Stanford Report, June 21, 2006

Medical center people

Christopher Beaulieu

Edmund Harris

Gerald M. Reaven

Christopher Beaulieu, MD, PhD, has been promoted to professor of radiology, as of June 1. His research focuses on three-dimensional computer graphics representation of medical imaging data, including clinical applications of virtual colonoscopy and arthroscopy. Beaulieu is well-known for developing rapid image processing capability, an innovation that made virtual colonoscopy possible. He is also chief of musculoskeletal imaging at Stanford.

Edmund Harris, MD, has been promoted to professor of surgery, as of May 1. He is interested in studying the role of thrombosis in stimulating venous wall morphologic change, as well as looking to develop new ways to prevent chronic venous wall thickening. Harris also directs Stanford's vascular laboratory.

Gerald M. Reaven, MD, professor of medicine, emeritus, is the recipient of the 2006 Fred Conrad Koch Award, the highest honor presented by the Endocrine Society. The award, presented annually to recognize exceptional contributions to endocrinology, will be presented to Reaven at the society's annual meeting June 24-27 in Boston. Reaven was the first to coin the term Syndrome X, a cluster of symptoms including central obesity and high blood pressure, in the 1980s. He formerly was the chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases and the Division of Gerontology, and he is also a past director of the General Clinical Research Center.

George Segall, MD, has been promoted to professor of radiology, and, by courtesy, of medicine, at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, as of June 1. His research interests focus on scintigraphic evaluation of coronary blood flow and myocardial function using single photon emission computed tomography and positron emission tomography. He also serves as chief of nuclear medicine at the VA-Palo Alto.

David A. Stevens, MD, professor of medicine, has been awarded the Lucille K. Georg Medal from the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. The award is in recognition of outstanding scientific achievement in medical mycology and is given by the society every three years. It will be presented June 25 in Paris.