The LKSOM Excellence in Education Awards recognize the outstanding faculty contributions to educational development, implementation, service, scholarship, mentoring and community outreach across a broad set of programs both online and in classroom, laboratory, and clinical settings. The competition for this years’ honors were rigorous and we thank the awards committee for their thoughtful work in selecting the winners: 

Medical Program Teaching Awards:
Year 1: Karen Lin, MD (Internal Medicine, General Internal Medicine)
Year 2: Rebecca Sullivan, PhD (Physiology)
Year 3: Sam Stern, MD (Internal Medicine, Hospitalist)

Graduate Medical Education (GME) Program Teaching Awards:
Zoe Maher, MD (Surgery, Trauma)
Erin Narewski, DO (Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Pulmonary)

Graduate Program Teaching Awards:
BMSC: Michael Autieri, PhD (Physiology, LCILR)
PA/Postbac/UBTH: Nicole Griffin, PhD (Anatomy and Cell Biology)

BMSC Mentoring Award:
Walter Koch, PhD (Pharmacology, CTM)

Educational Service Award:  
Kathleen Giangiacomo, PhD (Medical Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry)

Educational Scholarship Award:
Jill Allenbaugh, MD (Internal Medicine, General internal Medicine)

Community Outreach Award:
Deborah Crabbe, MD (Internal Medicine, Cardiology)
Megan Healy, MD (Emergency Medicine)

Each awardee will each receive an engraved plaque and honorarium.  Award presentations will occur in a pre-recorded video to be posted online for the LKSOM community followed by an intimate, socially distanced LKSOM Faculty Appreciation Reception with Dean Daly for the awardees and their guest on October 29, 2020.  

Please join us in congratulating our faculty for their educational achievements at LKSOM!