Department of Medicine Does Well Again at College Faculty Awards

Among Department of Medicine faculty included in the Specialty Advisor Awards and pictured among all honorees here were Tara Carr, MD (Allergy & Immunology); George Fantry, MD (Gastroenterology), who also is the college’s associate dean for student affairs and admissions; Amy Sussman, MD (Nephrology); and Rebecca Thiede, MD (Dermatology).
Among Department of Medicine faculty winning Specialty Advisor Awards at the 2023 College of Medicine Tucson Faculty Teaching Awards were Tara Carr, MD (Allergy & Immunology); George Fantry, MD (Gastroenterology), also the college’s associate dean for student affairs and admissions -- not pictured; Amy Sussman, MD (Nephrology); and Rebecca Thiede, MD (Dermatology).]

Sixteen faculty members with the Department of Medicine were among those recognized March 2 as the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson presented winners of its 2023 Faculty Awards at a ceremony in the Health Sciences Innovation Building Forum.

For photos from the event, jump to below the announcements below for a mini-photo gallery, or visit the College of Medicine – Tucson website here.

For most of these awards, faculty members nominated peers with a letter of support describing how the nominee’s contributions demonstrated excellence in one of the mission areas: research, education and patient care. Several committees, including the Faculty Diversity Advisory Committee, members of the Dean’s Research Council, past residency program directors and a clinical faculty panel, reviewed the nominations and selected the winners.

Excellence Awards

Faculty Excellence Awards recognize exceptional faculty members in the College’s mission areas. They are voted on by faculty selection committees.

Clinical Excellence Awards

Clinical Excellence Awards recognize physician faculty members at the assistant or associate professor level for outstanding clinical care.

  • Vijay Chandiramani, MD, Inpatient Medicine

Graduate Medical Education Excellence Awards

Graduate Medical Education Excellence Awards recognize faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding effort in advancing the educational quality of residents and fellows.

  • Bujji Ainapurapu, MD, Inpatient Medicine
  • Olivia Hung, MD, PhD, Cardiology

Mentoring Awards

Faculty Mentoring Awards recognize the importance of mentorship for the success of the faculty at the College of Medicine – Tucson. Awardees are nominated by their peers and are selected for their ability to share time and be accessible to mentees, expand their mentees’ networks and professional connections, and serve as a role model for colleagues by maintaining high standards for excellence in their own discipline.

  • Mindy Fain, MD, General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine
  • Indu Partha, MD, General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine
  • Jarrod Mosier, MD, Emergency Medicine/Medicine (Pulmonary & Critical Care)
  • Sarah Tariq, MD, Endocrionology
  • Tejo Vemulapalli, MD, Inpatient Medicine

AMES Awards

The Academy of Medical Education Scholars (AMES) provides mentorship and support for outstanding educators, and promotes excellence in teaching and educational scholarship at all College of Medicine – Tucson teaching sites.

Vernon and Virginia Furrow Awards

The Vernon and Virginia Furrow Excellence in Teaching Awards recognize outstanding achievements in education at the College of Medicine – Tucson.

Excellence in Innovation in Medical Education

  • Rebecca Thiede, MD, Dermatology

AMES Excellence in Science Awards (Early-Career Faculty)

Excellence in Clinical Science Teaching of Medical Students and or Residents

  • Salma Patel, MD, MPH, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine

Faculty Teaching Awards

CUP Awards

CUP Awards recognize outstanding service and teaching in the student CUP Clinics. The Commitment to Underserved People (CUP) Program is a student-developed and student-directed co-curricular program that provides students with clinical and teaching opportunities working with medically underserved and resource-poor populations.

CUP Faculty Teaching Award

  • Eric Brucks, MD, General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics & Palliative Medicine

Student-Nominated Faculty Teaching Awards

Kevin Moynahan, MD, professor of medicine and vice dean of education, presented the Faculty Teaching Awards, student-nominated awards that recognize faculty members for teaching excellence and their ability to encourage intellectual excitement, inspire the discovery of knowledge, and foster critical inquiry in the classroom or laboratory.

Recognizing Outstanding Service Pre-Clerkship

Outstanding Teacher in a Block/Course

  • Erika Bracamonte, MD, Pathology/Medicine

Outstanding Achievement in Teaching by a Block/Course

  • Cardio, Renal, and Pulmonary Block, accepted by John Bloom, MD (Medicine/Pharmacology)

Commitment to Quality Feedback

  • Amy Sussman, MD, Nephrology (Medicine Vice Chair for Education and Clerkship Director)

Recognizing Excellence in Professionalism

Clinical Instructor, Resident or Fellow Educator:

  • Amy Sussman, MD, Nephrology (Vice Chair for Education & Clerkship Director)

Recognizing Outstanding Service During Clerkship

Outstanding Clinical Instructor in a Clerkship

  • Amy Sussman, MD, Nephrology (Vice Chair for Education & Clerkship Director)

Outstanding Achievement in Teaching by a Clerkship

  • Department of Medicine

Specialty Advisor Awards

Specialty Advisor Awards recognize faculty who have given of their time and effort guiding fourth-year medical students through the specialty selection and residency application process.

Dermatology

  • Rebecca Thiede, MD

Internal Medicine

  • Amy Sussman, MD (Nephrology)
  • George Fantry, MD (Gastroenterology)
  • Tara Carr, MD (Allergy & Immunology)
MINI-PHOTO GALLERY

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Honored for Clinical Excellence was Medicine’s Vijay Chandiramani, MD (center), associate chief of the Division of Inpatient Medicine, with his daughter and presenter Allie Min, MD, the college’s associate dean for career development. Recognized for GME Excellence were Medicine’s Bujji Ainapurapu, MD, associate program director, Internal Medicine Residency, and Olivia Hung, MD, PhD, Cardiology education director at South campus, pictured here with presenter Dr. Allie Min. Among those honored for mentorship are (from left), Medicine’s Sarah Tariq, MD, Endocrinology Fellowship associate program director; award presenter Erica Bracamonte, MD, who has appointments in Pathology and Medicine; Physiology’s Ralph Fregosi, PhD; Surgery’s Louis Magnotti, MD; Medicine’s Indu Partha, MD, associate program director, Internal Medicine Residency; and Mindy Fain, MD, chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine and co-director, UArizona Center on Aging. Vernon & Virginia Furrow Award winners included (from left), Medicine’s Rebecca Thiede, MD, associate program director for the Advanced Dermatology Residency; Immunobiology’s Gayatri Vedantam, PhD; Neurology’s Micah Etter, MD; presenter Tejal Parikh, MD, associate dean of admissions; and Emergency Medicine’s Richard Amini, MD.

Pictured (from left) are anatomy instructor James Proffitt, PhD (Cellular & Molecular Medicine); presenter Dr. Parikh; and Medicine’s Salma Patel, MD, MPH, associate program director for the Sleep Medicine Fellowship and chair of the GME Subcommittee for Research. Both won Excellence in Science Awards for early-career faculty. Among Commitment to Underserved People Program award winners were Medicine’s Eric Brucks, MD, and Patricia Lebensohn, MD (right), a Family & Community Medicine professor who won the award for Outstanding Service and Dedication to the CUP Clinics & Community engagement. Ann Landau, MD, MPH (center), CUP and Rural Health Professions Program director, presented the honors. Representing the Department of Medicine among outstanding teaching honorees are education director Amy Sussman, MD (left); presenter Kevin Moynahan, MD (center with gray jacket), professor of medicine and the college’s vice dean for education; John Bloom, MD (brown jacket), professor of medicine; and Dr. Bracamonte. Also pictured: Selma Ajanovic, MBA, Student Affairs, and Dale Woolridge, MD, PhD, Emergency Medicine, second and third from left. Among winners of the teaching professionalism awards were Amy Sussman, MD, director of the Department of Medicine Education Office, the Medicine Clerkship and Nephrology Fellowship; OB-GYN’s Dawn Martin-Herring, MD, MPH; Justin Darling, Curricular Affairs; Selma Ajanovic, MBA, Student Affairs; Davina Dobbins (MS2); Oluwatobi Odeneye (MS3); and James Proffitt, PhD, Cellular & Molecular Medicine. Also pictured is presenter Dr. Kevin Moynahan, MD (center in gray jacket).

Pictured for clerkship recognition were (from left) OB-GYN’s Julie Tary, recognized for administrative support; presenter Dr. Kevin Moynahan; Medicine Clerkship director Amy Sussman, MD; and Kareem Shehab, MD, Pediatrics Clerkship director, who shared Outstanding Clinical Instructor in Clerkship honors with Dr. Sussman. Among Department of Medicine faculty included in the Specialty Advisor Awards and pictured among all honorees here were Tara Carr, MD (Allergy & Immunology); George Fantry, MD (Gastroenterology), who also is the college’s associate dean for student affairs and admissions; Amy Sussman, MD (Nephrology); and Rebecca Thiede, MD (Dermatology).

 

For a list of COM-T faculty teaching award honorees (2013-2023) across all departments, etc., click here.

For COM-T clinical excellence award honorees (2018-2023), click here.

For COM-T mentoring award honorees (2015-2023), click here.

ALSO SEE:
“Winners Announced for 2019-20 Faculty Teaching Awards” | Posted Aug. 13, 2020
“Inaugural Clinical Excellence Award Winners Feted at COM – Tucson General Faculty Meeting” | Posted Nov. 8, 2018
“Department of Medicine Faculty to Take Quarter of Honors at 2018 College Faculty Teaching Awards” | Posted Oct. 21, 2018
“DOM Takes Third of College of Medicine – Tucson Faculty Teaching Awards” | Posted Oct. 25, 2017
“DOM Faculty Repeat as Winners in the 37th Annual College Teaching Awards” | Posted Nov. 3, 2016
“DOM Faculty Spotlighted in UA College of Medicine Teaching Awards Ceremony” | Posted Nov. 19, 2015

Release Date: 
03/09/2023 - 8:30am
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David Mogollon | Communications Manager, University of Arizona Department of Medicine
Original Story: 
"College of Medicine – Tucson Faculty and Departments Honored with Awards"