Cornelia Weyand Serves as 2017 David Trentham Visiting Professor 

In March, Conrnelia Weyand, MD, traveled to Harvard as the 2017 David Trentham Visiting Professor in Rheumatology. Her visit included the presentation of Medicine Grand Rounds on “Medium and Large Vessel Vasculitis.”

Weyand is chief of immunology and rheumatology at Stanford and a member of both Bio-X and the Cardiovascular Institute. She has published dozens of articles in a range of journals including Immunity, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Experimental Medicine and Cell Reports. She received her medical and professional education at the University of Aachen and University of Bonn. She completed residency at Hannover Medical School and fellowships at both Heidelberg University German Cancer Research Center and Stanford University. 

Paul Wang Named Editor-in-Chief of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Paul Wang, MD, (professor, cardiovascular medicine) has been selected as the upcoming Editor-in-Chief of Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology.

Produced bimonthly by the American Heart Association, Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology publishes articles focusing on “advances in the understanding of pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.”

Wang is the director off the Stanford Hospital's Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, and has practiced cardiac electrophysiology as an arrhythmia expert for over 26 years. He was a co-inventor of catheter cryoblation and has co-authored numbers textbooks on innovations in arrhythmia therapy. 

Karim Sallam Receives William W. Parmley Young Author Achievement Award

At the 2017 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Scientific Session in Washington, D.C., in March, ACC recognized Karim Sallam, MD, with its William W. Parmley Young Author Achievement Award. The award recognizes two outstanding papers published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology by primary authors who are within five years of completing training requirements for a specialty board certification or Ph.D. Sallam’s paper – “Patient-specific and genome-edited induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes elucidate single-cell phenotype of Brugada syndrome” – was published in the journal in November 2016.

Sallam is a clinical instructor of cardiovascular medicine at Stanford. He received his MD from University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and completed his residency at Stanford, where he also earned a fellowship. He is past recipient of the James D. Heard Junior Prize for Highest Performance in Medicine, the Jeffrey Alan Grey Memorial Prize for Compassion and Humanism, the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Student Award and Stanford’s Residency Program Exemplary Professionalism Award.