2023-2024 Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards
The UCSF Academic Senate is happy to announce the faculty selected by peers as the 2024 Distinction in Teaching and Distinction in Mentoring Award winners. An event to recognize their efforts will be held on Monday, April 1, 2024, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Parnassus Campus, room N-225, next to the SON Building lobby. The event will also be broadcasted on Zoom. We hope to see you there in person, but if you are unable to be there in person, the Zoom link is provided below.
Date/Time: Monday, April 1, 2024 at 11:00 am-1:00 pm
Location: Parnassus Campus, room N-225 (next to the SON Building lobby)
Zoom: http://tiny.ucsf.edu/dfa2024 • Password: 489322
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The Spring 2024 Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award for faculty at UCSF for five years or fewer goes to Rosny Daniel, MD, an Assistant Clinical Professor in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Daniel is a codirector of the Health, Equity, Anti-Racism and Justice pathway and a clinical liaison in the UCSF School of Medicine’s anti-oppressive curriculum. Dr. Daniel also directs the longitudinal diversity, equity, and inclusion emergency medicine residency curriculum; frequently lectures and facilitates didactics with Emergency Medicine residents; and educates faculty in curriculum development.
The Spring 2024 recipient of the Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award for faculty at UCSF for over five years is Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS. Dr. MacDougall is a Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Co-Vice Dean for PharmD Education in the School of Pharmacy. He serves as Director for the Infectious Disease Theme in the School of Pharmacy curriculum as well as the Residency Director for the Postgraduate Year Two Residency in Infectious Diseases. He serves as the Chair of the Specialty Council of Infectious Diseases for the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties and with the Medical Education Community of Practice of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
The Spring 2024 recipient of the Academic Senate Distinction In Mentoring Award for faculty at the rank of Full Professor is Alicia Fernandez, MD. Dr. Fernandez is Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Population Health and Health Equity for the UCSF School of Medicine. She is the founding Director of the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence and directs the Latinx and Immigrant Health Research Program at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations. She is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators. Dr. Fernandez leads several workforce diversity programs at UCSF. Dr. Fernandez serves on the National Academy of Science Roundtable on Health Literacy, the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute Board of Governors, and the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine.
The Spring 2024 recipient of the Academic Senate Distinction In Mentoring Award for faculty at the rank of Full Professor is Rebecca Sudore, MD, Professor of Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Sudore is a geriatrician, palliative medicine physician, implementation scientist, and professor of medicine in the Division of Geriatrics. She directs the Innovation and Implementation Center on Aging & Palliative Care Research and the Vulnerable Aging Research Core of the National Institutes on Aging-funded Pepper Center. She is also the creator and director of the evidenced based, online PREPARE for YOUR Care advance care planning program, the PREPARE easy-to-read advance directives (available for all 50 US states in several languages), and the online PREPARE for THEIR Care caregiver program. She is also funded through an NIA K24 award to help mentor the next generation of aging and palliative care researchers.
The Distinction in Mentoring Award did not receive any nominations in the Associate Professor category this year. Instead, the committee chose to recognize two faculty in the Full Professor category for their mentoring achievements.
To select each year’s awards, the Academic Senate Committee on Academic Personnel designates selection committees comprised of faculty and student representatives from all four schools. Student representatives are recommended by the Associate Deans in Student Affairs from each of the respective Schools. Faculty representatives are recommended by the Associate Deans of Academic Affairs from each School.