New Hires and Promotions

New Staff Hires and Promotions: March 3, 2009

Sheila Galuppo was recently hired as our marketing manager for outpatient imaging at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. For over 15 years, she has worked in medical sales, building close working relationships with community physicians and their staff. Before joining our Department, she worked as the marketing manager for an independent start-up imaging center in the San Jose area for four years. Drawing on her knowledge and experience concerning excelling in a very competitive imaging industry, Ms. Galuppo's goal for Stanford Radiology is to obtain radiology referrals from our community physicians.

Born and raised in the San Jose area, Ms. Galuppo is from a second-generation Italian immigrant family: "I went to UC Santa Cruz as a marine biology major with dreams of becoming a veterinarian specializing in marine mammals. My mentors as a child were Jacques Cousteau, Marty Stauffer, Marlin Perkins, and, of course, mom and dad. Funny, how life takes us on a journey. While working as a veterinarian technician after college, I met many sales representatives coming to the physician's office, and I discovered a new passion, medical sales, and I have never looked back. I am also an avid scuba diver, although I prefer warm water diving in my older years. My other hobbies include camping, hiking, and dog training. Two years ago, I rescued a four-month old Basset Hound named Daisy. She and I have been in obedience training classes for over a year with the goal of obtaining her therapy dog license. We would like to volunteer at care centers and children's hospitals. There is nothing like bringing a smile to a child with the unconditional love of a furry friend."

(Image of Ms. Galuppo courtesy of Mark Riesenberger)

Daisy on Halloween 2008

New Staff Hires and Promotions: March 2, 2009

Douglas Cathon, MA, ARRT, has joined our Department as our Radiology quality manager at Stanford Hospital and Clinics. Prior to coming to Stanford, Mr. Cathon worked at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He has over 30 years of management experience working in quality management; leading community programs; and teaching business and health courses, on topics including principles of management, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and human resources. Mr. Cathon has published a book entitled Management Dominos and has over 40 publications in professional journals on subjects such as stress management, performance, buying a computer system, and marketing. Other key areas of his experience include quality assessment and improvement; imaging operations management; departmental policy and procedural manuals; Certificates of Need and RFP's; cost analysis; coding/billing; supply control; and short- and long-range planning.

In addition, Mr. Cathon has clinical experience from his work as a radiological technologist in all areas of radiology and from his service in the Navy as a hospital corpsman with experience as an operating room technician; lab technician; X-ray technician; and pharmacy technician. In the Navy, he was also the leading petty officer on a number of duty stations, which included 10 ships, 2 clinics, and 4 hospitals, and he has 5 years of experience as a Total Quality Management instructor. In 1982, Mr. Cathon received a Navy Achievement Award for designing a medical department on board a ship. His educational background includes an MA in human resource development from Webster University, St. Louis, MO; an MA in health services management from Webster University, St. Louis, MO; a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Education (medical technology and business) from Wayland Baptist University, Plainview Texas; and EPIC-Radiant certification in the radiology RIS system. He is also an American Health Care Radiology Administrators Fellow.

When he is not at work, Mr. Cathon enjoys spending time with his two children and four grandchildren as well as driving his 94 Corvette.

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New Staff Hires and Promotions: January 8, 2009

Alice Gardner, MM, recently joined our Department as an administrative associate in the Abdominal Imaging Section. Prior to coming to California in 2004, Ms. Gardner lived for most of her adult life on the back roads of rural Vermont, raising her family in a picturesque valley while running a home business growing and drying flowers. In Brattleboro, Vermont, she worked at the School for International Training as an administrative manager for their master's programs. After moving to California, Ms. Gardner worked for over two years as a seminar and program coordinator at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto. She earned her master's degree in management from Cambridge College in 2000.

Although she lived in Vermont for most of her life, Ms. Gardner grew up in Connecticut and also spent seven years in Scotland at the Findhorn Foundation. From a young age, she has been interested in spirituality and in 2002, after discovering the teachings of Eckhart Tolle, she spent five days at a retreat led by Mr. Tolle and subsequently authored a book about her experiences entitled Life Beyond Belief.

According to Ms. Gardner, her four years in California have been great: "I am thoroughly enjoying the wonderfully temperate climate here, as well as the social environment with my friends, family, and as a member of the Stanford community. I enjoy nature photography very much, and I have included some of my recent photos for the blog. Also, my last name, Gardner, is very fitting because I really am a gardener; I am certificated by the Royal Horticultural Society in England, and I enjoy the year-round flowers and plants in California a lot. I love the great outdoors and enjoy camping, walking, biking to work, and just plain being outdoors."

New Faculty Hires and Promotions: January 5, 2009

Rebecca Fahrig, PhD, has been promoted to associate professor (research) of radiology. Prior to joining our Department, Dr. Fahrig completed her PhD in medical biophysics at the University of Western Ontario and a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. She has won numerous awards including selection as a School of Medicine Faculty Fellow for 2008; the Greenfield Award for the Best Paper (nonradiation dosimetry) published in Medical Physics in 2005; the Fellowship Research Trainee Prize (along with Zhu, PhD, candidate) from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Physics Subcommittee; and the Faculty Scholar in Translational Research Award from the Baxter Foundation. Dr. Fahrig's research focuses on imaging for guidance of minimally invasive procedures. She works on software and hardware that permit the use of a C-arm system for both fluoroscopy and CT imaging, and she has extended the applications of C-arm CT to retrospectively gated 3D/4D cardiac imaging in the interventional suite. Dr. Fahrig is also developing an MR-compatible X-ray fluoroscopy system, including a new rotating-anode X-ray tube for use in the fringe fields of 1.5T and 3.0T magnets. For her prior award posting, please access http://radiology.stanford.edu/blog/archives/2008/04/awards_and_hono_36.html.

New Faculty Hires and Promotions: December 17, 2008

Daniel Rubin, MD, MS, was appointed as an assistant professor of radiology in 2008. He was recruited to Stanford Radiology to participate in building a new section in the information sciences called ISIS (Information Science in Imaging at Stanford). Dr. Rubin's background is in clinical and investigational radiology as a radiologist and as a researcher. He attended Stanford Medical School and received his master's degree in biomedical informatics. He also completed his residency as well as his body and research fellowships at Stanford University. Dr. Rubin's academic focus is on the intersection of biomedical informatics and imaging science where he is developing computational methods and applications to access and integrate diverse clinical and imaging data; to extract information and meaning from images; to enable data mining and the discovery of image biomarkers; and to translate these methods into practice by creating computer applications that will improve diagnostic accuracy and clinical effectiveness. He is also chair of the RadLex Steering Committee of the RSNA, an effort to create a standard terminology for all of radiology; chair of the Informatics Committee of the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN); and co-chair of the Medical Imaging Systems Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association. For Dr. Rubin's prior blog posting, please access http://radiology.stanford.edu/blog/archives/2008/08/ncis_invivo_ima.html.

New Faculty Hires and Promotions: November 26, 2008

Xiaoyuan (Shawn) Chen, PhD, head of the Molecular Imaging Probe Laboratory (MIPL) has been promoted to associate professor (research) of radiology. Dr. Chen was born in China and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry from Nanjing University. In 1999, he received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Idaho and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Syracuse University, New York, and another at Washington University, St Louis, before joining the faculty of the University of Southern California as an assistant professor of radiology. In 2004, he joined our Department to help build the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS). His research group currently includes 10 postdoctoral fellows as well as several medical students and visiting scholars. Major areas of Dr. Chen's research include the development of novel molecular imaging probes to visualize and quantify the fundamental molecular processes in cancer and cardiovascular diseases; the application of state-of-the-art imaging technologies to guide and monitor molecular therapeutics; and the application of nanotechnology in molecular cancer diagnostics and therapy.

In addition to his research, Dr. Chen has published over 150 papers and numerous book chapters, and he sits on the editorial board of 10 journals and is a regular reviewer for over 30 journals. He is currently funded through the pharmaceutical industry and two federal government foundations: the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense (DOD). He also serves as a regular study section member on multiple foundation panels, such as those of the NIH, DOD, and Susan G. Komen Foundation. Dr. Chen describes his hobbies outside of work as follows: "I am so focused on surviving at Stanford that I have lost pretty much all of my hobbies. I still hope to find some time for Chinese calligraphy, which I have practised for some 20 years."

New Staff Hires and Promotions: November 18, 2008

Shannon Walters, RT (R)(MR), was recently hired as a 3D technologist in the 3D Laboratory. Prior to joining our Department, Mr. Walters worked for Stanford Hospital & Clinics in MRI for two years. He earned his bachelor's degree in the radiologic sciences and is ARRT registered. Mr. Walters and his wife, who works at Stanford in the SHC Ultrasound Section, have a daughter who is twenty-one months old. Besides his daughter, Mr. Walters' other hobbies include mountain biking, camping, and hiking.

New Staff Hires and Promotions: September 29, 2008

Armando Mendoza, RT (MR), recently joined our Department as a radiology assistant in the Radiological Sciences Laboratory (RSL) where he reports to Anne Sawyer, BS, RT (R)(MR), FSMRT. Originally from the Philippines, Mr. Mendoza received his bachelor's degree in business administration in 1989 and left San Jose, California, for Indiana in 1991. While out of state, he worked initially as a travelling radiologic technologist; then, as a travelling MRI technologist; and next, as the imaging director at Terre Haute Regional Hospital. Prior to coming to Stanford in 2008, he was an MRI application specialist. When he is not at work, Mr. Mendoza enjoys playing golf, volleyball, and basketball as well as spending time with his nieces and nephews (please see the photo on the left).

New Faculty Hires and Promotions: April 24, 2008

Debra Ikeda, MD, director of the Stanford University breast imaging section, has been promoted to full professor of radiology. For 16 years, Dr. Ikeda has served as the director of the breast imaging section. Prior to coming to Stanford, she received her medical degree from the University of Connecticut, Farmington, and completed her internship and residency in radiology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After completing fellowships at the University of San Francisco Medical Center and Malmo General Hospital in Sweden, Dr. Ikeda came to Stanford to build our breast imaging section into a state-of-the-art center. She has developed and led two of the leading CME courses in the world of breast imaging, each attended by over 300 participants. She has also been very active in teaching our residents and fellows and was awarded "Teacher of the Year" for her efforts. Her achievements include chairing the American College of Radiology (ACR) BIRADS Lexicon Committee, which resulted in the publication of the ACR MRI BIRADS text that is used to report breast MRI throughout the world. Dr. Ikeda's research focuses on the roles and limitations of breast cancer detection and imaging using X-ray methods, ultrasonography, and MRI. New research involves imaging of Asian women, evaluation of breast density, imaging of accelerated partial breast irradiation, optical imaging, and digital mammography with CAD.

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New Staff Hires and Promotions: March 3, 2008

Bonita Crabbe has been the administrative associate for Dr. Gambhir since November of 2006. Prior to working at Stanford, Ms. Crabbe was the senior secretary for the 3M Company in Milpitas, California, and in Minnesota. She has also worked as an executive secretary to the superintendent and board of trustees in an elementary school district in Millbrae, California. In addition, Ms. Crabbe's employment experience includes working for more than a decade at a major airline at the San Francisco airport, where she enjoyed fantastic travel experiences including Tahiti, Hawaii, Mexico, Jamaica, Nassau, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Northern Europe, the Greek Islands, and the Cayman Islands. The oldest of four children and a fourth generation Norwegian, Ms. Crabbe grew up in Minnesota, enjoying Scandinavian crafts and family traditions, including lutefisk and lefse. In high school, she was inducted into the National Honor Society and was the editor of the school year book. Ms. Crabbe attended the University of Minnesota, majoring in business and home economics. She received a Certified Professional Secretary Certificate (and a number of other certificates along the way) and became highly skilled at writing and reading shorthand. Ms. Crabbe has two adult children: Julie of Tiburon, California, and Scott of Salem, Oregon. Julie is the executive coordinator for the CFO of a San Francisco healthcare provider and proud "mom" of Zeke, a chocolate lab who weighs 120 pounds and thinks he is a lap dog even though he is as tall as a pony. Scott is the vice president of a commercial construction company and proud "dad" of his faithful companion, a lovable yellow lab named Harley. When she is not at work, Ms. Crabbe likes traveling, reading, crafts, sewing, garage sales, and street festivals. Her favorite trip was a cruise through the Greek Islands, with a day trip to the ancient city of Ephesus (now called Kusadasi) where archeologists have uncovered amazing ruins from New Testament times. Her tour included an outdoor concert in an ancient amphitheatre where the Apostle Paul preached some 2000 years ago. She also visited the Isle of Patmos, where the Apostle John lived in exile.

New Faculty Hires and Promotions: February 12, 2008

Justus Roos, MD, was appointed as an assistant professor of radiology in 2008. Dr. Roos began at Stanford in January 2005 as a research fellow and became a research associate in our Department in January 2006. Prior to Stanford, he was an attending radiologist at the University Hospital, Zurich. Dr. Roos completed his residency in diagnostic pathology at the University Hospital, Geneva, and diagnostic radiology at the University Hospital, Zurich. His current research focuses on CT applications, with two main scholarly concentrations: the computer-aided detection of pulmonary nodules in chest CT scans and cardiovascular CT visualization. One of his major projects includes the development and validation of new 3D post-processing methods of CT angiography data in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease. In 2006, Dr. Roos received the Hounsfield Award from the Society of Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance (SCBT/MR) for his scientific research. When he is not working, Dr. Roos enjoys spending time with his wife and two children as well as pursuing his hobbies: alpine skiing, playing tennis, mountain biking, cooking, and dancing.

New Faculty Hires and Promotions: January 23, 2008

Zhen Cheng, PhD, became an assistant professor (research) of radiology and member of the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) in September of 2007. He was an undergraduate at Sichuan University, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. Dr. Cheng also holds an MS from the National Research Center of Isotope Engineering and Technology & China Institute of Atomic Energy and a PhD from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. From 2001 to 2003, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. His awards include a Young Investigator Travel Scholarship to attend the 2005 Academy of Molecular Imaging Annual Conference and a 1997-1998 graduate fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Cheng is currently a member of the Cancer Molecular Imaging Chemistry Laboratory (CMICL) of MIPS where he is developing novel molecular imaging probes and non-invasive techniques for the early detection of cancer and its metastasis. He is also researching the molecular, metabolic, and physiological characteristics of cancers and their responses to therapy by identifying novel cancer biomarkers with significant clinical relevance; by devising new chemistry for the preparation of probes; and by validating new strategies for probes by using high-throughput screening.

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New Faculty Hires and Promotions: January 23, 2008

Aya Kamaya, MD, was appointed as an assistant professor in the abdominal imaging section of the Radiology Department on October 1, 2007. Since the completion of her fellowship in body imaging at Stanford in 2005, she has been a clinical instructor and clinical assistant professor in the abdominal imaging section at Stanford. During this time, she was given two teaching awards for her outstanding contributions to resident education, compassionate patient care, and research. She is currently the assistant fellowship director of the Stanford Body Imaging Fellowship. Prior to coming to Stanford for her fellowship, she completed her residency in diagnostic radiology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she was awarded the Executive Council Award from the American Roentgen Ray Society for her work on "Color Doppler Twinkling Artifact" and the Laurence A. Mack Research Award from the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound for her work on "Linear Streak Artifact." She completed medical school at the University of Utah in her hometown of Salt Lake City. As an undergraduate, she double majored in engineering sciences and Asian Studies, securing her two bachelor's degrees at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Her research interests include investigating new ultrasound technologies such as photoacoustic ultrasound, in conjunction with the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford; liver imaging; and women's imaging. Outside of work, her favorite activities include skiing and snowboarding through powder (her favorite ski resort is Snowbird, UT), as well as running at the Stanford Dish, surfing, and traveling.

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New Faculty Hires and Promotions: January 23, 2008

Lewis Shin, MD, will be starting as an assistant professor of diagnostic radiology in February 2008. He has been a clinical instructor in our Department since August of 2007 after completing a body imaging fellowship from 2005 to 2007 through our Advanced Techniques for Cancer Imaging Program, which is funded by the National Cancer Institute. Prior to coming to Stanford, he attended Brown University where he received his BS in neuroscience in 1996 and his medical degree in 2000. Dr. Shin completed his internship and residency in diagnostic radiology at Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York. His research interests include real time MRI airway imaging and body imaging, specifically diffusion-weighted imaging and virtual colonoscopy with CT and MR. Born and raised in New York, his hobbies
include ice hockey and golf.

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New Faculty Hires and Promotions: January 10, 2008

John MacKenzie, MD, MS, became an acting assistant professor of pediatric radiology and chief of pediatric musculoskeletal imaging at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (LPCH) in September of 2007. At LPCH, he is helping to expand the options for imaging and image-guided interventions for children, and he is excited to be back on the Farm. After completing his Bachelor of Science degree at Stanford with honors in computer science and the biological sciences, Dr. MacKenzie left Stanford for medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, which was initially a culture shock for him. However, Dr. MacKenzie enjoyed the East Coast enough to complete his residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital and two fellowships: a musculoskeletal and body MRI fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a pediatric radiology fellowship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. His research interests include molecular imaging applications for bone and joint disorders, and he is currently developing a research program in hyperpolarized carbon-13 imaging with members of Stanford Radiology (Drs. Dan Spielman, Shreyas Vasanawala, and Dirk Mayer) and General Electric (Ralph Hurd and Yi-Fen Yen). When he's not working, you may see him riding his green bike around campus reliving his undergraduate days as well as commuting to and from Caltrain. Dr. MacKenzie lives in San Francisco and enjoys hiking and carpentry; both his father and grandfather were carpenters. A native of Colorado, Dr. MacKenzie is currently teaching his seven-year-old daughter how to ice skate.

New Staff Hires and Promotions: December 17, 2007

Regina Clarke-Katzenberg, MS, has been the life science research assistant (LSRA) to Dr. Rusty Hofmann in cardiovascular interventional radiology (CVIR) since May of 2007 and became the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) (P087) lab manager in November of 2007. Regina was born and raised in the suburbs of New York City and has dual citizenship in the United States and Ireland. She received her BS in biochemistry from Cornell University in 1985 and her MS in molecular biology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1987. Regina has been at Stanford since 1989, with publications from work in three departments prior to joining CVIR: Molecular Pharmacology (dioxin-induced CYP1A1p450 mouse liver gene regulation); Transplant Surgery (competing effects of TNF and EBV or MLR on HUVEC activation); and Cardiovascular Medicine (impact of nitric oxide regulation on cardiovascular disease and tumor angiogenesis). Her current focus in radiology is multi-modal imaging to develop clinically feasible therapies. Regina has two teenage sons, Ben and Adlai, and a best friend, George. Their hobbies include Los Altos High School Water Polo, skiing, and boating.

New Staff Hires and Promotions: October 30, 2007

Aloma L. D'Souza, PhD, joined the Department in July of 2007 as the laboratory manager for Dr. Gary Glazer, MD. Together with Dr. Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, she has been busy establishing the new research laboratory that focuses on the study of prognostic cancer biomarkers. Dr. D'Souza received her doctorate degree and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry at Rush University, Chicago, where her research centered on cartilage biomarkers, in vitro engineered cartilage, and osteoarthritis. Prior to Stanford, Dr. D'Souza worked at Genentech, Inc., in the Department of Molecular Oncology. Her work included the functional identification and characterization of tumor over-expressed proteins and the evaluation of potential targets for intervention with therapeutic agents. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, painting, and art and architecture appreciation.

New Staff Hires and Promotions: October 23, 2007

Eugenio L. de Hostos, PhD, became the new lab manager for the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) on September 1, 2007. As a senior research scientist, his background is in cell and molecular biology, particularly the biology of the cytoskeleton. Dr. de Hostos received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and earned his PhD from the Stanford Biology Department and the Carnegie Institute at Stanford in 1989. After graduating, Dr. de Hostos worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, and at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He was subsequently hired as an assistant professor at Rice University, but left academia to work in the biotechnology industry at Exelixis and Cytokinetics in south San Francisco. At Cytokinetics, he worked on the development of anti-cancer drugs that target mitosis. He enjoys traveling and spending time with his daughter and wife, who is also a scientist at Stanford.

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New Staff Hires and Promotions: October 15, 2007

Deborah Burgstrum became the grants manager for our Department on July 16, 2007. She received her BS from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, in business/accounting. Ms. Burgstrum has worked for Stanford for a total of 14 years, which includes 7 years in research administration. She spent 10 of the 14 years in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences and then moved to the Medical School, spending approximately 4 years in Pathology and Infectious Diseases before moving to Radiology. However, she says that "Radiology is the 'keeper'" and that she's "planning to be here a long time." In her spare time, she makes jewelry as a hobby, and she has an interest in ancient history and the arts, which includes a love for wandering through art museums. She is also a cat person.

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New Faculty Hires and Promotions: October 8, 2007

Patrick Barnes, MD, became a professor of radiology on September 1, 2007. Dr. Barnes received his medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he was also a resident. After completing his residency, he became a fellow in pediatric neuroradiology and cardiovascular radiology at Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts. Before coming to Stanford in 2000, he was an associate professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and director of neuroradiology and MRI at the Boston Children's Hospital. At Stanford, he has been the section chief of pediatric neuroradiology and the medical director, MRI/CT, at Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital since 2002. He was chosen as the Senior Faculty of the Year for 2002-2003, 2004-2005, and 2005-2006 for his outstanding contributions to resident education, compassionate patient care, and research. Dr. Barnes has provided outstanding clinical, educational, and administrative leadership for the Neuroradiology and Pediatric Radiology Programs in the Department of Radiology, and he continues to help build the Developmental Neuroscience Program in the Department and at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.

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New Staff Hires and Promotions: October 3, 2007

Pam Hertz, RVT, joined our Department on August 6, 2007, as the new research veterinary nurse. She earned her certificate and diploma as a licensed registered veterinary technician in June of 1999 from Foothill College. Prior to coming to Stanford, she had been working in small animal veterinary practices since 1996. Her immediate supervisor will be Wendy Baumgardner, RVT, LATg, who will train her in the various areas of animal research and policy. Ms. Hertz says that she looks "forward to working with and learning from Wendy; she has been a great teacher." In her time off, she enjoys snow skiing, day hikes, golfing (she still needs lots of practice), and spending time with family and friends. Although she does not have any pets of her own now, she enjoys spending time with her friends' pets.

New Staff Hires and Promotions: January 2007-April 2007

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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.

New Faculty Hires and Promotions: March-April 2007

Laura Varich, MD, has been promoted to clinical associate professor effective April 1, 2007. She was born and raised in the peninsula and completed her undergraduate and medical school education at UC Davis. Dr. Varich finished her radiology residency at UC San Diego Medical Center and her fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. For close to nine years, she has worked as a clinician/educator in pediatric radiology at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. She is currently the associate program director for pediatric radiology, and she is active in the educational process for medical students, radiology residents, and pediatric radiology fellows. In recognition for her outstanding teaching, she has received two resident teaching awards. When she is not working, she enjoys raising her two daughters, bicycle riding, and painting.
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New Faculty Hires and Promotions: January 2006-February 2007

We continue our ongoing efforts to expand our clinical capabilities through our new faculty recruitments, especially in the areas of pediatrics and interventional radiology.

New faculty recruitments include:

Garry E. Gold, MD, became an associate professor of radiology at Stanford University in June of 2006. He received a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1988 and his MD from Stanford in 1992. He began working with Dr. John Pauly in 1988 on ultra-short echo time imaging in MRI. In 1994-95, Dr. Gold completed a postdoctoral research fellowship with Dr. Albert Macovski and Dr. Robert Herfkens and was awarded the 1995 International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) Young Investigator Moore Award for his work. In 1998, Dr. Gold did a fellowship in musculoskeletal radiology with Dr. Donald Resnick and subsequently joined the faculty at Stanford. Dr. Gold has authored over 60 journal articles, 170 abstracts, and five patents in MRI. He is the principal investigator on two NIH-funded projects to improve MR imaging of osteoarthritis using real-time MRI for the study of biomechanics. He has been the principal investigator or a co-investigator on over 30 funded research projects. At Stanford, Dr. Gold practices clinical musculoskeletal radiology while teaching medical students, residents, and fellows. He also teaches two courses in imaging physics and human anatomy for medical students and graduate students, and he serves as an advisor and co-advisor for many engineering graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Most recently, Dr. Gold was awarded the Kaiser Award for Outstanding and Innovative Contributions to Education and the President's Medal from the International Skeletal Society.

Lawrence "Rusty" Hofmann, MD, became an associate professor and the section chief of cardiovascular-interventional radiology in January of 2006. Prior to coming to Stanford, Dr. Hofmann received his medical degree from the Ohio State University School of Medicine and completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was elected chief resident. He completed his fellowship in cardiovascular and interventional radiology at Stanford University Medical Center and returned to The Johns Hopkins Hospital to become an assistant professor of radiology and surgery for five years before coming to Stanford in 2006. Dr. Hofmann's research interests include image-guided molecular interventions and minimally invasive treatment for deep venous thrombosis. He is a founding member of the American Journal of Nanomedicine, and he has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Roentgenology, the Journal of Vascular Surgery, and the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. In his free moments, Dr. Hofmann enjoys spending time with his family watching the Ohio Buckeye football games and taking his three sons fishing on his boat.

Nishita Kothary, MD, has been an assistant professor of radiology at Stanford since April of 2006. Prior to coming to Stanford, Dr. Kothary was an assistant professor at Columbia University in New York. She completed her residency in diagnostic radiology at George Washington University in Washington D.C., which was followed by a fellowship in neuroradiology at New York University Medical Center, New York, and a second fellowship in interventional radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Her clinical and research interests include image-guided oncologic interventions, spine interventions, and women's health. She is also actively involved in mentoring medical students, residents, and fellows, and she is the education and fellowship director for the Division of Interventional Radiology. In her free time, Nishita enjoys traveling to remote places, especially the Serengeti, and she is a budding piano student.

William T. Kuo, MD, assistant professor of vascular and interventional radiology, received his BS degree with honors from Duke University and MD degree from Wake Forest University School of Medicine with distinction in radiology, winning the Meschan award for radiology excellence. He completed his surgical internship at the Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, WA, and trained in a combined interventional and diagnostic radiology residency program at the University of Rochester Medical Center where he served as chief resident and became one of the first physicians in the nation to complete the Clinical Pathway in Vascular and Interventional Radiology. Following residency, Dr. Kuo received additional endovascular training by completing his fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. His interests include peripheral and pulmonary arterial thrombolysis; embolotherapy for the treatment of gastrointestinal hemorrhage; chemoembolization for hepatic malignancies; treatment of renal and peripheral vascular disease; and techniques for the retrieval of trapped inferior vena cava filters. At Stanford, Dr. Kuo is initiating translational nanotechnology research that will investigate the in vitro effects of carbon and metallic nanoparticles for tumor therapy. His work has been published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology and Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology. Dr. Kuo is also a distinguished reviewer for the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. When he is not at work, he can probably be found running, playing tennis, or ski boarding.


Beverley Newman, MD, associate professor of pediatrics, did her undergraduate and medical school training at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, graduating cum laude in 1976. She next completed internships in internal medicine and general surgery and was a resident briefly in nephrology and immunology in South Africa before immigrating to the United States in 1978. Dr. Newman worked as a resident in pediatrics, which was followed by a radiology residency at Boston City Hospital and Boston University Medical Center. Next, she finished a fellowship in pediatric radiology at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard University. Dr. Newman was a junior staff member in the Department of Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital for a year before being recruited to the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Pittsburgh Children's Hospital. She remained there for 22 years, rising to the rank of professor of radiology and section chief of body imaging and neonatal radiology. In mid-2006, Dr. Newman relocated to Stanford University as associate chief of pediatric radiology at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. She has received multiple awards and honors over the years including multiple prizes in medical school, the Radiology editor's reviewer recognition award with distinction, and the Fellowship of the American College of Radiology. Dr. Newman has also been an active reviewer for multiple radiology journals including Radiology, American Journal of Radiology, Pediatric Radiology, and Journal of Pediatrics. Her particular areas of research interest are chest and cardiac imaging in children and newborns. Dr. Newman is delighted to be working with the knowledgeable and enthusiastic Stanford radiology faculty.

David S. Paik, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University. He did his doctoral work in biomedical informatics at Stanford focusing on computer-aided interpretation of medical images including anatomic modeling, visualization, and computer-aided diagnosis. He is currently working on several major projects that focus on bringing a quantitative and principled approach to medical image analysis with the ultimate goal of integrating image-derived information with other biomedical information sources.

Jeffrey Tseng, MD, was appointed an instructor of radiology in July 2006. He received his medical degree from Yale University and finished his radiology residency at the University of Washington. Dr. Tseng has also completed a fellowship in nuclear medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a second fellowship in PET/CT and molecular imaging at Stanford. His research interests include molecular imaging, cancer biomarkers, drug development, and PET. He enjoys playing ice hockey and attending music concerts around the Bay area.

Joseph Wu, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor of medicine (cardiology) and radiology. He received his MD from Yale and his PhD from the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on adult and embryonic stem cell biology, gene therapy, and molecular imaging.

Greg Zaharchuk, MD, PhD, became an assistant professor of radiology in August 2006 after completing his residency and neuroradiology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, in June of 2006. His previous training includes medical school at Harvard and doctoral training in the joint Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) in the area of applied physics. His research interests center around the development and application of advanced magnetic resonance imaging techniques, particularly the quantification of cerebral hemodynamics and oxygenation. In his spare time, he plays with his two sons, Kenji (age 5) and Noah (age 0), and builds IKEA furniture. He spent his undergraduate years at Stanford and spends much time bicycling through campus vicariously reliving those days!

Faculty promotions include:

Sunita Pal, MD, has been promoted to clinical assistant professor of diagnostic radiology, effective 2/01/07. Since 2004, Dr. Pal has been a clinical instructor at Stanford, where she was also a breast imaging fellow and resident in the Department of Radiology. She also received her medical degree from Stanford University, but spent her undergraduate days on the East Coast at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Dr. Pal's research interests include using MRI in the early detection of breast cancer and in predicting breast tumor response to chemotherapy.

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