Emory School of Medicine Celebrates 2021 Faculty Recognitions Week

The Emory University School of Medicine celebrated Faculty Recognitions Week October 18-22, 2021. The week was dedicated to recognizing faculty accomplishments and excellence in patient care, research, and education.

Join us in congratulating our faculty on an extraordinary year! View featured DOM faculty below.

Distinguished Service Award

This award was established by the School of Medicine Recognitions Committee on behalf of the Dean to recognize faculty members who have demonstrated outstanding service and citizenship to the Emory community and/or Atlanta and surrounding region.

Sarah Auld, MD, MSc

Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award

This award was established by the School of Medicine Recognitions Committee on behalf of the Dean to recognize faculty who have made significant achievements in ensuring that the climate of the school is characterized by inclusivity and organizational equity through leveraging the varied attributes of diversity in our community.

Modele Ogunniyi, MD, MPH

Mentoring Award

This award has been established by the School of Medicine Recognitions Committee on behalf of the Dean to recognize faculty who have demonstrated outstanding mentoring in the domains of education, service, and/or research to trainees or early career faculty during the past year.

Kathy Griendling, PhD

2021 Dean’s Teaching Awards

Recipients are nominated by colleagues and students and chosen by the Teaching Awards Committee for their dedication to medical student teaching and their many contributions as course directors and mentors.

Tanvi Dhere, MD
Anna Von, MD

Site Based Awards

Grady Memorial Hospital: Emory at Grady Advocacy Award

Tracey Henry, MD, MPH

Emory 1% Award

The Emory 1% Award honors and recognizes faculty who have received study section scores in the top 1 percentile on a grant proposal.

Zhiyong Lin, PhD
Susmita Parashar, MD, MPH

Regional, National, and International Awards

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

Carlos del Rio, MD – Selected “Great Immigrant, Great American” for remarkable contributions to medicine, Selected by Carnegie Corp
Kevin Hendler, DDS – Completed 2-year term as President of the American Board of Special Care Dentistry; appointed as a board member of the Georgia Oral Health coalition, American Board of Special Care Dentistry and Georgia Oral Health Coalition
Tracey Henry, MD, MPH – ACP National McDonald Award recognizing outstanding achievement and significant contributions for an early career physician and awarded the 2021 American Medical Women’s Association 2021 Exceptional Mentor Award (March 2021)
Colleen Kraft, MD – NCAA’s newly established COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group, COVID-19 Medical Advisory Group and elected to serve as the President of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Microbiology
Janice Lea, MD – President’s Volunteer Service Award Silver Medal, American Association of Kidney Patients
Vandana Niyyar, MD – American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Distinguished Clinical Service Award, ASN
Marybeth Sexton, MD – Selected for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Public Health Interventions and Countermeasures for Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response, NASEM Committee
Shanthi Srinivasan, MD – Appointed Editior-in-Chief of the American Gastroenterological Association Journal, American Gastroenterological Association Veterans Affairs Biomedical Laboratory R&D Senior Clinician Scientist Investigator Award
Nanette Wenger, MD – Awarded 2020 Eugene Braunwald Academic Mentorship Award of the American Heart Association (AHA) and honored with inagural award from the AHA: The Nanette K. Wenger Award for Best Scientific Publication on Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke in Women, American Heart Association
Field Willingham, MD – Editor-in-Chief for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Hidden Gems

This recognition honors faculty members for their outstanding, but often unnoticed or unrecognized, contributions to Emory or beyond.

Amy Miller, MD

MilliPub Club

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.

Vasilis Babaliaros, MD
Valeria Cantos, MD
Dean Jones, PhD
Arezou Khosroshahi, MD
Aneesh Mehta, MD
Modele Ogunniyi, MD
Arshed Quyyumi, MD
Tim Read, PhD
Nadine Rouphael, MD
Laurence Sperling, 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.

Emily Cartwright, MD
Harold Franch, MD
Erin Kim, MD
Gautam Kumar, MD
Lawrence Phillips, MD
Dustin Smith, MD
Maziar Zafari, MD, PhD

The Emory Clinic
These faculty members met, or exceeded, their division’s FY21 goal and achieved the 99th percentile for Press Ganey patient satisfaction scores within their respective specialty for the fiscal year.

Paul Baird, MD
Brenton Black, MD
George Chang, MD
Danny Eapen, MD
Monica Giles, MD
Taylor Graves, MD
Jonathan Masor, MD
Jennifer Morgan, MD
James O’Keefe, MD
Shabnam Shah, MD
Christine Stoltz, MD
Dipak Vashi, MD
Sally West, MD
Jennifer Zreloff, 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 2021. Faculty representatives have been selected to accept the award.

Valeria Cantos, MD
Manjusha Das, MD
Erica Heiman, MD
Jules Tabilona, MD
Lakshmi Tummala, MD
David Ziemer, MD

2021 Senior Promotions

Professor

Srilatha Edupuganti, MD
Jesse Thomas Jacob, MD
Colleen Suzanne Kraft, MD
Aneesh Kautilya Mehta, MD
Ugochi Kelechi Ohuabunwa, MD
David S. Weiss, PhD

Associate Professor

Ibironke Apata, MD
Rodolfo Galindo, MD
Madeleine Hackney, PhD
Tracey Henry, MD, MPH
Aley George Kalapila, MD
Jonathan Ho-Youn Kim, MD
Meredith Holtz Lora, MD
Ashish Jitendra Mehta, MD
Alanna Amyre Morris, MD
Melody P. Palmore, MD
Francisco Pasquel, MD
Molly Perkins, PhD
Laura Plantinga, PhD
Nikrad Shahnavaz, MD
Yih-Ling Tzeng, PhD
Saiprakash B. Venkateshiah, MD
Gerard Vong, PhD
Joel Patrick Wedd, MD, MPH
Zanthia E. Wiley, MD
Samantha M Yeligar, PhD

Grant of Tenure in Rank

Madeleine Hackney, PhD
Molly Perkins, PhD
Laura Plantinga, PhD

2021 Clinical Distinctions

Distinguished Physician

Laurence Balter, MD
Jason Cobb, MD
Shelly-Ann Fluker, MD
Rachel Friedman-Moraco, MD
Charles Grodzin, MD
Jenny Han, MD
Kim House, MD
Heba Iskandar, MD
Anju Oommen, MD
Diego Remolina, MD
Jay Varkey, MD

Senior Physician

Ibironke Apata, MD
Laurence Busse, MD
Bashir Geer, MD
Sharon Graves, MD
Elnaz Jafarimehr, MD
Nova John, MBBS
Babar Junaidi, MD
Merin Kuruvilla, MD
Jeff Manaloto, MD
Ryan Marten, MD
Rachel Mather, MD
Amisha Mehta, MD
Harini Naidu, MD
Hyung Seok Oh, MD
Viniya Patidar, MD
Anees Quyyumi, MD
Joyce Rankin, MD
Payaswini Vasanth, MD

Master Physician

John Doran, MD
Steven Keilin, MD
Vandana Niyyar, MD
Modele Ogunniyi, MD, MPH
Alvaro Velasquez, MD