News & Events
Department Chair Elected 2010 AAP President
Ralph Horwitz, MD,
Ralph Horwitz, MD
2009 Distinguished Medical Educator Award
Kelley Skeff, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (GIM)
Kelley Skeff, MD, PhD
Skeff presented highlights of his 20 years as residency program director, at Medical Grand Rounds on November 11, 2009. The program, “The Physician as Teacher: Merging Noble Professions,” received a standing ovation from an audience of students, faculty, staff, and colleagues. View the video presentation on the Medicine Grand Rounds Video Portal.
Introduction to Internal Medicine
Lunchtime lecture series, Mondays 12-1 pm, in M208 in Fleishman labs (on the second floor overlooking Alway Courtyard).
The Shenson Society and Abraham Verghese, MD, senior associate chair for the theory and practice of medicine and residency program director and Ralph Horwitz, MD, department of medicine chair has developed a new lunch time lecture series called "Introduction to Internal Medicine." Each week a physician will speak to the class about their specialty and career. Interested physicians are invited to attend and provide their perspective and meet pre-clinical students interested in shadowing, research, etc.
Final Speaker on November 30, 2009 will be Jay Pasricha, MD, professor of medicine, whose presentation will be: Introduction to Gastroenterology.
Awards and Honors
Note from the Chairman:
Numerous new grants and honors were received by the members of the department. Included among them are six grants that were previously highlighted by the School of Medicine because they represent efforts by the National Institute of Health to encourage “out of the box”, high-stake research. They include the Pioneer and Innovator awards and the four Transformational R01s. My congratulations to all the grant recipients and to Stephanie Harmon for her selection to receive the Isaac Stein Award from the Board of Directors of Stanford Hospital.”
For a a list of all award winners and a brief description of their research, see 2009 Awards and Honors
Welcome New Faculty
Sean P. David, MD, SM, DPhil, is focused on research in personalized medicine for smoking cessation through preclinical neuroimaging studies and pharmacogenomic clinical trials. He trained in Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, completed a masters in health and social behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health and then joined the faculty of the Alpert Medical School of Brown University where he pursued advanced training in pharmacogenetics and functional neuroimaging. At Brown, he was Director of the Research Division of the Department of Family Medicine. David is seeing patients with the Stanford Family Medicine Group at Hoover Pavillion and is based in the Center for Education in Family and Community Medicine.
Nephrology
Wolfgang Winkelmayer, MD, MPH, DSc, trained in internal medicine and nephrology at the University of Vienna (Austria), where he served on the faculty briefly before pursuing advanced training in pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics at Harvard School of Public Health. He joined the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is a national leader in comparative effectiveness research (CER), having published more than 100 original manuscripts, contributing greatly to our understanding of alternative treatment strategies in chronic kidney disease, particularly related to the risks and benefits of selected drugs. Winkelmayer will attend on the general nephrology consultative service at Stanford Hospital and Clinics; his office and research program will be based at the Department’s Center for Patient and Population Research at 1070 Arastradero.
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