Student and Faculty Achievements
The following is a posting of SOM student and faculty achievements with a link to detailed information.
Recognition of Faculty Achievements at FOM Feb. 2010 Meeting
Four Faculty Members Inducted into UT Academy of Health Science Education
Four Faculty Members Receive Excellence in Clinical Teaching Awards from McGovern Academy
75 UTMB Physicians Selected "Best Doctors in America"
Dr. Don Powell presented Laureate Award at the Texas Chapter of the ACP annual meeting
Drs. Meera Gupta and Micah Drummond, New Translational Research Scholars
Dr. Steven Lieberman appointed to distinguished chair
Dr. Judy Rowen appointed to endowed professorship
Dr. Cornelis Elferink appointed to distinguished chair
Nine Faculty Members Inducted into UTMB Academy of Master Teachers
Three Faculty Members Receive K08/K23 Awards from the NIH
Dr. Bernard Godley invited to serve on the National Advisory Eye Council
Dr. Blake Rasmussen appointed to endowed professorship
Five Faculty Members Receive Their First R01 Grant from the NIH
Dr. Karen Wagner receives the 2008 Klerman Senior Investigator Award from the DBSA
Drs. Brian Miller and Gayle Olson selected as members of the UTAHSE
Faculty and Student Accomplishments - White Coat 2009
Dr. Hudson Jones appointed to endowed professorship
Dr. Joel Patterson appointed to endowed professorship
Dr. James Goodwin reappointed to endowed chair
Dr. Fernanda Laezza receives 2009 ACNP Women's Research Award
Dr. Courtney M. Townsend, Jr., appointed to endowed chair
Dr. Oscar Suman receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Six Faculty Members receive Awards from McGovern Academy
Dr. Scott Weaver appointed to endowed chair
Dr. Michael Koerner appointed to endowed professorship
Dr. Masood Ahmad appointed to endowed professorship
Dr. Alan Barrett appointed to endowed chair
Dr. Howard Brody receives ASBH 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Kyriakos Markides receives 2009 UCLA AGRC Distinguished Professor Award
Dr. Robert Hirschfeld receives 2010 Award for Research in Mood Disorders from the ACP
Dr. Daniel Breitkopf elected as Chair of McGovern Academy
Dr. Frederick Murphy receives Penn Vet World Leadership Award
Dr. Stanley Lemon elected to the Association of American Physicians Council
Dr. Sankar Mitra selected for the 2009 Mark Brothers of South Bend, Indiana Lectureship Award
Dr. Gabriel Rodriguez appointed to endowed professorship
Dr. Rebeca Wong appointed to endowed professorship
Dr. Vincent Hilser appointed to endowed professorship
Dr. Amr Abouleish appointed to endowed chair
Dr. Michael Boyars nominated for AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award
Faculty, Resident and Student Accomplishments - White Coat Ceremony
Dr. Bernard Karnath named an Osler Scholar
Students' USMLE Step 1 Boards
Dr. Oscar Suman appointed to endowed position
Dr. Karen Szauter receives ASPE Outstanding Educator Award for 2008
Drs. Lisa Elferink and S. H. Subramony appointed to endowed positions
Drs. Eduardo Orihuela and Tony S. Wen appointed to endowed positions
Dr. Robert M.A. Hirschfeld receives 45th Annual Edward A. Strecker M.D. Award
Six faculty members inducted into The University of Texas Academy of Health Science Education
Dr. Mabel E. Caban named inaugural recipient of the Freeman Endowment Fund for the Development of Minority Faculty