“It’s said that, as an individual, you can usually help one person at a time. But as an educator, you help individuals who continue to advance knowledge that improves the health of enormous numbers of people.”
With those words, John Daly, MD, FACS, Interim Dean and Dean Emeritus of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine (LKSOM), underscored the value of the contributions of the 12 LKSOM faculty members honored at the 3rd annual Educational Excellence Awards program, the most in the program’s brief history.
“In previous years, we honored faculty primarily for their excellence in teaching across the medical school. However, it was impossible to capture the breadth of contributions the faculty make to education,” Dr. Daly said.
Accordingly, awards were added to also recognize faculty for their excellence in research mentorship, educational service, educational scholarship, and outreach within the North Philadelphia community.
The nearly 50 nominations for this year’s awards came from faculty members, students, residents, fellows, program directors, and the North Philadelphia community at-large. The awards presentation was pre-recorded and streamed on the morning of October 29 on the LKSOM Facebook page and the Temple Health YouTube channel. Later that day, Dr. Daly hosted a small, private reception for the award winners.
Recipients of the 12 Educational Excellence Awards were:
Karen Lin, MD, MPH, FACP, DABMA, DABIHM
Educational Excellence in the MD Program, Year 1
Abraham Roth Chair, Preventative Medicine
Professor, Clinical Medicine
Director, Acupuncture Program
Rebecca Sullivan, PhD
Educational Excellence in the MD Program, Year 2
Associate Professor, Physiology
Sam Stern, MD
Educational Excellence in the MD Program, Year 3
Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine
Zoe Maher, MD
Educational Excellence in the Graduate Medical Education Program
Assistant Professor, Surgery
Erin Narewski, DO, FCCP
Educational Excellence in the Graduate Medical Education Program
Assistant Professor, Clinical Thoracic Medicine and Surgery
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Unit Based Medical Director, 6 East, Temple University Hospital
Michael Autieri, PhD
Educational Excellence in the Biomedical Sciences
Director, Lemole Center for Integrated Lymphatics and Vascular Research
Associate Director and Professor, Cardiovascular Research Center
Professor, Physiology
Professor, Sol Sherry Thrombosis Research Center
Professor, Center for Metabolic Disease Research
Nicole Griffin, PhD
Educational Excellence in PA/POSTBAC/UBTH
Associate Professor, Anatomy and Cell Biology
Walter Koch, PhD
Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program Mentoring Award
William Wikoff Smith Endowed Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine
Professor and Chair, Pharmacology
Professor and Director, Center for Translational Medicine
Kathleen M. Giangiacomo, PhD
Educational Service Award
Associate Professor, Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry
Jill Allenbaugh, MD
Educational Scholarship Award for Excellence in Medical Education Research
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Deborah L. Crabbe, MD, FACC, FAHA
Excellence in Community Outreach Within North Philadelphia
Professor, Medicine
Megan Healy, MD
Excellence in Community Outreach Within North Philadelphia
Associate Professor, Clinical Emergency Medicine
Assistant Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency