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Richard Depp Named First Bowers Professor

Richard Depp, MD, has been named the first Paul A. and Eloise B. Bowers Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, according to Joseph S. Gonnella, MD, senior vice president for academic affairs and dean, Jefferson Medical College (JMC).

Dr. Depp, who came to Jefferson in 1987 to chair the department of obstetrics and gynecology, is also a member of the attending staff of Pennsylvania Hospital, a consultant in gynecology at Wills Eye Hospital and a consultant in obstetrics and gynecology at The Bryn Mawr Hospital.

As of March 5, 1996, he will be president-elect of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) and secretary-treasurer of the board of trustees of the APGO Medical Education Foundation. He is also a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In addition, Dr. Depp is District III Representative of Standing Committee Chairs and program director and a member of the Council of University Chairs of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Dr. Depp is also a board examiner and a member of the Society of Perinatal Obstetricians and the Society of Gynecologic Investigators.

He is a member of Jefferson's Committee on Ethics and this past year was a member of the Clinical Advisory Committee for the Family Nurse Practitioner Program and of the Independence Blue Cross Obstetric Advisory Panel.

In 1994-95, he was listed in the Directory of Experts in "Best Doctors in America," and in 1991-92, he received the William Heath Byford Award as the Outstanding Northwestern University Alumnus in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

He is associate editor for Volume III, "Gynecology and Obstetrics, a member of the editorial board of Fetal Medicine and a peer reviewer for several professional journals.

From 1991 to 1993, Dr. Depp hosted Lifetime Medical Television's "Ob-Gyn Update."

The Bowers Professorship was made possible by the generosity of Dr. Bowers, a 1937 Jefferson Medical College (JMC) graduate, past president of the JMC Alumni Association, past Alumni Trustee on Jefferson's Board of Trustees and a Fellow of The President's Club, and Mrs. Bowers, a past president of the Women's Board of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and currently its historian, and a past president of the JMC Faculty Wives Club.

Saunders Named Corporate Compliance Officer and Staff Attorney

Brenton Saunders has been named Jefferson's corporate compliance officer and staff attorney, according to Alan B. Kelly, Esq., University counsel.

In conjunction with the Office of University Counsel, Mr. Saunders will develop and implement throughout the University a comprehensive corporate compliance program to ensure that Jefferson is in compliance with all federal, state and local laws and regulations.

For the past two years, Mr. Saunders worked as a law clerk in the Office of University Counsel here while he pursued a joint law and master of business administration degree from Temple University.

Renato L. Baserga, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, Jefferson Medical College, and deputy director of the Jefferson Cancer Center, was recently awarded the distinction of fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS's Biological Sciences Steering Group elevated Dr. Baserga to this rank for his efforts to advance science and foster applications that have been deemed scientifically distinguished.

Rodney D. Bell, MD, professor of neurology and director of Jefferson's Cerebrovascular Center, has been elected chairman of the recently formed Philadelphia Council for Stroke Treatment. The council, which is composed of all area hospitals with stroke treatment programs, is designed, among other things, to increase awareness of stroke and recognition of stroke as a medical emergency. They also aim to develop a system encouraging rapid transport and delivery of stroke patients by Emergency Medical Services to recognized stroke centers. This appointment by the council recognizes the fact that Jefferson's Stroke Team, under Dr. Bell's direction, is an areawide leader in stroke treatment.

Barry J. Goldstein, MD, PhD, director of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolic diseases and associate professor of medicine and of pharmacology, Jefferson Medical College, has been invited to serve as a member of the Metabolism Study Section, division of Research Grants of the United States Public Health Service for a four-year term ending June 30, 1999. Members review grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and recommend them to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board, and survey the status of research in their fields. Dr. Goldstein, who has published many articles in the field of endocrinology and diabetes, is vice president of the Philadelphia Endocrine Society and a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Diabetes Association and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.

Thomas B. Knudsen, PhD, associate professor of pathology, anatomy and cell biology, has been invited to serve as a charter member of the Human Embryology and Development (2) Study Section in the Division of Research Grants, Public Health Service, Department of Health & Human Services. Members are selected because of competence and achievement in their scientific discipline, including the quality of their research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals and other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors. Study sections review grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), make recommendations on these applications to the appropriate NIH national advisory council or board and survey the status of research in their fields of science.

Michael J. Paquet, registrar and special assistant to the senior associate dean, College of Allied Health Sciences, was elected to the Executive Board of the Middle States Association of Collegiate Registrars and Officers of Admission (MSACROA). The three-year term, which began in January, is for President-Elect (1996), President (1997) and Past President (1998).

MSACROA membership includes nearly 1700 registrars, admissions officers and other professionals in academic and students services at more than 400 colleges and universities in Washington, D.C. and in the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

David Reiter, MD, professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery and director of the Center for Facial Plastic Surgery, has been appointed chairman of the Task Force on Practice Parameters of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and represents that academy on the same task force of the American Medical Association.

Dr. Reiter has also been appointed to the Patient Management Guidelines task force of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. With an interspecialty team consisting of members of The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons and The American Academy of Dermatology, this task force is developing a format for the publication, in a single work, of clinical indicators, practice parameters and outcomes information representing multiple efforts of multispecialty groups. Dr. Reiter and his colleagues hope that the publication will be endorsed by all leading speciality societies in the United States and might be accepted for use by federal agencies and members of the insurance and business communities, all of whom have expressed a need for such information. Included will be guidelines for referral, as well as minimum acceptable standards for evaluation of patients.