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Stanford Report, June 9, 2004

Award recipents announced; others to be named at commencement

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W. James Nelson

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Julie Parsonnet

BY JOYCE THOMAS

This yearÂ’s winners of medical school awards for outstanding contributions to graduate and medical education, patient care and teaching were recently announced.

The third annual Lance Armstrong Foundation Compassion in Medicine Award will go to Lars Osterberg, MD. Osterberg, a staff physician and clinical instructor in general internal medicine, will receive the award today at a Faculty Club reception. The award, honoring the five-time defending Tour de France winner and cancer survivor, recognizes “a physician-mentor whose practice of the art and science of medicine exemplifies a humanistic approach to medical student teaching and patient care.” Medical students chose the award winner.

The Arthur L. Bloomfield Award in Recognition of Excellence in the Teaching of Clinical Medicine, now in its 41st year, went to Steven Guest, MD, a nephrologist at Kaiser; Barry Rosen, MD, a specialist in addiction medicine at Sequoia; and Myer Rosenthal, MD, clinical professor of anesthesia at the medical center. The award commemorates the late Bloomfield, MD, chair of the Department of Medicine from 1926 to 1954. Award recipients were chosen by students in clinical training.

The Franklin G. Ebaugh Jr. Award for Advising Medical Students went to ,Theodore Sectish, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics. In its 12th year, the award honors the late Ebaugh, MD, longtime associate dean for veterans affairs and chief of staff at the VA hospital. The recipient of the award, which recognizes commitment and dedication to service, was chosen by medical students and full-time faculty members.

Both the School of Medicine Award for Graduate Teaching and the Award for Outstanding Service to Graduate Students were won by W. James Nelson, PhD, the Rudy J. and Daphne Donohue Munzer Professor and professor of molecular and cellular physiology. The graduate awards, now in their fifth year, recognize teaching excellence and exceptional impact in the graduate classroom and outstanding service on behalf of graduate students at the medical school. Medical faculty and MS and PhD students at the medical school voted on the graduate education awards.

The 32nd annual Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Outstanding and Innovative Contributions to Medical Education went to Julie Parsonnet, MD, senior associate dean for education and student affairs. Parsonnet, associate professor of medicine (infectious diseases), was voted recipient of the medical education award by fellow faculty members.

Students in clinical medicine chose the recipients of the 36th annual Kaiser Foundation Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching: Thomas Krummel, MD, professor and chair of surgery, and Rosen and Rosenthal, who also won Bloomfield awards this year.

Students in preclinical medicine selected the winners of the Kaiser Foundation Award for Excellence in Preclinical Teaching, also in its 36th year: associate dean for medical education and graduate affairs Neil Gesundheit, MD, associate professor of medicine (endocrinology); Gregory Gilbert, MD, instructor in emergency medicine at the medical center; John Gosling, MD, professor of surgery (anatomy); and Elliott Wolfe, MD, director of medical student professional development.

Armstrong, Bloomfield, Ebaugh, graduate education and Kaiser awards recipients will be recognized Saturday at the School of Medicine convocation, and the 2004 winners of the Allen Barbour, Norman Blank and Alwin Rambar-James Mark awards will be announced.