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Stanford Report, January 14, 2004
School of Medicine announces latest round of faculty promotions

By JOYCE THOMAS

Sandy Napel, PhD, was promoted to professor of radiology (diagnostic) and, by courtesy, of medicine (medical informatics) and of electrical engineering. Napel is co-director of the Radiology 3-D Laboratory and a faculty affiliate of the interdisciplinary Bio-X program. He develops diagnostic and therapy-planning applications for generating multidimensional medical images.

Napel has received several Society of Computed Body Tomography prizes including three Hounsfield awards. His teaching activities include a Radiology Board Review class for residents and postgraduate education courses for physicians worldwide on innovations in cross-sectional imaging and radiological image processing.

Napel got his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1981. He worked at Imatron Inc., in South San Francisco for several years before joining the Stanford radiology faculty in 1991 with a courtesy appointment in electrical engineering. He received tenure as an associate professor of radiology in 1997.

Richard Shaw, MBBS, was promoted to associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and, by courtesy, of pediatrics. He directs the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation-Liaison Service at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. His scholarly activities focus on pediatric psychiatry and recently on treatment adherence and medical post-traumatic stress disorder.

In 2001 Shaw received the Award for Excellence in Teaching in the division of child and adolescent psychiatry. He serves on the committee on the physically ill child of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Shaw received his medical degree in 1982 from Middlesex Hospital Medical School, University of London. His postdoctoral work includes internships in medicine and surgery and a residency in adult psychiatry in New Zealand. He continued adult psychiatry residency training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Ackermann Institute in New York. Shaw completed fellowships in child and adolescent psychiatry and child psychopharmacology at Stanford. He was a clinical instructor for three years and in 1996 was appointed to the faculty.

Keith Stockerl-Goldstein, MD, was promoted to associate professor of medicine (bone marrow transplantation). He is co-founder of the Multiple Myeloma Clinic and served from 1997 to 2003 as clinical director of the Adult Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit. He is nationally known for stem cell transplantation, especially for multiple myeloma. He heads the myeloma trials and transplant trials for primary amyloidosis, Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at Stanford.

His clinical work includes high-dose therapy and bone marrow or peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation for the treatment of malignant diseases. He is the recipient of a Center for Clinical Immunology at Stanford Faculty Scholar Award and a Department of Medicine divisional teaching award. He served for six years on bone marrow transplant and multiple myeloma panels of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Stockerl-Goldstein obtained his MD from UCLA in 1991. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine and fellowships in medical oncology and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford and received a faculty appointment in 1998.