DOM shines during this year's SOM Faculty Recognitions Week

Last week, Emory School of Medicine celebrated Faculty Recognitions Week. Annually, this week celebrates faculty accomplishments and excellence in patient care, research, education, and innovation. We are proud to share that our faculty received 134 recognitions across all 10 of our divisions. Congratulations to all of the honorees on an extraordinary year!

Clinical Distinctions:

The Clinical Distinctions (CD) designation program is designed to recognize faculty who have devoted a majority of their time and careers to providing excellence in clinical care.

Senior Physician:
Ankit Agrawal, MD
Sherri Bogard, MD
Elena Cabb, DO
Sheryl Caberto, MD
Hila Calev, MD
Caroline Collins, MD
Reema Dbouk, MD
Travis Douglass, MD
Marshall Fleurant, MD, MPH
Monica Gavaller, MD
Samantha Goldstein, DO
Liliana Guevara-Bermudez, MD
Nadine Harris, MD
Matt Hogan, MD
Dawn Howard, MD, MPH
Malavika Kapuria, MD
Kelly Kaysen, MD
Priya Kohli, MD
Rebecca Leleiko, MD, MS
Ishan Mehta, MD
David Minkoff, MD
Deepa Nagarajan, MD
Sathya Naidu, MD, MS
Sneha Neurgaonkar, MD
Prathima Pangulur, MD
Lailama Paykargar, MD
Isaac Pena, MD
Giorgio Roccaro, MD, MSCE
Rajasree Roy, MD
Hasan Saiyed, MD
Gabriel Santamarina, DPM, AACFAS
Sowmya Siragowni, MD
Lakshmi Sridharan, MD
Fariha Sultan, MD
Stacey Watkins, MD, PhD
Malia Willis, MD

Distinguished Physician
Bhavin Adhyaru, MD, MS, FACP
Jason Brown, MD
Gabriela Cohen, MD
Dominic Cruz, MD
Barry Fields, MD, MSEd
Reza Hassanyar, MD
Sheetal KandiaH, MD
Annie Massart, MD
Ashish Mehta, MD, MSc
David Murphy, MD, PhD
Carmen Polito, MD, MSc
Stephanie Pouch, MD, MS, FAST
Meena Prasad, MD
Alejandro Sardi MD
Yoo Mee Shin, MD
Colin Swenson, MD
Saiprakash Venkateshiah, MD
Anna Von, MD

Eminent Physician
Joyce Akwe, MD
Stacy Higgins, MD
Ketevan Kobaidze, MD
Noble Maleque, MD, FHM, FACP
Dustin Smith, MD

Dean’s Teaching Awards:

In 2000, Dean Thomas Lawley established the Emory University School of Medicine Dean’s Teaching Awards recognizing outstanding teaching and educational contributions to our medical students in four categories: outstanding teachers, outstanding courses or course directors, outstanding mentors and small group teachers, and special awards for outstanding contributions to teaching, creative teaching approaches, or other significant contributions.

Bhavin Adhyaru, MD, MS, FACP
Daniel Dressler, MD, MSc, SFHM

Distinguished Service Award

The 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.

Khaalisha Ajala, MD, MBA, FHM
Anant Mandawat, MD

Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Award

The 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.

Kimberly Manning, MD, MACP

Excellence in Research Awards

Marina Sorrentino Hernandes, PhD, MSc

Excellence in Patient Care

We pride ourselves on providing an outstanding patient experience at all of our clinical sites. The faculty members below are recognized for high scores on patient satisfaction surveys.

Emory Healthcare:
Paul Baird, MD
Danny Eapen, MD
Heba Iskandar, MD, MSc
Janice Lea, MD, MSc, FASN
Wendy Ann Neveu, MD, PhD
Lawrence Phillips, MD
Dipak Vashi, MD
Stacy Westerman, MD, MPH
Henry Wu, MD

Grady Memorial Hospital:
Mikhail Akbashev, MD
Dylan Baker, MD
Marshall Fleurant, MD, MPH
Thaer Idrees, MD
Sarah Johnson, MD
Abiodun Kukoyi, MD
Sung (Sam) Lim, MD, MPH
Dhyana Sankar, MD

Lifetime Service and Leadership Award

The award was established by the School of Medicine Recognitions Committee on behalf of the Dean to recognize a faculty member’s significant service to the School of Medicine through personal activities, influence, and leadership over the course of many years.

Monica Farley, 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.

2024 Regional, National, and International Awards

As part of the School of Medicine’s Faculty Recognitions Week, we would like to congratulate the faculty members listed below on their regional, national, and international honors and awards. This is just a sampling of the honors and awards that our faculty members have received over the past year. Thank you for all that you do for Emory and beyond!

Sivasubramanium Bhavani, MD, MS  – Young Physician-Scientist Award, American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
Jada Bussey-Jones, MD, FACP – President, Society of General Internal Medicine
Carlos del Rio, MD – Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine Council
Tracey Henry, MD, MPH, MS – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Policy Fellow, The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
Vandana Niyyar, MD, FASN, FNKFP – Gerald Beathard Award, American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology
Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc – 2024 Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement, National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID); Elected Member, National Academy of Medicine
Nadine Rouphael , MD, MSc, FSSCI, FASCI, FIDSA – Elected Member, American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)
Tiffany Walker, MD – Wilhelmina Jenkins ME/CFS Service Award, #MEAction Network
Michael Woodworth, MD, MSc – Young Physician-Scientist Award, American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI)

Mentoring Award

The 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.

Tracey Henry, MD, MPH, MS

Senior Promotions

Promotion is a major milestone in a faculty member’s academic career. Congratulations to all of the below on this truly exceptional accomplishment.

Professor:
Shelly-Ann Fluker, MD, FACP
Julie Hollberg, MD
William Nicholson, MD
Christopher O’Donnell, MD
Charles Searles, MD
Bryan Wells, MD
Cherry Wongtrakool, MD

Associate Professor:
Isida Byku, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Gabriela Cohen, MD
Georgia Davis, MD
Kari Esbensen, MD, PhD
Marshall Fleurant, MD, MPH
Eliver Ghosn, PhD
Arash Harzand, MD, MBA
Andre Holder, MD, MSc
Anand Jain, MD
Jordan Kempker, MD, MSc
Anant Mandawat
Annie Massart, MD
Mohamad Moussa, MD, SFHM
Jose Navarrete, MD
Carmen Polito, MD, MSc
Jennifer Spicer, MD, MPH
Seema Tekwani, MD, MHA
Michael Woodworth, MD, MSc

Grant of Tenure in Rank:
Jessica Alvarez, PhD, RD
Zhiyong Lin, PhD

Site-Based Awards

We celebrate special awards from each hospital system to recognize the diversity of contributions at our clinical sites. Each hospital system is asked to determine their most important and meaningful award for inclusion in this annual recognitions event.

Emory Healthcare
For superb management of the water main crisis at EUHM:
Jesse Jacob, MD

For outstanding leadership in H & V service line development and growth:
Angel Leom, MD

Grady Memorial Hospital
Emory at Grady Advocacy Award:
Maura George, MD, FACP

Atlanta VA Medical Center
Excellence in Research at the Atlanta VA:
Jeanie Park, MD, MS
Shanthi Srinivasan, MD, AGAF
Camille Vaughan, MD, MS

DOM shines during this year’s SOM Faculty Recognitions Week