YEAR END AWARDS

Student, Faculty, and Staff Honors for 2009

HMS Student Awards
Elizabeth Asch and Rupinder Kaur Legha, Richard C. Cabot Prize
Adam Friedman and Sunil Anil Sheth, Henry Asbury Christian Award
Meera Kotagal and Dominika Seidman, Community Service Award
Munirih Qualls, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award
Matthew Rivara, The Gerald S. Foster Award
Ariela Marshall, Bemy Jelin ’91 Prize
Claudia Diaz, Emily Gillett, Brittany Murray, Fausto Ortiz and Lauren Steward, Multiculturalism Award
Molly Collins, Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award
Joanna Choi, The New England Pediatric Society Prize
Zuzana Tothova and Marc Wein, Leon Reznick Memorial Prize
Brice Gaudillière and Adam Numis, Dr. Sirgay Sanger Award
Gretchen Domek, Esther Freeman and Dominika Seidman, Rose Seegal Prize
John Hanna and Kevin King, James Tolbert Shipley Prize
Ashley Morris, Robert H. Ebert Primary Care Achievement Award
Rahul Sheth and Elizabeth Stover, PASTEUR Award

Faculty and Staff Awards
David Cardozo, assistant professor of neurobiology, Best Preclinical Instructor
Julian Seifter, associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Best Clinical Instructor
Joel Katz, assistant professor of medicine at BWH, Best Clinical Instructor
David Hirsh, instructor in medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, Best Clinical Instructor
Gary Setnik, assistant professor in medicine at Mt. Auburn Hospital, Best Clinical Instructor
Hope Ricciotti, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Best Clinical Instructor
Joshua Nagler, assistant professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, Best Clinical Instructor
Charles McCabe, professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Best Clinical Instructor (posthumous)
David Hirsh, instructor in medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award
Ronald Arky, the Charles S. Davidson Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Overall Contribution

Health Sciences and Technology Teaching Awards
Barbara Fullerton, assistant professor of otology and laryngology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and James Kobler, assistant professor of surgery at MGH, London Teaching Award
Peter Szolovits, McMahon Mentoring Award
Elizabeth Thiele, Seidman Prize
Ernst Berndt, Biomedical Enterprise Program Teaching Award

HSDM Faculty, Staff, and Student Awards
Cara Riley, Harvard Dental Alumni Association Gold Medal
Estee Wang, Harvard Dental Alumni Association Silver Medal
Maiko Sakai, Dr. Norman B. Nesbett Medal
Behnam Eslami, James H. Shaw Award
Ryan Blissett, Joseph L. Henry Award
Jayapriyaa Ranjini Shanmugham, James M. Dunning Award
Per-Ingvar Branemark, Goldhaber Award
Thomas Dodson, associate professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery, Distinguished Senior Faculty Award
Robert White, assistant professor of restorative dentistry and biomaterials sciences, Distinguished Junior Faculty Award
Brian Chang, lecturer on restorative dentistry and biomaterials sciences, and Shigemi Nagai, assistant professor of restorative dentistry and biomaterials sciences; Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award
Gayatri Gunda, Gerald Shklar Award

HSPH Prizes and Awards
Class of 2009
Ashley Carlson, James H. Ware Award for Achievement in the Practice of Public Health
Rena Greifinger, Albert Schweitzer Award
Lindsay Rosenfeld, Dr. Fang-Ching Sun Memorial Award
Shabnam Hafiz, Gareth M. Green Award for Excellence in Public Health
Tomoko Onoda, Student Recognition Award
Marleen Welsh, Edgar Haber Award in Biological Sciences
Kaustubh Adhikari, Robert B. Reed Prize for Excellence in Biostatisical Science
Lana Dinic, Uwe Brinkmann Memorial Travel Award
Kathleen Wirth, Teaching Assistant Award

Faculty
Paul Catalano, senior lecturer on biostatistics, Roger L. Nichols Excellence in Teaching Award
William Hsiao, K.T. Li professor of economics; Xihong Lin, professor of biostatistics; Katherine Swarz; professor of health economics and policy; and Nancy Turnball, associate dean for educational programs, Mentoring Award
S. Bryn Austin, assistant professor in the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, and Deborah Devaux, adjunct lecturer on health policy and management, Teaching Citation

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