2018-2019 WIHS Awards

Veronica Shubayev, PhD

Ruth Waterman, MD

Amanda Marsch, MD

Whitehill teaching award 2019

Chariss Orme, MD PhD

Appointed director of the cutaneous lymphoma clinic

Arisa Ortiz, MD

Julie Celebi, MD

Appointed the Wellness Director for the Department of Family Medicine

Secured Funding to study the impact on wellness on Family Medicine Physicians

Rena Yadlapati, MD MSHS

American Foregut Society, Founding Board Member

Co-Organizer of International Chicago Classification of Esophageal Motility Disorders

Roopali Gupta, MD

Tideswell Emerging Leaders in Aging, Research cohort

New Grant for $3.7 M to initiate San Diego/Imperial Geriatric Education Center

Alison Moore, MD

New T32 Grant through the National Institute on Aging for $1.5 M on project entitled “Improving the Health of Aging Women and Men”

Emily Sladek, MD

Inaugural Member of the Internal Medicine Research Collaborative

Lindsey Yourman, MD

Established of geriatric Quality Improvement fellowship

Saima Aslam, MBBS

Director of Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics at UCSD

Maile Young Karris, MD

Recipient of the Tideswell Emerging Leaders in Aging award

Susan Little, MD

Director of the UCSD CFAR Ending the HIV Epidemic Scientific Working Group

Darcy Wooten, MD

Associate Program Director for the Infectious Diseases Fellowship

-Director of Education for the Owen Clinic

Vice Chief of Mentoring and Faculty Development

Hannah Carter, PhD

Emerging Leader award from The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research

Jaime Wyatt Miller Fellow

Laura Crotty Alexander, MD

Video Editor for the Am J Resp Crit Care

Board of Directors for National Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care

Jisha Joshua, MD

Appointed Director of the UCSD Advanced Lung Disease Program 

Kim Kerr, MD

Appointed Associate Chief of the division

Oversees the national CTEPH registry

Rebecca Sell, MD

Chair of UCSD Code Blue Committee

Chair of UCSD Sepsis Committee

Co-founded the UCSD Human Trafficking Awareness Committee

Jennifer Graves, MD

Appointed Chair on the AAN committee for Women’s issues

Navaz Karanjia, MD

Successfully established Neurocritical Care Unit at Hillcrest Campus

Irene Litvan, MD, FAAN, FANA

National lifetime award for American Academy of Neurology

Doris Trauner, MD

Awarded $10M grant on cannabis research

Pratibha Binder, MD

2019 Academy of Clinical Scholars Teaching Award

Louise Laurent, MD, PhD

Inducted into the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2019

Yvette Lacoursiere, MD

2019 Faculty Award, Society for Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics and Gynecology

Natalie Afshari, MD, FACS

Chair of American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Committee

American Medical Women’s Association, Women in Science Award 2019

Shira Robbins, MD

Section Editor of #1 textbook in field, ‘Ophthalmology’

Chair, American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Socioeconomic Committee

Linda Zangwill, PhD

Richard K. Lansche M.D. and Tatiana A. Lansche Endowed Chair

Hiutung Chu, PhD

Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars

Pat Kopko, MD

Awarded first-ever Dennis Goldfinger Award for Excellence in Clinical Transfusion Medicine

Mana Parast, MD PhD

International Federation of Placenta Associations Award recipient

Rabia Atayee, PharmD

Selected to the Board of Pharmacy Specialties (BPS) Oncology Council

UC San Diego Campus-Wide Distinguished Teaching Award for Academic Senate Members

Linda Awdishu, PharmD

Appointed Chair of Division of Clinical Pharmacy

Elected to American Board of Internal Medicine, Nephrology Board for 2019-2021

Brookie Best, PharmD

Member of WHO Paediatric ARV Working Group (PAWG), advisory panel to the WHO

Katharina Brandl, RPh, PhD

Fellow in the Academy of Pharmacology Educators at the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Chair Elect, Pharmacology Education Division Executive Committee, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Laura Hart, PharmD

Invited Member, American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Pharmacy Education and Research Committee

Kelly Lee, PharmD

Elected as Chair, Board of Pharmacy Specialties, Psychiatric Pharmacy Council

Christina Mnatzaganian, PharmD

Member of WHO Paediatric ARV Working Group (PAWG), advisory panel to the WHO

Renu Singh, PharmD

Appointed as Assistant Dean of Experiential Education

Ila Saunders, PharmD

Inaugural HOPA Volunteer Award

-Appointed as Chair, Board Certification in Oncology Pharmacy  Oversight Committee for the Hematology Oncology Pharmacy Association

Shirley Tsunoda, PharmD

Appointed as Co-Chair, Associate Medical Advisory Committee, American Liver Foundation, 2018 - 2019

Invited Member, Sanofi Genzyme Virtual Advisory Board, January 2019

Nancy Downs, MD

Judy Davidson, DNP

Sonia Ancoli-Israel, PhD

Susan Tapert, PhD

Elizabeth Twamley, PhD

Alison Trexler, MD

Priti Ojha, MD and the Human Trafficking Response Team

Katherine Bangen, PhD

Leslie Morland, PhD

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Distinguished Mentor Award

Katie Fowler, MD

Deputy Editor for the journal Radiology

Mary O’Boyle, MD

Fellow, Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound

Mini Pathria, MD

2019 RSNA Honored Educator Award  (Radiological Society of North America Conference)

Anne Roberts, MD

Awarded Honorary Membership, Chinese College of Interventionalists 

 2018 Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Visiting Professor to Brazilian Radiology Society

Titania Juang, PhD

Associate Residency Director, Medical Physics Residency

Assistant Vice-Chair for Diversity and Inclusion

Gina Mansy, MD

Fellow of American College of Radiation Oncology

Catheryn Yashar, MD

Chair of Health Policy, American Society of Radiation Oncology

Radiation Oncology Oral Boards Chair for Gynecology, American Board of Radiology

Laura Godat, MD

Selected by the American College of Surgeons Committee of Trauma for the prestigious Future Trauma Leaders program

Amanda Gosman, MD

Castle Connolly Exceptional Women in Medicine Award

Quyen Nguyen, MD, PhD

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering awardee