AVH DOCTOR GIVEN AWARD FOR SERVICE.

Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER - Antelope Valley Hospital emergency room physician Dr. Larry Stock received the inaugural humanitarian award created by the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Stock has participated in medical relief missions in Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo, in Liberia following its civil war, in remote regions of Burma, and most recently in Sri Lanka, where he was one of the first outside doctors to arrive after the December 2004 tsunami.

``Larry Stock is an extraordinarily gifted doctor who has committed himself to global health and welfare,'' said Dr. John Lynn, medical director of Antelope Valley Emergency Medical Associates and an Antelope Valley Hospital emergency room physician. ``He has helped communities throughout the world, but we're appreciative of the contributions he has made to our hospital's emergency department.''

The award was presented last Friday at the physician group's 34th annual Scientific Assembly in La Quinta, near Palm Springs.

Stock was nominated based on his volunteer work in Los Angeles County and with the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and a professor at the UCLA medical school.

The award recognizes emergency physicians who have made significant contributions, outside of their primary jobs, to ``save lives and alleviate suffering.''

Stock was nominated based on his volunteer work in Los Angeles County and with the Global Health Access Program, an international humanitarian relief organization.

In addition to serving as the assistant medical director of the Antelope Valley Hospital emergency department, Stock is a clinical associate professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

For more than a decade, he has volunteered once or twice a month in the emergency department at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, supervising and teaching medical students.