Medical school faculty
appointments, promotions announced
BY JOYCE THOMAS
Appointments and
promotions approved by the Stanford University Advisory
Board at its meetings in July included the following
faculty in the School of Medicine.
Linda Boxer
Dr. Linda Boxer has been
promoted to associate professor of medicine (hematology),
with tenure, effective June 1997. Boxer investigates gene
regulation in normal and abnormal lymphocyte maturation
and proliferation. She has made fundamental contributions
to studies of three oncogenes c-myc, c-myb and bcl-2
and has developed special expertise in the clinical
management of lymphopoietic disorders. In 1996 Boxer was
elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation
and was chosen for a Howard Hughes Junior Faculty Scholar
Award. She serves on the advisory board of the Program in
Molecular and Genetic Medicine and on the Medical
Scientist Training Program Committee.
Boxer earned an MD and a
PhD at Stanford in 1981. She completed a residency in
internal medicine and postdoctoral training in oncology
and hematology, also at Stanford. She joined the faculty
in 1990.
Dale Edgar
Dale Edgar has been
appointed associate professor of psychiatry and
behavioral sciences (research) effective June 1997
through May 2003. Edgar's research focuses on the
neurobiological mechanisms regulating sleep, wakefulness
and circadian rhythms. He established and directs the
SCORE laboratory (Stanford Continuously Observant
Real-Time Evaluation), a center of excellence and
technologically advanced facility for sleep research. He
serves on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of
Biological Rhythms and on the executive board of the
Sleep Research Society.
Edgar received a PhD in
biology with a specialization in physiology from UC
Riverside in 1986. He came to Stanford in 1988 as a
postdoctoral fellow and went on to become a clinical
research associate, and later a senior research
scientist, in the Stanford Sleep Research Center. In 1995
he became an acting associate professor.
Rona Giffard
Dr. Rona Giffard has been
promoted to associate professor of anesthesia, with
tenure, effective June 1997. Giffard investigates the
cellular consequences of brain injury. Her recent,
pioneering work on heat-shock proteins and their role in
the degree of ischemic glial damage points to new
strategies for protecting the brain from ischemia. In
1991 she received a Young Investigator Award from the
Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research. This
year Giffard was selected to receive the Frontiers in
Anesthesia Research Award from the International
Anesthesia Research Foundation, becoming the second
scientist honored with this generous four-year award.
Giffard earned a PhD in
structural biology in 1983 and an MD in 1985, both at
Stanford. Also at Stanford, she completed an internship,
an anesthesia residency and an anesthesia/neurosciences
fellowship. Giffard joined the faculty in 1989.
Yuan-Chi Lin
Dr. Yuan-Chi Lin has been
promoted to associate professor of anesthesia and, by
courtesy, of pediatrics at the medical center effective
September 1997 through August 2002.
After receiving an MD in
1981 from Taiwan's Kaohsiung Medical College, Lin earned
a master's degree in public health at Harvard in 1984. He
completed a pediatrics residency at Ohio State
University's Columbus Children's Hospital, an anesthesia
residency at the Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania and a fellowship in anesthesia at the
Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital. He joined
Stanford in 1991, establishing Lucile Packard Children's
Hospital's pediatric pain management service, which he
has directed since 1992.
In 1994 the Department of
Anesthesia recognized Lin's contributions with the Ellis
Cohen award, which honors "exceptional efforts in
clinical care, teaching or research."
Christine
Mora-Mangano
Dr. Christine Mora-Mangano
has been appointed associate professor of anesthesia at
the medical center effective June 1997 through May 2002.
She specializes in the anesthesia care of patients
undergoing cardiac and vascular surgeries. Mora-Mangano
is a member of the Multi-Center Study of Perioperative
Ischemia, the editor of the texbook "Heart-Lung
Bypass: Principles and Techniques of Extracorporeal
Circulation" (Springer-Verlag, 1995) and a member of
the board of directors of the Society of Cardiovascular
Anesthesiologists.
Recipient of an MD from
Rutgers University in 1979, Mora-Mangano completed a
general surgery residency at Lenox Hill Hospital and an
anesthesiology residency and a cardiothoracic anesthesia
fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center. She served on
the faculties of Jefferson Medical College and Emory
University School of Medicine before joining Stanford in
1995 as a clinical assistant professor.
Donna Peehl
Donna M. Peehl has been
appointed associate professor of urology (research) from
June 1997 through May 2002. Peehl devised the first
methods for growing human prostatic cells in tissue
culture, advancing studies of prostatic cell biology and
physiology. Her work has also provided important
information on the basic pathologic mechanisms involved
in prostatic disease. She has won three competitive
research awards (1993, 1995, 1996) from the Association
for the Cure of Cancer of the Prostate.
A Stanford University
alumna (class of 1974), Peehl went on to receive a PhD in
molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the
University of Colorado in 1979. She completed
postdoctoral studies in microbiology and immunology at UC
Irvine and UCSF. In 1982 she joined Stanford as a senior
research associate in urology.
James Roberts
Dr. James A. Roberts has
been appointed professor of gynecology and obstetrics at
the medical center effective June 1997 through May 2002.
He was also named the
department's clnic chief as of July 21. An expert in the
surgical and chemotherapeutic treatment of gyne-
cological cancers, Roberts also studies the ethical and
human issues of cancer therapy and end-of-life decision
making. He is recognized for both his compassion and his
scholarship.
Roberts received his MD at
the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1973. He completed a
residency in obstetrics and gynecology at UCLA, followed
by a fellowship in gynecologic oncology there. He has
served on the medical faculties of the University of Iowa
and the University of Michigan, where he became a tenured
professor. In 1993 he received an MS in clinical research
design and statistical analysis from the University of
Michigan. He was recruited to Stanford in 1996. SR
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