FACULT Y ACHIE VEMENTS
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: Regents’ Awards: Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching Teresa A. Scordino, M.D., Department of Pathology Regents’ Award for Superior Research and Creative Activity Yun-Zheng Le, Ph.D., Department of Medicine President’s Awards:
Christopher Candler, M.D., Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, received the David L. Boren Professorship.
David L. Boren Professorship Christopher Candler, M.D., Ed.D., Department of Medicine and Executive Dean’s Office George Lynn Cross Research Professorship Min Li, Ph.D., Department of Medicine William E. Sonntag, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Presidential Professorships: Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor Nelson Ivan Agudelo Higuita, M.D., Department of Medicine Annie Moreau, M.D., Department of Ophthalmology Presbyterian Health Foundation Presidential Professor Michael H. Elliott, Ph.D., Department of Ophthalmology Rajagopal Ramesh, Ph.D., Department of Pathology University Hospitals Authority and Trust Faculty Excellence Professor Lieschen Quiroz, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Teresa Scordino, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, was honored with the Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching.
Provost’s Awards: Research-Senior Faculty Stavros Stavrakis, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Medicine
Ramesh Honored by AIMBE Rajagopal Ramesh, Ph.D., OU Health Stephenson Cancer Center researcher and professor in the Department of Pathology, has been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Ramesh was elected for outstanding contribution in clinical translation of cancer gene therapeutics using biological and synthetic materials. The College of Fellows is comprised of the top 2% of medical and biological engineers in the country. Rajagopal Ramesh, Ph.D.
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