Students win internal medicine, radiology prizes; Frankel gets patient care award
Rebecca Weintraub
Lorry R. Frankel
BY JOYCE THOMAS
Commencement season has arrived with the announcement of more School of Medicine award winners and honorees.
Barbour, Blank awardees named
Graduating medical student Rebecca Weintraub, MD, was named winner of the Allen B. Barbour Award for Excellence in Internal Medicine. The award, now in its 11th year, recognizes “commitment to continuous self-improvement, meticulous care of patients and concern for the whole person.”
“Rebecca excelled at Stanford from the first day of her first year,” said Elliott Wolfe, MD, director of medical student professional development. “Her noteworthy achievement in internal medicine is one of several indicators of Rebecca’s future accomplishments.
“She is a stellar role model of scholarship, insightful thinking and professionalism,” said Wolfe.
Presented by the Department of Medicine, the award honors the late Barbour, longtime faculty member noted for his devotion to patient advocacy and patient-centered, humanistic care. Following retirement in 1981 as chief of the diagnostic clinic, he became the medical schoolÂ’s first ombudsperson. Barbour died in 1993.
Weintraub will go to Brigham and WomenÂ’s Hospital in Boston for a residency in internal medicine.
Graduating medical student Ramin Saketkhoo, MD, was named winner of the Norman Blank Award for Outstanding Performance in Radiology or Radiology Research.
Faculty members in radiology noted that Saketkhoo embodies the qualities of an excellent radiologist; he is pleasant, polite, meticulous, smart, detail-oriented and devoted to patient care. In addition, he is very productive; he completed four full-length manuscripts, wrote one book chapter and presented three abstracts in radiology. He is “truly a standout in all regards,” they said.
The Blank award, given for the past six years, honors longtime radiology faculty member and director of admissions Norman Blank, MD, who died in 1998. Blank was known for his exceptional clinical skills, vast medical knowledge and devotion to teaching medical students and radiology residents.
Saketkhoo will intern at Stanford Hospital and then complete a radiology residency at the University of California-San Diego.
Frankel named Rambar-Mark recipient
Associate professor Lorry R. Frankel, MD, chief of pediatric critical care at Lucile Packard ChildrenÂ’s Hospital, was named recipient of the Alwin C. Rambar-James B.D. Mark Award for Excellence in Patient Care.
The Rambar-Mark award recognizes a Stanford medical faculty member for compassion in working with patients and their families, excellence in providing medical care, and effectiveness and pleasantness in interacting with staff.
“Dr. Frankel has consistently demonstrated unsurpassed commitments to both his patients and students,” said Harvey Cohen, MD, PhD, the Arline and Pete Harman Professor of Pediatrics.
“He serves as an important role model for the best of the technological and humanistic aspects of pediatric medicine practiced at Stanford medical school and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital,” said Cohen, chair of the Department of Pediatrics. “I am very proud to call him my friend.”
In 2003 Frankel was awarded a Presidential Citation by the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
He is chief of the medical schoolÂ’s pediatrics department division of intensive care, which focuses on the advancement of therapies for respiratory, cardiovascular and other diseases that cause life-threatening illness in children.
He is a member of the board of Interplast, the nonprofit organization that provides free reconstructive plastic surgery to children in developing nations. He has volunteered with Interplast since 1987 and has participated in surgical trips to Brazil, Mongolia, Peru and Vietnam.
The Rambar award was established in 1985 to honor the late Alwin C. Rambar, MD, a Chicago pediatrician long associated with Stanford medical school. It was renamed in 1997 to include RambarÂ’s son-in-law James B.D. Mark, MD, a Stanford thoracic surgeon and professor emeritus.
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