May 28, 2007
Student Scene
Teaching Awards Honor Class Acts
The Program in Medical Education presented the annual HMS Teaching Awards to 12 recipients in front of an audience of friends, family, coworkers, and students in the TMEC amphitheater on May 21.
“We are all very fortunate at HMS to have teachers of this caliber in our midst,” said Jules Dienstag, dean for medical education, in his opening remarks. Each of the award-winners who spoke expressed gratitude toward the students who had nominated them, and a love of teaching was a theme that ran through their talks.
“I have learned more from them, truly, than they have learned from me,” said Kenneth Falchuk, HMS professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a winner of the HMS Special Faculty Prize for Sustained Excellence in Teaching. “There is nothing better to do at the Medical School than to teach medical students, and I feel that it is the greatest pleasure that I’ve had for the past 40 years.”
Christine Kim, HMS instructor in psychiatry at BWH and the winner of the Cynthia N. Kettyle award, echoed the sentiment, saying “I’m so honored and blessed to be recognized and awarded for something I happen to truly love doing.”
The following is a complete list of the 2007 HMS Teaching Award winners:
Faculty Prizes for Excellence in Teaching
• Douglas Cotanche, HMS Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Children’s Hospital Boston• Gregory Sawicki, CHB
• James Hurst, HMS Visiting Professor of Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Alberto Puig, HMS Lecturer on Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Special Faculty Prizes for Sustained Excellence in Teaching
• Kenneth Falchuk, HMS Professor of Medicine, BWH• Harvey Goldman, HMS Professor of Pathology, BID
• Peter Yurchak, HMS Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, MGH
S. Robert Stone Award at BID
David Roberts, HMS Assistant Professor of Medicine, BID
Leo A. Blacklow Award at Mount Auburn Hospital
Michael Kjelsberg, HMS Instructor in Medicine, MTA
Cynthia N. Kettyle Teaching Award/Harvard Departments of Psychiatry
Christine Kim, HMS instructor in psychiatry, BWH
Klaus Peter International Teaching Award
Ernesto Gonzalez, HMS Associate Professor of Dermatology, MGH
L. James Wiczai Jr. Award
Suzanne Horton, Program Coordinator for the Core and Advanced Clerkship in
Pediatrics and Coordinator for the Year Four Electives and Patient–Doctor
II Course, CHB
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