Academy Members in the News

May 2008: Lowell Tong, MD, has received the Chancellor's Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and/or Transgender Leadership. Chancellor Bishop will present the award to Dr. Tong in a ceremony on Monday, June 16 at noon in N-225.

Academy members have been chosen by students to receive the UCSF Alpha Omega Alpha Chapter membership. The students have chosen Academy members Drs. Jody Steinauer and Cindy J. Lai for AOA membership. The students have also chosen Dr. Lawrence Haber (a resident in Medicine and son of Emeritus Academy member Richard Haber) for AOA membership.

Kathy Julian, MD is the 2007 Winner of the Crede Award for Teaching.

Molly Cooke, MD, FACP, has been elected to a four-year term as a Member-at-Large of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)

Elizabeth Harleman, MD – DOM Housestaff Teaching Award

The UCSF Palliative Care Program has been named by the American Hospital Association as one of the top three programs nationwide for its innovative efforts to provide end-of-life care. The program receives the AHA annual Circle of Life Award in a San Diego ceremony on July 23. Congratulations to Steven Pantilat, MD, UCSF associate professor of medicine and director of the Comfort Care Suite.