Meet the Committee Chairs
BY HEATHER ROCK WOODS
MARVIN
ENGEL, MD, ÿ59, CANÿT SAY NO TO HIS OLD FRIEND AND STANFORD MEDICAL
SCHOOLÿS ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR ALUMNI AFFAIRS ROSS BRIGHT, MD, ÿ58.
Bright has convinced Engel to serve for more than a decade as a
class representative, to join SMAAÿs board of governors and, now,
also to chair the alumni associationÿs new communication committee.
þThe hardest word to say in the English language
is Îno,ÿ ú Engel jokes. þIÿve always felt a very strong, warm feeling
for Stanford medical school because of my positive experience there,
so Iÿve always tried to help whenever I could.ú
Engel and fellow governors Linda Hawes Clever and
Ann Lanzerotti are continuing chairs of the associationÿs new committees,
which debuted last year and are expected to pick up more steam this
year.
The communication committee strives to improve interaction
among the association, the medical school and alumni. The committee
is exploring how to provide an e-mail directory that respects participantsÿ
privacy, as well as how to jazz up two current communication tools:
Stanford MD and the associationÿs Web site (http://med.stanford.edu/alumni/).
Class reps have been recruited to send out five letters a year Ü
not just the one fund-raising appeal Ü with news, events, the Deanÿs
travel schedule and alumni updates, says Engel, a dermatologist
practicing in Walnut Creek.
Clever, MD, class of ÿ65, heads SMAAÿs nominating
committee, charged with finding and nominating candidates for the
associationÿs board of governors and for the J. E. Wallace Sterling
Lifetime Alumni Achievement Awards, which are given annually for
outstanding service to the profession.
þWeÿre on a quest for the best,ú Clever says.
For the board of governors, the committeeÿs goal
is to create a leadership cadre with vision, connections, public
relations skill, ideas, follow-through and diversity, Clever says.
For the award, the committee looks for people who can inspire. This
year, surgeons Norman M. Rich, ÿ60, and Donald Tsang, ÿ57, received
the awards, which were presented Big Game week.
The committee welcomes nominations. þAn organization
is as effective as its members are active,ú Clever states.
Clever is a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF
and chair of the Department of Occupational Health at California
Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She has served her profession
in many ways, including a 14-year stint as a Stanford trustee.
Ann Lanzerotti, MD, class of ÿ68, is retired Ü but
sheÿs anything but þretiring.ú She left her internist position,
with a specialty in medical oncology, at Kaiser in South San Francisco
last year. But she teaches at UCSFÿs schools
of medicine and nursing, practices tai chi daily, participates in
civic affairs and chairs SMAAÿs planning committee.
This committee suggests and plans events and activities,
which the alumni office carries out. Last year the committee planned
and helped with the graduate luncheon for senior medical students
and the physician-to-physician breakfast lectures. The planning
committee also hopes to strengthen the relationship between the
school and alumni.
All three chairs urge alumni to join them in making
nominations, suggesting events and sending in news updates. To get
involved, contact Erik Greeny at 650-723-6129 or egreeny@leland.stanford.edu.
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