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Announcing The 2011 Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards
The Academic Senate is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Distinction In Teaching and the Distinction In Mentoring Awards.

Recipients of the Academic Senate Distinction In Teaching Awards and the Distinction In Mentoring Awards will be honored by the Chancellor at the annual Founders Day Banquet on April 26, and in the Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards Ceremony to be held April 6, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. in Cole Hall HSW-300 (reception following on the mezzanine).

For 2011, the Academic Senate Distinction In Teaching Award for faculty at UCSF five years or fewer goes to Kenny Banh, MD, Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine.

The 2011 Academic Senate Distinction In Teaching Award for faculty at UCSF more than five years or goes to Timothy Berger, MD, Professor of Clinical Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine.
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To select each year’s recipients the Academic Senate Committee on Academic Personnel designates a selection committee comprised of faculty and student representatives from all four schools.

The 2011 recipient of the Academic Senate Distinction In Mentoring Award for faculty at the Associate rank is Mallory O. Johnson, PhD, Associate Professor In Residence in the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine.

The 2011 recipient of the Academic Senate Distinction In Mentoring Award for faculty at the rank of full Professor is Jeanette Brown, MD, Professor In Residence in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, School of Medicine.

The Distinction In Mentoring Award Selection Committee is appointed by the Academic Senate Committee on Committees.

More information on Academic Senate awards and past recipients is online here.

The 2011 Distinction in Mentoring Award Recipients

Mallory O. Johnson, MD

Associate Professor In Residence, Department of Medicine


Mallory O. Johnson, MD
Dr. Mallory Johnson is Associate Professor in Residence in the Department of Medicine in the Division of Prevention Science.  He came to UCSF in 1997 for a fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry and joined the faculty in the Department of Medicine in 2003.  He earned his Ph.D. in clinical medical psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and has developed a program of clinical research centered on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding and optimizing patient engagement and empowerment in health care, primary in the context of HIV disease.  He has been awarded multiple grants from the NIH, including 4 R01s and a K24 to support his mentoring of early career investigators.  His mentoring includes students, fellows and faculty, and spans across the UCSF schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy as well as investigators outside of UCSF.   He lives in Berkeley with his husband Bruce and their two children, Joshua and Gabriella.

Jeanette Brown, MD

Professor In Residence, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences


Jeanette Brown, MD
Dr. Brown has been a UCSF faculty in the department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences since 1986, with joint appointments in the Departments of Urology and Epidemiology & Biostatistics. She is also director of the UCSF CTSI Comprehensive Mentoring Program, Vice Chair of C & T Research for the UCSF Department of Ob Gyn & RS, and director of the UCSF Women’s Health Clinical Research Center.  Dr. Brown is an internationally recognized urogynecology clinician and leader in clinical research on lower urinary tract function in women. She has a strong federally and privately funded research program, publishes frequently in peer-reviewed journals, and serves as an advisor to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Reflecting her clinical and research career, Dr. Brown’s teaching activities are focused in mentoring and clinical research training for mid-level & junior faculty, fellows, residents, and students. As director of the UCSF CTSI Comprehensive Mentoring Program, Dr. Brown leads the very successful Mentor Development Program (MDP) and initiated the Junior Faculty Mentoring Program to help ensure that all young clinical and translational investigators at UCSF receive exceptional mentoring.

Recently Dr. Brown began her role as director of the UCSF Women's Health Clinical Research Center where she leads the four key activities: interdisciplinary research programs; junior faculty training in clinical research; fellowship training in clinical research methods and clinical research studies. The WHCRC provides the structure for multidisciplinary groups to share pre- and post-award services, data management, statistical support, core laboratories, and staff training.

Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards Ceremony

Recipients of the Academic Senate Distinction In Teaching Awards and the Distinction In Mentoring Awards will be honored by the Chancellor at the annual Founders Day Banquet on April 26, and in Academic Senate
Distinguished Faculty Awards Ceremony to be held April 6, 2011 at 3:30 p.m. in Cole Hall HSW-300 (reception following on the mezzanine).

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