Faculty Affairs & Development

2025 Dean’s Faculty Award Recipients and Endowed Professorship Electees

David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator Award

: Meg Keeley, MD,
Senior Associate Dean for Education and Professor of Pediatrics

Robert J. Kadner Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching

: Bettina Winckler, PhD,
Professor of Cell Biology

Sharon L. Hostler Women in Medicine Leadership Award

: Juliana Bueno, MD,
Professor of Radiology and Medical Imaging

Dean's Award for Excellence in Faculty Mentorship

: William Brady, MD,
Professor of Emergency Medicine

Master Clinician Award

: Kenneth Brayman, MD, PhD,
Professor of Surgery

: Howard Goodkin, MD, PhD,
Professor of Neurology

Dean’s Award for Clinical Excellence

: Jonathan Black, MD,
Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial and Oral Health

: Joshua Easter, MD,
Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

: Behzad Farivar, MD,
Associate Professor of Surgery

: Katherine Fedder, MD,
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

: Brian Werner, MD,
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

: Paige Hornsby, PhD, MSPH,
Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences

: Jessica Meyer, MD,
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

: Sean Reed, MD,
Associate Professor of Family Medicine

: Melissa Sacco, MD,
Associate Professor of Pediatrics

: Susan Walters, MD,
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research

: Kathleen McManus, MD,
Associate Professor of Medicine

: Gloria Sheynkman, PhD,
Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics

: Karen Hirschi, PhD,
Professor of Cell Biology

: Stephen Rich, PhD,
Professor of Genome Sciences

: Jie Sun, PhD,
Professor of Medicine

Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award

: Sachin Mehta, MD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

2025-2026 Endowed Professorship Electees

: Stephen Culp, MD, PhD,
Paul Mellon Professor of Urology

: Tracy Downs, MD,
Harrison Distinguished Teaching
Professor of Urology

: Mark Esser, PhD,
Thomas A. Saunders Familty Jefferson Scholars Foundation University Professor

: Julie Exline, PhD,
Priscilla Bonner and Margerie Bonner Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral

: Charles Farber, PhD,
Rick A. Moore Professor in the School of Medicine

: Tabor Flickinger, MD, MPH
Ann M. and T. Edmund Beck Jr. Bicentennial Associate Professor of General Medicine

: Ankush Gosain, MD, PhD,
C. Bruce Morton Professor of Surgery

: Xudong Joshua Li, MD, PhD,
Mary Muilenburg Stamp Professor of Orthopaedic Research

: John Lukens, PhD,
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Neuroscience

: John Moriarty, MD,
Harry T. Peters Sr. Professor of Internal Medicine

: JoAnn Pinkerton, MD,
Women’s Midlife Health Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

: Evan Scott, PhD,
David Goodman Family Bicentennial Professor of Biomedical Engineering

: Ryan Smith, MD,
John W. Kluge Distinguished Associate Professor of Urology

: Jonathan Swanson, MD,
Charles I. Fuller Jr. Professor of Neonatology

: Agnieszka Swiatecka-Urban, MD,
Robert J. Roberts Professor of Pediatrics

: Richard Taylor, MD, MHS,
Robert E. O’Connor Distinguished Professor of Emergency Medicine

: Brian Uthlaut, MD,
Edward Watson Hook Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine

: Anny Xiaobo Zhou, PhD,
E. Cato Drash Professor of Pulmonary Medicine

: Jochen Zimmer, PhD,
Charles Slaughter Professor of Physiology