Promotion and appointments announced
Rona Giffard
Stephen Roth
BY JOYCE THOMAS
Rona Giffard,MD, PhD, was promoted to professor of anesthesia and, by courtesy, of neurosurgery. She is vice chair for research in the Department of Anesthesia.
Giffard, a leading neuroanesthesiologist, is a recipient of the Frontiers in Anesthesia Research Award of the International Anesthesia Research Foundation and has had continuous NIH funding since 1990.
She studies the cellular basis of ischemic brain injury or stroke and has worked extensively on astrocyte injury. She uses gene therapy to understand how specific proteins can protect brain cells. Studies now under way in her lab begin to show which functions and regions of a stress protein called Hsp70 are most important for protection.
Giffard earned her BA in biochemistry in 1974 from UC-Berkeley, her PhD in structural biology in 1983 and her MD in 1985 from Stanford. She completed a residency in anesthesia and a fellowship in anesthesia-neuroscience at Stanford. She joined the faculty in 1990 and received tenure in 1997.
Michael J. Kaplan, MD, was appointed professor of otolaryngology and, by courtesy, of neurosurgery. He is chief of the division of head and neck oncology in the Department of Otolaryngology.
His scholarly work focuses on innovations in skull-base surgical techniques and imaging technology to assess problems of the head and neck.
He is a member of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Northern California Oncology Group and Society of University Otolaryngologists.
He received an undergraduate degree in biochemistry and molecular biology (1973) and medical degree (1977) from Harvard. His postdoctoral training included residencies in Boston at Beth Israel and ChildrenÂ’s hospitals and the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He completed fellowships in head and neck surgery and oncology at the University of Virginia.
Kaplan joined Stanford last summer from UC-San Francisco and the San Francisco VA, where he was chief of otolaryngology for more than a decade.
Stephen Roth, MD, was appointed associate professor of pediatrics at Lucile Packard ChildrenÂ’s Hospital. He directs the cardiovascular intensive care unit at the hospital.
He is co-investigator on two current National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute studies including a clinical trial of red blood cell volume strategy in infant heart surgery and randomized therapeutic trials in pediatric heart disease.
He earned an undergraduate degree in biochemical sciences in 1980 from Harvard, followed in 1986 by an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health and an MD from Yale. His postdoctoral training included a residency in medicine and a clinical fellowship in pediatric cardiology at ChildrenÂ’s Hospital in Boston and a fellowship at HarvardÂ’s Center for Blood Research.
Roth joined Stanford in September from the Harvard faculty and ChildrenÂ’s Hospital, where he was associate director of the cardiac ICU and associate chief of the division of intensive care cardiology.
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