] students can barely write...No medical school has thought it proper to risk large existing classes and large receipts by introducing ... rigorous standards." Dean Pizzo assures me all of our graduates today can read and write. And all our graduates are imbued with the spirit of what followed in the 20th century, the rise of medicine from roots in science, from exploration in all fields from physics to biology.
If I were to ask members of this audience what were the most important advances in medicine during the 20th century, most would make a similar list: X-rays, for both diagnosis and treatment; antibiotics, which have largely eradicated bacterial disease; cell culture, which led to the polio vaccine; noninvasive imaging, especially magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, for early detection of cancer and other conditions; genetic engineering, which is the basis of most new medicines; the list could go on. These medical advances have one thing in common: they were all discoveries made in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, with no idea of any application, no purpose in the prevention or cure of disease. The lesson of the past is counterintuitive: to solve a difficult problem in medicine, don't study it directly, but rather pursue a curiosity about nature and the rest will follow. Do basic research.
The success of medical science has become, in a way, its undoing. We are dazzled by the knowledge we have acquired and rush to apply it to medical problems. This is understandable but often premature. Take the human genome, the true font of medical knowledge. It's all there, the answer to every question about human biology. The trouble is the answers are written in a language we don't understand. It is a multidimensional and dynamic language. The products of the genome, both protein and RNA molecules, interact with one another and with the genome itself in a dance of dizzying complexity. At present, we can only dimly perceive the significance. We can grasp a tiny fraction of one percent of what there is to know and understand. Just imagine, if the medicine of today flows from this tiny bit of knowledge, how much more would be possible if we knew the remaining 99 percent. What more persuasive call to the pursuit of basic research can there be?
And yet this call is often unheeded. Traveling across the US and abroad, I'm disheartened by a shift from research to application. It's ironic. Just as the lesson of the past century is learned, it is forgotten.
This is not only a scientific but also a political problem. The support of basic research has traditionally come from government rather than the private sector, and for good reason. The timeline is very long – basic problems take decades to solve. Only the public, with a lifelong interest, will support such an undertaking. Industry, with a short-term interest and eye on the bottom line, can hardly be expected to do so. What CEO could report to his or her Board that a major investment has been made in research that may or may not become profitable in 10 to 20 years, or longer? Let me give you a specific, disquieting example. Pharmaceutical companies developing anti-cancer therapies are regularly forced to choose between a drug that cures cancer with a single dose and one that must be administered weekly and which only prolongs life by a year or two. Management invariably makes the right decision on behalf of shareholders, and pursues the less effective drug. This is not an isolated or rare occurrence. It occurs on a weekly basis. Government clearly has a special responsibility and a unique role to play.
Our government has performed this role admirably in the past. Some fifty years ago, in perhaps the most farsighted action of any legislative body in history, the US Congress began funding basic biomedical research. The investment has been repaid many times over. How many people do you think were crippled or died of polio last year in the US? The answer is virtually none, due of course to the polio vaccine. Imagine the savings in treatment and productivity, not to mention human suffering. Not only has the investment in medical research been repaid, but it was small to begin with. The annual budget for cancer research today is only $5 billion, less than 10% of our annual expenditure on soft drinks, less than a week of the war in Iraq. And yet, despite its small size, this budget has been cut repeatedly over the past decade. At a time when medical science is poised for the ultimate payoff – the cure of cancer and other dread diseases – many promising leads are being abandoned.
Finally you may ask what does all of this have to do with Stanford and the class of 2008? The answer is leadership. Stanford Medical School has shown the way in American medicine because of a decision about fifty years ago to focus on basic science. Our medical school owes its pre-eminence in large part to achievements in this area. Today, in the face of retrenchment worldwide, Stanford must rededicate itself to basic science. What was good for Stanford and others before will be even better in the future. Stanford must continue to lead.
And you, the class of 2008, have the most important role to play. You have received the best possible education in medical science. Let it guide your professional lives. Let your practice of medicine be not only compassionate but also productive of new knowledge. Do research. Advocate for it. Yours is the legacy of 100 years of Stanford medicine and of American medical science. You will be the ones to carry it forward, to instill it in others, and to realize our hopes and dreams for the betterment of the human condition.
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2008 Graduates
Master of Science
Namiko Abe Gaurav Arora Jose Gilberto Bazan Rahul Choudhury Hillary Lynne Copp Lynn Bentley Davis Alicia Eugenia Gutierrez Ying Hao Katherine E. Herz Joyce J . Hsu Runa Islam |
Alex Sogomon Keuroghlian Nayer H. Khazeni Maarten Lansberg Reija Matheson Kari - Jean Louise McKenzie Chirag Jagdish Patil Nadeem Riaz William Arthur Segal Mohammad Ahmad Subeh Swati Padmakar Tole Sean David Young |
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Doctor of Philosophy
Adam Shultz Adler Gal Almogy Constadina Arvanitis Janelle Samantha Ayers Shirin Bahmanyar Shirin Bahmanyar Yu Bai Shelly Beer Alicia Beth Berger Franz Edward Boas Onn Brandman Jacob Samuel Brenner Austin Lannes Brown Christopher David Brown John David Cahoy Sophia Isabelle Candille Randal Curtis Cevallos Steven Mancheong Chan Chun Chun Chen Pei -Ling Chen Wei -Shen Chen Wendy Ching Leremy Colf Patrick James Collins Richard Daneman Jason Michael Davies Eric Andrew Evans Rebecca Fenn Fabian Jose Fernandez Elena Gallo Nathan Carl Geething Jeffrey Curtis Giering Eric Matthew Green Nicholas R. Guydosh Christopher John Haines Jennifer Michelle Halbleib Kimberly Anne Harnish Garret Hayes Garrett Collins Heffner Jeremy Josef Heit Kristina Marie Herbert Matthew Micah Hill Maureen Hillenmeyer Benjamin Douglass Hoehn Shawn Hoon Eric Dominguez Hoopfer Erik George Huntzicker Lesley Ann Jarvis |
Charay Daniea Jennings Kirk David Christian Jensen Janet Yikai Jin Thomas Michael Johnson ChaRandle Stanlett Jordan Michael George Kattah Seonhi Kim Nikesh Kotecha Jennifer Shuwen Lee William Lee Ai Lin Lim Andreas Markus Loening Kristin Ann Maczko
Gilbert Martínez Joshua David Mast Kelly McGowan Ross Jay Metzger Amanda Jane Mikels Nesanet Senaite Mitiku Achim Klaus Moesta Ryan Nottingham Erika Anne O'Donnell Adam Thomas Palermo Jessica Tah-Tze Parra Florencia Pauli Linh Nguyen Pham Daniel Ramot Diana Rios -Cardona Madolyn Bowman Rogers Diane Irene Schroeder Jing Shi Geoffrey Bryant Smith Lucinda Southworth Benjamin John Spink Nitzan Sternheim Stephen Jed Tam Matthew Pendleton Taylor Andres Bayani Tellez Jessica Dale Tenenbaum Mauricio Vargas Maria Vaysberg Eszter Katalin Vladar Hsiao-Ting Wang Bill Piu Wong Stephen Jarrett Wrenn Rong Xu Angela Leibo Zhang Anna Brotcke Zumsteg |
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Doctor of Medicine
Mark Christopher Adams Tina Marie Allee Prasanna Janaki Ananth Jose Gilberto Bazan Pavan Kasi Bendapudi Franz Edward Boas Regina Sheree Bower Catharine Hunter Bradford William Edward Bragg Gabriel Alon Brat Nicole Marie Brown Matthew Bucknor Robert Edward Burke Susan Marie Carré Thomas Jon Caruso Dora Cristina Castañeda Steven Mancheong Chan Bernard P. Chang Lauren Wiltshire Cochran Sheila Ravi Cord Matthew T. Craven Emily Kathleen Curran Joanna Victoria Dearlove John Joseph DeCaro Bronson Elizabeth Delasobera Rajen Uday Desai Frederick Edward Dewey Rosa Lorenia Diaz Melissa Ellen Duan Hetty Beth Eisenberg Miri Englander Liana Rachel Gefter Sepideh Gholami Tress Louise Goodwin Judith Carolin Hagedorn Jeremy Josef Heit Benjamin Douglass Hoehn Lyen Camille Huang Stephen James Hunt Lila Jazayeri Charay Daniea Jennings ChaRandle Stanlett Jordan Sarah Hecquet Juul M. Yashar Kalani Jenya Alissa Kaufman Kirandeep Kaur Bory Kea Hugh Lawrence Keegan Hanna Yoo Kim |
Rebecca Yoonjung Kim Leanne Kristen Komorowski David James Krodel Philip Abraham Kurien Christle Janel Layton Lucy Chu Lee Jason Andrew Liauw Andreas Markus Loening Javier Lorenzo Celine Denise Marquez Bryan Geoffrey Maxwell Everett Hurteau Meyer Michael Daniel Molina Cindy Mong Mandar Deepak Muzumdar Jasvinder Singh Nangiana Ehren Robert Nelson Michelle Bichchau Thi Nguyen Steven Gilbert Ortiz Kate Estelle Pettit Meghan Claire Ramsey Christopher Thomas Richards Eunice Valeria Rios Sahar Nayereh Rooholamini Lynne Novick Rosen Valaiporn Joy Rusmantratip Lori Ellen Rutman Maricela Sanchez Kavita Yang Sarin Ruwan Amila Silva Geoffrey Bryant Smith Eric Borden Sundberg Gabriel Joel Tsao Dona Amos Tversky Yana Vaks Mauricio Vargas Jasmine K. Waipa Graham Walker Ruobing Wang Yingbing Wang Heather Fleharty Warren Jenny Lupovici Wilson Joanna Elaine Wrede Stephen Jarrett Wrenn Jessica Rachel Yasnovsky Gerardo Javier Zambrano |
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Awards and Honors
The following students have received prestigious and highly competitive fellowships for 2008. Congratulations to all!
NSF:
Sadie Bartholomew (Biochemistry)
Cecil Benitez (Developmental Biology)
Jeremy Chang (Chemical and Systems Biology)
Shuai Chen (Cancer Biology)
Regina K Cheung (Immunology)
Edward Chuong (Genetics)
Karen Colbert (Structural Biology)
Dan Dickinson (Cancer Biology)
Antonia Dominguez (Genetics)
Vivian Ericson (Developmental Biology)
Jeanine Frey (Cancer Biology)
Richard Gaster (Bioengineering and MSTP)
Kira Irving (Neurosciences)
Max Jan (Cancer Biology)
Jonathan Karr (Biophysics)
Erik Lehnert (Genetics)
Grace Lin (Genetics)
Jordan Nechvatal (Neurosciences)
Jordan V Price (Immunology)
Jehnna L Ronan (Immunology)
Jayodita Sanghvi (Bioengineering)
April Weissmiller (Neurosciences)
NIH:
Max Banko (Genetics)
Melanie Bocanegra (Cancer Biology)
Justin Brown (Neurosciences)
Brittany Burrows (Neurosciences)
Erika Bustamante (Developmental Biology)
Dan Calnan (Cancer Biology)
David Chen (Biomedical Informatics)
Thomas Jerde (Neurosciences)
NDSEG
Melanie Bocanegra (Cancer Biology)
Catherine Del Vecchio (Cancer Biology)
Anna Guan (Cancer Biology)
Jonathan Karr (Biophysics)
Michelle Zeman (Cancer Biology)
Ford Foundation
Tiffany Williams (Cancer Biology)
Paul & Daisy Soros:
Amit Kaushal (Biomedical Informatics)
ASM/Robert D. Watkins
Justine Pompey (Microbiology & Immunology)
HHMI Gilliam
Shoa Clarke (MSTP)
Mason Case
Christina D Swanson (Immunology)
Michael Wong (Immunology)
Matthew Carter, doctoral candidate in the Neuroscience Program, was awarded a Walter G. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, at this year's University Commencement. The Gores Award is the University's highest teaching honor. He was recognized for, among other things, conceiving, planning and teaching the popular and highly regarded course Understanding Techniques in the Neurosciences, conveying difficult material in a succinct and accessible way, the infectious energy and creativity he brings to the classroom, and his engaging and exceptional skill as a teacher.
Yingbing Wang, MD, is the recipient of the Norman Blank Award, given by the Department of Radiology in recognition of outstanding performance in radiology or radiology research.
Gilbert Martinez, PhD, is the recipient of the BioMASS Award for Outstanding Service on Behalf of Graduate Students.
Mandar Deepak Muzumadar, MD, has been named this year's winner of the Allen B. Barbour Award for Excellence in Internal Medicine.
Congratulations to all!
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Appointments and Promotions
- Sally Arai has been reappointed to Assistant Professor of Medicine (Blood and Marrow Transplantation) at the Stanford University Medical Center, effective 6/01/08 - http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sally_Arai/
- Daniel T. Chang has been appointed to Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at the Stanford University Medical Center, effective 6/01/08 - http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Daniel_Chang/
- Kristen N. Ganjoo has been reappointed to Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology) at the Stanford University Medical Center, effective 8/01/08 - http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kristen_Ganjoo/
- Michael Greicius has been appointed to Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, effective 6/01/08.
http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Michael_Greicius/ - Amreen Husain has been promoted to Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Stanford University Medical Center, effective 6/01/08 - http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Amreen_Husain/
- Sun H. Kim has been appointed to Assistant Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism) at the Stanford University Medical Center, effective 6/01/08 - http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Sun_Kim/
- Denise M. Monack has been appointed to Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, effective 6/01/08 - http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Denise_Monack/
- Kari C. Nadeau has been appointed to Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Pulmonary) and, by courtesy, of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, effective 6/01/08 - http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Kari_Nadeau/
- Maxence V. Nachury has been appointed to Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, effective 7/01/08 - http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Maxence_Nachury/
- Andrew R. Zolopa has been reappointed to Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) at the Stanford University Medical Center, effective 7/01/08 - http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Andrew_Zolopa/
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