Meet Our 2024 Winners

About the Academic Senate Clinical Excellence Awards

The UCSF Academic Senate advances health worldwide by enabling shared governance, representing faculty voice in critical matters, and promoting faculty collaboration and PRIDE Values in graduate education, biomedical research, and service.

Established and reviewed by the Clinical Affairs Committee, the Senate’s Clinical Excellence Awards recognize faculty who have demonstrated excellence in clinical care across all our schools and practice care sites. Awards are administered by the Office of the Academic Senate at UCSF.

School of Medicine 
  • Senior Faculty Award: Patricia Chase, MD
  • Early Career Faculty Award: Lulu Tsao, MD

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School of Nursing 
  • Senior Faculty Award Recipient: Chelsea Landolin, MS, PMHNP
  • Early Career Faculty Award Recipient: Anna Strewler, AGNP-C

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School of Pharmacy 
  • Senior Faculty Awards: Samantha Valle-Oseguera, PharmD and Scott Fields, PharmD
  • Early Career Faculty Award: Rebecca Chung-Yan Leon, PharmD, APh

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School of Dentistry  
  • Senior Faculty Award: Mona Bajestan, DDS
  • Early Career Faculty Award: Jean Star, DDS, MPH

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Serve Your University 

Call for Academic Senate Committee Volunteers 

Academic Senate is UCSF’s faculty government and a representative voice for faculty in critical academic and university matters. All faculty at UCSF are invited to participate in Academic Senate, regardless of academic series. University and community service is highly encouraged, and in some faculty series required, for advancement and promotion at UCSF.

Review a list of Academic Senate Committees on the UCSF Senate Service Portal, or get in touch with the Office of Academic Senate to learn more: academic.senate@ucsf.edu

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