More than 200 MCG faculty recognized for teaching efforts

More than 200 faculty of the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University have been recognized with Exemplary Teaching Awards for their contributions to students and residents at the state’s public medical school. Among those honored were 83 volunteer clinical faculty, who teach students at MCG’s campuses across the state.

Awards for undergraduate medical education were based on quantity of teaching (number of students taught or number of lecture hours, for example) and student evaluations. Graduate medical education awards were based on innovations or impactful contributions, and awardees were nominated by MCG department chairs.

This year’s undergraduate medical education winners and their departments were:

Dr. Frank Block, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine

Dr. Ricardo Diaz Milan, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Ms. Pamela Rosema, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Dr. Vinata Lokeshwar, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Pamela Moore Martin, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Leslie Petch Lee, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Puttur Prasad, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Clive Slaughter, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Anna Edmondson, Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Dr. Virgil Thomas Gaddy, Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Dr. Graydon Bennett Gonsalvez, Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Dr. Alexa Hryniuk, Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Dr. Ellen LeMosy, Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Dr. Paul L. McNeil, Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Dr. Carol A. Nichols, Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Dr. William Pearson, Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Dr. Brett Szymik, Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Dr. DeLoris Wenzel Hesse, Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Dr. Loretta Davis, Dermatology
Dr. Karl Barnett, Emergency Medicine
Dr. James Black, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Mary Celeste Dement, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Jackson C. Elam, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Michael Ferguson, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Hartmut Gross, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Cline Jackson, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Christopher B. Jones, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Daniel Kaminstein, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Lydia Joy Kuhn, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Lee LaRavia, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Eric Paulk, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Joshua Michael Thomas, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Jennifer E. Tucker, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Eric Zevallos, Emergency Medicine
Dr. Edward Agabin, Family Medicine
Dr. Lia Bruner, Family Medicine
Dr. Samuel Church, Family Medicine
Dr. Kelly Culbertson, Family Medicine
Dr. Jacqueline DuBose, Family Medicine
Dr. Jay Floyd, Family Medicine
Dr. Angela Gerguis, Family Medicine
Dr. James Greene, Family Medicine
Dr. David Kriegel, Family Medicine
Dr. Bruce LeClair, Family Medicine
Dr. Dan McAvoy, Family Medicine
Dr. Ndubuisi Ndukwe, Family Medicine
Dr. Allen Pelletier, Family Medicine
Dr. George Rainsford, Family Medicine
Dr. Richard Sams, Family Medicine
Dr. Ashley Saucier, Family Medicine
Dr. Andrew Van Alstine, Family Medicine
Dr. Thad Wilkins, Family Medicine
Dr. Stephanie Baer, Medicine
Dr. Shilpa Brown, Medicine
Dr. Locke Bryan, Medicine
Dr. Laura Carbone, Medicine
Dr. Thaddeus Young Carson, Medicine
Dr. Andrew Chao, Medicine
Dr. Edward Chin, Medicine
Dr. Howard J. Cohen, Medicine
Dr. Robert Collier, Medicine
Dr. Preston DeWitt Conger, Medicine
Dr. Rene Cormier, Medicine
Dr. Matthew Crim, Medicine
Dr. Bruce Davis, Medicine
Dr. Thomas Dillard, Medicine
Dr. Pamela Fall, Medicine
Dr. John Fisher, Medicine
Dr. George Garriss, Medicine
Dr. Jaspal Gujral, Medicine
Dr. David Haburchak, Medicine
Dr. Kathy Hudson, Medicine
Dr. Chirag Jani, Medicine
Dr. Sean Javaheri, Medicine
Dr. Ishmael Lamptey-Mills, Medicine
Dr. Rodger MacArthur, Medicine
Dr. Aimee Martin, Medicine
Dr. Mohammad Masroor, Medicine
Dr. Mark McCracken, Medicine
Dr. Lee Ann Merchen, Medicine
Dr. Namita Mohanty, Medicine
Dr. Michele Monteil, Medicine
Dr. Walter Moore, Medicine
Dr. Anthony Mulloy, Medicine
Dr. Cheryl Newman, Medicine
Dr. Chinyelu Ofodile, Medicine
Dr. Alyce Oliver, Medicine
Dr. Christopher Pallas, Medicine
Dr. Jeremy Pantin, Medicine
Dr. Carlos Parrado, Medicine
Dr. Erik Prasatik, Medicine
Dr. Ramana Rao, Medicine
Dr. William Salazar, Medicine
Dr. Donald Scott, Medicine
Dr. Subbaramiah Sridhar, Medicine
Dr. Louise Thai, Medicine
Dr. John Thornton, Medicine
Dr. Pamela Tipler, Medicine
Dr. David Watson, Medicine
Dr. Shelley Nuss, Medicine/Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Sudhir Athni, Neurology
Dr. Nathan Brandon, Neurology
Dr. Mahmood Eisa, Neurology
Dr. Klepper Garcia, Neurology
Dr. Mary Gregory, Neurology
Dr. Michael Hemphill, Neurology
Dr. David Hess, Neurology
Dr. Alice Lawver, Neurology
Dr. John Morgan, Neurology
Dr. Hernan Posas Jr., Neurology
Dr. James Poston, Neurology
Dr. Mihaela Saler, Neurology
Dr. David Kozlowski, Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine
Dr. Louis Horn, Neurosurgery
Dr. Neil Woodall, Neurosurgery
Dr. Jennifer Allen, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Ruby Cheves, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. James Gowen, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Lawrence Layman, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Susanna Meredith, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Renee Page, Obstetrics and Gynecology/Academic Affairs
Dr. Hugo Ribot, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Bunja Rungruang, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Jordan Rush, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Robert Stager, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Whitney Vance, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Austin Luke Shiver, Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. Michael Groves, Otolaryngology
Dr. Mohammad Seyyedi, Otolaryngology
Dr. Sherman Stevenson, Otolaryngology
Dr. Michael Zoller, Otolaryngology
Dr. Paul Williams Biddinger, Pathology
Dr. Greer Falls, Pathology
Dr. Nikhil Patel, Pathology
Dr. Amyn Rojiani, Pathology
Dr. Barbara Russell, Pathology
Dr. Natasha Savage, Pathology
Dr. Michael Peter Toscano, Pathology
Dr. Erwinson Bassig, Pediatrics
Dr. Lynnette Bauza, Pediatrics
Dr. Holley Beam, Pediatrics
Dr. William Bristol, Pediatrics
Dr. Cory Butzon, Pediatrics
Dr. Brian DeLoach, Pediatrics
Dr. Steven Eubanks, Pediatrics
Dr. Carrie Kelly, Pediatrics
Dr. Suzanne Manley, Pediatrics
Dr. Paul Mann, Pediatrics
Dr. Kathryn McCusker, Pediatrics
Dr. Colleen McDonough, Pediatrics
Dr. David Munn, Pediatrics
Dr. Amanda Nguyen, Pediatrics
Dr. Rebecca Pierce, Pediatrics
Dr. Edward Rigtrup, Pediatrics
Dr. Jose Rodriguez-Torres, Pediatrics
Dr. Azif Safarulla, Pediatrics
Dr. Rajiv Setia, Pediatrics
Dr. David Sprayberry, Pediatrics
Dr. Leila Stallworth, Pediatrics
Dr. Laura Steelman, Pediatrics
Dr. Jon Udwadia, Pediatrics
Dr. Scott Barman, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Dr. Lynetta Jobe, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Dr. Nicole Winston, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Dr. Matthew Boegehold, Physiology
Dr. Wendy Bollag, Physiology
Dr. Paul O’Connor, Physiology
Dr. David Stepp, Physiology
Dr. Mong-Heng Wang, Physiology
Dr. Golden Barnett III, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Ram Bishnoi, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Christian Lemmon, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Alex Mabe, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Vaughn McCall, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Dale Peeples, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Michael Rollock, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Joseph Seal, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Rubina Sial, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Sandarsh Surya, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Clarence Joe, Radiology
Dr. Janet Munroe, Radiology
Dr. Daniel Albo, Surgery
Dr. Buffi Boyd,   Surgery
Dr. Chris Brandys, Surgery
Dr. Kristin Collier, Surgery
Dr. Price Corr, Surgery
Dr. Robyn Hatley, Surgery
Dr. Kurt Hofmann, Surgery
Dr. Grant Major, Surgery
Dr. Eva Katherine Moore, Surgery
Dr. Robert Nesbit, Surgery
Dr. John Odom, Surgery
Dr. Carl Pearl, Surgery
Dr. Walter Pipkin, Surgery
Dr. Catherine Schwender, Surgery
Dr. Toby Tally, Surgery
Dr. Christian Walters, Surgery
Dr. Gary Walton, Surgery

This year’s graduate medical education winners and their departments were:

Dr. Efrain Riveros Perez, Anesthesiology
Dr. Martin James, Emergency Medicine and Hospitalist Services
Dr. Dan McCollum, Emergency Medicine and Hospitalist Services
Dr. Edward Agabin, Family Medicine
Dr. Julie Dahl-Smith, Family Medicine
Dr. Thomas Dobosz, Medicine
Dr. David Fallaw, Medicine
Dr. Evan Fountain, Medicine
Dr. Azeem Mohammed, Medicine
Dr. Jeff Switzer, Neurology
Dr. Bunja Rungruang, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. Dilip Thomas, Ophthalmology
Dr. Nikhil Patel, Pathology
Dr. Paul Mann, Pediatrics
Dr. Christopher Watson, Pediatrics
Dr. Anjum Ara, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Ram Bishnoi, Psychiatry and Health Behavior
Dr. Lane Estes, Radiology