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Faculty Recognition 2023-24

The Department of Medical Education is pleased to recognize the following faculty members who were nominated by MD students during the 2023-24 academic year for demonstrating exemplary professionalism. Faculty are listed below by department. Names marked with an asterisk received two or more nominations. Congratulations to those who were named and thank you to all of our dedicated faculty members for their commitment to teaching. 

 Anesthesiology (Critical Care Medicine)

  • Shahriar (Charles) Shayan

 

 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

  • Gabriel Heiber Bendayan*

 Emergency Medicine

  • James Adams
  • Abra Fant*
  • Amy Kontrick
  • Demetrios Kyriacou
  • David Zull

 Family and Community Medicine

  • Amin Farokhrani*
  • Joanna Kmiecik
  • Ray Mendez*
  • Rosanne Vasiloff
  • Nanajan Yakoub

 Internal Medicine

  • Dan Tong Jia*

 Medicine

  • Rachel Amdur
  • Michael Beal
  • Anup Das
  • David Goese
  • Aparna Priyanath Gupta
  • Mark Kluk
  • Jah-Won Koo
  • Jenny Lee
  • Gary Martin
  • June McKoy
  • Debi Mitra
  • Peter Park
  • Brian Persaud
  • Alexandra Petrakos
  • Elizabeth Scharle
  • Randy Smith
  • Marion Stanley
  • Patrick Tosetti
  • Kelley Wachsberg*
  • James Walter

 Neurology

  • Rizwan Akhtar
  • Bianca Barcelo
  • Ayush Batra
  • Karan Dixit
  • Nicholas Hac*
  • Priya Kumthekar*
  • Rimas Lukas*
  • Arjun Seth*

 Obstetrics & Gynecology

  • Weronika Armstrong
  • Angela Chaudhari
  • Carolyn Davis
  • Kathleen Drexler
  • Katerina Hoyt
  • Nuzath Hussain
  • Marc Kleinberg
  • Wilberto Nieves-Neira
  • Seema Venkatachalam
  • Rebecca Wenig

 Ophthalmology

  • Patrick Wu

 Orthopaedic Surgery

  • Stephen Gryzlo
  • Chirag Shah*

 Pediatrics

  • Emma Anselin
  • Tracy Gertler
  • Lindsay Koressel
  • Thomas O'Gorman
  • Susan Sirota
  • Priya Verghese

 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

  • Hollis Bell
  • Samman Shapar

 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

  • Veronika Hanko*
  • Scott Gershan
  • Michael Marcangelo
  • Chandrika Shankar*
  • Robert Sobut

 Surgery

  • Mohammad Ali Abbass
  • Kevin Bethke*
  • Julie Grabowski
  • Amy Halverson
  • Joseph Herrold
  • Samuel Kim
  • Vitaliy Poylin

 Urology

  • Nelson Bennett, Jr.