The Dean’s Excellence Awards are annual honors to recognize outstanding contributions made by faculty across the Heersink School of Medicine—one to a junior faculty member (instructor or assistant professor) and the other to a senior faculty member (associate professor or full professor)—in the areas of service, teaching, research, mentorship and diversity enhancement.
Awardees are selected through a peer-review process facilitated by a member of the dean’s leadership team.

Marissa Dean, M.D.
Teaching
Junior Faculty
Department of Neurology

Shawn Galin, Ph.D.
Teaching
Senior Faculty
Department of Medicine

Sheetal Gandotra, M.D.
Teaching
Junior Faculty
Department of Medicine

Erin Snyder, M.D.
Teaching
Senior Faculty
Deparment of Medicine

Teresa Wilborn, Ph.D., Pharm.D.
Teaching
Senior Faculty
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology

Yogesh Dwivedi, Ph.D.
Research
Senior Faculty
Department of Psychiatry

Kelly Hyndman, Ph.D.
Research
Junior Faculty
Department of Medicine

Nita Limdi, Pharm.D., Ph.D.,
Research
Senior Faculty
Department of Neurology

Anna Sorace, Ph.D.
Research
Junior Faculty
Department of Radiology

Nathaniel Erdmann, M.D., Ph.D.
Service
Junior Faculty
Department of Medicine

Megan Hays, Ph.D.
Service
Junior Faculty
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehab

Tiffani Maycock, D.O.
Service
Senior Faculty
Department of Family and Community Medicine

Eric Wallace, M.D.
Service
Senior Faculty
Department of Medicine

Elizabeth Beierle, M.D.
Mentorship
Senior Faculty
Department of Surgery

Edwin Blalock, Ph.D.
Mentorship
Senior Faculty
Department of Medicine

Cristin Gavin, Ph.D.
Mentorship
Junior Faculty
Department of Neurobiology

Morissa Ladinsky, M.D.
Diversity Enhancement
Senior Faculty
Department of Pediatrics

KeAndrea Titer, M.D.
Diversity Enhancement
Junior Faculty
Department of Medicine