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1999 Stansell Receives "Heroes in Medicine" Award The International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC) honored John Stansell, medical director of San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center's AIDS/Oncology Division, with the association's 1999 Heroes in Medicine Award.
IAPAC trustee Mark Kline, professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, says the selection of physicians who are HIV-positive to receive the award is a "recognition of the unique challenges resulting from their HIV status and how their example in meeting these challenges has added dignity and honor to the profession of medicine." Stansell is associate clinical professor of medicine at UCSF and the medical director of the Positive Health Practice at SFGHMC. He is a past director of the AIDS Inpatient Service Unit at SFGHMC and has received the distinguished Benjamin Manchester Award for Humanitarianism from the George Washington University Medical School. Jerry Cade, co-founder and medical director of the University of Nevada Medical Center's HIV Inpatient Unit and HIV Outpatient Clinic, also received a Heroes in Medicine Award. He is a current member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, and a professor of medicine at both the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the University of Nevada School of Medicine. Proceeds from the Honoring Our Heroes tribute will help support IAPAC, an educational and public policy advocacy group which represents 6,500 physician and other healthcare professional members in 43 countries; the Humanitas Foundation, a nonprofit foundation which awards grants to AIDS-treating physicians who wish to advance innovative medical, scientific and public policy initiatives; and the UCSF AIDS Research Institute (ARI), a transdisciplinary center for pioneering effective scientific advances to prevent, understand and treat HIV infection. Links: International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC) SFGHMC Positive Health Program New Name for UCSF AIDS Program and New Renovated Quarters at SFGHMC |
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The
award, which honors physicians living with HIV/AIDS who have distinguished
themselves for their leadership in the care of people with HIV disease
and in advancements in HIV clinical research, was presented Monday,
Sept. 27, at IAPAC's Honoring Our Heroes tribute at the Palace Hotel
in San Francisco.