Alan Garber, MD, PhD, the Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor, was appointed to the National Advisory Council on Aging of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The council with 18 members serving four-year terms advises the National Institute on Aging on biomedical, social and behavioral research and training on aging-related illness. At Stanford, Garber, a professor of medicine and by courtesy of economics and of health research and policy, is founding director of the Center for Health Policy and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research.

David Magnus, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics (teaching), with colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania and Case Western University won the Best New Journal award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals for the American Journal of Bioethics. Magnus, associate editor of the journal and now co-director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, joined Stanford last summer from Penn’s Center for Bioethics, where the journal was founded in 2001.

Daniel Palanker, PhD, assistant professor of ophthalmology, and his research group won an award for work on the artificial vision chip at the 2004 International Society for Optical Engineering Conference last month in San Jose. Their article “Attracting Retinal Cells to Electrodes for High Resolution Stimulation” won first place and a Pascal RO1 award for best paper and presentation on ophthalmic technologies.