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10 unusual facts about Stanford University School of Medicine


Atul Butte

Butte is Chief of the Division of Systems Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital where he is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and (by courtesy) Computer Science and Immunology & Rheumatology.

Daniel Herschlag

Daniel Herschlag (born October 16, 1958) is an American biochemist and Professor of Biochemistry at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Empowerment evaluation

Stanford University School of Medicine applied the technique to curricular decision making.

Jahi McMath

Paul Graham Fisher, the chief of child neurology at Stanford University School of Medicine, was appointed by the court and he reaffirmed the diagnosis of brain death.

Obestatin

Research carried out at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2005 identified obestatin as a new hormone with a bioinformatics approach by computer search of the sequenced genomes of several organisms.

Robert Malenka

Dr. Robert C. Malenka is the Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, director of the Pritzker Laboratory, and co-director of the Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Ronald Levy

Levy received an A.B degree in Biochemistry from Harvard University in 1963, and an MD from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1968.

Sodium hypochlorite

According to work published by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in November 2013, a very dilute (0.005%) solution of sodium hypochlorite in water was successful in treating skin damage with an inflammatory component caused by radiation therapy, excess sun exposure or ageing in laboratory mice.

William C. Dement

Dement, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, taught the large and popular "Sleep and Dreams" course at Stanford from 1971 until 2003.

William Hurwitz

He then spent a period at the Harvard University School of Education before attending Stanford University's Medical School.


David D. Burns

David D. Burns is an adjunct professor emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the author of the best-selling books Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy and The Feeling Good Handbook.

Lawrence H. Cohn

He received his graduate medical training from 1962 to 1971 at Boston City Hospital/Harvard, the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, the University of California at San Francisco and the Stanford University School of Medicine.