October 26, 2020

Faculty honored at 2020 Argus Awards ceremony

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ArtworkMedical students honored their outstanding mentors, professors, courses and course directors at the Argus Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 27 during a live ceremony on Zoom.

The Argus Awards, created in 1996, allow medical students to nominate faculty members by course evaluations and vote to select award winners for each category.

Winners of the 2020 Argus Awards are:

Pre-Clinical Awards

Best Introductory Module
Fundamentals of Medicine
Module Director(s): Laura Fraser, Ph.D., Cell, Developmental & Integrative Biology; Block Leaders: Martin Young Ph.D., Medicine; Teresa Wilborn, PharmD, Ph.D., Pharmacology & Toxicology; Peter Anderson, DVM, Ph.D., Pathology; Rachel Lee, M.D., Medicine; Mukesh Patel, M.D., Medicine

Best MS1 Organ Module
Cardiovascular
Module Director(s): Silvio Litovsky, M.D., Pathology; Harish Doppalapudi, M.D., Medicine 

Best MS2 Organ Module
Neurosciences
Module Director(s): Robin Lester, Ph.D., Neurobiology; Victor Sung, M.D., Neurology; Michael Lyerly, M.D., Neurology; Tobias Martinez, M.D., Psychiatry; Kenneth Fallon, M.D., Pathology; Teresa Wilborn, PharmD, Ph.D., Pharmacology & Toxicology; William Brooks, Ph.D., Cell, Developmental & Integrative Biology

Best Educator: Patient, Doctor & Society
Caroline Harada, M.D., Medicine

Best Educator: Fundamentals of Medicine
Teresa Wilborn, PharmD, Ph.D., Pharmacology & Toxicology 

Best Block Leader: Fundamentals of Medicine
Rachael Lee, M.D., Medicine and Mukesh Patel, M.D., Medicine

Best Educator: Cardiovascular
Harish Doppalapudi, M.D., Medicine

Best Educator: Pulmonary
James Johnson, M.D., Medicine
Kevin Leon, M.D., Medicine  

Best Educator: Gastrointestinal
James Willig, M.D., Medicine

Best Educator: Renal
Ashita Tolwani, M.D., Medicine

Best Educator: Musculoskeletal & Skin
William Brooks, Ph.D., Cell, Developmental & Integrative Biology

Best Educator: Neurosciences
Michael Lyerly, M.D., Neurology

Best Educator: Hematology/Oncology
Frida Rosenblum, M.D., Pathology

Best Educator: Endocrine Systems
Shawn Galin, Ph.D., Medicine 

Best Educator: Reproductive Systems
Jennifer Gordetsky, M.D., Pathology

Clinical Awards

Caduceus Club Award for Best Clinical Department on the Birmingham Campus
Internal Medicine

Caduceus Club Award for Excellence in Clinical Education on the Birmingham Campus
Hussein Abdullatif, M.D., Pediatrics
Winter Williams, M.D., Medicine

Best Clinical Department: Huntsville Campus
Internal Medicine  

Best Clinical Educator: Huntsville Campus
Parekha Yedla, M.D., Medicine

Best Clinical Department: Montgomery Campus
Surgery

Best Clinical Educator: Montgomery Campus
Robert Engles, M.D., Surgery

Best Clinical Department: Tuscaloosa Campus
Pediatrics

Best Clinical Educator: Tuscaloosa Campus
Heather Taylor, M.D., Pediatrics

Best Resident Educator: Birmingham Campus
Jeffrey Shen, M.D., Medicine

Best Resident Educator, Huntsville Campus

Jesse Faulk, M.D., Internal Medicine & Wade Edwards, M.D., Family Medicine

Best Resident Educator: Montgomery Campus
Vishnu Nagalpuram, M.D., Internal Medicine

Best Resident Educator:Tuscaloosa Campus
Joshua Price, M.D., Family Medicine

Best Community-Based Educator: Birmingham
Jarrod Speer, M.D., Family Medicine

Best Community-Based Educator: Huntsville
Gabriel Belue, M.D., Family Medicine

Best Community-Based Educator: Montgomery
Robert Engles, M.D., Surgery

Best Community-Based Educator: Tuscaloosa
Quinton D. Matthews, M.D., Surgery

Award for Medical Student Support
Kenneth Hurd, Medical Education

The Dale J. Benos Award for Educational Excellence
Mark Bevensee, Ph.D., Cell, Developmental & Integrative Biology

ICM CSS Award
Laurie Marzullo, M.D., Pediatric Emergency Medicine