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Honoring excellence in mentoring, teaching, and research

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Join us in congratulating this year's SMD faculty award winners!

SMD Faculty Mentoring Awards

Trainee Academic Mentoring Award in Clinical Programs

Joseph A. Nicholas, MD, MPH, ’01M (Res)

Professor of Medicine, William and Sheila Konar Family Professor in Geriatrics, Palliative Medicine and Person-Centered Care
 

Trainee Academic Mentoring Award in Basic Science

Marissa Sobolewski Terry, PhD


Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine and Neuroscience
 

Faculty Academic Mentoring Award

Anne C. Nofziger, MD, ’00M (Res)

Associate Professor of Family Medicine
 

Lifetime Mentoring Award

Gary R. Morrow, PhD, ’88 (MS)

Professor of Surgery and Radiation Oncology, Dean’s Professor
 

Newly Named Professorships

Haggerty-Friedman Professor in Developmental/Behavioral Pediatric Research

• Suzannah J. Iadarola, PhD
• Ralph W. Prince Professor in Medicine
Stephen R. Judge, MD ’06M (Res)
• Denham S. Ward, MD, PhD Professor
Michael J. Scott, MB, ChB
• E. Philip Saunders Distinguished Professor
Michael D. Maloney, MD, ’97M (Res)
• Pluta Professor in Breast Care
Anna C. Weiss, MD
   

Dean's Professors

Dean’s Professor, Public Health Sciences

• Elaine L. Hill, PhD
• Dean’s Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics
• Mitchell R. O’Connell, PhD

Dean's Teaching Fellow Awards

• Annabel S. Fu, MD, ’11M (MD), ’15M (Res) (Psychiatry)
• Karlo J. Lizarraga Mendoza, MD, MS (Neurology, Neuroscience)
• Sarah E. McConnell, PhD, ’10M (MS), ’13M (PhD) (Neuroscience)
• Erica O. Miller, MD, ’18M (Flw) (Medicine, Pediatrics)

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