Cohen, Yock named to new
professorships
BY JOYCE THOMAS
The School of Medicine has
announced the establishment of two new endowed
professorships to be held by professors Harvey Cohen and
Paul Yock.
Harvey J. Cohen, MD, PhD,
professor of pediatrics and chief of staff at Lucile
Packard Children's Hospital, has been named the first
holder of the Arline and Pete Harman Professorship for
the Chair of the Department of Pediatrics in the School
of Medicine.
Cohen received both his MD
and his PhD (biochemistry) in 1970 from Duke University
School of Medicine. His postdoctoral work included a
pediatrics residency at Children's Hospital in Boston and
a pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at Children's
and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. He held faculty
posts at Harvard Medical School and at the University of
Rochester School of Medicine, where he was James P.
Wilmot Associate Professor of Pediatric Oncology and
Associate Chair for Research and Development in the
Department of Pediatrics. He was recruited to Stanford in
1993 as chair of the pediatrics department.
His research interests
include clinical trials in leukemia, mechanisms of drug
resistance, immune-killing of bacteria and tumor cells,
free radical biochemistry and cell biology. He serves on
the national Steering Committee of the Pediatric
Scientist Development Program and chairs the
Interdisciplinary Initiative Program Committee for Bio-X,
a new venture into scientific research, education and
innovation at Stanford.
The Harman professorship
was endowed this year with a gift given through the
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health by Leon
W. "Pete" Harman and his wife, Arline Hampton
Harman. The Harman's philanthropic commitment to
children's health has been demonstrated through their
long-standing support for Packard Children's Hospital,
beginning in 1979.
Harman, who was born in
1919 in Granger, Utah, bought a root beer stand in Salt
Lake City in 1941 and renamed it the Do Drop Inn. A
decade later while at a national restaurant convention he
happened to meet Colonel Harland Sanders. One year later
Harman partnered with the Colonel to establish the first
Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise (KFC), now one of the
largest retail food systems in the world. Today, Harman
Management alone oversees 290 KFCs in Northern
California, Utah, Colorado and the state of Washington.
Paul G. Yock, MD,
professor of medicine and director of the Center for
Research in Cardiovascular Interventions at Stanford, has
been named the first Martha Meier Weiland Professor in
the School of Medicine.
A graduate of Amherst
College and Trinity College, Oxford, Yock received his MD
in 1979 from Harvard Medical School. He completed a
residency in internal medicine at the University of
California, San Francisco, and a fellowship in cardiology
at Stanford. He trained in interventional cardiology at
Stanford and Sequoia hospitals. Yock held a faculty post
at UCSF for eight years. He joined the Stanford faculty
in 1994 and served as acting chief of cardiovascular
medicine from 1997 to 1998.
Yock has achieved
international recognition for inventing, developing and
testing new medical devices. He authored the fundamental
patents for intravascular ultrasound imaging; and in 1994
he founded Cardiovascular Imaging Systems, now a division
of Boston Scientific. In 1998 at Stanford he established
the Medical Device Network, an interdepartmental and
inter-school program. Yock, a professor of mechanical
engineering, by courtesy, is co-director of the Institute
for Biomedical Engineering, an educational and research
initiative including the School of Medicine and the
School of Engineering.
The Weiland professorship
was established this year by Stanford University graduate
Richard W. Weiland in memory of his mother. During her
lifetime Martha Weiland read avidly in the areas of
nutrition, exercise and other aspects of preventive
health care. She also focused on restorative care issues
and worked in the 1970s and 1980s as a volunteer at the
Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
During his Stanford
undergraduate years, Richard Weiland worked on software
development. After graduation in 1976 with a degree in
electrical engineering, he joined Microsoft as one of its
first five employees. He continued working as a product
designer for Microsoft until the late 1980s. Wieland, who
lives in Seattle, is a trustee of The Pride Foundation, a
group dedicated to alleviating discrimination. He
supports several research and service organizations
involved with cancer and AIDS. He established the Weiland
Family Stanford Graduate Fellowship and also provides
ongoing support to the Stanford Annual Fund. SR
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