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Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
With a commitment to serving the entire state, the
University of New Mexico School of Medicine is truly
on the frontier of community service, pioneering the
"bottom-up” approach to community outreach. |
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Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service
to Medical Education
Donald E. Wilson, M.D.
Dr. Wilson was the first African American dean of an
accredited nonminority medical school and was key to
the University of Maryland School of Medicine's emergence
as a leading national research institution. |
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Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical
Sciences
Max D. Cooper, M.D.
A pediatrician by training, Dr. Cooper's trailblazing research with another animal species—the chicken—led to some of the most important organizing principles of the immune system. |
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Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished
Teacher Award
David W. Nierenberg, M.D.
Known for the clarity and passion of his lectures, Dr. Nierenberg has received several teaching awards for his ability to make even the most complex pharmacological issues accessible to all learners through his engaging style. |
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Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished
Teacher Award
Peter G. Anderson, D.V.M., Ph.D.
At the forefront of technology-enhanced learning, Dr. Anderson is widely known for his keen interest in experimenting with electronic teaching approaches and distance learning. |
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Caring for Community Grant Program
- Boston University School of Medicine "Outreach Van Project"
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine "(EHHOP) East Harlem Health Outreach Program"
- University of Florida College of Medicine "Equal Access Clinic"
- University of Kansas School of Medicine "JayDoc Community Clinic"
- University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine "MedZou Student Run Free Clinic"
- University of New Mexico School of Medicine "Community Vision Project"
- University of Washington School of Medicine "Aloha Inn Clinic"
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine "Shade Tree Community Diabetes Program"
- Wake Forest University School of Medicine "DEAC (Delivering Equal Access to Care) Clinic"
2008 Caring for Community Project descriptions |
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Humanism in Medicine Award
Yolanda Wimberly, M.D.
As a physician, activist, mentor, and educator, Dr. Wimberly consistently demonstrates how communication is the art of medicine. |
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David E. Rogers Award
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D.
Due to Dr. Schroeder's research, leadership and advocacy,
smoking prevalence in the United States has reached
a modern low, and the issue of tobacco cessation has
been elevated onto the national policy agenda. |
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Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher
Award
Daniel W. Foster, M.D.
In teaching students to honor what one former student calls the "nobility” of the medical profession, Dr. Foster leads by example as a researcher, teacher, and ethicist. |
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Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished
Teacher Award
Paul L. Rogers, M.D.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Rogers has made the inculcation of critical care and crisis management skills his top educational priority, from carving out extra time for teaching to introducing new technology. |
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Herbert W. Nickens Award
Vivian W. Pinn, M.D.
As a physician, teacher, mentor, and policy leader, Dr. Pinn has taken patient-centered care to new levels while at the same time helping advance the careers of women and minority doctors. |
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Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship
Marcella Nunez-Smith, M.D., M.H.S.
Yale University
School of Medicine
Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarships
- Aretha Delight Davis,
Harvard Medical School
- Nereida Esparza,
University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Medicine
- Tamika E. Smith,
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
- Jorge A. Uribe,
University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
- Bryant Cameron Webb,
Wake Forest University
School of Medicine
2008 Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship and Medical Student Scholarship Recipients (PDF, 4 pages) |
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