Outstanding Clinician Award

The Medical School Dean’s Office is soliciting nominations for the Outstanding Clinician Award. This award is to recognize exemplary performance as a practicing clinician or program leader of innovation in clinical care. Examples include: outstanding service as medical director of a clinical program, development of clinical care management programs or new care models, leading the development of evidence based practice guidelines or an institutional quality improvement initiative.

This will be a two-stage selection process. Nominations submitted to the selection committee will be reviewed and a list of potential awardees given to the Dean of the Medical School. The Dean will make the final selection. Each award carries a $5,000 discretionary academic support prize, which will be given to the faculty member. The nomination deadline is Thursday, May 15, 2003.

Nominees must be Instructional or Clinical Track faculty in clinical departments.

Nomination packets must include the following:

1. Nomination Form.
2. Description of clinical accomplishments.
3. Two letters of support from faculty colleagues.
4. A copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae.

Send complete nomination packets by Thursday, May 15, 2003 to:

John E. Billi, M.D., Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
7319 Med Sci I, 0624

or

David Spahlinger, M.D., Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs
Executive Medical Director, Faculty Group Practice
4122 Med Sci I, 0624

Previous Winners
2002 Margie Andreae, M.D. & Timothy Johnson, M.D.
2001 James F. Peggs, M.D. & Powell Kazanjian, M.D.