WIN newsletter jan 1999 -
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Published on: 1/1/1999
Last Visited: 6/6/2004
WIN Profile: Rona Giffard, MD, PhD rona.giffard@stanford.edu
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Rona is an associate professor at the Anesthesia department at Stanford University Medical Center.She is also a faculty member of the Cell Biology Program, the Neonatology and Developmental Biology Program, and the Neurosciences PhD Program.Her research focuses on cellular mechanisms of ischemic brain injury, with a focus on the role of astrocytes.In addition, she is a clinical anesthesiologist, spending 1-2 days per week in the operating room.She has served as AWIS coordinator for the Stanford mentoring program, is currently on the editorial board of two leading anesthesia journals, and serves on an NIH study section.She has recently returned from a sabbatical in Heidelberg, where she cloned two bicarbonate transporters from brain.