Catch up on awards and appointments, initiatives and opportunities, and other education-related announcements below.
2015-2016 Distinguished Service Teaching Awards (Links to an external site)
Annual Distinguished Service Teaching Awards Ceremony: Thursday, October 27, 2016
2016 Goldstein Leadership Awards Call for Nominations (Links to an external site)
Nominations are now available for the Goldstein Leadership Awards and are due by October 6, 2016 at 5:00 pm.
Two medical students named Howard Hughes fellows (Links to an external site)
Distinguished award offers a year of mentored research
Seeking facilitators for this fall’s first-year Interprofessional Education (IPE) sessions
Faculty volunteers will work with first-year students from all seven academic programs at the School of Medicine.
Smallfield joins OT faculty July 1 (Links to an external site)
Stacy Smallfield, DrOT, OTR/L, will serve as assistant director of the Clinical Doctorate of Occupational Therapy program.
Whelan named Chief Medical Education Officer for AAMC (Links to an external site)
Will lead initiatives to transform the current models of education and workforce preparation across the full continuum of medical education.
Program in Occupational Therapy ranked top OT program in the nation (Links to an external site)
U.S. News & World Report ranks the program first in the nation among graduate programs in occupational therapy.
Distinguished Faculty, Goldstein honors awarded (Links to an external site)
Nominated by their peers, School of Medicine faculty were honored for their dedication, talent and wide-ranging achievements.
Taff elected chairperson for Commission on Education (Links to an external site)
Steve Taff, PhD, OTR/L, will lead the development of education-related policy recommendations for the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA).
Trustees grant faculty appointments, promotions (Links to an external site)
Seven School of Medicine faculty members were among those appointed, granted or promoted with tenure.