Students Name Best Teachers


April 2010
2010 Faculty Awards
2010 Faculty Teaching Award recipients pose with Dean Sheikh,
associate dean for pre-medical education Michael Johnson, and
associate dean for medical education Lyuba Konapasek.

Inspiring, dedicated, knowledgeable, thought-provoking, caring, and fun. Those are the qualities students cited frequently in their nominations for recipients of the annual faculty teaching awards last week.

“The students themselves vote to determine the recipients of these faculty teaching awards. As an educator, I can think of no greater honor than that,” said Michael Johnson, PhD, associate dean for pre-medical education, who presented the awards with Lyuba Konapasek, MD, associate dean for medical education. “These teachers are role models, with the attributes desired by all good educators,” said Dr. Konapasek.

Annually, at the end of the academic year, the students nominate the best teachers in the premedical program and medical program.

The winners of the 2010 Faculty Teaching Awards are listed below.

 

 

Recipients of the 2010 Faculty Teaching Awards

Foundation Program
Renee Richer, PhD, assistant professor, biology
Sheila Qureshi, PhD, senior lecturer, chemistry*
Ian Miller, MFA, writing lecturer*

Premedical Program Year 1
James Roach, PhD, assistant professor, chemistry
Rodney Sharkey, PhD, assistant professor, writing

Premedical Program Year 2
Laith Abu-Raddad, PhD, assistant professor, physics
Kevin Smith, PhD, associate professor, organic chemistry

Medical Program, Pre-Clinical Curriculum
Molecules, Genes and Cells
Ali Sultan, MD, PhD, assistant professor, microbiology and immunology

Human Structure and Function
Rachel Koshi, MBBS, PhD, professor of anatomy in surgery

Host Defenses
Syed Naqi, PhD, professor, microbiology, immunology

Medicine, Patients and Society I
Mohamud Verjee, MBChB, assistant professor, family medicine

Brain and Mind
Leopold Streletz, MD , associate professor, neurology

Basis of Disease
Thurayya Arayssi, MD, associate professor, medicine
Gerardo Guiter, assistant professor, pathology and laboratory medicine

Medicine, Patients and Society II
Pablo Rodriguez del Pozo, MD, PhD, associate professor, public health

Clinical Curriculum
Nady Nady-Mohamed, MD, assistant professor, ob/gyn
Thurayya Arayssi, MD, associate professor, medicine
Bakr Nour, MD, professor, surgery

WCMC-NY Visiting Faculty
Timothy McGraw, PhD, professor, biochemistry
Robert Kim, MD, assistant professor, medicine


* Shared Award


Report by Kristina Goodnough