UNSOM Students: Student Life: Awards Ceremony
“These individuals exhibit the exceptional qualities and abilities
needed to fulfill the requirements of each award.
Congratulations to all of you who have reached higher—and achieved.”
Class of 2013
Dean's Awards
Praeceptor Carissimus
Jacob Manjooran, M.D.
Dean's Distinguished Service Award
Kenneth T. Maehara, Ph.D.
Perillustris Docere Award
Carl Sievert, Ph.D.
Faculty Awards
E.W. Richardson Excellence in Teaching Award
Brad Graves, M.D.
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Reno
Nominees:
Kathy Keef, Ph.D.
Professor, Physiology and Cell Biology
Jack Lazerson, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics, Las Vegas
Dean's Dinner 2013 Facebook Photos
Awardees Selected by Students
Outstanding Full-Time Clinical Sciences Professor-Reno
Dr. Daniel Spogen
Outstanding Full-Time Clinical Sciences Professor-Las Vegas
Dr. Kate Martin
Outstanding Basic Science Faculty
Dr. Carl Sievert
Outstanding Clinical Department-Reno
Family and Community Medicine, Reno
Outstanding Clinical Department-Las Vegas
Family and Community Medicine, Las Vegas
Outstanding Basic Science Department
Physiology & Cell Biology
Outstanding Community Professor-Reno
Dr. Peter Althausen
Outstanding Community Professor-Las Vegas
Dr. Warren Smith
Outstanding Resident-Reno
Amanda Magrini, M.D., PGY-2, Family and Community Medicine
Outstanding Resident-Las Vegas
Cory Richardson, M.D. PGY-2, Surgery
Senior Awards
Harriet & George M.
Basta Medical Student Award
Stephanie Wilch
Barbara H. O'Rourke Memorial Award
Leah Mello
Leonard Tow Humanism Award Presented by the Arnold P.
Gold Foundation
Justin Ramos(Student) and Daniel Spogen, M.D. (Faculty)
Outstanding Female in Academic Achievement
Jamie Botelho
Outstanding Male in Academic Achievement
Nathan Dahl
Dean’s Scholar Award
Ashish Francis
Special Qualifications
Scholarly Concentration in Nutrition
Scott Anderson
Scolarly Concentration in Global Health
Anneka Hooft
Scholarly Concentration in Service Learning
Katrin Lamprecht
Scholarly Concentration in Clinical Ethics
Nathan Dahl
Departmental Awards
Family and Community Medicine
The Richard Inskip, M.D. Family Medicine Award
Stephanie Wilch, Katrina Cabradilla
Outstanding Fourth Year Student in Family and Community Medicine-Reno
Benjamin Hansen
Lisa Yao Memorial Scholarship in Family Medicine-Reno
Benjamin Hansen
Outstanding Fourth Year Student in Family and Community Medicine-Las Vegas
Katrina Cabradilla
Lisa Yao Memorial Scholarship in Family Medicine-Las Vegas
Katrina Cabradilla, Deepa Dandge
Internal Medicine
Outstanding Student in Internal Medicine-Las Vegas
Dalia Hawwass
Outstanding Student in Internal Medicine-Reno
Marissa Huebner
Neurosciences
Outstanding Student in Neuroscience
Ryan Daniel Smith
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Outstanding Student Award for Excellence
Soyoun Lee, Yusria Malik
Pediatrics
Roland W. Stahr Award for Excellence in Clinical Pediatrics,
Reno
Nathan Dahl
Linda Golden Memorial for Excellence in Clinical Pediatrics, Las Vegas
Cecilia Rhodus
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Richard Blurton Award for Outstanding Student in Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,
Reno
Marissa Huebner
Lillian Orchow Prize for Outstanding Student in Psychiatry, Las Vegas
Rishell Tsujimoto-Ryzewski
Surgery
Outstanding Student in Surgery
Steven Shannon
Rural Health
Outstanding Student in Rural Health
Benjamin Hansen
Class of 2014 Awards
Outstanding Female
Student in the Clinical Sciences
Erin Ostby
Outstanding Male Student in the Clinical Sciences
Amir Farid
Class of 2015 Awards
Outstanding Student in the Basic Sciences
Cassandra Puccinelli, Stacy Wong
American Society of Clinical Pathologists Award for Excellence and Achievement
Nicole Therrien
The V.A. Salvadorini Outstanding Student in Pathology
Cassandra Puccinelli
Outstanding History of Medicine Essay
Leia Chancellor
Outstanding Student in Medical Pharmacology
Zhan Li, Andrew Mehta, Ashley Naughton,
Nicole Therrien
Class of 2016 Awards
Outstanding Freshman Medical Student
Lindsey Murphy
Outstanding Medical Student in Biochemistry
Alexander Shaft
Outstanding Student in Gross Anatomy
Mark Taylor
McGraw-Hill/Lange Medical Student Award
Program
Alexander Chang, Mark Taylor
Student Development Awardss
Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award
Monique Lloyd
Merck Manual Award to Outstanding Students in
Medical
Studies
Steven Shannon, Sean Wahlquist
Endocrine Society's Medical Student Achievement Award
Dalia Hawwass
Glasgow-Rubin Certificate of Commendation for Academic Achievement, Sponsored by the American Medical Women’s Association (Top 10 Percent of Women in the Graduating Class)
Kristina Coger, Kathryn Dawson, Anneka Hooft,
Marissa Huebner, Kara Pinjuv, Whitney Shofner-Michalsky
Department of Speech-Language Pathology
Outstanding Graduate Student in Speech Pathology and Audiology
Ryan Wilson
Research
Sandra A. Daugherty, M.D.,
Ph.D. Outstanding Medical Researcher Award
Nathan Dahl
George G. Bierkamper Student Research Convocation-Medical Student
Tenille Smith
George G. Bierkamper Student Research Convocation-Graduate Student
Del Ray Jackson
Gold Humanism Honor Society
Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Awards
Alpha Omega Inductees
