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Honoring alumni for outstanding achievements and service The Medical and Biological Sciences
Alumni Association’s (MBSAA) tradition of honoring outstanding achievement and service began in 1951. This year’s recipients join a notable group of 139 faculty honorees of the Gold Key Award and 286 alumni honorees of the Distinguished Service Award. Gold Key Award
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Jesse Russell Hall, MD ’77 Professor Emeritus of Medicine University of Chicago Christopher J. Rhodes, PhD Kovler Family Professor Emeritus of Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism University of Chicago
2016 award winners join alumni leaders and deans at the Alumni Awards reception on June 4. Front row, from left, Ernest Mhoon, MD ’73, chair of the Alumni Awards Committee; William A. McDade, PhD ’88, MD ’90; Eve Van Cauter, PhD; and Oluwaseun “Seun” Adelanke Adetayo, MD ’06. Back row, from left, Holly J. Humphrey, the Ralph W. Gerald Professor in Medicine and dean for medical education; Timothy Billiar, MD ’83; Michael Silverman, MD ’73, president of the Medical and Biological Sciences Alumni Association; Jesse Russell Hall, MD ’77; Eugene Chang, MD ’76; and Kenneth S. Polonsky, MD, the Richard T. Crane Distinguished Service Professor and Dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine.
2017 Distinguished Service Award Nominations Now Open The Distinguished Service Award and the Distinguished Service Award for Early Achievement recognize alumni who have shown leadership in their professional lives or through public service. These individuals have brought honor and distinction to the Division of the Biological Sciences and to the University of Chicago through the significant contributions they have made to the fields of the biological sciences and medicine. Nominate a fellow alumnus for this honor. Submit your nomination online by December 31, 2016: tinyurl.com/MBSAA-DSA-Nominations
Visit the MBSAA website to learn more about the Gold Key and Distinguished Service Award recipients: medbsd.uchicago.edu/alumni/awards
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Eve Van Cauter, PhD Frederick H. Rawson Professor Emeritus of Medicine Endocrinology University of Chicago
Distinguished Service Award Timothy R. Billiar, MD ’83 Distinguished Professor of Surgery Chair, Department of Surgery George Vance Foster Endowed Professor University of Pittsburgh Eugene B. Chang, MD ’76 The Martin Boyer Professor of Medicine Associate Section Chief for Research Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Director, Digestive Disease Research Core Center University of Chicago William A. McDade, PhD ’88, MD ’90 Executive Vice President and Chief Academic Officer Ochsner Health System (Formerly Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care and Deputy Provost for Research and Minority Issues University of Chicago) David Steven Pellman, AB ’81, MD ’86 Margaret M. Dyson Professor of Pediatric Oncology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Distinguished Service Award for Early Achievement Oluwaseun “Seun” Adelanke Adetayo, MD ’06 Section Chief, Pediatric Plastic Surgery Director, Cleft-Craniofacial Center Albany Medical Center