The School of Medicine’s Spring Faculty Assembly will be noon-1:30 p.m. May 19, in 208 Light Hall.

Jeff Balser, MD, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer of VUMC and Dean of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, will give his annual address to faculty to start the event, followed by faculty awards. The following awards are presented in odd years, and awards marked with an asterisk are new this year.

Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Frank H. Boehm, M.D., Award – For Contributions to Continuing Medical Education

Gerald S. Gotterer, M.D., Ph.D., Award – For Innovation in Educational Programming that has Proven to be Effective

Peter Guengerich, Ph.D., Award – For Mentoring Postdoctoral Fellows or Residents in the Research Setting

Thomas A. Hazinski, M.D., Award – For Effectiveness in Mentoring and Professional Development of Faculty

*Bonnie M. Miller, MD, Award – For Innovation in Undergraduate Medical Education

John S. Sergent, MD, Award – For Teaching Medical or Graduate Students in the Small Group Setting

 

Extraordinary Performance of Clinical Service

Gottlieb C. Friesinger, II, MD, Award – For an Outstanding Early Career Clinician

Thomas P. Graham, Jr, MD, Award – For Dedicated Service to Patient-Centered Care

Noel B. Tulipan, MD, Award – For Clinical Excellence in a Surgical or Procedural Discipline

*Arthur P. “Art” Wheeler, MD, Award – For Clinical Excellence in the Delivery of Critical Care

 

Outstanding Contributions to Research

Richard M. Caprioli, PhD, Award – For Development, Implementation, and/or Creation of Technology that Elevates the Research and Science of Multiple Investigators

Sidney P. Colowick, PhD, Award – For Research that Serves as a Platform for Discovery in Diverse Areas

William J. Darby, MD, PhD, ScD, Award – For Translational Research that has Changed the Practice of Medicine Worldwide

Ernest W. Goodpasture, MD, Award – For Groundbreaking Research that Addresses the Pathogenesis of Disease at the Cellular and/or Molecular Level

*Lee E. Limbird, PhD, Award – For Innovation in Research Infrastructure That Facilitates Multiple Investigators

John A. Oates, MD, Award – For Two or More Faculty Working Collaboratively or in a Multidisciplinary Manner to Address Important Biological Processes and/or Diseases