Faculty Award Winners

The Community Engagemement Award

The Community Engagement Award recognizes Department of Medicine faculty who have made significant contributions to fostering a DOM community and climate that allows all members to thrive by leveraging service, teaching, mentoring, advocacy, and research efforts.

• Marshall Fleurant, MD | General Internal Medicine

Educator Impact Award

This award recognizes faculty who have made outstanding contributions as a medical educator, as recognized by their peers.

• Reena Hemrajani, MD | Hospital Medicine

Nanette K. Wenger Distinguished Service Award

This award recognizes faculty who have demonstrated outstanding service and citizenship to the Department of Medicine. One award will be given in each of the three faculty ranks: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor.

Assistant Professor (TIE)

• Lauren Gensler, MD | General Internal Medicine
• Jessica Nave, MD | Hospital Medicine 

Associate Professor

• Zanthia Wiley, MD, FHM, FIDSA | Infectious Diseases

Professor (TIE)

• Abeer Moanna, MD | Infectious Diseases
• David Roberts, MD, FACP | General Internal Medicine 

Outstanding Clinician Award

​This award recognizes faculty who have demonstrated outstanding clinical and collaborative care for patients.

• Micah Fisher, MD | Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine 

Outstanding Publication Awards

This award recognizes researchers producing outstanding basic and clinical/translational (including quality improvement and health services) research publications at the Instructor/Assistant Professor and Associate Professor faculty ranks.

• Outstanding Publication Clinical & Translational Award (Junior Faculty)
  Doan Nguyen, MD, PhD | Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine 

• Outstanding Publication Clinical & Translational Award (Senior Faculty)
  Emily Cartwright, MD,  Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

• Outstanding Publication Clinical & Translational Award (Professor)
  Valeria Cantos, MD | Infectious Diseases 
  
• Outstanding Publication Basic Science Award (Junior Faculty)
  Adam Gracz, PhD | Digestive Diseases 

• Outstanding Publication Basic Science Award (Senior Faculty)
  Jyothi Rengarajan, PhD | Infectious Diseases
  
  

R. Wayne Alexander Excellence in Research Award

​This award recognizes significant contributions to medical knowledge realized through a body of research over an individual’s career in either basic research or clinical and translational research.

• Colleen Kelley, MD, MPH | Infectious Diseases 

Quality Achievement Award

This award recognizes faculty who have demonstrated outstanding contributions to clinical quality improvement or quality improvement within teaching, leadership, or research.

• Sujit Suchindran, MD | Infectious Diseases 

Shanthi V. Sitaraman Silver Pear Mentoring Award

This award recognizes Department of Medicine faculty who have demonstrated outstanding mentoring to early career faculty within the department during the past year. One award will be given in two categories: Mentoring of faculty primarily in the clinician-educator or service area and mentoring of faculty primarily in the research area.

Clinical Educator

• Theresa Vettese, MD | General Internal Medicine 

Research

• Vin Tangpricha, MD, PhD | Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids
  

Division Gem Awards

This award honors faculty with a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine with outstanding and impactful contributions in any of our mission areas but whose significant but quiet contributions may escape external recognition.

• Cardiology: Jason Linefsky, MD 
• Digestive Diseases: Francis Edward LeVert III, MD  
• Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids: Sol Jacobs, MD  
• General Internal Medicine: Jennifer Lom, MD  
• Geriatrics and Gerontology: Fariha Sultan, MD  
• Hospital Medicine: Sneha Neurgaonkar, MD  
• Infectious Diseases: Clifford Gunthel, MD  
• Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine: Adviteeya Dixit, MD  
• Renal Medicine: Sheryl Caberto, MD  
• Rheumatology:  Katina Tsagaris, MD 

Team Science Award

This award recognizes research teams that demonstrate innovative and impactful advances in science and high-quality, productive teamwork.

• Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery  (RECOVER) cohort trial submitted by: