2023 Awards

The MD Program recognizes that teaching and mentorship are central to our success. We administer several awards as part of our commitment to support and recognize excellence and leadership in education.

2023 Recipients

The W. T. Aikins Awards are the Temerty Faculty of Medicine's most prestigious awards for sustained commitment and excellence in undergraduate teaching.

Individual Teaching Performance in Foundations

  • Barathi Rajasri Sreenivasan, Department of Medicine

Individual Teaching Performance in Clerkship

  • Yayi Huang, Department of Medicine
  • Yonah Krakowsky, Department of Surgery
  • Mark Wheatcroft, Department of Surgery

Excellence in Course Development/Program Coordination

  • Anne McLeod, Department of Medicine

The Miriam Rossi Award for Health Equity in Undergraduate Medical Education recognizes MD Program faculty members and administrative staff for their commitment to diversity and health equity.

Stephanie Zhou, Department of Family and Community Medicine

The Norman Rosenblum Award for Excellence in Mentorship in the MD/PhD Program recognizes faculty members, residents or administrative staff who exhibit an exemplary level of leadership and commitment to mentorship and role modeling for MD/PhD students in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

Andres Lozano, Department of Surgery

The Excellence in Resource Stewardship Teaching Award in the MD Program was established in 2021. It recognizes faculty members and postgraduate trainees (residents and fellows) who mentor learners in concepts of resource stewardship and demonstrate exemplary resource stewardship in their own clinical practices.

  • Dalia Karol, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
  • Ahmed Kayssi, Department of Surgery
  • Elliot Lass, Department of Family and Community Medicine
  • Brian Wong, Department of Medicine