Presenter: Fred Appelbaum, MD
Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Washington
Executive Vice President and Deputy Director, External Affairs, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Dr. Appelbaum is the executive director of SCCA. His work centers on the biology and treatment of acute myeloid leukemia.
Decades of working with cancer patients teaches you to savor everyday pleasures like the teasing notes of coriander and cumin in a simmering pot of curry or getting to hug your child, and it fortifies his resolve to keep moving cancer care forward. He’s determined to improve screening, enhance treatment and stop cancer from returning.
As a medical student in the early 1970s, Dr. Appelbaum happened upon Dr. E. Donnall Thomas’ initial description of bone-marrow transplantation in a medical journal. The pioneering technique eventually earned Thomas the Nobel Prize and transformed leukemia and related cancers, once thought incurable, into highly treatable diseases with survival rates as high as 90 percent.
Bone-marrow transplants became the cornerstone of the newly formed Hutchinson Center, and it wasn’t long before Dr. Appelbaum was recruited to join Thomas’ team of medical mavericks in Seattle making historic inroads against blood cancers.
Now, he holds the job that Thomas once held, and he has spent decades building on Thomas’ groundbreaking innovations. Dr. Appelbaum has been an innovator in his own right, refining transplant procedures, conducting clinical trials and caring for patients.
Part of that job is extending the Hutch’s patient research beyond transplants. We’ve expanded our role in the more common solid tumors and have created nontransplant approaches to blood cancers. We’ve made substantial gains in treating prostate, colon, pancreatic, lung, breast and ovarian cancers, but we have a long way to go.
Neither at Home, Nor in the Market: Low Returns on Women’s Education in India
Sonalde Desai, University of Maryland
Josh Apte, University of Texas at Austin
Think Globally, Breathe Locally: Understanding Urban Air Pollution at Multiple Spatial Scales
Machine-age tools for understanding economic development: Harnessing new data sources on access to opportunity in India
Policy-making in developing countries still depends on traditional sample surveys. Remote sensing and data exhaust from government administration create a wealth of high resolution data on socioeconomic patterns and changes. We are building a new open data platform that solves some of the technical and institutional challenges that have limited the use of data like these until now. Based on the principles of open source software, our platform aims to create incentives for social scientists to share data that has previously been tied up in silos, and to provide the technical infrastructure that makes it convenient to share data that is useful for others. The utility of the platform, which currently covers India, is demonstrated by using the underlying data to document changes in upward mobility in India with high geographic precision, as well as the distribution of caste- and religion-based residential segregation in towns across the country.
This Writing Tricks of the Trade workshop will provide 6 pragmatic scientific writing techniques to improve the clarity and conciseness of your journal manuscripts and grant applications. During the 2-hour interactive workshop, you will practice the techniques with short in-class exercises.
Lunch is provided.
R2G2 is jointly sponsored by Stanford Vice Provost and Dean of Research, School of Medicine’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, Engineering Research Administration in the School of Engineering, and Stanford Earth.
This workshop is open to all Stanford Medicine faculty. Lunch will be provided.
Instructors: Paul Costello, Amy Adams
This 90-minute, hands-on session, led by Paul Costello and Amy Adams, will give practical advice about how to engage with the media. It will focus on maximizing success in news media interviews whether they be print or broadcast. The session will feature: tips for interacting with the media, rules to remember, meeting reporters’ expectations and how to prepare for interviews.
This workshop is open to all Stanford Medicine faculty. Lunch will be provided.
Paul Costello is the chief communications strategist at Stanford Medicine and served for 15 years as chief communications officer at the Stanford School of Medicine. Prior to joining Stanford in 2004, he was vice president of external affairs for the University of Hawaii System. In Hawaii, he hosted a weekly public affairs program on PBS Hawaii. He served as a press spokesman at the White House, the Ohio Governor’s office and the Mayor’s office in Washington, D.C. In the private sector, he was vice president of public affairs at the premium cable channel, Home Box Office and managing director of the New York office of the global public relations company, Weber Shandwick. He holds a B.A. from Southern Illinois University and an M.S.W. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
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Amy Adams has a B.A. in Biology from Whitman College, an M.S. in genetics from Cornell University, and graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz science communication program. After UCSC, she worked as a freelance writer for magazines including Science, Natural History, New Scientist, The Scientist and Astronomy. She later worked as a science writer at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She left Stanford to develop a digital communications strategy at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, California’s stem cell agency, where she developed the agency’s social media and video programs. Amy returned to Stanford as Director of Science Communications then became Director of Long Range Vision Communications within University Communications.
October 13, 2020
Faculty Fireside Chats: Lloyd Minor and Bonnie Maldonado
Via Zoom (Link will be sent prior to the event)
Lloyd Minor, MD, Dean, Stanford Medicine and Professor of Otolaryngology and, by courtesy, of Neurobiology and Bioengineering.
Yvonne (Bonnie) A. Maldonado, MD, is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity and Professor and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics.
Topic: Where we are today and where we want to go
October 13, 2020, 12:00-1:00pm, via zoom. — REGISTER HERE
You’re Invited
Faculty Fireside Chats: Medical Faculty Excellence in an Era of Social Justice Activism
OAA and OFDD invite to a faculty-only monthly talk series oriented to the clinical and medical education spaces. The series discusses student activism and diversity and inclusion topics to:
1. provide context and history of race issues at Stanford and in academic medicine, particularly for early career, new, and international faculty;
2. offer practical advice that activates your roles as mentors, in creating space for student expression, and in promoting respectful and inclusive interactions with trainees;
3. create opportunities to engage openly with colleagues on challenges related to diversity in academic medicine.
Click here to learn more about this series.
Sign-up to hear a 30 min presentation by a faculty colleague, followed by 30 min Q&A and/or small group breakout discussions. CME credit will be available.All sessions are 12:00-1:00pm.
Faculty Fireside Chats: Fernando Mendoza, MPH, MD
Via Zoom (Link will be sent prior to the event)
Fernando Mendoza, MPH, MD, Associate Dean of Minority Advising and Programs and Professor of Pediatrics (General Pediatrics) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital, Emeritus
Topic: The history of Minority affairs at Stanford and the School of Medicine
December 8, 2020, 12:00-1:00pm, via zoom. — REGISTER HERE
You’re Invited
Faculty Fireside Chats: Medical Faculty Excellence in an Era of Social Justice Activism
OAA and OFDD invite to a faculty-only monthly talk series oriented to the clinical and medical education spaces. The series discusses student activism and diversity and inclusion topics to:
1. provide context and history of race issues at Stanford and in academic medicine, particularly for early career, new, and international faculty;
2. offer practical advice that activates your roles as mentors, in creating space for student expression, and in promoting respectful and inclusive interactions with trainees;
3. create opportunities to engage openly with colleagues on challenges related to diversity in academic medicine.
Click here to learn more about this series.
Sign-up to hear a 30 min presentation by a faculty colleague, followed by 30 min Q&A and/or small group breakout discussions. CME credit will be available.All sessions are 12:00-1:00pm.
Faculty Fireside Chats: Critical Race Issues in Medical Teams
Via Zoom (Link will be sent prior to the event)
Carla Pugh, MD, PhD, Professor of Surgery
Topic: Critical Race Issues in Medical Teams
February 22, 2021, 12:00-1:00pm, via zoom. — REGISTER HERE
You’re Invited
Faculty Fireside Chats: Medical Faculty Excellence in an Era of Social Justice Activism
OAA and OFDD invite to a faculty-only monthly talk series oriented to the clinical and medical education spaces. The series discusses student activism and diversity and inclusion topics to:
1. provide context and history of race issues at Stanford and in academic medicine, particularly for early career, new, and international faculty;
2. offer practical advice that activates your roles as mentors, in creating space for student expression, and in promoting respectful and inclusive interactions with trainees;
3. create opportunities to engage openly with colleagues on challenges related to diversity in academic medicine.
Click here to learn more about this series.
Sign-up to hear a 30 min presentation by a faculty colleague, followed by 30 min Q&A and/or small group breakout discussions. CME credit will be available.All sessions are 12:00-1:00pm.
Virtual Webinar: Q&A with healthcare workers in India and Stanford on COVID-19
The Division of Hospital Medicine and the Department of Medicine invite you to join this live webinar with expert panelists at Stanford University to exchange knowledge about COVID-19 with anyone caring for covid-19 patients in India to address questions about management of COVID-19 and vaccines.
In this one hour, Stanford faculty will answer questions about COVID-19 submitted in advance live during the online webinar.
The target audience for this webinar are healthcare workers but also anyone caring for COVID-19 patients from home.
Everyone is welcome to join.
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 – 8pm-9pm (US)
Panelists:
- Neera Ahuja, MD, Clinical Professor, Hospital Medicine
- Linda Barman, MD, MPH, Clinical Assistant Professor, Primary Care (Outpatient COVID Clinic)
- S.V. Mahadevan, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, Professor, Emergency Medicine and Global Health
- Kari Nadeau, MD, PhD, Professor, Allergy, Immunology, and Asthma
- Nidhi Rohatgi, MD, MS, FACP, SFHM, Clinical Associate Professor, Hospital Medicine
- Angela Rogers, MD, Associate Professor, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine
- Aruna Subramanian, MD, Clinical Professor, Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
This session will be moderated by Errol Ozdalga, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University