Students, faculty honored with three awards
The medical school announced the winners of three more of its annual awards for excellence in patient care, community service and research. [See MCR, June 14, 2006.]
Gary K. Schoolnik, professor of medicine and of microbiology and immunology, has been chosen by the Hewlett Award Committee as the 18th recipient of the Albion Walter Hewlett Award.
The award, which commemorates Albion Walter Hewlett, MD, professor of medicine from 1916 to 1925, honors a physician who is committed to discovering and using biologic knowledge, wisdom and compassion to return patients to productive lives. As winner of the award, Schoolnik will speak on "In quest of new drugs for the white plague" at the Department of Medicine grand rounds on June 22 at 8 a.m. in Fairchild Auditorium.
Two other awards for students were made public at the School of Medicine's commencement ceremony on June 17.
Alexander John Bankovich, who received his PhD in immunology, was given the BioMASS Award for Outstanding Service on Behalf of Graduate Students. Lauren Shizue Maeda, who received her MD and will begin residency training in internal medicine this summer at Stanford, won the Department of Medicine Allen B. Barbour Award for Excellence in Internal Medicine.