Two employees from Southern Illinois University School of Medicine have received national honors.

John Record, assistant dean of rural and alumni affairs, has received a health leadership fellowship from the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. He is one of 14 people selected including clinicians, administrators and public health officials. The eight-month program is designed to provide the tools for fellows to think beyond traditional health care models in order to develop new models in their own areas.

Record joined the medical school staff in 1976. He earned a master's from Sangamon State University (now University of Illinois at Springfield) (1975) and a bachelor's from Arizona State University in Tempe (1970). He is a Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Army.

A native of Sherburne, N. Y., he and his wife, Gail, are parents of two daughters, Marnie and Lindsay.

Dr. Stephen Stone, professor of dermatology, has been elected president-elect of the American Academy of Dermatology and American Academy of Dermatology Association. His term begins in February 2005 followed by a one-year term as president in 2006. He was elected during their annual meeting in February in Washington, D.C.

Stone joined the medical school faculty in 2000. He did two years of training in internal medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, N.Y. (1967-69) and later completed a residency in dermatology at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. (1974), after serving as a medical officer in the U.S. Navy (1969-71). He earned his medical degree at New York University School of Medicine (1967) and his bachelor's at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. (1963). He is a retired lieutenant commander of the U.S. Naval Reserve.

A native of New York, he and his wife, Lisa, are parents of three children, Jason, Erica and Charles.

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