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PRIZES AND AWARDS Honors Given to Students and Faculty for 2004 HMS/HSDM Prizes and Awards Class of 2004 April Armstrong Richard C. Cabot Prize Anna Greka and Ryan Turner Henry Asbury Christian Award Jerrilyn Jones Community Service Award Mary Thorndike Robert H. Ebert Primary Care Achievement Award James De La Torre Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award Paul Nguyen Gerald S. Foster Award Zachary Peacock Harvard Dental Alumni Association Gold Medal and Dr. Roy O. Greep Award Eric Rosenthal Kurt Isselbacher Prize Renee Hsia Bemy Jelin '91 Prize Aya Kuribayashi, Liyun Li, Alden McDonald, Amina Porter, and Coleen Ssabatini Multiculturalism Award Julie Levison Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Daniel Fishel Dr. Norman B. Nesbett Medal Katharine Garvey New England Pediatric Society Prize Sandeep Datta Leon Reznick Memorial Prize Kenway Louie Dr. Sirgay Sanger Award Supinda Bunyavanich Rose Seegal Prize Ravi Kamath James Tolbert Shipley Prize Jennifer Jackson Harvard Dental Alumni Association Silver Medal Sallie Permar PASTEUR Award Ketan Amin Dr. Paul Boyle Award Jeffrey Burke Harvard Odontological Society Award Phoebe Good Dr. Leo Talkov Award Adesegun Tewogbade Dr. Grace Milliken Award Faculty David Cardozo, assistant professor of neurobiology at HMS, and Helen Shields, associate professor of medicine at HMS and Beth Israel Deaconess Best Preclinical Instructors Gillian Lieberman, associate professor of radiology at HMS and BID, and Gary Setnik, assistant professor of medicine at HMS and Mount Auburn Hospital Best Clinical Instructors Ronald Arky, the Charles S. Davidson distinguished professor of medicine at HMS, and Carla Fujimoto, HMS Office of Student Affairs Outstanding Overall Contribution Martin Mihm, HMS clinical professor of pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award presented by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Residents and Fellows Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Medicine Jonathan Bridges Tara Hamilton David Miller Samir Parikh Jacqueline Swan Surgery Leonardo Claros Saju Joseph Obstetrics/Gynecology Allison Zimon Neurology Ronald Fields Andrew Tarulli Brigham and Women's Hospital Medicine Phillipe Armand Tyler Berzin Suzanne Brown Yu Chen Kathryn Finnerty Shelly Ann Fluker Wendy Garrett Chester Hedgepeth Claudia Hochberg Alexandra Molnar Marcella Nunez-Smith Abraham Schwarzberg Pratiksha Somaia Rajesh Vedanthan Tracy Wang Hematology/Oncology (with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) Yariv Houvras David Jackman Erica Mayer Robert Ross Surgery Lynn Chang Kimberly Moore Jonny Wee Obstetrics/Gynecology Eric Eisenhauer Heidi Hallonquist Pathology Miguel Rivera Children's Hospital Pediatrics Katherine Janeway Alisa McQueen Sarah Teele Hematology/Oncology Suneet Agarwal Massachusetts General Hospital Medicine Jeremy Abramson Meghan Baker Yi-ben Chen Peter Crompton Elizabeth Eagleson Rebecca Gross Ryan Jordan Amy Kind Daniel Llano James Morrill Sahil Parikh Brian Schwartz Roderick Tung Pediatrics Christina Scirica Psychiatry Dave Dybdal Surgery Pierre De Delva Anthony McCluney Urology David Rodin Sonita Sadio Thomas Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Ophthalmology Nisha Acharya Fina Canas Barouch Bilal Khan Harvard Combined Programs Dermatology Jennifer Jones Peter Lio Medicine/Pediatrics Ateev Mehrotra Julie Welch Infectious Disease John Fangman Orthopedic Surgery Neil Harness L. Pearce McCarty Robert O'Toole Health Sciences and Technology Teaching Award The following award was presented at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) graduation on June 7. Richard Mitchell, HMS associate professor of pathology and of health sciences and technology at BWH Thomas A. McMahon Mentoring Award HSDM Faculty and Staff Awards At the HSDM graduation banquet on June 10, the following awards were presented. Sigmund Socransky, associate clinical professor of oral medicine, infection, and immunity (periodontology) Paul Goldhaber Award Nadeem Karimbux, associate professor of oral medicine, infection, and immunity (periodontology) Distinguished Senior Faculty Award Neda Shah-Hosseini, senior tutor and instructor in restorative dentistry and biomaterials sciences Distinguished Junior Faculty Award Sang Park and Nachum Samet, instructors in restorative dentistry and biomaterials sciences Outstanding Faculty Awards Garo Kadian, laboratory specialist, and Abelkader Arachiche, laboratory technician Outstanding Staff Awards HSPH Prizes and Awards Class of 2004 Geetanjali Datta and Annemarie Sparrow Albert Schweitzer Award Karen Pelley Charles F. Wilinsky Award Annemarie Sparrow Fang-Ching Sun Memorial Award Gregory Wellenius Edgar Haber Award in Biological Sciences Hussein Samji François-Xavier Bagnoud Health and Human Rights Essay Award Martha Hunt and Katarina Mucha Gareth M. Green Award for Excellence in Public Health Lingling Li Robert B. Reed Prize Jillian Catalonotti Student Recognition Award Michael Reddy Teaching Assistant Award Faculty Yi Li, Department of Biostatistics Roger L. Nichols Excellence in Teaching Award Ichiro Kawachi , Department of Society, Human Development, and Health; Richard Levins, Department of Population and International Health; and Michelle Mello, Department of Health Policy and Management Faculty Teaching Excellence Citations Michael Reddy, research assistant in the Laboratory of Public Health Entomology in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases Teaching Assistant Award Sue Goldie, Department of Health Policy and Management, and Karen Kuntz, Departments of Health Policy and Management and Biostatistics Mentoring Award