Medical center people
Josephine Czechowicz
Philip Beachy
Paul Blumenthal, MD, MPH, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, is the recipient of the 2008 Kenneth J. Ryan Award presented by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. The award is presented to an obstetrics & gynecology physician who has been a longstanding pioneer in improving reproductive health and rights through research, education, ethics and advocacy. Blumenthal serves as director of a number of programs at Stanford, including the Center for Contraceptive Health and Research, ambulatory care in the Division of Gynecologic Specialties, a family planning fellowship and the newly established Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training program. Blumenthal was honored May 6 at the 2008 Kenneth J. Ryan, MD, Memorial Program Luncheon.
Medical student Josephine Czechowicz has been selected as a 2008-09 scholar for the NIH/Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Program. She is one of 33 U.S. graduate students and 33 international students who will be given the opportunity to experience clinical research training in developing countries around the world. Czechowicz's fellowship will take place at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru, in partnership with the Internal AIDS Research and Training Program at the University of Washington.
Philip Beachy, PhD, the Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor in the School of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2008 March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology. He shares the prize with Clifford Tabin, PhD, of Harvard. The award recognizes their pioneering work on Hedgehog genes and how their protein signals guide the formation of the brain, limbs, spinal cord, axial skeleton and other organs during embryonic and fetal development. Beachy's work has advanced the study of molecular pathways that control growth of normal cells in developing embryos and of cancer stem cells. The award was given May 5 in Hawaii.
Helena Kraemer, PhD, professor emerita of biostatistics in psychiatry, and Ruth O'Hara, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, have been named members of a work group of the American Psychiatric Association. The group will review scientific advances and research-based information to develop the fifth edition of the psychiatric association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
