Educational Recognition Awards
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 4–6 p.m.
Location: Albert Sherman Center Auditorium
The annual Educational Recognition Awards ceremony is held as a means of reaffirming education as the founding and primary mission of the campus. The event is characterized by recognition of educational excellence in all three schools; a celebration of the collaboration among the three schools; and pride in the dedication, passion and creativity of faculty. Recipients are nominated and chosen by their faculty colleagues. Students also participate in the nominating process within the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing. The awards are presented by the deans of each school at an event held in the second half of the academic year.
The Last Lecture provides an educator the opportunity to share a message they would want to give students if they had only one lecture left to give. Medal recipients are nominated by the faculty and selected by the chancellor. Criteria for this honor include having fostered students’ personal, intellectual and professional development.
The 2024 Last Lecture will be presented by Susan Zweizig, MD, recipient of the 2023 Chancellor’s Medal for Distinguished Teaching.
2023 Recipients
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing
Dean’s Award
James A. Fain, PhD, RN, BC-ADM, FADCES, FAAN
Distinguished Faculty Awards
Omanand Koul, PhD
Rachel Niemiec, DNP, FNP-C
Danielle Hebert, DNP, MBA, MSN, ANP-B
Teri Aronowitz, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, FAAN
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Dean’s Award
Leslie Shaw, PhD
Faculty Awards
Elizabeth Shank, PhD
Amy Walker, PhD
Brian Kelch, PhD
Violeta Duran Laforet, PhD
Sean Ryder, PhD
T.H. Chan School of Medicine
Lamar Soutter Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Medical Education
Michael Fahey, MD
Educational Achievement (Star) Awards
Julia Rissmiller, MD
Maria Barile, MD
Resident/Fellow Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education
Joseph Jabaily, DO, MD
Max Hazeltine, MD
Student Star Award
Bennett Vogt
Trent Taros
Administrative Staff Award
Melissa Puliafico, MBA