Stanford Report, July 26, 2006

Medical center people

Atul Butte

Myriam Curet

Garry Gold

Atul Butte MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine and of pediatrics, has been awarded the Physician-Scientist Early Career Award, presented by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to promising physician-scientists in their early years as tenure-track faculty at academic medical centers. Butte will receive $150,000 over three years for research purposes.

Myriam Curet, MD, associate professor of surgery, has been selected to be one of this year's 48 fellows in the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program, which is dedicated to preparing senior women faculty for leadership at academic health centers. Curet studies surgical education, laparoscopic surgery, bariatric surgery and robotic surgery.

Garry Gold, MD, has been promoted to associate professor of radiology, as of June 1. His research focuses on the application of new MR imaging technology to musculoskeletal problems. Gold is also the recipient of the Lauterbur Award for best MRI paper, presented by the Society of Computed Body Tomography and Magnetic Resonance at their annual meeting in April. His paper was titled, "Patellofemoral Pain: Analysis with Upright Real-Time MRI and 3D Finite Element Modeling." The award honors Paul Lauterbur, PhD, who first described the basic MRI technique in 1972 and published his first MR image in 1973.

Peter P. Lee, MD, has been promoted to associate professor of medicine (hematology), as of July 1. His research focuses on understanding the biology of the immune response to cancer.

Erica Riddle, who received her PhD in immunology, was given the BioMASS Award for Outstanding Service on Behalf of Graduate Students during the School of Medicine's commencement ceremony on June 17.

Second-year medical student Geoffrey Krampitz, is the recipient of the 2006 Minority Scholars Award, presented by the American Medical Association. The award recognizes scholastic achievement and promise for the future among students in groups defined as "historically underrepresented" in the medical profession. Krampitz, who is one of only ten medical students in the country chosen for this award, will receive a $10,000 scholarship.