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Drs. Paulette and Jay Mehta Creative Arts Awards
Excellence in Clinical Medicine Awards
Distinguished Faculty Service Award
Master Teacher Award
Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award
Educational Innovation Award
Educational Research Award
Research Excellence Award
Staff Excellence Awards
Drs. Paulette and Jay Mehta Creative Arts Awards
This award is to promote all UAMS faculty, staff, resident and students in training who are eligible to submit their unpublished and non-showcased medical literature and visual art pieces. The maximum length of written non-fiction and fiction entries is 5,000 words. Visual art may involve paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and film. Any visual art piece showing the likeness of patients must have written approval of those patients to be used in the piece, in order to qualify for competition.
Nominations for this award are closed. The 2021 winners will be announced soon.
Excellence in Clinical Medicine Awards
These awards are to recognize excellence in clinical work by College of Medicine faculty members. The recipients of these awards will receive an award in the form of a plaque or trophy and will be listed on the COM awards web page. Nominations for the 2021 Faculty Awards should be emailed to Michela Beard at MBeard@uams.edu by March 26 (FIRM deadline).
Physician of the Year Award
Evaluation Criteria:
- Excels Clinical skills
- Leadership Collaboration
- Advocacy
- Clinical innovation
- Recognition by trainees and patients
- Must be a physician
- Cannot be a previous winner in this category
2020 Physician of the Year Award: Ashley Ross, M.D.
Excellence in Quality and Safety
Evaluation Criteria:
- Champions the establishment of best practices
- Demonstrates exemplary performance on recognized clinical outcome measures
- Implements tools and processes to improve the patient experience
- Must be a College of Medicine faculty member
2020 Excellence in Quality and Safety: Jennifer Laudadio, M.D.
Excellence in Service Professionalism
Evaluation Criteria:
- Excels Models altruism, competence, trustworthiness, and humility
- Receives exemplary patient and family feedback
- Must be a College of Medicine faculty member
2020 Excellence in Service and Professionalism: Carly Eastin, M.D.
Best Consulting Physician
Evaluation Criteria:
- Excels in communication with other clinical teams demonstrating flexibility, reliability and commitment to outstanding patient care
- Must be a College of Medicine faculty member.
2020 Best Consulting Clinician: Nithin Karakala, M.D.
Clinical Collaborations and Teamwork
Evaluation Criteria:
- Must be a clinician in the first five years as COM faculty member.
- Recognized by his/her peers for clinical excellence, professionalism, and dedication to patient care.
2020 Clinical Collaborations and Teamwork: Michael Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.
Rising Star Clinical Faculty
Evaluation Criteria:
- Consistently demonstrates compassion and empathy in the delivery of care to patients
- Builds effective collaborative relationships across different groups to define and resolve problems
- Must be a physician, nurse or care team
- Cannot be a winner or winning team from last year in this category
Rising Star Clinical Faculty: Mary Katherine “Katie” Kimbrough, M.D. and Andre’ Wineland, M.D.
Distinguished Faculty Service Award
The Distinguished Faculty Service Award will be given annually to an active faculty member who has displayed outstanding, broad-based and long-term service to the College of Medicine. Examples of such service might be, but are not limited to, combinations of teaching excellence, excellence in mentoring, research and scholarly activity, clinical service, academic administration in the support of COM faculty and staff, development of new programs, policy development, dissemination of health information to other professionals and the public, etc. Nominations will be solicited from the faculty of the College of Medicine and the final selection will be made by a vote of the Council of Department Chairs.
Selection
Faculty members may nominate other faculty members and may self-nominate. The Council of Department Chairs will select the recipient.
Award
The recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Service award will receive a demonstrable award in a form such as a plaque or a trophy and a check for $3,000.
Nominations for the 2021 Faculty Awards should be emailed to Michaela Beard at MBeard@uams.edu by March 26 (FIRM deadline).
2020 Awardee: Robert W. Bradsher, M.D.
Master Teacher Award
The Master Teacher Award will be given annually by the College to a faculty member who has consistently demonstrated excellence in education. This will be a singular honor and will generally reflect a significant history of educational excellence. Criteria will include (but not be limited to) the number of students or residents influenced by the educational efforts, the different levels (graduate students, medical students, etc.) of education in which the faculty member has engaged, demonstration of educational leadership and administration, publications related to medical education, length of educational involvement, and innovations in medical education introduced and carried out.
Selection
Department Chairs will be asked to nominate faculty members for this award. The Educational Awards Selection Committee will make a recommendation to the Dean who will make the final decision. The Educational Awards Selection Committee will be chaired by the Executive Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and will be appointed annually by the Dean from among senior faculty members.
Award
The recipient of the Master Teacher Award will receive a plaque with an appropriate inscription and a check for $5,000. Their name will be added to the COM website list of awardees. A faculty member may not be given this award more than once.
Nominations for the 2021 Faculty Awards should be emailed to Michaela Beard at MBeard@uams.edu by March 26 (FIRM deadline).
2020 Awardee: Alan Diekman, M.D.
Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award
For many years, the Arnold P. Gold Foundation has funded this award to a faculty recipient. We have not received confirmation of this award yet this year. Once we have confirmation of the award, we will send a call for nominations.
2020 Awardee: William Ventres, M.D.
Educational Innovation Award
The Educational Innovation Award will be given annually by the College to a faculty member who has demonstrated significant educational innovation. In general, such innovation would take the form of a new method of teaching or evaluation. Examples would be the delivery of information using a new teaching style, the development of new software for teaching or evaluation, the development of a new curriculum to address a certain need.
Selection
Faculty members may apply for this award. They are asked to submit a brief description of the educational innovation for which they wish to be considered. The Educational Awards Selection Committee will review the applications and make a recommendation to the Dean who will make the final decision. The Selection Committee may also choose their recommendation from the runners-up for the Master Teacher Award, if appropriate.
Award
The recipient of the Educational Innovation Award will receive a plaque with an appropriate inscription and a check for $2,500. Their name will be added to the COM website list of awardees.
Nominations for the 2021 Faculty Awards should be emailed to Michaela Beard at MBeard@uams.edu by March 26 (FIRM deadline).
2020 Awardees: Nancy Rusch, Ph.D.
Educational Research Award
The Educational Research Award will be given annually by the College to a faculty member who has undertaken significant educational research. In general, it is anticipated that the recipient of this award will have published in the area of education and will be able to demonstrate a commitment to educational research by the documentation of effort in this area. The faculty member may or may not have obtained grant money to carry out this research, but such funding would be considered a significant positive in the selection of this award recipient.
Selection
Faculty members may apply for this award. They are asked to submit a brief description of their research efforts, along with documentation of funding received to support the research. The Educational Awards Selection Committee will review the applications and make a recommendation to the Dean who will make the final decision. The Selection Committee may also choose their recommendation from the runners-up for the Master Teacher Award, if appropriate.
Award
The recipient of the Educational Research Award will receive a plaque with an appropriate inscription and a check for $2,500. Their name will be added to the COM website list of awardees.
Nominations for the 2021 Faculty Awards should be emailed to Michaela Beard at MBeard@uams.edu by March 26 (FIRM deadline).
2020 Awardee: No recipient awarded
Research Excellence Award
The Research Excellence Award will be given annually to a full-time faculty member who has a distinguished record of research achievement that includes but is not limited to:
- significant advancement of a specific field of scientific endeavor;
- establishment of a research program that has held consistent and substantial extramural funding for at least 10 years;
- a robust publication record within highly reputable journals and other scientific media;
- established a national and international reputation in his/her research program;
- developed collaborative and collegial relationships with other UAMS scientists, and
- provided helpful mentorship to UAMS trainees and faculty.
Selection
Faculty members may nominate other faculty members and may self-nominate. Research Excellence Selection Committee will meet and review all nominations, and will create a rank-ordered list for the Dean who shall make the final selection of the award recipient.
Award
The recipient of the Research Excellence Award will receive a demonstrable award in the form of a plaque or trophy and a check for $2,500.
Nominations for the 2021 Faculty Awards should be emailed to Michaela Beard at MBeard@uams.edu by March 26 (FIRM deadline).
2020 Awardee: Charles O’Brien, Ph.D.
Staff Excellence Awards
The Staff Excellence Award will be given annually to a non-faculty team member chosen from each of the following categories: Administrative, Clinical, Education, and Research. This award recognizes employees who have exemplified outstanding work ethics towards the advancement of the College of Medicine strategic goals.
Selection
Faculty members, as well as other supervisors and managers, are urged to submit nominations for staff members in one of the four categories. The Staff Excellence Selection Committee will meet and determine one recipient for each category.
Award
Each recipient of the annual Staff Excellence Awards will receive a plaque with an appropriate inscription and a check for $500.
Nominations for the 2021 Faculty Awards should be emailed to Michaela Beard at MBeard@uams.edu by March 26 (FIRM deadline).
2020 Awardees
Staff Excellence Award in Administration: Debbie Holliman
Staff Excellence Award in Clinical: JoAnn Conley Cooper
Staff Excellence Award in Education: Marcie Johnson
Staff Excellence Award in Research: Debbie Hodges