Awards Day 2016

The Internal Medicine Residency Awards Day was held on May 28, 2016. Each graduating resident was presented with their certificate and the Award recipients were announced and recognized. Also honored were outstanding contributions to the program from many faculty and “friends” of the residency program.
2016 INTERNAL
MEDICINE AWARDS
Presented
May 26, 2016
Housestaff Awards
HO I George T
Harrell (1944-1952) Award – Jessica Hollingsworth
HO
2 Ernest H Yount (1952-1972) Award – Matthew
Wilson
HO
3 Sir William Osler Award – Sara Atwater
Jessie B and Dean
Gray Humanism Award – Patrick Kuhlman
Jessie B and Dean Gray
Scholars Award – Matthew Wilson
Upper Level Resident Award – Shane
Ahlers
Valk Scholars – Leslie
Alexander, Jason Hopper, Jason Jones, Katie Price, Kunal
Sangal
Bryant Kendrick for Excellence in Primary
Care Award- Sarah Pozniak
Dewey L. and
Cynthia Robertson Award for Excellence in Geriatrics – Tyson
Garfield and Becca Omlor
Tinsley R. Harrison Research Scholars
Program
New THR Scholars - Stephen Broughton,
Matylda Mazur, Andrew Spangler, Matthew
Wilson
Graduating THR Scholars – Shane Ahlers,
Kris Hansen, Deanna Jones, Paz Vellanki
Graduating THR Scholars’ Mentors – Rakhee
Vaidya, Jimmy Ruiz, Gregory Hundley,
Timothy Pardee
Research Day Awards
Residents: Gold –Ryan
Hughes, Patrick Kuhlman, Catherine Price and Silver- Jane
Ellison, Erinda Stefi, Jason Jones
Fellows: Gold – M Shaukat, D
Sharma, C Loh and Silver - C Loh, Farra Wilson, Syed Ahmed
Students: Gold (Tie)- Jack Wren and
Spencer Hawkins
ACM Recognition of Excellence Award –
Heather Crocker Yates
Faculty Awards
Inpatient Clinical Teaching –David
Zhao
Outpatient Clinical Teaching
– Claudia Campos
Conference/Classroom Teaching
– Joel Bruggen
Master Teachers- Drs. Burns, Upadhya,
Campos, Dotson, Pirkle, Miles, Belford,
Luther, Bruggen, Peacock
Student-Voted Awards
AOA – Leslie Alexander and
Kunal Sangal
Class of 2016
Teaching Award – James Peacock
Class of 2018 Teaching Award
– Leslie Ellis and Ed Haponik
Class of 2016 for Resident Teaching: Patrick Kuhlman, Wes O’Neal,
Jen Wellington, Lee Connor, Tim Hwalek,
Mike Tucker, Joey Carlin, Tyson Garfield, Leslie Alexander, Matt
Wilson
Class of 2017 for teaching and
being a role model: Shane Ahlers, Sara Atwater,
Joey Carlin, Lee Connor, Matt Gorris,
Patrick Kuhlman, Nihar Mathur, Kunal Sangal, Richard Taylor, David
Warner
Faculty – James Peacock, Joey Cristiano,
Bharathi Upadhya, Timothy Pardee, Mark
Corbett
Faculty Recognition
Promoted to Professor – Drs. Richard Bloomfeld, Sanjay Gandhi, Susan Melin, David Miller, Carolyn Pedley
Congratulations to all our Internal Medicine Residents!
