Honors Recognition Program celebrates faculty members, students

The following awards were presented at the 2000 Honors Recognition Program in October, 2000.

Research Excellence Awards
Each year, six faculty members are honored with Research Excellence Awards from the Wayne State University School of Medicine. Winners consisted of two professors, two associate professors and two assistant professors, each of whom received a $2,000 honorarium based on their record of productivity, research significance and extramural support.

Nicholas Davis, PhD, pharmacology (joint with surgery)
Donald DeGracia, MD, emergency medicine
Wael Sakr, MD, pathology
Stephen Krawetz, PhD, obstetrics and gynecology
Harry Goshgarian, PhD, anatomy and cell biology
Omer Kucuk, MD, internal medicine

College Teaching Awards
College Teaching Awards were presented to 45 faculty members. The annual winners are chosen based on submitted evaluations of faculty members’ instructional expertise as determined by medical students, residents and graduate students. Congratulations to the following teachers who each earned a prize of $1,000.

Anatomy and Cell Biology
Dennis Goebel, PhD
James Hazlett, PhD
Mark Ireland, PhD
Jerald Mitchell, PhD
Roberta Pourcho, PhD
Jose Rafols, PhD
Paul Walker, PhD
Michele Kurpakus Wheater, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Brian Edwards, PhD
David Evans, PhD
Serge Vinogradov, PhD

Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics
John Tomkiel, PhD

Community Medicine
James Moseley, EdD

Emergency Medicine
Terry Kowalenko, MD

Family Medicine
Juliann Binienda, MD
Anne Victoria Neale, PhD
John Porcerelli, PhD
Kendra Schwartz, MD

Immunology and Microbiology
Matthew Jackson, PhD
Roy Sundick, PhD
Jeffrey Hobden, PhD
Fayth Yoshimura, PhD

Internal Medicine
Steven Cala, PhD
Lawrence Crane, MD
Felix Fernandez-Madrid, MD, PhD
Reda Girgis, MBBCh
John Hopper, MD
Joseph Kinzie, MD
Paul Kissner, MD
Neil Lachant, MD
Li LI, PhD
James Rowley, MD
Michael Stellini, MD

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Stanley Berry, MD
Carole Kowalczyk, MD
Robert Morris, MD

Pathology
David Lucas, MD
Jerold Turner, MD, PhD
Richard Vander Heide, MD, PhD
Daniell Visscher, MD

Pharmacology
Eugene Schoener,PhD

Surgery
Arthur Carlin, MD
Christopher Steffes, MD
James Tyburski, MD
Michael White, MD

Academic Achievement Awards
The following students have been honored for outstanding academic achievement.

Class of 2001 – John Maskill
Class of 2002 – Rinky Bhatia
Class of 2003 – Matthew Wemple