Owl Club Awards highlight impactful educators at Tulane

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The Owl Club recently recognized faculty and departments for their outstanding contributions to medical education during its annual teaching awards banquet. Founded in 1921, the Owl Club serves as Tulane School of Medicine’s student organization for academic excellence, working to strengthen collaboration between students and faculty while promoting excellence in teaching, mentorship, and professionalism. Each year, Owl Club representatives gather student feedback from courses across the medical school to help improve the educational experience and recognize educators who make a lasting impact on students. Congratulations to this year’s nominees and award recipients.

Winners identified with ***

Spirit of Tulane Award

Please nominate the individual (non-professor, non-student) who best exemplifies the spirit of what it means to be Tulanian.

● Dr. Mike Woodson***
● Dr. Dolly Anadkat


Leon Weisberg Excellence in Clinical Teaching

This award is presented to the clinical faculty member who displays the qualities of teaching exemplified by the late Dr. Leon Weisberg, former Chief of Neurology, during the relocation of Tulane SOM during Hurricane Katrina. Please give your nomination for this award.

● Dr. Mitesh Dave
● Dr. Elizabeth Crabtree***
● Dr. Samir Anadkat


W. Clifford Newman Student Advocacy Award

Honoring the late physiologist and former associate dean of Tulane SOM, this award is presented to the faculty member who best advocates for the student body. Please give your nomination for this award.

● Dr. Karen Weissbecker***
● Dr. Elma LeDoux
● Dr. Dolly Anadkat


Overall Best Department

A single department from each of the four years in the Medical School is identified for recognition.

● Anatomy
● Surgery
● Neurology***


Best Elective or Online Course

Awarded to the elective that students felt added to their medical education and was run effectively.

● Medical Spanish
● History in Medicine
● Culinary Med***

 

Outstanding Administrator Award

Awarded to an Administrator who goes out of his/her way to work with students and faculty.
● Caroline Rhodes
● Adam Peltz
● Dr. Elma LeDoux***

 

Best standardized Patient

To be given to a standardized patient that students feel is easy to work with, professional, and good at teaching skills to be learned.

● MJ May***
● Brian Mazo
● Benjy Minor

 

Outstanding Advocacy Medical Education

To be given to a faculty or administrator who demonstrates a supportive learning environment.

● Dr. Anjali Niyogi
● Dr. Liz Crabtree
● Dr. Dolly Anadkat***

 

Outstanding New Faculty Award

To be given to a new Faculty member.

● Dr. Kevin Harrell***
● Dr. Dave


Most Adaptive Professor

A professor who continuously adjusts their teaching style to meet the needs of their students. They recognize that everyone learns differently and are flexible in how they present material, offer support, and assess understanding.

● Dr. Anadkat***
● Dr. Dave
● Dr. Crabtree
 

T1 Course of the Year

Please vote for the course that you feel was the best of the year.

● Histology*** (Dr. Mitesh Dave)
● Biochem
● FIM
 

T1 Professor of the Year

Please vote for the professor that you feel was the best of the year. Any professor who gave a lecture is eligible for a vote.

● Dr. Mitesh Dave
● Dr. David Franklin
● Dr. T. Cooper Woods***
 

T1 Best Integrated Module

Awarded to the module director of the module that students felt integrated all of the different courses together.

● Head & Neck*** (Dr. Iwanaga + Anatomy Team)
● Renal
● Cardio


T1 Best CBL/TBL Facilitator

Awarded to the faculty who best facilitated discussion during CBL or TBL sessions.

● Dr. Mitesh Dave
● Dr. Minolfa C. Prieto
● Dr. Andrea Zsombok
● Dr. Benjamin Rothwell***
● Dr. Andrei V. Derbenev
● Dr. Gregory MacLeod


T2 Course of the Year

Please vote for the course that you feel was the best of the year.

● IID*** (Dr. Kerstin Honer zu Bentrup)
● Pharm
● Mod


T2 Professor of the Year

Please vote for the professor that you feel was the best of the year. Any professor who gave a lecture is eligible for a vote.

● Dr. Elizabeth Crabtree***
● Dr. Rhea Bhargava
● Dr. Honer zu Bentrup
 

T2 Best Integrated Module

Awarded to the Module director of the module that students felt integrated all of the different courses together.

● BMB
● Renal
● Pulmonary*** (Dr. Klingsberg)

 

T2 Best CBL/TBL Facilitator

Awarded to the faculty who best facilitated discussion during CBL or TBL sessions.

● Dr. Honer zu Bentrup
● Dr. Rhea Bhagrava***
 

T3 and T4s: Please Vote for the Best Attending and Resident in the Following Departments

Internal Medicine

Attending:

● Dr. Justin Rabon
● Dr. Jacey Jones***
● Dr. Claire Fitzgerald
● Dr. Jacob Peoples

 

Resident:

● Dr. Aaron Perry***
● Dr. Aniko Nowakowski
● Dr. Corrine Zalomek

 

Surgery

Attending:

● Dr. Steven Jones
● Dr. Mohamed Shama***

 

Resident:

● Dr. Carson Mills
● Dr. Joshua Dickerson***

 

Pediatrics

Attending:

● Dr. Theresa L.Dise***
● Dr. Elizabeth Watkins

 

Resident:

● Dr. Ana Figuero***

 

OBGYN

Attending:

● Dr. Robert DiBenedetto
● Dr. Cecilia Gambala***

 

Resident:

● Dr. Justin Yeh
● Dr. Alison Zill***

 

Neurology

Attending:

● Dr. Michelle Longo***
● Dr. Elizabeth Crabtree

 

Resident:

● Dr. Grant Hansen***
● Dr. Jessy Heap

 

Psychiatry

Attending:

● Dr. Casimir Lorenc
● Dr. Michelle Limbaugh

 

Resident:

● Dr. Alana Fortune***
● Dr. Thomas Stall

 

Radiology

Attending:

● Dr. Bradley Shore***

 

Resident:

● Dr. Cheyenne Rahimi***
● Dr. Ryan Beckett

 

T3/T4 Best Overall Clerkship

● Family Medicine***
● Surgery

 

T3/T4 Best Clerkship Coordinator

● Adam Peltz
● Caroline Rhodes***

 

T3/T4 Overall Best Intern

● Dr. Willard Covey
● Dr. Ashlyn Driskell***

 

Harold Cummins

● Jordan Lo***
● Eli Tsakiris

 

Fam Med Preceptor

● Dr. Laura McCormick***