Awards and Honors: April 2016
ACC awards Fatima Rodriguez with 2016 ACCF/Merck Fellowship
Fatima Rodriguez, MD, second year cardiovascular fellow at Stanford, has received the ACCF/Merck Research Award from the American College of Cardiology (ACC).
The ACC awards four one-year fellowships each year in support of clinical research in adult cardiology. The $70,000 award allows recipients to pursue full-time research during their year of fellowship. Rodriguez will focus her investigations on inequities in cardiovascular care for Latinos.
In 2015, Rodriguez was a recipient of both a Travel & Exchange Ideas Award from the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute and the Timothy F. Beckett Jr. Award for exceptional clinical teaching by a medicine fellow. Her research explores gender and race-based disparities in the treatment of patients with heart disease and is a current SSPS Physician Scholar in the Department of Medicine.
A former Stanford Medicine chief resident, Phil Hall, who is now at UCSF, also received an ACCF/Merck fellowship.
Ronald Levy receives Fourth Annual AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has awarded Ronald Levy, MD, professor of medicine and former oncology division chief, its Fourth Annual AACR-CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology.
The award recognizes an active scientist whose outstanding and innovative research in cancer immunology has had a far-reaching impact on the cancer field. It includes a $10,000 honorarium for delivery of a lecture at the AACR’s annual meeting.
Levy is a 1968 graduate of Stanford University. He completed his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and returned to Stanford for an oncology fellowship. From 1993 to 2012, he was chief of the division of oncology and is now the director of the Ronald Levy Lab at Stanford. He has numerous publication credits and works diligently in pursuit of what he calls “the future of cancer therapy” – treatments that combine immunotherapy with targeted drug therapies. Clinical trials are already testing specific combinations.
Over his career, Levy has received numerous recognitions including the King Faisal International Prize, the di Villiers International Achievement Award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, a medal of honor from the American Cancer Society, the C. Chester Stock Award from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Charles Kettering Prize from the General Motors Cancer Research Foundation and the Karnofsky Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Stanford selects Dora Ho for Alwin C. Rambar-James B.D. Mark Award for Excellence in Patient Care
Dora Ho, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and infectious disease division clinical chief, has been selected by Stanford as this year’s recipient of the Alwin C. Rambar-James B.D. Mark Award for Excellence in Patient Care. The annual award recognizes a member of the medical faculty for compassion in working with patients and their families, excellence in providing medical treatment and effectiveness and pleasantness in interactions with patient-care staff.
“I can think of no one more deserving than Dora for this award,” says Upinder Singh, associate professor of medicine. “Congratulations, Dora. We couldn’t be prouder to call ourselves your colleagues and look forward to working with you and learning from you.”
Ho received a PhD from Stanford University in 1990. She later attended medical school at Washington University in St. Louis and residency at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. She returned to Stanford for a fellowship, which she completed in 2005. Dr. Ho now leads the Division of Infectious Disease as clinical chief and chairs the Antibiotic Subcommittee.
Prior awards include the Dr. Lee B. & Virginia G. Harrison Scholarship for internal medicine, the Morris Alex, M.D. Prize for clinical medicine and a Huntingtons Disease Society of America postdoctoral fellowship. She holds a U.S. patent for gene transfer using herpes virus vectors as a tool for neuroprotection.
Nancy Lonhart receives Amy J. Blue Award
Among the most valued qualities at Stanford are dedication, passion and support of their colleagues, and each year the university honors staff who exemplify those traits with Amy J. Blue Awards. This year, Nancy Lonhart, associate director of Stanford Health Policy, is among the recipients.