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chairman emeritus of pediatrics atthe , a founder of , and its firs t medical chief of staff, died June 11, Stanford announce Wednesday. He was 87. The university said Schulmaj died at his home on the Stanford campu s of complications from Recruited to Stanford in 1972 from the University of Illinoix Collegeof Medicine, Schulman helpefd turn a small department of pediatrics that was “onlhy weakly” tied to the then-Children’s Hospital at Stanford into part of a much larger and more dynamic officials said.
Over the next 19 years, he built the departmen into a nationallyrecognizedc “hub for academic and clinical pediatrics,” Stanford said, and helpedx launch Lucile Packard in 1991 as its first chieft of staff. “He was the chair of pediatrics at a verycriticapl time,” David Stevenson, M.D., vice dean of Stanford’xs School of Medicine and one of Schulman’s earlu hires, said in the June 17 statement. “He set the through the choiceshe made,” for Lucile Packard’ds tremendous growth since then. That growth continues.
Last CEO Christopher Dawes saidthe children’sd hospital’s ongoing estimated $1 billio n expansion project is likely to be completede in 2015 or 2016. The pediatric which along with Stanford Hospital Clinicsand Stanford’s School of Medicine makez up the Stanford University Medical is planning a 520,000-square-foot, 200-bed addition that will add 100 beds net to its currenft 260-bed footprint.