DIVERSITY
Faculty, housestaff and students honored
Pipeline program attracts top students
rnest E. Mhoon, MD ’73, professor of surgery, and Mindy Schwartz, MD, professor of medicine and associate program director, internal medicine, received the 2015 Faculty Physician Peer Role Model Award at the Pritzker School of Medicine’s annual Student Clinician Ceremony. The ceremony marks the second-year students’ transition from the preclinical to the clinical curriculum. Medical student Rachel Stones, MS3, received the PreClinical Student Peer Role Model Award. The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine’s Professionalism Steering Committee created the Peer Role Model Awards in 2009 to honor faculty physician and rising third-year students recognized by their peers as best
exemplifying the standards of professional competence and integrity. This year, more than 180 clinical faculty members from 12 departments were nominated for the Faculty Physician Peer Role Model Award, and 65 members of the Class of 2017 were nominated for the Pre-Clinical Student Peer Role Model Award. Other awards include: LDH Wood Pre-Clinical Teaching Awards: James O’Reilly, PhD, senior
lecturer in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, and Jeanne Farnan, MD ’02, MHPE, associate professor of medicine, director of clinical skills education, director of curricular evaluation and medical director of the Clinical Performance Center at Pritzker.
PHOTO BY DAVID CHRISTOPHER
Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Awards: Residents Gray
Akoegbe, MD; John Byrne, MD; Naoum Issa, MD; Moses Kim, MD; Brett Palama, MD; Carolyn Shima, MD; and Christian Yeasted, MD.
Wesleyan University student Akila Raoul
participated in the 2015 Summer Research Symposium and Poster Session for the Pritzker School of Medicine Experience in Research program. Students in the 8-week summer program live on campus and work on basic science or clinical research projects with faculty mentors. The program seeks students from disadvantaged backgrounds and groups that are underrepresented in health sciences and medicine.
Creating tomorrow’s cancer researchers PHOTO BY DAVID CHRISTOPHER
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STUDENT CLINICIAN CEREMONY
Students Teaching Students Award:
Shilpa Vasishta, MS3, and Katlynn Adkins, MD ’15. Pritzker School of Medicine students recognized Rachel Stones, MS3, right, with the 2015 PreClinical Student Peer Role Model Award. Caitlin Chicoine, MS4, was last year’s recipient.
Pritzker School of Medicine Student-Run Free Clinic Faculty Volunteer Award: Marc Robinson,
MD, chief resident in the Department of Medicine.
2015 SENIOR SCIENTIFIC SESSION
Fourth years recognized at research showcase
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embers of the Pritzker School of Medicine Class of 2015 presented their research at the 69th annual Senior Scientific Session in May. Ten students gave oral presentations and 41 gave poster presentations. The 2015 session was chaired by Jessica Kandel, MD, the Mary Campau Ryerson Professor of Surgery and surgeon-in-chief at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital. Prizes for excellence in science and presentation were awarded to Claire Naus, MD ’15; Vaibhav Upadhyay, PhD ’13, MD ’15; Patricia Osmolak, MD ’15; Camil Correia, MD ’15; David Binder, PhD ’13, MD ’15; John Lim, MD ’15; Cassandra Fritz, MD ’15; and Kevin Stephens, Jr., MD ’15, MBA ’15. uchospitals.edu/midway
Janishia Calhoun, a student from North Lawndale College Preparatory High School, participated in the Continuing
Umbrella of Research Experience (CURE) Program for underrepresented high school and college students. Calhoun worked in the laboratory of faculty mentor M. Eileen Dolan, PhD, professor of medicine and associate director for education for the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center, and presented her work at the 2015 Summer Cancer Research Programs Symposium. Dolan led a team that expanded the CURE Program this year and started a new multi-institutional high school summer cancer research program called researcHStart. MEDICINE ON THE MIDWAY
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