David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator Award
Purpose
Given annually by the Academy for Excellence in Education, The David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator Award is the School of Medicine’s most prestigious teaching award, reserved for its most distinguished teachers, recognizing a lifetime of excellence in teaching.
The nomination deadline is Monday, March 24, 2025.
All fulltime SOM Associate or full Professors with a minimum of 10 years of sustained excellence at UVa in teaching and mentoring learners and trainees. Nominees must demonstrate exemplary compliance with UVA Health’s ASPIRE values.
Any fulltime UVa SOM faculty member at Associate Professor level or higher who is familiar with the nominee’s “lifetime of excellence in teaching.”
- an up-to-date curriculum vitae which includes a detailed teaching summary (a Teaching Portfolio will be accepted but is NOT required)
- a nominating letter not to exceed three pages that focuses on the nominee’s teaching, mentoring, and educational activities (examples: curriculum development, assessment, education scholarship, educational leadership)
- 3-5 letters of support from peers, students/trainees (past or present), and course directors who can speak to the nominee’s sustained lifetime commitment to teaching
Upon submission of the nomination packet, the Dean’s Office will solicit the statement from the nominee’s department chair or division chief that attests to the nominee’s exemplary demonstration of UVA Health’s ASPIRE values
Submit an electronic copy of the nomination packet as a single PDF here.
Questions?
Contact: Ashley Ayers
Phone:(434) 924-8497
Email:Ala5t@virginia.edu
Selection Process
The committee will consist of the Center for Excellence in Education Steering Committee.
The committee is advisory to the Dean who will make the final selection.
The award winner will receive $10,000/year for 5 years and the title, The David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator, for life. The recipient may use the award funds to support his/her professional activities – for salary support, travel, conferences, subscriptions, or in any other way that will support his/her excellent work.
Award Presentation
The award winners will be announced by the Dean. The Dean will notify each awardee’s Department Chair and the Dean’s Office will be responsible for appropriate publicity in University and non-University publications
David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator Award Recipients
John Gazewood, MD, MSPH, Associate Professor of Medicine
Neeral Shah, MD, Professor of Medicine
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- Susan Kirk, MD, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and Associate Professor of Medicine
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- Amy Bouton, PhD, Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
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- Curt Tribble, MD, Professor of Surgery
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- Linda A. Waggoner-Fountain, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
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- Zygmunt S. Derewenda, PhD, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
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- Eugene D. McGahren III, MD, Professor of Surgery
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- A. Bobby Chhabra, MD, Professor and Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery
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- Michael Scheld, MD, Professor of Medicine
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- Mohan M. Nadkarni, MD, Professor of Medicine
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- William J. Brady, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine
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- Joel W. Hockensmith, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
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- William G. Wilson, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
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- Howard C. Kutchai, PhD, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
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- Marcia Day Childress, PhD, Associate Professor in the Center for Biomedical Ethics
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- Stephen M. Borowitz, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
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- Robert A. Bloodgood, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology
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- Michael F. Rein, MD, Professor of Medicine
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- Christine M. Peterson, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
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- Victor H. Engelhard, PhD, Professor of Microbiology
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- Brian Wispelwey, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine