Educational Recognition Awards

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 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 2025 Last Lecture will be presented by Mary Callery O’Brien, MD, recipient of the 2024 Chancellor’s Medal for Distinguished Teaching.

 

The 2025 Educational Recognition Award recipients

Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing 

Dean’s Award  

Teri Aronowitz, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, FAAN 

Clinical Education Award  

GEP – Rebecca Hammond, MSN, RN 

DNP - Tyler Warren, MSN, AG-ACNP 

Student Education Award  

Mary Antonelli, PhD, RN, MPH 

Patient Educator Award  

Robert Dyer 

Ace Young 

Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences 

Dean’s Award  

David Grunwald, PhD 

Faculty Awards  

Ann Rothstein, PhD 

Io Long Chan, PhD  

Flaviane Silva, PhD 

Robert Brewster, PhD 

Educational Service Award   

Paul Greer, PhD 

T.H. Chan School of Medicine 

Dean’s Award: Lamar Soutter Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Medical Education  

Heather-Lyn Haley, PhD 

Deborah DeMarco Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education 

Elizabeth A. Murphy, MD 

Educational Achievement (Star) Awards  

Ryan Tai, MD  

Wissam Deeb, MD  

Linda Long-Bellil, PhD, and Heather Finlay-Morreale, MD 

Resident/Fellow Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education  

Tenes Paul, DO 

Chidubem Ezenna, MD 

Student “Star” Award  

Jenny LaPalme  

Retired Faculty Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Medical Education  

Scott Wellman, MD 

Administrative/Specialized Staff Award  

Michele Carlin