By JOYCE THOMAS

Paul G. Fisher, MD, was promoted to associate professor of neurology and neurological sciences and of pediatrics and, by courtesy, of neurosurgery.

Fisher is The Beirne Family Medical Director of the Center for Children’s Brain Tumors at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and a leader in the adult neuro-oncology program at Stanford.

His research focuses on the risk factors, clinico-pathologic classification and treatment of pediatric central nervous system tumors through epidemiological studies and clinical trials.

Fisher is the recipient of a Luetje-Stubbs Faculty Scholar Award for cancer research and teaching at the medical school and an Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Advisor award from the university.

He received his medical degree from UC-San Francisco in 1989.

Fisher completed residencies in pediatrics and neurology/child neurology at Johns Hopkins and a fellowship in neuro-oncology at Johns Hopkins and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He joined Stanford in 1997.

Midori A. Yenari, MD, was promoted to associate professor (research) of neurosurgery.

Yenari is with the Stanford Brain Research Institute and the Stanford Stroke Center.

Yenari’s research focuses on the pathophysiology of stroke, especially the role of resident and peripheral inflammatory cells, and the identification of therapeutic targets for intervention including anti-inflammatory agents and hypothermia.

She is on the editorial board of the journal Stroke, a member of the American Heart Association Brain Study group, a permanent member of a National Institutes of Health Neurological Sciences and Disorders grant review panel, and a member of the American Neurological Association.

Yenari graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering from MIT in 1985 and obtained her MD in 1989 from Tulane University.

She completed a residency in neurology and neurological sciences and a postdoctoral fellowship in cerebrovascular disease at Stanford.

Yenari received a faculty appointment in 1997.