Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award
Purpose
The University of Virginia School of Medicine Awards for Excellence in Teaching recognize faculty who excel in teaching students, including medical students, biomedical sciences (BIMS) PhD candidates, or MPH candidates. This award is not intended for GME activities.
The award is $1,500 and a gift; the nomination deadline is Monday, March 24, 2025. The primary nominator must be a student (medical student, biomedical sciences (BIMS) PhD candidate, or MPH candidate).
Award Presentation
The award winners will be announced by the Dean. The Dean will notify each awardee’s Department Chair. The Dean’s Office will be responsible for appropriate publicity in University and non-University publications. The Mulholland and Graduate Biosciences Societies will announce the award winners to the relevant student bodies.
Award Qualifications
Any student (medical student, biomedical sciences (BIMS) PhD candidate, or MPH candidate) may nominate one faculty member per year according to the listed criteria. All faculty and students will receive a copy of the call for nominations.
Nominees must demonstrate exemplary compliance with UVA Health’s ASPIRE values. Nominees must be faculty members of the University of Virginia School of Medicine with a rank of Assistant Professor or above who have not received the Robley Dunglison Award, the Pre-Clerkship Teaching Award, or the University of Virginia School of Medicine Award for Excellence in Teaching within the past three years.
The Selection Committee will review all nominations and select up to five awardees. The committee is advisory to the Dean who will make the final selection. The selection committee will be composed of the following:
- A representative from the Educators’ Academy Steering Committee
- The Vice President of the Mulholland Society
- The President of the 4th year class
- One student selected by the Associate Dean for Student Affairs
- The President of the Graduate Biosciences Society
- The Vice President of the Graduate Biosciences Society
- One student selected by the Associate Dean for Graduate and Medical Sciences Programs
- The most recent Dunglison awardee
- The most recent Pre-Clerkship Teaching Award awardee
- Primary nominating letter from a student (medical student, biomedical sciences (BIMS) PhD candidate, or MPH candidate) (1 page)
- Executive summary from a faculty member familiar with the nominee’s teaching/mentoring (it is recommended that the primary nominating party contact a faculty member who is familiar with the nominee’s teaching activities). This summary should describe the nominee’s teaching/mentoring activities and include supporting evidence of the nominee’s educational excellence and worthiness for the award (1 page limit).
- Up to 3 additional letters/testimonials from students (medical students, biomedical sciences (BIMS) PhD candidates, or MPH candidates), trainees (postdoctoral fellows), and faculty colleagues of the nominee (1 page limit per letter)
- An updated curriculum vitae
- Relevant portions of the teaching portfolio (optional)
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
Excellence in Teaching Award Recipients
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- Tushar Chopra, MBBS, Associate Professor of Medicine
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- Molly Hughes, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine
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- Katherine Latimer, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
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- Ilya Levental, PhD, Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
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- Amy Wrentmore, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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- Michael Ayers, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
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- Christina Tieu, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
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- Leigh-Ann Webb, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
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- Keith Bachmann, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
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- Aric Elmer, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
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- Sook Hoang, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery
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- Jeremy Middleton, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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- Sana Syed, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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- David Kashatus, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
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- Clint Miller, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Science
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- Jessica Sheeran, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
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- Nicholas Teman, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery
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- Brian Uthlaut, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
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- Jennifer R. Charlton, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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- Jeffrey W. Gander, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery
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- R. Ariel Gomez, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
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- Nora G. Kern, MD, Associate Professor of Urology
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- John S. McNeil, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
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- Peter E. Amato, Jr., MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
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- Rachel H. Kon, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
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- M. Kathryn Mutter, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
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- William G. Wilson, MD, Professor of Pediatrics
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- Andrew S. Parsons, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine
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- Vaia T. Abatzis, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
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- Barbie K. Ganser-Pornillos, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
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- F. Winston Gwathmey, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
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- David G. Moyer, DC, Assistant Professor of Medical Education
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- Amita Sudhir, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
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- Michelle L. Bland, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
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- Robert A. Bloodgood, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology
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- Eric W. Carson, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
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- Sara K. Rasmussen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery
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- Neeral L. Shah, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
- Laurie R. Archbald-Pannone, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Adrian J. Halme, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology
- Marty W. Mayo, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
- James H. Moak, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
- Anne G. Tuskey, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Nathan P. Charlton, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
- D. Nicole Deal, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Peter S. Ham, MD, Associate Professor of Family Medicine
- Andrew M. Southerland, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Philip W. Smith, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery
- Jamieson M. Bourque, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Alison K. Criss, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
- Kambiz Kalantari, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
- Amy J. Mathers, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Catherine F. Casey, MD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
- Jennifer R. Marks, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
- Anneke T. Schroen, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Surgery
- Megan J. Bray, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Loren D. Erickson, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology
- Eric R. Houpt, MD, Professor of Medicine
- Jeffrey J. Saucerman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Neeral Shah, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Donna T. Chen, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences
- Janet V. Cross, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology
- Quanjun Cui, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Christopher R. McCartney, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
- Costi D. Sifri, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
- Seki A. Balogun, MBBS, Associate Professor of Medicine
- Randal S. Blank, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
- William J. Brady, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine
- J. Forrest Calland, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery
- Bryce M. Paschal, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
- Sean W. Reed, MD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
- Christian A. Chisholm, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Matthew J. Goodman, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
- Benjami D. Kozower, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery
- Selina Noramly, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
- Ashley M. Shilling, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
- Rebecca A. Dillingham, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Peter S. Ham, MD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
- Evan B. Heald, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
- Kathie L. Hullfish, MD, Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Marty W. Mayo, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
- Charles M. Friel, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery
- Patrick A. Grant, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
- Molly A. Hughes, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Mark J. Mendelsohn, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics
- Craig K. Seto, MD, FAAFP, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
- A. Bobby Chhabra, MD, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Kelly Cordoro, MD, Assistant Professor of Dermatology
- Edward Nemergut, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
- John D. Voss, MD, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
- Mary Kate Worden, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
- Ted M. Burns, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology Department of Neurology
- Bruce J. Cohen, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatric Medicine
- Lawrence W. Gimple, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine
- Steven W. Heim, MD, MSPH, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
- Juan M. Olazagasti, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology
- William S. Rea, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatric Medicine
- Mitchell H. Rosner, MD, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine