Law dean named, assumes new chair

Joel Seligman, J.D., dean of the University of Arizona College of Law, has been named dean of the Washington University School of Law, according to Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton. Seligman will succeed Daniel L. Keating, J.D., who became dean last summer but chose not to be a candidate for a long-term deanship.

Wrighton also announced the establishment of the Ethan A. H. Shepley University Chair, which Seligman will be the first to hold.

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Elbert Trulock is appointed to new Flance professorship

Elbert P. Trulock III, M.D., professor of medicine, has been named the first Rosemary and I. Jerome Flance Professor of Pulmonary Medicine at the School of Medicine.

The endowed professorship, which supports research in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, is funded largely by a gift from the estate of the late Sam J. Golman. Golman was a St. Louis-area businessman and a long-time supporter of Washington University Medical Center institutions.

The professorship recognizes I. Jerome Flance, M.D., clinical professor of medicine at Washington University, and his wife, Rosemary.

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Smart card accesses medical data

Washington University School of Medicine and a company called Site-C have developed a "WOMENS CARD" that provides doctors at computers quick access to patients' medical records. The smart card, which looks like a credit card, is being tested by pregnant women, though researchers believe it could be adapted to other patient populations.

"What sets this card apart is that the information is stored on a Web server," said Gilad A. Gross, M.D., who is heading the study. "Therefore you can provide unlimited amounts of data, such as lab tests, ultrasound images and medications the patient is taking."

Gross presented this adaptation of smart-card technology Jan. 20 at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine in San Francisco.

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Engineering graduate students forge fruitful alliance with Boeing

Graduate student James Ramsey has a framework for his Ph.D. thesis in physics thanks in part to an innovative program that links Washington University graduate students and engineering faculty with researchers at the Boeing Co.

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