Clyde Yancy, MD, received the American Heart Association’s 2014 Gold Heart Award, and Neil J. Stone, ’68 MD, ’74, ’75 GME, received the AHA’s 2014 Physician of the Year Award.
Peter Dorschner, a third-year medical student, was awarded an Alpha Omega Alpha 2014 Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship to investigate hospital-acquired infections in transplant patients.
Myles Wolf, Margaret Gray Morton Professor of Medicine, has been honored by the American Society of Nephrology for his research related to the functions and diseases of the kidney.
Edward Gong, MD, received a 2013 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award for his work using stem cells to restore normal function to obstructed bladders in children.
The 27 awards presented at the Second Annual Honors Day acknowledged senior medical students for their outstanding academic achievement and faculty members for their contributions to education.
For his work studying how environmental stress affects the lungs, GR Scott Budinger, MD, associate professor in Medicine-Pulmonary and Cell and Molecular Biology, was recently elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation.
Amisha Patel, MD, cardiology fellow, received a VECD Fogarty Global Health Fellowship to study pre-hospital systems of care in patients with acute coronary syndromes in India.
Cardiology fellow Sadiya Khan, MD’09, GME’12, received two awards from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology for her academic and clinical performance.
Two faculty members, Ram Yogev, MD, professor of Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases and D. Mark Courtney, MD, associate professor of Emergency Medicine received 2014 Mentor of the Year Awards from the Medical Faculty Council for their commitment to fostering the intellectual, behavioral, creative, scholarly and professional growth of mentees.
M. Marsel Mesulam, MD, director of the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center, will travel to Philadelphia at the end of April to be honored at the annual American Academy of Neurology meeting.