The following faculty and students were honored by the graduating medical class at the 2002 Senior Banquet Friday, May 10.
Basic Science Faculty Awards
Mark Braun, MD Bloomington Howell Rogers, PhD Evansville Darryl Smith, MD Fort Wayne Donald Wong, PhD Indianapolis James Walker, PhD Lafayette Victor Jolgren, MD Muncie Carl Marfurt, PhD Northwest Daryl Christ, PhD South Bend Taihung Duong, PhD Terre Haute Clinical Science Faculty Awards
Philip Gibbs, MD Anesthesia
Andrew Beckman, MD Emergency Medicine Brenda O'Hara, MD Family Medicine Gareth Gilkey, MD Internal Medicine Robert Pascuzzi, MD Neurology
Lyree Mikhail, MD Ob/GYN
Kosmas Kayes, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Mitchell Harris, MD Pediatrics
Venkata Rao, MB, BS Psychiatry Stan Alexander, MD Radiology Robert Goulet Jr., MD Surgery James Madura, MD Surgery
Frederick Rescorla, MD Surgical Specialty
Ronald Steele, MD Urology Student Council Award
Melissa Titus
Outstanding Clerkship Radiology
Golden Apple Award Stan Alexander, MD Departmental Awards
The John Barnhill Award
Named for Dr. Barnhill, a noted teacher, anatomist and otolaryngologist, the
Department of Anatomy presents this award to the outstanding student in courses in anatomy.
Recipient: Ryan Christopher Kamp.
The Department of Dermatology Award
The faculty of the Department of Dermatology presents this award to the graduating senior who has demonstrated outstanding academic performance and scholarly achievement in the field of dermatology.
Recipient: Gene H. Kim
The Department of Family Medicine Award
This award is presented by the Department of Family Medicine to the graduating senior with highest academic honors and demonstrated clinical competence entering residency training in family practice.
Recipient: Tamera Lyn Vandegriff The John B. Hickam Award
This award is presented in memory of Dr. John B. Hickam, a renowned educator and physician, and former chairman of the Department of Medicine. It is granted by the Department of Medicine to a graduating senior planning a career in medicine or medicine/pediatrics who has demonstrated outstanding clinical and academic
competence in internal medicine.
Recipient: Ryan Christopher Kamp The Alexander Treloar Ross Award
Dr. Ross established the IU Department of Neurology and was instrumental in the resurgence of neurology in Indiana and nationwide. This award is presented to graduating seniors demonstrating excellence in scholarship, service, and originality in clinical neurology and related subjects.
Recipient: Nicholas L. King
American Academy of Neurology Medical Student Prize for Excellence in Neurology
This award recognizes medical students for excellence in clinical neurology. The award winner is selected on outstanding performance in the neurology clerkship and outstanding personal and professional qualities.
Recipient: Brent Alan Huffman
The Roy Rheinhardt Memorial Award
This award is in honor of Roy Rheinhardt, a senior student, who was killed in an auto accident. Classmates and friends established the award because of Mr. Rheinhardt's deep interest in obstetrics and gynecology. The department faculty presents this award to the senior who shows sincere interest and the highest academic and clinical performance in this discipline.
Recipient: Elizabeth Ann Ferries-Rowe The J. Donald Hubbard Award
The award honors the student who showed outstanding achievement in pathology.
This recognition is given in honor of Professor J. Donald Hubbard, MD, who has been known as an outstanding academic role model for IU students for many years.
Recipient: Nicholas C. Fraley
The Lyman T. Meiks Clinical Award and Research Award
The Lyman T. Meiks Pediatric Awards are given to honor a master clinician, gifted physician and dedicated teacher who was a distinguished leader in the School of Medicine and Riley Hospital for over 40 years. These awards are conferred by faculty of the Department of Pediatrics on the seniors who have demonstrated
outstanding achievement in pediatrics during the undergraduate years and who seem destined to make lifelong contributions to the health and welfare of children.
Recipient: Emily Champe MacNeill The K.K. Chen Award
This award is named for Dr. K.K. Chen, professor emeritus of pharmacology, who was a distinguished teacher and researcher in the Department of Pharmacology. The award and honorarium are given to the senior with outstanding achievements in pharmacology.
Recipient: Aaron D. Leis
Indiana Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Award
The Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Indiana Society for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation present this award to the student who has displayed the most outstanding knowledge and skills during the elective clinical rotation.
Recipients: Victor Brandon Thompson and Allison Elizabeth Williams The Patricia Sharpley Award
This award is named in memory of Dr. Patricia Sharpley, who served on the faculty beginning in 1965. Her death in 1997 cut short a distinguished career as a psychiatric educator, administrator, and clinician, which had won her both local and national recognition. The award honors the student who best embodies the principles taught by distinguished faculty and residents of the Department of Psychiatry. These include a concern for patients as human beings who have multifaceted, interrelated health problems.
Recipient: Julie Kay Whittington-Cirton The American College of Surgeons Award
Through the Indiana Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, this award is presented to a senior or seniors demonstrating interest and outstanding achievement in surgery.
Recipient: Kevin Wayne McConnell Senior Elective Honors Program
These certificates are awarded to those students in the elective program who are chosen by the faculty for their outstanding work and achievement. The Senior Elective Program participants are selected by the faculty from those senior students requesting consideration.
Recipients: Darric E. Baty, Heather Ann Hedstrom-Lara, Min S. Park, Daniel Gerard Spomar and Wyatt Wollman
School Awards
Community Service Leadership Award
This award recognizes outstanding initiative and effort resulting in the
institutionalization of major new medical service-learning programs which benefit the health of the community.
Recipients: Gene H. Kim, Vanessa Noemi Elharrar, Sara Gabriela Valladolid and W. Ben Wince
The Mary Jean Yoder Award
Dr. Mary Jean Yoder was a Mennonite and a graduate of this school. In memory of her ideals, this award honors a graduating senior who exhibits high moral character, academic excellence, and, especially, dedication to service to others. This award is sponsored by the Class of 1964.
Recipients: Lenora R. Hirschler and Charles R. Powell The Dean's Award
This award is presented to the member of the senior class who has been most helpful to the dean in matters pertaining to administration and service to the medical
community and the School of Medicine.
Recipient: Colleen Suzanne Kendrick The Marcus Ravdin Award
Marcus Ravdin of Evansville, an avid supporter of this school in its early years, provided in his will for a trust fund. As part of this trust, he directed that a proper award commemorating the occasion be made each year to honor the student at IUSM graduating with high academic honor. The award has been presented since 1917.
Recipient: Gene H. Kim Prior awards
Research Program in Academic Medicine
This award is presented to those students who have demonstrated academic excellence in individual scholarship, intellectual curiosity, and scientific inquiry.
Recipients: Kevin Wilson Condict, Alvin James Detterline, Kevin Wayne McConnell and Jonathan Andrew Staser
The Arthur B. Richter Scholarship
Dr. Arthur B. Richter established the scholarship for the support and maintenance of senior student scholarships in child psychiatry. The scholarship is to give recognition to selected senior medical students for academic achievement and interest in Child Psychiatry.
Recipients: Michelle Lynn Pearson and Sean Paul Sharma The Floyd T. Romberger Jr., MD, Teaching Award
To honor the teaching skills and loyalty of Dr. Romberger, the Department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology gives this award to a distinguished senior medical student.
Third-year students, residents, and the faculty in the department have selected this senior for skills in teaching others.
Recipient: Heather Lynn Schroeder
The John E. Heubi Award in Ambulatory Pediatrics
Given in memory of John E. Heubi, MD, a distinguished teacher of pediatrics, to that member of the graduating class who demonstrated the most outstanding performance on the ambulatory pediatrics clerkship, as well as excellence in other medical studies, and who plans to become a practitioner of general pediatrics.
Recipient: Laura Kristen Hollenbeck The Jay Thomas Award (Bloomington)
This award is in honor of Jay Thomas who, as a first-year medical student, was the victim of an airplane accident in 1956. This award and honorarium are made to the outstanding medical student in physiology from the Medical Sciences Program.
Recipient: Joshua M. Zimmerman
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May 20, 2002
Volume 6, Number 20 • Indianapolis, Indiana
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