Faculty Honored With Awards, Appointments

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:

David L. Boren Professorship Christopher Candler, M.D., Ed.D., Department of Medicine and Executive Dean’s Office

Christopher Candler, M.D., Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, received the David L. Boren Professorship.

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 Provost’s Awards: Research-Senior Faculty Stavros Stavrakis, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Medicine

Teresa Scordino, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, was honored with the Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching.

Ramesh Honored by AIMBE

Rajagopal Ramesh, Ph.D.

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.