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Stanford Report, May 5, 2004 | |
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Appointments,
promotions announced
By JOYCE THOMAS Developmental and behavioral pediatrician, Lynne Huffman, MD, was promoted to associate professor (research) of pediatrics and, by courtesy, of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Her work focuses on identification of childhood behavioral problems and improving treatment outcomes for children with psychiatric and learning disorders. She is director of outcomes measurement and research at the Children's Health Council in Palo Alto.She received her MD in 1981 from George Washington University and completed a pediatrics residency at Children's National Medical Center and a fellowship in behavioral and developmental pediatrics at UCSF. Huffman was appointed to the Stanford faculty in 1998. John J. Lamberti, MD, was appointed associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery. Lamberti, who joined the Packard hospital staff last year from a faculty post at Cornell's Weill Medical College, is known for treating congenital cardiovascular abnormalities. From 1974 to 1978 he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He served for two decades as a pediatric cardiac surgeon at Children's Hospital of San Diego and from 1990 to 2000 directed the Children's Hospital and Health Center Cardiovascular Institute. He received his medical degree in 1967 from the University of Pittsburgh and completed a residency in cardiac and thoracic surgery at Children's Hospital Medical Center and a residency in cardiac surgery at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, both in Boston. Amin Milki, MD, was promoted to professor of obstetrics and gynecology. He directs the in vitro fertilization program at Stanford. Milki is known for his work in assisted reproductive technologies, specifically advances in culturing embryos in vitro before implantation in the uterus. Milki and colleagues have developed techniques to prolong the time of embryo culture -- to better assess viability and to reduce the number of embryos needed. He has written numerous articles in Fertility and Sterility, Human Reproduction, Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics and Journal of Reproductive Medicine. He received his medical degree in 1982 from the American University of Beirut, where he completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology. In 1985 he came to Stanford for a two-year fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility. He then served as an instructor and physician specialist before receiving a faculty appointment in 1992. Jeffrey Norton, MD, was appointed professor of surgery. He is chief of surgical oncology at the Stanford Cancer Center. Norton, who joined Stanford last July, is a leader in the surgical management of thyroid and parathyroid diseases, upper gastrointestinal cancer, tumors of the endocrine and exocrine pancreas, and adrenal gland malignancies. He examines outcomes of endocrine and oncologic surgery and laboratory and animal studies of cytokines and tumor immunity. He received his MD from SUNY-Upstate Medical College in 1973 and completed a surgery residency and research fellowship at Duke. He served at the National Cancer Institute for several years including from 1986 to 1992 as an NCI surgery branch senior investigator. Previously, he was a professor at Washington University School of Medicine and professor and vice-chair of surgery at UCSF.
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