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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 Teaching Award Recipients

Kenny Banh, MD

Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine


Kenny Banh, MD
An emergency physician at UCSF Fresno, Dr. Banh enjoys working at the only Level One trauma center between Los Angeles and San Francisco.  After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Banh earned his medical degree at Drexel University.  He completed residency at UCSF Fresno during which he was awarded Resident Medical Student Educator of the Year, Academic Research Associates’ Outstanding Faculty in Emergency Medicine and the Council of Emergency Medicine Directors Faculty Development Scholarship.

Dr. Banh’s research specialties include trauma evaluation and critical care as well as evaluation and feedback.  Dr. Banh’s interests center around medical education with particular interest in medical students.  He is the Medical Student Clerkship Director in emergency medicine and the co-Director of Undergraduate Medical Education at UCSF Fresno.  He also co-directs the Longitudinal Integrated Fresno Experience (LIFE) curriculum for third year UCSF students.

Timothy Berger, MD

Professor of Clinical Dermatology, Department of Dermatology


Timothy Berger, MD
Dr. Berger writes: I was very fortunate to have been exposed throughout my whole educational experience to outstanding teachers.  In second grade I was sent to a school which at that time was considered “experimental”.  There were only 20 students in my class and my assignments were individualized on a daily basis.  Similar close interactions with motivated and professional teachers were repeated during my high school and college years.  At Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, I was exposed to an educational system and philosophy much like we enjoy here at UCSF: outstanding clinicians and scientists not only pass on knowledge, but equally importantly convey the wonder and joy of exploration, discovery and teaching. 

During my residency training at a UCSF-affiliated program at Letterman Army Medical Center, I worked with UCSF dermatologists who were loved and respected by their patients and housestaff. What led their patients and trainees to be so devoted?  It was their command of the knowledge and the joy with which they shared it.  Throughout my residency and now as a faculty member, I have tried to share this same joy with my students.  I have been fortunate to teach wonderful and intelligent young people.  I view my primary job as two things.  First to be the best role model I can be. Second, to engage the learner in the educational opportunity each patient encounter provides—the opportunity for learning, teaching, and discovery. 


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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