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Honorees and Nominees

Honorees


Ammar Ammar

Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology and Chief Technology and Information Security Officer

Dr. Karen Derefinko

Associate Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine

Dr. Bruce Keisling

Shainberg Professor and Executive Director of the Center on Developmental Disabilities, College of Medicine, Departments of Pediatrics and Medical Education

Dr. David Shibata

Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery and Executive Director and Chief Medical Officer of the UTHSC Cancer Program, College of Medicine

 

Nominees


Dr. Anne Alexandrov

Professor, Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, College of Nursing

Dr. Jeffrey Brooks

Professor and Chair, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Dentistry

Dr. Dustin Fulton

Assistant Dean of Admissions, College of Medicine

Dr. Teresa Hartnett

Senior Associate Dean of Finance and Administration, College of Medicine

Hilary Jasmin

Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Library

Dr. Michelle Martin

Professor, College of Medicine’s Department of Preventive Medicine

Jennesa LaSane Moore

Assistant Director of Student Life and Health Care Programs, Office of Student Success

Lyndsay Pittman

Assistant Vice Chancellor, Office of Enrollment Management

Dr. Ramesh Ray

Senior Biological Safety Officer, Office of Research Safety Affairs

Honorees


Dr. James Bailey

Robert S. Pearce Endowed Chair in Internal Medicine and Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine

Patricia Page

Senior Program Manager, Electronic Research Administration

Melissa Smith

Coordinator of Student Services, College of Pharmacy

 

Nominees


Dr. Bradley Boucher

Professor, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science, College of Pharmacy

Ronald Davis

Manager, Teaching and Learning Center

Sherry Frazier Warford

Supervisor, Laboratory Animal Care Unit

Dr. Neil Hayes

Director of the Center for Cancer Research, Professor and Division Chief, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine

Charles Hicks

Operations Manager, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine

Nury Magana

Bilingual Community Health Navigator, Office of Community Health Engagement

Dr. David Shibata

Professor and Harwell Wilson Alumni Endowed Chair in Surgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine

Dr. Natascha Thompson

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education

Dr. Gabor Tigyi

Harriet Van Vleet Endowed Professor in Basic Oncology, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, and Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Industry Relations and Global Cooperation

Honorees


 Dr. Orpheus Triplett

Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry-Community Oral Health and Assistant Dean of Community Health and Outreach, College of Dentistry

Nominees


Damon Davis

Deputy Chief Human Resources Officer and Compensation Director, Department of Human Resources

Dr. Alejandro Dopico

Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology, Addiction Science, and Toxicology, College of Medicine

Debbie Jackson

Benefits Director, Department of Human Resources

Dr. Phyllis Richey

Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine

Dr. David Shibata

Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine

Dr. Gabor Tigyi

Professor, Department of Physiology, College of Medicine

Honorees


Dr. Altha Stewart

Associate Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Community Health Engagement, College of Medicine

Dr. Colleen Jonsson

Professor in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Biochemistry, Van Vleet Chair of Excellence in Virology, Director of the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Host Pathogen Systems, College of Medicine

Nominees


Dr. Bradley Boucher

Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science and Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, College of Pharmacy

Dustin Fulton

Assistant Dean for Admissions, College of Medicine

Derek Wilcox

Senior Evaluation and Assessment Analyst, College of Medicine

 

Honorees

Dr. Michael Alston

Chief Diversity Officer, Associate Vice Chancellor for Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Title IX Coordinator

Dr. Robert Williams

Professor and Chair of the Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, College of Medicine; and UT-Oak Ridge National Laboratory Governor’s Chair in Computational Genomics

Nominees


Teresa Britt

Director of Education for the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation (CHIPS)

Dr. Andrea Franks

Associate Professor and Vice-Chair for Education, Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Translational Science, College of Pharmacy

Dr. Margaret (Peg) Hartig

Professor, Department of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, College of Nursing

Rosalind (Roz) Jackson

Administrative Specialist II, College of Medicine

Honorees


Dr. Karen Johnson 

Professor Endowed Professor of Women's Health, College of Medicine

Kathy Gibbs

Assistant vice chancellor for student academic support services and inclusion

Nominees


Dr. Anne H. Zachry

Assistant Professor and Department Chair, Occupational Therapy, College of Health Professions

Dr. Orpheus Triplett

Associate Professor and Program Director of Head Start Outreach, Pediatric Dentistry and Community Oral Health, College of Dentistry

Dr. Michael Alston

Assistant Vice Chancellor and Title IX Coordinator, Office of Equity and Diversity

Honorees


Dr. Trevor Sweatman

Professor of pharmacology and medical education

Dr. Samuel Dagogo-Jack
Professor of medicine and chief of the division of endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism

Nominees


Dr. David Stern

Vice Chancellor, Statewide Health Initiatives

Dr. Chandra Alston

Associate Vice Chancellor, Human Resources

Honorees


Dr. Guy Reed

Lemuel Diggs Professor of Medicine and chair of the Department of Medicine

Steve Butler 

Instructional Technology Director

Nominees


Dr. Trevor Sweatman

Professor, Pharmacology and Medical Education

Nominees


Dr. Robert Nolly

Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Ruby Bland

Coordinator II

 

Jul 3, 2024