BY JOYCE THOMAS

Awards honoring several School of Medicine faculty have been announced for the current academic year. The awards recognize exemplary service and contributions in preclinical and clinical teaching and in graduate medical education.

Three faculty received an Arthur L. Bloomfield Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Clinical Medicine: Samuel LeBaron, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine (family and community medicine); Lawrence H. Mathers, MD, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics (intensive care) and of surgery (human anatomy); and Kelley M. Skeff, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (general internal medicine).

The Bloomfield award, presented annually for the past 38 years at Stanford, is named for the late Arthur Bloomfield, MD, who chaired the Department of Medicine from 1926-54. Recipients are selected by students in clinical training.

This year's Franklin G. Ebaugh Jr. Award for Advising Medical Students is being given to Helena C. Kraemer, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences (biostatistics), in recognition of her commitment and dedication to service. The Ebaugh award, given since 1992, commemorates the late Franklin Ebaugh Jr., MD, associate dean for Veterans Affairs and longtime chief of staff at the VA medical center. The winner of the Ebaugh award is chosen by all graduating medical students and full-time faculty.

Two Stanford awards for excellence in graduate education were established last year to recognize important contributions to the education of medical school graduate students. This year's Award for Graduate Teaching goes to W. James Nelson, PhD, professor of molecular and cellular physiology, for excellence and exceptional impact in the graduate classroom. Nelson, the Rudy J. and Daphne Donohue Munzer Professor in the School of Medicine, was recently appointed senior associate dean for research, graduate and postdoctoral education. The Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate Students goes to Howard Schulman, PhD, professor of neurobiology, for truly remarkable and extraordinary service on behalf of graduate students in the medical school. Schulman chaired the neurobiology department from 1995-2000.

Three awards in medical education and teaching, established by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, are also presented each year at Stanford.

Kelly Skeff, who also won a Bloomfield award this year, was chosen by fellow medical faculty members to receive the special Kaiser Award for Outstanding and Innovative Contributions to Medical Education. The award has been given at Stanford since 1973.

The winners of the other two Kaiser awards are selected by students in preclinical and clinical medical education. Recipients of the Kaiser Award for Preclinical Teaching are Lisa N. Gervin, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine; Phillip M. Harter, MD, assistant professor of surgery; David B. Lewis, MD, associate professor of pediatrics (immunology and transplantation biology); and the late Eric Glasgow, MD, MBB. Glasgow, who was a professor of surgery (anatomy), died Jan. 3 following a brief illness.

Winners of the Kaiser Award for Clinical Teaching are Samuel LeBaron, who also won a Bloomfield award; Ann N.C. Leung, MD, associate professor of radiology (diagnostic radiology); and Lars Osterberg, MD, staff physician and clinical instructor in medicine.

Winners of other faculty awards and student awards will be announced at the School of Medicine convocation Sunday.

Library site to host convocation webcast

The School of Medicine convocation begins at 2 p.m. Sunday following a noon luncheon for medical school graduates and their guests. The luncheon will be held on Alumni Green and the formal convocation ceremony will take place on the Dean's Lawn.

In addition, Lane Library will provide a live webcast of the commencement that will be available on the Internet at www.med.stanford.edu/lane/ifo/medcommencement.html.

Bicycles must be removed from the Dean's Courtyard and the breezeway outside the Fairchild Building and the Beckman Center by Friday to accommodate visitors to the convocation events.