Dr. Sally Harris wins sports medicine award Dr. Sally Harris wins sports medicine award (December 10, 2003)

Dr. Sally S. Harris, a member of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Department of Pediatrics and a Portola Valley resident, received the Thomas E. Shaffer Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics at the Academy's national conference in November.

The annual award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of sports medicine.

Certified in both pediatrics and sports medicine, Dr. Harris serves as a clinical instructor of pediatrics at Stanford University. She has been a team physician for local high school and college teams, USA Women's Basketball and the Volunteer Olympic Team Physician Program.

Dr. Harris received her medical degree from Duke University and a master's degree in public health from the University of North Carolina.

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 57,000 primary care pediatricians and pediatric medical and surgical sub-specialists.
Diller Foundation gift

The Helen Diller Family foundation has made a gift of $35 million to support construction of a new cancer research building at the University of California San Francisco Mission Bay. The facility will be named the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building. Helen and Sanford Diller are residents of Woodside.

The building will be part of a new 43-acre UCSF research and teaching campus. UCSF Mission Bay is part of the larger Mission Bay project. It is San Francisco's largest urban development since the building of Golden Gate Park.

Designed by noted architect Rafael Vinoly, the five-story building will provide more than 160,000 square feet of space. The new space will expand efforts to combat cancers of the prostate, kidney and brain. It will also house the UCSF Cancer Research Institute, where 15 laboratories investigate the basic biological mechanisms of cancer.

In 1999 the Diller family also established the Helen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment in Jewish Studies with a gift of $1.5 million to the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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