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School of Medicine's 1999-2000 Teaching Awards
The following full-time faculty members in the tenure and clinician-educator
tracks were chosen by the Faculty Teaching Awards Committee to receive this
year's teaching awards. Nominations were solicited from faculty, house staff
and students.
The Leonard Berwick Memorial Teaching
Award, established in 1980-81 by the Berwick family and the department
of pathology, recognizes a member of the medical faculty who in his or her
teaching most effectively fuses basic science and clinical medicine. This
year's recipient is Dr. Don L. Siegel, assistant professor of pathology
and laboratory medicine and director of the Blood Bank/Transfusion Medicine
section. For freshman and sophomores, he is responsible for the lecture
and laboratory sessions dealing with blood group immunology and transfusion
medicine. For juniors and seniors, he directs or teaches in several elective
courses, notably PA305 Effective Use of Clinical Laboratory Tests,
a workshop-type course designed to enhance a student's ability to use diagnostic
tests appropriately. In each of these, Dr. Siegel's efforts have been described
as "nearly legendary." Students have noted that his organization
is impeccable, his delivery engaging, his meshing of the basic and clinical
sciences seamless, and his enthusiasm contagious. He consistently receives
the highest rankings possible from students, and he is equally well regarded
by his peers. His own research program, in which he has developed technologies
for cloning the human immune response, is state-of-the-art. To teach these
methods, he co-directs an annual Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course entitled,
Phage Display of Combinatorial Antibody Libraries. He has an unusual
gift for melding clinical medicine with basic science, and in every case
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The Blockley-Osler Award was
created in 1987 by the Blockley section of the Philadelphia College of Physicians
and is presented annually to a member of the faculty at an affiliated hospital
for excellence in teaching modern clinical medicine in the bedside tradition
of William Osler. This year it is given to Dr. Istvan Seri, assistant
professor of pediatrics, and clinical director of Newborn Services at CHOP.
He obtained his M.D. degree at the Semmelweis Medical School in Budapest,
Hungary in 1976. During his residency training he became interested in the
cardiovascular, renal and endocrine actions of dopamine during development.
Afterwards he spent two years at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm studying
the dopaminergic modulation of cardiovascular and renal functions in whole
animal models and renal micropuncture and cell physiology studies. In 1985,
he obtained a Ph.D. degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in developmental
cardiovascular physiology. In 1986, he arrived at the Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where he first completed a research fellowship
in nephrology followed by one in neonatology. In 1991, he joined the faculty
at the Children's Hospital in Boston. In 1994, he was recruited to neonatology,
department of pediatrics at CHOP. He has always encouraged the students,
residents and fellows to question why a given concept or clinical approach
is being favored, to search for a better understanding of the underlying
physiology and pathophysiology and to refuse to accept the answer to their
question that "this is how things are being done." |
The Robert Dunning Dripps Memorial Award
for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education, established in
1983 by the department of anesthesia, recognizes a faculty member who exemplifies
excellence in the education of residents and fellows in the areas of clinical
care, research, teaching and/or administration. This year it is presented
to Dr. Gregory Tino, assistant professor of medicine, director of
Pulmonary Outpatient Practices, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, at
Medical Center. Dr. Tino graduated from Columbia with a B.A. degree, and
received his M.D. from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1986. After
completing residency training in internal medicine, and a fellowship in
pulmonary and critical care medicine at Penn, he joined the faculty in 1992.
He is an active clinician with a major role in teaching and clinical research
activities. He has received the Maurice F. Attie Faculty Teaching Award
from the Department of Medicine at Penn for excellence in teaching and demonstration
of humanistic qualities, as well as the Mayock-Fishman Teaching Award from
Penn's Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Division. |
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The Dean's Award for Excellence
in Graduate Student Training, was established in 1992-93 to recognize
excellence in graduate education. The winner of the award for this year
is Dr. Ali Naji, J. William White Professor of Surgery. Dr. Naji
has been responsible for training several generations of graduate and medical
students in his research laboratory in exploring the role of the immune
system in the etiology of diabetes mellitus and organ transplantation. His
students distinguish him as "a rigorous scientist, a wise and knowledgeable
mentor, with a remarkable ability to crystallize the most critical questions."
A former student writes, ". . . anyone who spends time with him is
rapidly overwhelmed by his giving nature. In addition to his patient care
responsibilities, he considers it his duty to not only train graduate students,
but also promote their future careers. We look up to him, not because we
must, but because he has the qualities we would like to see in ourselves.
He is demanding of us, and we give our best to accomplish what he thinks
we are capable of doing. He is everything I could imagine in a mentor, and
everything I would like to see in myself. Hard work, dedication, compassion,
insight-these are the qualities of excellence he brings to his graduate
research training." "He allows us the freedom to exhibit scientific
creativity and develops a bond with his students that is much more than
a professional partnership." |
The School of Medicine Teaching Awards continue... See
Honors &
Other Things in this issue.
Teaching Excellence at School of Dental
Medicine
Four faculty from the School of Dental Medicine were recently recognized
for teaching excellence by the senior class.
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Dr. Philip Giarraputo received the Earle Bank Hoyt Award, presented
to an outstanding full-time junior clinical faculty member who is also a
Penn Dental graduate. Dr. Giarraputo, assistant professor, clinician educator
of restorative dentistry and director of the School's Primary Care Units,
graduated from the School of Dental Medicine in 1967. |
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The Joseph L.T. Appleton Award, given to a part-time faculty member for
excellence in clinical instruction, went to Dr. Pouya Hatam, who
teaches periodontics. |
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Dr. Bal Goyal received the Robert E. DeRevere Award for excellence
in preclinical teaching by a part-time faculty member. This is the second
year in a row for Dr. Goyal, director of the Prosthodontics Clinic and Preclinical
Laboratory in Restorative Dentistry, to receive this award, and the fifth
time in the past six years that he has received special honors from students. |
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Dr. Elliot Hersh, associate professor of oral surgery/pharmacology
and director of the Division of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, was again
presented with the Basic Science Award for his teaching excellence in this
area. Students have honored Dr. Hersh with this award seven of the past
ten years. |
For more awards in Dental Medicine as well as other areas
of the University, see Honors
& Other Things.
Almanac, Vol. 46, No. 31, May 2, 2000
| FRONT PAGE | CONTENTS
| JOB-OPS
| CRIMESTATS
| 3 Year Academic
Calendar 2000-2003 | TALK
ABOUT TEACHING ARCHIVE | BETWEEN
ISSUES | MAY at PENN |
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