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Prachi Trivdei, (far right) a graduate student in the Department of Immunology & Microbiology, receives an award from Kenneth Palmer, Ph.D., assistant dean for graduate programs, and Dean Frank.

For immediate release: Nov. 23, 2004
Contact:
Jennifer Day
P. 313-577-1429
prognosis@med.wayne.edu

Faculty, students recognized at honors convocation

More than 100 WSU School of Medicine students and faculty members were recognized for their dedication to the field of medical education at the 2004 Honors Convocation Friday.

"Education is the core mission of this medical school," Dean Robert Frank said in introducing the awards. "We are not a research institute, although research is very important to us. We are not a hospital system, although the practice of medicine is very important to us.

"Education is our core business. And, from my point of view, it's important that we act like it is." Among the honors presented were College Teaching Awards, Lamp and Staff Awards, the Pfizer Humanitarian Award, the Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award, the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education 2004 President's Award, School of Medicine Research Excellence Awards and Graduate Student Academic and Research Awards.

In addition to the recognition, Dean Frank reinstated an old School of Medicine tradition of awarding $1,000 stipends to faculty recipients and $500 scholarships to student recipients.

"People should be rewarded with recognition, but cold cash helps also," Dean Frank said.

A full list of all those honored will be printed in the Winter issue of Scribe. To view the Honors Convocation program in its entirety, please visit http://www.med.wayne.edu/news_media/streamingmedia/somevents/index.asp and click on audio or video links next to the entry for the “WSU SOM Honors Recognition."

With more than 1,000 medical students, the WSUSchool of Medicine is among the nation’s largest institutions of its kind. Together with its clinical partner, the Wayne State University Physician Group, the school is a leader in patient care and medical research in a number of areas, including cancer, genetics, neuroscience and women’s and children’s health.