Weill Cornell's teaching faculty were honored at the 2003 Celebration of Teaching event held earlier this month at the Cornell Club.
Weill Cornell's teaching faculty were honored at the 2003 Celebration of Teaching event for their outstanding contributions to educating tomorrow's physicians and researchers. The program, hosted by Dr. Carol Storey-Johnson, senior associate dean for education, and Dr. Antonio Gotto, dean of the Medical College, was held at the Cornell Club on June 2.
In his opening remarks, Dr. Gotto addressed the department chairs, overseers, faculty and other members of the Weill Cornell administration who attended the event: "We are blessed with wonderful students, all of whom will receive a superb education. These awards tonight celebrate the excellence in teaching that is the hallmark of Weill Cornell Medical College."
Dr. Gotto and student representatives distributed the following awards:
Psychiatry Clerkship
Donna Anthony, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry.
Medicine Clerkship
Susan Ball, M.D., associate professor of clinical medicine.
Medicine, Patients, & Society I: Office Preceptorship
Thomas Bloom, M.D., clinical instructor in pediatrics.
Daniel Giaccio, M.D., clinical instructor in medicine.
Veronica LoFaso, M.D., assistant professor of medicine.
Lucy Painter, M.D., assistant professor of medicine.
Medicine, Patients & Society III
Richard Cohen, M.D., clinical professor of medicine.
Human Structure & Function
Domenick Falcone, Ph.D., the Thomas H. Meikle, Jr. Associate Professor of Medical Education, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and associate professor of cell and developmental biology.
Molecules to Cells
Michele Fuortes, M.D., Ph.D., assistant research professor of cell biology in surgery and lecturer in cell and developmental biology.
Primary Care
Joel Gernsheimer, M.D., associate professor of emergency medicine in clinical medicine.
Brain & Mind
Martin Hamburg, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of anatomy in neurology and neuroscience.
Neurology Clerkship
Demetrios Karides, M.D., New York Hospital Queens.
Obstetrics & Gynecology Clerkship
Isaac Kligman, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and associate professor of reproductive medicine.
Host Defenses
Davise Larone, Ph.D., associate professor of microbiology and immunology in clinical pathology and laboratory medicine and associate professor of clinical microbiology and immunology.
Fundamentals of Genetic Medicine
Robert Pergolizzi, Ph.D., senior research associate in genetic medicine.
Medicine, Patients & Society II
Mark Pochapin, M.D., associate professor of clinical medicine.
Surgery Clerkship
Soula Priovolos, M.D., assistant professor of clinical medicine.
Pediatrics Clerkship
Morris Schoeneman, M.D., professor of clinical pediatrics.
Introductory Clerkship
Richard Scofield, M.D., clinical instructor in medicine.
Basis of Disease
Kent Sepkowitz, M.D., associate professor of medicine.
Advanced Basic Science
David Silbersweig, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and associate professor of neurology.
Clinical Pharmacology
Hazel Szeto, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pharmacology.
Photo by Alan Arellano.