twenty first annual celebration of excellence in medical
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Twenty First Annual
Celebration of Excellence
in
Medical Education
March 2021
Steven M. Scott, MD and Rebecca J. Scott Commons
The George T. Harrell, MD Medical Education Building
Gainesville, FL
We are very pleased to welcome everyone to Medical Education Week
where we recognize the educational accomplishments and contributions of
our faculty and residents, highlight innovations and timely topics impact-
ing medical education and conclude on Friday with the University of Flori-
da medical student MATCH celebration.
Although we will not have our Medical Education Reception due to the
COVID -19 pandemic, please congratulate those faculty and residents
highlighted in the program.
Information to Medical Education Week presentations can be found at:
https://education.med.ufl.edu/faculty-development/the-society-of-
teaching-scholars/medical-education-week/.
Match Day events will be live streamed beginning Friday, March 19 at
12:15pm. Access to the live stream may be found https://
mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Mediasite/
Play/7f8a99e4fcd446fdba6460de4288bc111d.
Thank you all for your outstanding support of our educational programs
within the College of Medicine and University of Florida.
Colleen Koch, MD
Dean, College of Medicine
Folke H. Peterson Dean’s Distinguished Professor
Joseph C. Fantone, MD
Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs
Professor, Department of Pathology
Erik Black, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Chair, Society of Teaching Scholars
2020 Graduate Medical Education Awards
Program of the Year
Pulmonary Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
GME “Unsung Hero”
Raju Reddy, MD Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Presentation of 2020 Society of Teaching Scholars
Outstanding Resident Educator Award Gainesville
David Hutchinson, MD, Department of Anesthesiology
Kerrie Satcher, MD, Department of Dermatology
Lauren Fisher, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine
Andrew Miller, MD, Department of Family Medicine
Janelis Gonzalez, MD, Department of Internal Medicine
David Shin, MD, Department of Neurological Surgery
Alex Senetar, DO, Department of Neurology
Elizabeth Plasencia, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Samaneh Davoudi, MD, Department of Ophthalmology
W. Christian Thomas, MD, Department of Orthopaedics
Adam Snoap, MD, Department of Otolaryngology
Ashlie Rubrecht, MD, Department of Pathology
Elyse Chaviano, MD, Department of Pediatrics
Kevin Putinta, MD, Department of Psychiatry
Shivam Kharod, MD, Department of Radiation Oncology
Joseph Uricchio, MD, Department of Radiology
Nicholas Lysak, MD, Department of Surgery
Jennifer Kuo, MD, Department of Urology
Jacksonville Bradley Ullman, MD, Department of Anesthesiology
Andrew Sellinger, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine
Bijal Patel, DO, Department of Internal Medicine
John Robinson, MD, Department of Neurology
Elizabeth Floyd, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nicholas James, MD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Sandra Siller, MD, Department of Pathology
Rudolph Wells, MD, Department of Pediatrics
Lee Blackman, MD, Department of Psychiatry
Brian Sifrig, DO, Department of Radiology
Shaoxu Bing, MD, Department of Surgery
2020 College of Medicine Teacher of the Year
Phase 1
Amir Kazory, MD
Professor and Vice-Chief of Clinical Affairs
Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology
Phase 2/3
Andrew Shychuk, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Presentation of the 2020 Society of Teaching Scholars
New Member Inductees
Elizabeth DeVos, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Jacksonville
Elise Fallucco, MD
Chief & Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Jacksonville
Colleen Kalynych, EdD
Director, Educational Development and Research,
Department of Emergency Medicine—Jacksonville
Presentation of the 2020 Society of Teaching Scholars
New Member Inductees - continued
Kiran Motaparthi, MD, FAAD
Program Director & Professor, Department of Dermatology
David Winchester, MD, MS, FACP
VA Faculty, Department of Cardiology
Presentation of 2020 Kenneth Kellner, MD, PhD
Outstanding Clerkship Director Award
Robert Hatch, MD, MPH
Professor, Department of Community Health
and Family Medicine
Presentation of 2020 Society of Teaching Scholars
Lifetime Achievement Award
Maureen Novak, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Special Acknowledgement of Teacher Awards
2020 Graduate Education Faculty of the Year
Shannon Boye, PhD
Professor
Department of Cellular & Molecular Therapy
Dietmar Diemann, PhD
Professor
Department of Radiation Onocology
2020 Physicians Assistant Teacher of the Year
1st Year
Shalon Buchs, MHS, PA-C
2nd Year
Isaac Hauk, MPAS, PA-C
2020 - 2021 Recipients of the
Exemplary Teacher Award
Jacksonville
Anesthesiology
John Cabral, MD, MPH
Carol Ann B. Diachun, MD, MSEd
Daniel A. Hernandez, MD
Jose C. Humanez, MD
Dennis McCarthy, MD
Saurin J. Shah, MD
Joyce Yao, MD, PhD
Community Health and Family Medicine
Amy A. McCoy, DO
Leah Robinowitz, DO
Emergency Medicine
David A. Caro, MD
Daniel Eraso, MD
Mark S. McIntosh, MD
Thomas K. Morrissey, MD, PhD
Stephen S. Topp, MD
Deborah J. Williams, MD, MS
Todd W. Wylie, MD
Medicine
Dominick J. Angiolillo, MD, PhD
Win M. Aung, MD, MBA
Joe M. Chehade, MD
James D. Cury, MD
Gunjan Gandhi, MBBS, MS
Maged P. Ghali, MD
Maria J. Gutierrez, MD
Hadi H. Hatoum, MD
Medicine continued
Jeffrey G. House, DO
Carmen L. Isache, MD
Vishal Jaikaransingh, MBBS
Marilu M. Jurado Flores, MD
Gurjit S. Kaeley, MD
Mariam Louis, MD
Brittany Lyons, DO
Ronald L. Mars, MD
Ghania F. Masri, MD
Emil Missov, MD, PhD
Carlos Palacio, MD, MPH
Robert F. Percy, MD
Malleswari S. Ravi, MBBS
Pramod K. Reddy, MD
Michael L. Sands, MD, MPH & TM
Srinivasan Sattiraju, MBBS
Ron Schey, MD
Vandana K. Seeram, MD
Elisa M. Sottile, MD
Siva Suryadevara, MBBS
Myint Thway, MD
Kent R. Wehmeier, MD
Lara Zuberi, MBBS
Neurosurgery
Phillip R. Aldana, MD
Alexandra D. Beier, DO
Neurology
Constance V. Katsafanas, DO
Shannon M. LaBoy, MD
Amanda R. Pardon, MD
Michael T. Pulley, MD, PhD
Scott L. Silliman, MD
Katherine A. Zarroli, MD
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Guy I. Benrubi, MD
Kelly A. Best, MD
Erin H. Burnett, MD
Niamh Condon, DO
John D. Davis, MD
Kathryn M. Eraso, MD
Lina S. Fouad, MD
Gregory F. Kainez, DO
Andrew M. Kaunitz, MD
Shanan M. Loe, MD
Deanna McCullough, MD
Sarah E. Weaver, MD
Jibri M. Wiggins, MD
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Anthony M. Bunnell, MD, DMD
Tirbod Fattahi, MD, DDS
Rui Fernandes, MD, DMD
Salam O. Salman, MD, DDS
Howard J. Schare, DMD
Barry Steinberg, MD, PhD, DDS
Orthopaedic Surgery
Paul J. Dougherty, MD
Marc B. Kaye, MD
Pathology
Arun Gopinath, MBBS
Shiguang Liu, MD, PhD
Shahla Masood, MD, PhD
Yvette McCarter, PhD
Pediatrics
Rana Alissa, MD
Kuo Y. Chen, MD
Thomas T. Chiu, MD, MBA
Kathleen Dully, MD
Jose A. Ettedgui, MD
Matthew D. Garber, MD
Jennifer A. Hipp, DO, MPH
Brandon Kuebler, MD
Pamela A. Lindor, MD
Thomas Nakagawa, MD
Asma Salahuddin, MD
Virgilio T. Saldajeno, MD
Samarth Shukla, MBBS
Pamela Trapane, MD
Rebecca Ward, MD
Psychiatry
Shirley Alleyne, MBBS
Steven P. Cuffe, MD
Elise M. Fallucco, MD
Stephanie V. Sims, MD
Ana T. Turner, MD
Radiology
Peter J. Fiester, MD
Dheeraj R. Gopireddy, MD, MBA
Parlyn Hatch, MD
Matthew H. Jenson, MD
Christopher L. Klassen, MD, PhD
Haley Letter, MD
Savas Ozdemir, MD
Dinesh Rao, MD
Smita Sharma, MBBS
Paul L. Wasserman, DO, MHCM
Gregory C. Wynn, MD
Surgery
Brian Dalton, MD
Firas Madbak, MD
John D. Murray, MD
Gainesville
Aging and Geriatric Research
Robert T. Mankowski, PhD
Mariam Ali Mufti, MD
Anatomy
John P. Aris, PhD
William A. Dunn, Jr., PhD
Satya Narayan, PhD
Venkatesh Nonabur, MD
Kyle Rarey, PhD
Anesthesiology
Chris Edwards, MD
Michael Franklin, DO
Christopher Giordano, MD
Sandra Gonzalez-Rodriguez, MD
Matthew Hernandez, DO
Everett Jones, MD
Juan Mora Herrera, MD
Albert Robinson III, MD
Cameron Smith, MD, PhD
Kevin Sullivan, MD
Arvin Trippensee, DO
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Linda B. Bloom, PhD
Jörg Bungert, PhD
Brian D. Cain, PhD
Robert McKenna, PhD
Daniel L. Purich, PhD
Mingyi Xie, PhD
Community Health and Family Medicine
Nicholas Dorsey, MD
David Feller, MD
Jocelyn Gravlee, MD
J. Grant Harrell, MD
Jason Konopack, MD
John Malaty, MD
Daniel Rubin, MD
Kristy Smith, MD
Lauren Solberg, JD, MTS
Maribeth Williams, MD, MSCR
Dermatology
Stephanie Carstens, MD
Jennifer Schoch, MD
Emergency Medicine
David L. Roberts, MD
Caroline Srihari, MD
Trisha Swan, MD, MEd, FAAP, FACEP
Meredith Thompson, MD
Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics
Michelle Cardel, PhD, RD
Dominick Lemas, PhD
Medicine
Monica Aggrwal, MD, FACC
Manuel Amaris, MD
Paige Barker, MD
Roniel Cabrera, MD, MS
Gajapathiraju Chamarthi, MD
Irene Estores, MD
Dianne Goede, MD, MS
Diana Gomez Manjarres, MD
Vidhu Kariyawasam, MD
Jorge Lascano, MD
John Massini, MD
William Miles, MD
Natalia Moguillansky, MD
Juan Munoz Pena, MD
Martina Murphy, MD
Ying Nagoshi, MD, PhD
Ryan Nall, MD
Olanrewaju Adeb Olaoye, MD, FASN
Andres Pelaez, MD
John Petersen, MD
Angela Pham, MD
Anita Rajasekhar, MD
Michael Robinson, MD, FACP
Andrew Shychuk, MD
Cesar TrilloAlvarez, MD
Ashleigh Wright, MD
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
Paul Gulig, PhD
James Lewis Resnick, PhD
Scott Aaron Tibbetts, PhD
Margaret Wallace, PhD
Neurological Surgery
Jason Blatt, MD
Gregory J.A. Murad, MD
Adam Polifka, MD
Neurology
Maria Bruzzone, MD
Miguel Chuquilin Arista, MD
Anna Khanna, MD
Diego Rincon-Limas, PhD
Neuroscience
Jose Abisambra, PhD
Paramita Chakrabarty, PhD
Andrew Maurer, PhD
Jeremy McIntyre, PhD
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Reem Abu-Rustum, MD
Bradley Buggerman, MD
Jessica Heft, MD
Shireen Madani Sims, MD
Ophthalmology
Casey Beal, MD
Gilbran Khurshid, MD
Penny Straughn, OD
Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
Chung Chan, MD
Robert Decker, MD
Justin Deen, MD
Kevin Farmer, MD
Kevin Vincent, MD
Otolaryngology
Neil N. Chheda, MD
Carolyn Dirain, PhD
Pathology
Stacy Beal, MD
Sara Falzarano, MD, PhD
Michael Freely, DO
Clayton Mathews, PhD
Laurence Morel, PhD
Marco Salemi, PhD
Robert Seifert, MD
Pediatrics
Ratna Acharya, MD
Yana Banks, MD
Angelina Bernier, MD
Carolyn Carter, MD
Michael Davis, Jr., MD
Kristin Dayton, MD
Dima Ezmigna, MD
Melissa Fitzgerald, MD
Fedrick Fricker, MD
Fred Guyer, MD
Diane Howell, MD
Maria Kelly, MD
Adrienne Mott-Young, MD
Pediatrics continued
Jaclyn Otero, MD
Molly Posa, MD
Arwa Saidi, MEd, MBBCH
Kendall Steadmon, MD
Thao Vu, MD
Pharmacology / Therapeutics
Olga Guryanova, MD, PhD
Stephan C. Jahn, PhD
Erica Levitt, PharmD, PhD
Physiology & Functional Genomics
Abdel Alli, PhD, MPH
Erin Bruce, PhD
Bruce Stevens, PhD
Psychiatry
Martha Brown, MD
Brent Carr, MD
Jacqueline Hobbs, MD, PhD
Gary Kanter, MD
Kishan Nallapula, MD
Regilda Romero, PhD
Barry Setlow, PhD
Jamie Smolen, MD
Radiation Oncology
Kathryn Hitchcock, MD, PhD
Perry Johnson, PhD
Bo Lu, PhD
Radiology
Izabella Barreto, PhD
Andrew Blum, MD
Ivan Davis, MD
Mariam Hanna, MD
Abdullah Malkawi, MD
Tara Massini, MD
Priya Sharma, MD
School of Physician Assistant Studies
Petar Breitinger, MPAS, PA-C
Elizabeth Brownlee, MPAS, PA-C
Shalon Rae Buchs, MHS, PA-C
Breann Garbas, DHSc, PA-C
Travis Grant, MS, PA-C
Melissa Turley, PharmD, PA-C
Surgery
Alexander L. Ayzengart, MD, MPH, FACS
Jessica A. Ching, MD
Ian R. Driscoll, MD, FACS
M. Saleen Islam, MD, MPH, FACS
Eittel Oppenheimer, MD, FACS
Robin Petroze, MD, MPH
Salvatore Scali, MD, FACS
Bradley Schmit, MD, FACS
Urology
Christopher E. Bayne, MD
Padraic G. O’Malley, MSc, MD, FRCSC
SOCIETY OF TEACHING SCHOLARS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
2003 - Parker Small, MD
2004 - Sigurd Normann, MD, PhD
2005 - J.S. Gravenstein, MD
2006 - Ann Harwood-Nuss, MD
2007 - C. Craig Tisher, MD
2009 - Lynn Romrell, PhD
2009 - Robert T. Watson, MD
2010 – Kenneth Kellner, MD, PhD
2011 – Donald V. Eitzman, MD
2012 – Robert C. Nuss, MD
2013 – Albert L. Rhoton, Jr., MD
2014 – Richard A. Davidson, MD, MPH
2015 – Keith Stone, MD
2016 - Larry G. Rooks, MD
2017 - Timothy C. Flynn, MD
2018 - Kyle E. Rarey, PhD
2019 - James W. Lynch, Jr., MD
2020 - W. Patrick Duff, MD
2021 - Maureen Novak, MD
SOCIETY OF TEACHING SCHOLARS
HIPPOCRATIC SCHOLARS AWARD (Award recognizes individuals who have received the
Hippocratic Award on three or more occasions)
2005 - Hugh M. Hill, MD
2005 - Eugene G. Ryerson, MD
2007 - W. Patrick Duff, MD
2008 - James W. Lynch, Jr., MD
2012 – Patricia Abbitt, MD
2014 – Robert Hatch, MD, MPH
2020 - Ashleigh Wright, MD, FACP
SOCIETY OF TEACHING SCHOLARS
SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE IN MEDICAL EDUCATION
AWARD (Award recognizes individuals who have received the College of
Medicine Teacher of the Year Award or the Senior Class Teacher of
the Year Award on three or more occasions)
2005 - Josepha Cheong, MD
2005 - W. Patrick Duff, MD
2005 - James W. Lynch, Jr., MD
2005 - Kyle E. Rarey, PhD
2005 - Eugene G. Ryerson, MD
2009 – Patricia Abbitt, MD
2009 – Sigurd Normann, MD, PhD
2010 – Keith Stone, MD
2014 – William E. Winter, MD
2015 – L. Chad Hood, MD
2016 - Robert Averbuch, MD
2016 - Robert Hollander, MD
SOCIETY OF TEACHING SCHOLARS
KENNETH KELLNER, M.D., PH.D., OUTSTANDING
CLINICAL CLERKSHIP DIRECTOR AWARD RECIPIENTS
2012 - Frank Genuardi, MD
2013 - Shireen Madani Sims, MD
2014 - Heather Harrell, MD
2015 - Maria Kelly, MD
2016 - Robert Hatch, MD, MPH
2017- Daniel Martinez-Ramirez, MD
2018 - Thomas K. Morrissey, MD, PhD
2019 – Maria N. Kelly, MD
2020 - Saleem Islam, MD, MPH
2021 - Robert Hatch, MD, MPH