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Stanford Report, April 1, 2009

Medical center people

Rohit Khosla

S.V. Mahadevan

David Stevenson

Geoffrey Gurtner

Rohit Khosla, MD, has been appointed assistant professor of surgery at Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, as of Feb. 1. He is interested in craniofacial surgery and cosmetic surgery.

Ramin Beygui, MD, has been appointed associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery, as of March 1. He also serves as medical director of the Stanford Cardiothoracic Surgery Program at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View. He is interested in coronary artery bypass surgery, aortic valve surgery, aortic aneurysm surgery, heart/heart-lung transplant, mitral valve surgery, tricuspid valve surgery and the MAZE procedure.

S.V. Mahadevan, MD, has been promoted to associate professor of surgery, as of Dec. 1. His academic interests include medical education, trauma, pre-hospital care and international emergency medicine. He is also associate chief in the Division of Emergency Medicine.

David Stevenson, MD, the Harold K. Faber Professor of Pediatrics and vice dean and senior associate dean for academic affairs, is the recipient of the WSPR Abbott Nutrition Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Education Award for 2009. The award, which was presented on Jan. 29, is conferred biannually by the Western Society for Pediatric Research in recognition of outstanding achievement in pediatric education.

Geoffrey Gurtner, MD, professor of surgery, and members of his laboratory are recipients of the James Barret Brown Award honoring the best published paper in the field of plastic surgery in 2008. The paper titled, "Using genetically modified microvascular free flaps to deliver local cancer immunotherapy with minimal systemic toxicity" was published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in May 2008 and described a novel technique that uses microvascular free flaps and gene therapy to deliver antitumor proteins locally and prevent the recurrence of tumors.