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"When you look at the demographics and who's out there, it's clear you need to diversify the work force." —Ronald Garcia, PhD, senior lecturer and assistant dean for minority student affairs, on the recruitment of minorities for medical school at the 22nd annual regional Latino Medical Student Association meeting, held earlier this month at Stanford. The event was open to the public. San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal, April 14
"The pioneering model we use to benefit our own citizens is being hijacked, one laboratory at a time." —Christopher Scott, executive director of the Program on Stem Cells and Society in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, and Jennifer McCormick, postdoctoral fellow in the SCBE, in an op-ed on how other nations' funding of stem cell work is giving them a research edge over the United States. Boston Globe, April 18.
"We may not have the staff needed to run those ventilators adequately….We are running at capacity." —Vicki Running, director of disaster planning at Stanford University Medical Center, on the lack of equipment and funding to prepare for a bird flu pandemic. Reuters, April 18.
"My guess is this is going to be one of the worst allergy years on record." — Richard Moss, MD, professor of pediatrics (pulmonary medicine) at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, on how this season's rains are expected to lead to an especially bad year for allergy sufferers. KTVU-TV, April 19.