Faculty Awards & Recognitions

This award recognizes excellence in the nominee’s clinical care during their association with the Keck School of Medicine (KSOM). The nominee should have a substantial clinical practice and serve as a role model for peers, residents, and students in (i) providing quality clinical care and (ii) interacting with patients and all members of the health care team. 

Review Criteria 

• Excellence
  Demonstrates career commitment and outstanding clinical practice in evaluations by team members. 

• Impact
  Demonstrates a positive influence in their clinical practice across team members and patients. 

• Scope
  Demonstrates impact on the external community (outside KSOM) and beyond. 

• Teamwork
  Successfully integrates colleagues from other professions and promotes interprofessional practice. 

• Innovation
  Demonstrates an effort to develop and utilize new procedures, devices, or new partnerships in their clinical practice. 

This award recognizes excellence in the nominee’s mentoring and advising contributions during their association with the Keck School of Medicine (KSOM). The nominee must have demonstrated excellence in mentoring learners, faculty, and/or staff in achieving their career objectives. 

Review Criteria 

• Support, Goal Setting, & Guidance: 

• Assists mentees in defining their academic, professional, and/or personal goal. 

• Encourages growth and achievement by providing a supportive environment where challenges, successes, and failures can be openly shared and examined. 

• Shares knowledge and experiences to guide mentees in reaching their academic, professional, and/or personal goals. 

• Feedback
  Makes themselves available to provide regular and constructive feedback on mentees’ work. 

• Professional Exposure & Networking 

• Involves mentees in publications, grants, presentations, expositions, or professional/leadership opportunities and readily shares knowledge of other such opportunities with mentees 

• Provides valuable access and opportunities by facilitating academic, professional, and personal contacts. 

• Inclusion
  Works with mentees from underrepresented, first-generation, or historically marginalized groups within the discipline, with attention paid to developing skills and support networks to overcome institutional barriers they may face. 

•  Role Modeling: 

• Maintains high standards for excellence within their field and as an engaged member of the Keck School. 

• Engages in respectful relationships with colleagues and learners. 

• Acknowledges power differentials in professional relationships and behaves with integrity, per the Keck School Code of Professional Conduct. 

• Encourages mentees to adopt similar principles of professional behavior. 

• Mentee Feedback
  Per the instructions outlined in the nomination form, feedback will be solicited from mentees.
  Please see nomination form for details. 

This award recognizes excellence in the nominee’s scholarly activity during their association with the Keck School of Medicine (KSOM). The nominee’s scholarship should demonstrate its importance and impact nationally and internationally. Examples of achievement include grant funding, peer-reviewed publications, academic awards, and other scholarly work. The nominee should demonstrate an ability to engage other colleagues in their scholarly pursuits. 

Review Criteria 

• Excellence
  Demonstrates outstanding and sustained achievement in peer-reviewed scientific publications and/or grant funding. 

• Impact
  Demonstrable influence of the nominee’s scholarly activity on advancing their respective field of research both nationally and internationally. 

• Translation
  Demonstrable broader impact of the nominee’s scholarly activity on society at large. 

• Teamwork
  Successfully integrates colleagues, including learners or faculty, into the scholarly activity. 

This award recognizes excellence in the nominee’s service activities during their association with the Keck School of Medicine (KSOM). The nominee must provide service that is consistent with the KSOM’s mission. Service activities should make demonstrable, substantial, and long-lasting contributions to the campus community, the community, and/or the nominee’s discipline or profession. 

Review Criteria 

• Excellence
  Service efforts are consistent with the KSOM mission. 

• Impact
  Demonstrates sustained effort in service activities within the KSOM. 

• Translation
  Service efforts have a broader impact on the external community (outside KSOM) and beyond. 

• Teamwork
  Service efforts empower the success of colleagues–either learners or peers. 

This award recognizes excellence in the nominee’s educational contributions during their association with the Keck School of Medicine (KSOM). The nominee must demonstrate the ability to effectively teach in diverse settings, which may or may not cover a variety of academic levels and learners. 

Review Criteria 

• Excellence
  Demonstrates outstanding teaching performance. 

• Impact
  Teaching efforts foster the personal, intellectual, and professional development of learners. 

• Supportive
  Creates an open learning environment that promotes curiosity, critical thinking, problem-solving, and expression of diverse opinions. 

• Innovation
  Demonstrates the ability to adapt different modes of teaching in various learning situations. These variations may include creating novel teaching methods or resources. 

• Curriculum Development
  Demonstrates leadership in devising and developing curricula, fostering diversity, and promoting inter-group/interprofessional education (IPE). 

• Must be in good standing according to the Keck School Faculty Code of Conduct. 

• Previous nominees can be nominated again. However, nominees must not have received a Dean’s Award within the past three years. See the 2023 awardees listed below. 

• Only one nomination is permitted per faculty member per category, i.e., a faculty member cannot be nominated more than once in a specific category 

• Has held a faculty appointment at the Keck School (part-time or full-time; any track) for at least three years by June 30, 2024. 

• Early Career Award: Within 10 years of first academic/faculty appointment (any track) 

• Mid-to-Senior Career Award: Beyond 10 years of first academic appointment at the Keck School (any track) 

• Nominations for a Dean’s Award may be submitted by any faculty member of the Keck School (part-time or full-time, any track). Self-nominations are not allowed. 

• To nominate a colleague, complete the appropriate online form (see links below), which includes uploading the nominee’s up-to-date CV. 
• A faculty committee will review nominations and make recommendations to the Dean, who will make the final decisions about the award recipients. 

Awarded: October 24, 2024 

• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Clinical Practice
  Sarah Sheibani, MD
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine  
• Dean’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Clinical Practice
  Raymond Hah, MD
  Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery 
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
  Senta Georgia, PhD
  Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine 
• Dean’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
  Nada Elbuluk, MD, MSc
  Clinical Associate Professor of Dermatology (Clinician Educator) 
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring
  Gage Crump, PhD
  Professor of Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine 
• Dean’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Mentoring
  Charleston Chiang, PhD
  Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences 
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship
  Justin Ichida, PhD
  Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine 
• Dean’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Scholarship
  Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, MSHS
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery and Population & Public Health Sciences 
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service
  Lorraine Kelley-Quon, MD, MSHS
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery and Population & Public Health Sciences 
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service
  Grace Kung, MD
  Clinical Professor of Pediatrics (Clinician Educator) 
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
  Sravanthi Reddy, MD
  Professor of Clinical Radiology (Educational Scholar) 
• Dean’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching
  Andrea Matho, MD
  Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine (Clinician Educator) 

Awarded: October 24, 2023 

• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Clinical Practice
  Laila Al-Marayati, MD
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology 
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
  Joyce M. Richey, PhD
  Associate Professor of Clinical Physiology & Neuroscience 
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring
  Yves A. DeClerck, MD
  Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine 
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship
  Omid Akbari, PhD
  Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology
• Dean’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Scholarship
  Kimberly K. Gokoffski, MD, PhD
  Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology 
• Dean’s Award for Excellence in Service
  Josh Neman-Ebrahim, PhD
  Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery and Physiology & Neuroscience 
•  Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
  Joseph G. Hacia, PhD
  Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Medicine 
•  Dean’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching
  Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis, PhD
  Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences 
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