FACULT Y ACHIE VEMENTS
OKC campus • Lori Whelan, M.D., Department of Emergency Medicine, Tulsa campus
Clinical Awards: • • • •
Christopher Czapla, M.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, OKC campus Cynthia Bradford, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology, OKC campus Houssein Youness, M.D., Department of Medicine, OKC campus John Laurent, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Tulsa campus
Graduate Medical Education Awards: • • • •
Tammy Yanovitch, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology, OKC campus Vijaya Ekambaram, M.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, OKC campus Nelson Agudelo, M.D., Department of Medicine, OKC campus Emily Fitz, M.D., Department of Emergency Medicine, Tulsa
PA Faculty Awards: • Bruna Varalli-Claypool, MHS, PA-C, OKC campus • Vishal Mundra, M.D., Tulsa campus
Several grants for health education research were also presented. Recipients are: • • • • • •
LaTasha Craig, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, OKC campus Curtis Knoles, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, OKC campus Shauna Lawlis, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, OKC campus Frederick Miller, MS, Ph.D., PA program, OKC campus Mark Perdue, MHS, PA-C, Department of Family Medicine, Tulsa campus Bruna Varalli-Claypool, MHS, PA-C, PA program, OKC campus
Barbara L. Bonner, Ph.D.
Bonner Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Barbara L. Bonner, Ph.D., recently retired, tenured professor with the Department of Pediatrics, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. The award recognizes an individual for outstanding contributions to the field of child maltreatment. Bonner has achieved national and international prominence in the field of child abuse and neglect. She held the CMRI/Jean Gumerson Endowed Chair in Pediatrics, served as director of the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect and as associate director of OU Children’s Physicians Child Study Center. Under her direction since inception, the Center for Child Abuse and Neglect became a leading national academic-based center on child maltreatment. Partnering with many of the state’s major service systems, the center has collaboratively addressed research, training and clinical efforts.
Lisa Landrum, M.D., Ph.D., left, welcomes Jameca Price, M.D., MPH, MCR into the Academy of Teaching Scholars.
The impact of Bonner’s leadership and expertise in the field of child maltreatment exceeds state boundaries, influencing professional training and policy development on an international scale, including Sweden, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia and China, among others.
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