Issue of
June 7, 2000
 
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Awards for graduate and
medical education announced
BY JOYCE THOMAS
This year, in addition to
the longstanding awards for exemplary service, teaching
and innovations in the education of Stanford's medical
students, two new annual awards will be presented to
honor faculty for important contributions to the
education of School of Medicine graduate students.
The new Stanford
University School of Medicine Award for Graduate
Teaching, initiated by Eugene A. Bauer, MD, vice
president for the medical center and dean of the medical
school, and voted on by graduating MS and PhD students,
goes to Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD, associate professor of
medicine (medical informatics). This award acknowledges
teaching excellence and exceptional impact in the
graduate classroom.
The first Stanford
University School of Medicine Award for Outstanding
Service to Graduate Students, also initiated by Bauer and
voted on by all graduating MS and PhD students and by the
medical faculty, goes to W. James Nelson, PhD, professor
of molecular and cellular physiology. This award
recognizes remarkable and extraordinary service on behalf
of Medical School graduate students.
These two first-time
faculty awards in graduate education join the other
teaching and education prizes that are announced each
year in advance of the School of Medicine convocation.
The Arthur L. Bloomfield
Award for Excellence in Teaching Clinical Medicine
honoring faculty physicians chosen by students in
clinical training is this year shared by three faculty
members: Lars Osterberg, MD, staff physician and clinical
instructor (medicine); Theodore C. Sectish, MD, assistant
professor of pediatrics; and Elliott S. Wolfe, MD,
professor of medicine and associate dean for clinical
advising. The Bloomfield award, named for the late Arthur
Bloomfield, MD, who chaired Stanford's Department of
Medicine from 1926 to 1954, has been presented annually
for the past 37 years.
This year's Franklin G.
Ebaugh Jr. Award for Advising Medical Students recognizes
Lawrence H. Mathers, MD, PhD, associate professor of
pediatrics. The Ebaugh award honors commitment and
dedication to service. Given since 1992 and named for the
late Franklin Ebaugh Jr., MD, longtime chief of staff at
the VA medical center and associate dean for Veterans
Affairs, the Ebaugh award is voted on by all graduating
medical students and full-time faculty.
Three Kaiser awards,
established by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, are
given each year for excellence in medical education and
in clinical and preclinical teaching.
Fellow medical faculty
chose Donald P. Regula, MD, associate professor of
pathology, to receive the special Kaiser Award for
Outstanding and Innovative Contributions to Medical
Education, which has been given at Stanford since 1973.
Clinical medical students
selected Harcharan S. Gill, MD, associate professor of
urology; Peter Pompei, MD, associate professor of
medicine; and Ward Trueblood, MD, staff physician and
clinical associate professor (surgery), to receive the
Kaiser Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching.
Voted on by preclinical
medical students, the recipients of the Kaiser Award for
Excellence in Preclinical Teaching are John Gosling, MD,
MBC, professor of surgery (anatomy); Ellen Porzig, PhD,
associate professor of developmental biology; Regula, who
also won the Kaiser award for outstanding contributions
to medical education; and Wolfe, who in addition won a
Bloomfield award this year.
The Kaiser awards for
clinical and preclinical teaching have been given at
Stanford since 1969.
The winners of other
faculty and student awards, which remain undisclosed
until graduation, will be announced during the School of
Medicine convocation 2000, Sunday, June 11.
This year's event begins
with a luncheon for School of Medicine graduates and
their guests at 11:45 a.m. followed by formal ceremonies
starting at 1:30 p.m. SR
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