Faculty Awards

Amanda Bogie, M.D. Peter Nelson, M.D.

Faculty Honored With Campus Awards

At the spring 2021 OU Health Sciences Center Faculty Awards Ceremony, OU College of Medicine faculty members were honored with a variety of awards for their excellence in academic medicine:

President’s Awards:

George Lynn Cross Research Professorship

Jimmy Ballard, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Courtney Houchen, M.D., Department of Medicine

Presidential Professorship:

Beau Hawkins, M.D., Department of Medicine

Regents’ Awards:

Regents’ Award for Superior Professional and University Service and Public Outreach

Sherri Baker, M.D., Department of Pediatrics

Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching

T. Karl Hoskison, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine,

Tulsa campus

Regents’ Award for Superior Research and Creative Activity Mary Beth Humphrey, M.D. Ph.D., Department of Medicine

Provost’s Awards:

Provost’s Research Award-Senior Faculty

David Fields, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics

Provost’s Research Award-Junior Faculty

Matthew Walters, Ph.D., Department of Medicine

Provost’s Teaching Award-Seasoned Faculty

Peter Nelson, M.D., Department of Surgery, Tulsa campus

Regents’ Professorship

Amanda Bogie, M.D., Department of Pediatrics

James Barrett, M.D. Steven Chernausek, M.D.

Barrett Named Fellow of American Medical Society for Sports Medicine

James Barrett, M.D., chair of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, has been named to the 2022 Class of Fellows for the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM).

The designation of Fellow of AMSSM recognizes sports medicine physicians who have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to lifelong learning, the advancement of the profession, service to AMSSM and leadership in their communities.

Barrett has a long history as a sports medicine physician with the OU College of Medicine and around the nation and world. He began the sports medicine fellowship program on the Oklahoma City campus soon after his arrival in 1991 and served as director until 2005, when he took over as director of the family medicine residency program.

He is the lead physician for the Oklahoma City Thunder, and in 2020 he was named NBA Physician of the Year by the National Basketball Athletic Trainer’s Association.

He has provided medical coverage for numerous other professional sporting events and programs, including Olympic and Paralympic teams, Major League Baseball training camps, the Oklahoma City Blazers hockey team and more.

Chernausek Honored by Human Growth Foundation

Steven Chernausek, M.D., who recently retired as professor in the Department of Pediatrics and chief of the Section of Diabetes and Endocrinology, has been honored with the 2022 Dr. Robert Blizzard Founder’s Award by the Human Growth Foundation.

The Human Growth Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide research, education, patient support and advocacy for children and adults with rare growth and bone conditions.

Chernausek joined the faculty at the OU College of Medicine in 2007 and became the first director of the Pediatric Metabolic Research Program. He held the Children’s Hospital Foundation Edith Kinney Gaylord Endowed Research Chair in Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes. His research interests include the hormonal control of growth and the metabolic effect of fetal growth retardation.

He has been an author on more than 150 research publications, including the first description of insulin-like growth factor (IGF) resistance due to IGF receptor gene defects, along with the results of clinical trials of rhIGF-1 and rhGH in a variety of growth disorders.

He has served on the editorial boards of Endocrinology and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and was chair and medical editor of the sub-board of endocrinology of the American Board of Pediatrics. He is a member of the American Pediatric Society, served on the Council for the Society for Pediatric Research and is a past president of the Pediatric Endocrine Society.