Emory School of Medicine Celebrates 2020 Faculty Recognitions Week

2020 Senior Promotions

Professor

• Lisa Bernstein, MD
• Jonathan Crane, PhD
• Mikhael El-Chami, MD
• Abhinav Goyal, MD, MPH
• Michael Lloyd, MD
• Kimberly Manning, MD
• Kreton Mavromatis, MD
• Lesley Miller, MD
• Khusrow Niazi, MD
• Frederic Rahbari-Oskoui, MD
• Nadine Rouphael, MD
• Field Willingham, MD
• Wendy Wright, MD

Associate Professor

• Bhavin Adhyaru, MD
• Mikhail Akbashev, MD
• Sharon Bergquist, MD
• Jonathan Colasanti, MD
• Barry Fields, MD
• Ryan Ford, MD
• Rachel Friedman-Moraco, MD
• Stephan Goebel, MD
• Heba Iskandar, MD
• Sol Jacobs, MD
• Thomas Jarrett, MD
• Ameeta Shivdas Kalokhe, MD
• Sheetal Kandiah, MD, MPH
• James Kim, MD
• Cecile Delille Lahiri, MD
• Jennifer Lom, MD
• Julia Massaad, MD
• Laura Plantinga, PhD
• Stephanie Pouch, MD
• Stacie Schmidt, MD
• Sara Turbow, MD, MPH
• Priyathama Vellanki, MD
• Henry Wu, MD

Grant of Tenure

• Colleen Kelley, MD
• Frances Eun-Hyung Lee, MD
• Jeanie Park, MD

Regional, National, and International Awards

This is not an inclusive list and only includes awards submitted to the Recognitions Committee by Department Chairs.

• Khaalisha Ajala, MD – Excellence in Humanitarian Services Award, Society of Hospital Medicine and “One Hundred Women” by Okay Africa, OkayAfrica.com
• Qiang Cai, MD – President, World Chinese Endoscopy Society and Director, ACG Hands on Course, American College of Gastroenterology
• Mark Czaja, MD – Chair, American Society for Investigative Pathology section of the Experimental Biology Meeting
• Carlos del Rio, MD – Elected Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine and Appointed Member, Governing Board, National Research Council
• Tracey Henry, MD, MPH – Walter J. McDonald Award for Early Career Physicians, American College of Physicians 2019 Inspirational Physician Award, American Medical Association
• Dan Hunt, MD – President, Association of Chiefs and Leaders in General Internal Medicine (ACLGIM)
• Colleen Kraft, MD – Health Care Hero Award, Physician Category, The Atlanta Business Chronicle
• Jeff Lennox, MD – Member, COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Kimberly Manning, MD – Inaugural Excellence in Diversity Leadership, Society of Hospital Medicine and Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of Black Women Physicians
• Greg Martin, MD – Member, COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and President, Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Shanthi Srinivasan, MD – Chair, VA Study Section
• Ram Subramanian, MD, MPH – Presidential Citation for Service, Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Guillermo Umpierrez, MD – 2021 Outstanding Scholarly Physician Award, Endocrine Society

2020 Dean’s Teaching Awards

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• Meredith Lora, MD
• Varun Phadke, MD
• Jennifer Spicer, MD

MilliPub Club Inductees

The MilliPub Club honors and recognizes current Emory faculty who have published one or more individual papers throughout their careers that have each garnered more than 1,000 citations. Such a paper is commonly considered a “citation classic” and represents high impact scholarship.

• Monica Farley, MD
• Scott Fridkin, MD
• Arshed Quyyumi, MD
• Jonathan Sevransky, MD
• Kimberly Workowski, MD

Excellence in Patient Care

Atlanta VA Medical Center
These Emory VA providers achieved scores in the 90th percentile or higher on Press Ganey patient satisfaction surveys for the past year.

• Karen Atkinson, MD, MPH
• Elizabeth Burgess, MD
• Rina Eisenstein, MD
• Christina Fournier, MD
• Deborah Henry, MD
• Robert Hoover, MD
• Cedrella Jones-Taylor, MD
• Elizabeth Karwowski, MD
• Jeanie Park, MD
• Paul Phelps, MD
• Meena Prasad, MD

The Emory Clinic
These faculty members met, or exceeded, their division’s FY20 goal and achieved the 99th percentile for Press Ganey patient satisfaction scores within their respective specialty for the fiscal year.

• Sivan Ben-Moshe, MD
• Kunal Bhatt, MD
• Taylor Graves, MD
• David Schulman, MD

Grady Memorial Hospital
These units in the Grady Health System have received top scores for “Overall Care Provider” or top scores for “Communication with Doctors” for Q1-Q2 of 2020. Faculty representatives have been selected to accept the award.

• Aley Kalapila, MD – 12B Inpatient Unit
• Annette Esper, MD and Carmen Polito, MD – Asthma/Allergy Clinic
• Wendy Armstrong, MD and Jonathan Colasanti, MD – Infectious Disease Program/Ponce Center
• Jada Bussey-Jones, MD and Stacie Schmidt, MD – Primary Care Purple Pod

Site Based Awards

This year, in the spirit of inclusivity, the SOM Recognitions Committee solicited nominations of individual faculty members or a team from each hospital system to recognize. Each hospital system was allowed to choose the most important and meaningful type of award to submit for inclusion.

Atlanta VA Medical Center – VA Faculty in the Infectious Disease Department

• Emily Cartwright, MD
• Lauren Epstein, MD
• Monica Farley, MD
• Robert Gaynes, MD
• Nadine Harris, MD
• Vincent Marconi, MD
• Abeer Moanna, MD
• Nora Oliver, MD

The Emory Clinic
In recognition of leadership during COVID-19 pandemic

• Marybeth Sexton, MD

Hidden Gems

These faculty members have been nominated by department leadership in recognition of their outstanding, but often unnoticed or unrecognized, contributions to Emory or beyond.

• Marybeth Sexton, MD

Distinguished Service Award

This award recognizes School of Medicine faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding service and citizenship to the Emory community and/or Atlanta and surrounding region.

• Tracey Henry, MD, MPH

Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award

This award recognizes faculty who have made significant achievements in ensuring that the climate of EUSOM is characterized by inclusivity and organizational equity through leveraging of the varied attributes of diversity in our community.

• Jason Schneider, MD