Outstanding Teacher Awards

Teacher Recognition Pins Honor Outstanding Medical School Teachers

The College’s Curriculum and Evaluation Committee (CEC) awarded Outstanding Medical School Teacher pins to 205 faculty members as well as a letter of commendation recognizing their excellence in teaching during the 2011-2012 academic year. Recipients were recommended by the M1, M2, M3, Sub-I, and Pathway directors to the CEC in recognition of their contribution to the advancement of medical student learning and the value they added to the Course, Clerkship, Pathway or Module. Awards were distributed to recipients by the course/clerkship/pathway director.

Eligible Nominees

MCW or volunteer faculty (e.g., community preceptors, bioethics/palliative medicine small group facilitators)
Residents, Fellows and Graduate Students
Must teach in required M1-4 courses (e.g., required Sub Internships) or new curriculum (e.g., modules, pathways, longitudinal patient panel)

The pins were funded through a grant from the College’s Learning Resource Fund and designed by Beth Krippendorf, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy with consultation and administration support from the Office of Educational Services.
The following are the faculty members who received teacher recognition pins for the 2011-2012 Check to see the faculty members who received teacher recognition pins for the academic year by course/clerkship etc.

2011-2012 Outstanding Medical Student Teacher Pin Nominations

* Denotes multiple nominations

M1 Courses

Biochemistry Byung-il Choi, MD Gary Cohen, MD * Nancy Dahms, PhD Owen Griffith, PhD Jong-In Park, PhD Sally Twining, PhD	Cell & Tissue Biology David Bolender, PhD John Lough, PhD	Clinical Human Anatomy Keith Baynes, MD Mark Harlow, MD Colleen Poggenberg, MD Danny Riley, PhD Michael Schellpfeffer, MD Craig Young, MD
Foundations of Evidence-Based Medicine Joan Bedinghaus, MD, FAAFP * Jane Kotchen, MD Linda Meurer, MD, MPH	Human Development Carey Ehlert, MD Paul Robb, MD	Medical Genetics Julie Biller, MD Elena Semina, PhD Peter VanTuinen, PhD
Medical Interviewing Steven Bondow, MD Jennifer DiRocco, DO * Christina Eldredge, MD Mary Ann Gilligan, MD Jacquelyn Nohl, MD	Medical Neuroscience Cheryl Stucky, PhD	Mentor Course Kenneth Byom, DO Mohan Dhariwal, DO, PhD William Geiger, MD Susan Hill, MD
Physiology Tom Aufderheide, MD Hubert Forster, PhD Andrew Greene, PhD David Mattson, PhD Diane Munzenmaier, PhD David Rickaby, PhD

M2 Courses

Clinical Examining & Reasoning Joseph Bovi, MD Kimberly Carroll, MD Adeeti Chiplunker, MD Herodotos Ellinas, MD Robert Gleeson, MD, FACP Robert Krippendorf, MD, MPH Claudius Mahr, DO	Health Policy/Population Health Arthur Derse, MD, JD Carol Galletly, JD, PhD Emily Hall, BA Kaija Zusevics, PhD	Medical Ethics & Palliative Care Marshall Beckman, MD Linda Blust, MD Lisa Bradford, PhD Kelly Curran, MD, MA Jonathan Gully, MD Steven Leuthner, MD, MA William Listwan, MD Sean Marks, MD Edwin Montgomery, MD, MA Ann Moore, RN, PhD Cynthiane Morgenweck, MD, MA David Schiedermayer, MD
Medical Microbiology Joseph Barbieri, PhD Michael Dwinell, PhD Joseph Hill, PhD Mark McNally, PhD Paula Traktman, PhD Thomas Zahrt, PhD	Pathology Ty Carroll, MD Jose Franco, MD Susan Koethe, PhD R. Nagarjun Rao, MD Kevin Regner, MD Timothy Woods, MD	Pharmacology & Toxicology Edmund Duthie, MD Albert Jochen, MD Wai-Meng Kwok, PhD Carol Williams, PhD
Psychiatry Carlyle Chan, MD Asma Iqbal, MBBS Anthony Meyer, MD Vakarra Meyer, MD

M3 Clerkships


Ambulatory Medicine Jennifer Carnahan, MD Kelly Darmody, MD Gilbert Fareau, MD Kirk Nelson, MD Michael Schmalz, MD James Mikeworth, MD Randy Mathewson, MD Shawn Bartel, MD Stephen Dolan, MD	Family Medicine Brian Daniels, MD Daniel Duffy, MD Karen Hulbert, MD David Klehm, MD John Krueger, MD Maureen Longeway Sarah Marks, MD * Isaac Pierre, MD John Thomas, MD	Internal Medicine Venkata Allada, MD Matthew Buelow, MD Todd Burner, MD Sumanta Chaudhuri, MD Steven Denson, MD Aijaz Noor, MD Kartik Reddy, MD Payal Sanghani, MD Adam Schiro, MD
Neurology Diane Book, MD Xiuhua Bozarth, MD Jennifer Connelly, MD Ayman Gheith, MD Ann Helms, MD Deepa Malaiyandi, MD Fallon Schloemer, MD John Skantz, MD	Obstetrics & Gynecology Donald Baccus, MD Erin Chinnock, MD Lily Hahn, MD C’Zarina Helf, MD Cresta Jones, MD Deborah Larkey, MD Kristen Quinn, MD John Waeltz, MD Jessica Zigman, MD	Pediatrics Annette Segura, MD Brett Bordini, MD Gary Cohen, MD * Jennifer DiRocco, DO * Sarah Gaethke, MD Louis Papp, DO Michael Weisgerber, MD
Psychiatry Laura Csere, DO Nima Fahimian, MD Patty Guedet, MD Abdul Khazi, MD Kristin Kirschner, MD Oludamilola Salami, MD Suraj Singh, MD Anthony Thrasher, DO Christina Wichman, DO	Resuscitation & Perioperative Medicine Richard Beddingfield, MD Lourdes Burgos, MD Su-Ryong Hur, MD Zafar Iqbal, MD Kyle Johnson, MD Tatyana Strong, MD	Surgery John Aiken, MD Ryan Berg, MD Christopher Fox, MD George Haasler, MD Jeremy Juern, MD John Miura, MD Gary Seabrook, MD Kathleen Simon, MD Craig Siverhus, MD

M4 Sub-Internships

Anesthesiology Muhammad Maqsood, MD Craig Weber, MD Rachel Budithi, MD	Family Medicine Robin Helm, MD Janice Hill, MD Beth Damitz, MD * Betsy Manor, MD Camille Garrison, MD Paul Koch, MD Richard Terry, DO Sarah Marks, MD * Laura Gottschlich, DO Beth Damitz, MD Kevin Izard, MD	Internal Medicine Vipulkumar Rana, MD Mitchell Timmons, MD Ritesh Panwar, MD Jillian Ewing, MD Maria Herrera, MD
Surgery Lyle Henry, MD Panna Codner, MD Travis Webb, MD Susan Tsai, MD Brian Lewis, MD

New Integrated Curriculum Pathways

Clinician Educator Pathway Elizabeth Ellinas, MD Nancy Havas, MD Deborah Simpson, PhD	Global Health Pathway Jenifer Coburn, PhD Zeno Franco, PhD Judith Kosasih, MD Jason Liu, MD Ben Rader, PhD Sebastian Ssempijja, PhD	Master Clinician Pathway Richard Berens, MD Donald Hackbarth,Jr., MD Stephen Hargarten, MD, MPH Kristi Opper, MS, RN, ACNS-BC Stacy Waraxa, BSN, RN, CAPA
Physician Scientist Pathway Amanda Brandow, DO, MS Joseph Carroll, PhD Amy Drendel, MD, MS Julie Panepinto, MSPH, MD	Urban & Community Health Pathway Rebekah Angove, BA Ileen Gilbert, MD JoAnn Gray-Murray, PhD Erin Lee, MS John Meurer, MD, MBA Suzanne Walczak, MD