New Staff Hires and Promotions: January 2007-April 2007

Posted 11:44 AM, April 26, 2007, by jaruiz

(Images courtesy of Mark Riesenberger)

Andrew Kloak has been the faculty affairs assistant for Anita McMillan, faculty affairs administrator, since January of 2007. A native of Chicago, he graduated from Loyola University Chicago with a BA in history; served as the managing editor of the weekly newspaper, The River North News; and subsequently, ran his own building and transportation consulting business. Moving to the Bay Area in 1999, Mr. Kloak worked for five years as the administrative manager for the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority, a regional governmental agency in Menlo Park, California. Prior to coming to our Department, he served as a fellowship manager for the Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) for International Studies at Encina Hall on the Stanford campus.

Shyam Panchal, MACI, became the clinical project manager in March of 2007 reporting to Dr. Rusty Hofmann, chief of interventional radiology. He received his BS in microbiology from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and his MA in clinical investigation from the Boston University School of Medicine. Mr. Panchal's areas of expertise include clinical trial design and conduct. He has been involved with clinical operations, research, and trial development since 1998 when he served as a clinical microbiologist and histologist aide at O'Connor Hospital in San Jose, California. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Panchal was also the lead clinical database architect for three global clinical trials at Abbott Laboratories: Providing Regional Observations to Study Predictors of Events in the Coronary Tree (PROSPECT), a vulnerable plaque study; ABSORB-FIM, a study on the bioabsorbable coronary stent; and SPIRIT-V, a post-marketing study for XIENCE V CE. Although new to our Department, Mr. Panchal has worked at Stanford in the past. In 1999, he served as an emergency room assistant for Stanford Emergency Services, and from 2000 to 2004, he worked as the clinical research associate for the comparative and clinical studies of the cardiac transplant population in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine.

Helen Roque was hired as an administrative associate in March of 2007 reporting to Dr. Ann Leung, associate chair for clinical affairs and section chief of thoracic imaging. Ms. Roque has a long history of working at Stanford University as an administrative associate in the Division of Cardiology in the Pediatrics Department and in the Pathology Department. Her duties in the Division of Cardiology included providing administrative support to the Division and the Division Chief; administering postdoctoral affairs; and coordinating the Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship and clerkship programs. In Pathology, Ms. Roque was responsible for a variety of activities including the annual salary setting process; the staff employee recruitment and selection process; the administration of personnel transactions and payroll administration; and coordinating and processing employment visas. Prior to working at Stanford, she served as a human resources administrator at the Communication Intelligence Corporation in Redwood Shores, California, and as a human resources specialist, compensation analyst, and personnel administrator at Logitech Inc. in Fremont, California.