National organization honors Malenka Robert Malenka, MD, PhD, Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of Nancy Friend Pritzker Laboratory, received the National Institute of Mental Health Merit award. The award will facilitate Malenka's continued research in synaptic plasticity. New babies can have 'netcasts' at Packard Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford has launched a service that enables parents to stage a private, live-action netcast of their newborn child. Participating parents receive their own private family Web page and can develop their own guest e-mail list. Following the birth, parents schedule a time for their netcast in the hospital's Internet Broadcast Center.
Invited participants receive a password, an explanation of the process and instructions.
Netcast invitees communicate with the parents by typing questions, then hearing and watching the responses in full-motion video on their computer monitors. Packard, which has approximately 5,000 births each year, is one of several hospitals in California to offer the service to its maternity patients. Exhibit explores relationship between art and eyes If you've got an eye for art, you may want to visit the Cantor Center for Visual Art to learn more about eyes and art. The museum is featuring an exhibit arranged by guest curator Michael F. Marmor, MD, professor of ophthalmology at Stanford. Marmor has a long interest in art and its relationship to medicine, and co-authored a 1997 book titled, The Eye of the Artist , which deals with vision, eye disease and art.