Duke School of Medicine Faculty Awards - Medicine Recipients

Each year during the annual Spring Faculty Meeting, the School of Medicine honors its faculty members, including many faculty from the Department of Medicine. Read a description of each award on the School of Medicine website.

Past Department of Medicine Recipients

Arnold P. Gold Foundation Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award

  • 2020 - Michael Sketch, MD
  • 2017 - Thomas Gehrig, MD
  • 2016 - Peter Kussin, MD
  • 2015 - Michael Blazing, MD
  • 2012 - Jon Gockerman, MD
  • 2003 - Joseph O. Moore, MD
  • 2000 - Anthony N. Galanos, MD
  • 1999 - John A. Bartlett, MD

Leonard Palumbo, Jr., MD, Faculty Achievement Award

  • 2022 - Cary Ward, MD
  • 2021 - Mitchell Heflin, MD
  • 2020 - Nathan Thielman, MD, MPH
  • 2018 - Kevin Harrison, MD
  • 2017 - Ken Lyles, MD
  • 2015 - Barbara Alexander, MD
  • 2014 - Thomas M. Bashore, MD
  • 2011 - William Kane, MD, PhD
  • 2010 - Anthony N. Galanos, MD
  • 2004 - Nancy B. Allen, MD
  • 2001 - G. Ralph Corey, MD
  • 1999 - Wendell F. Rosse, MD

Ruth and Morris Williams, Jr. Faculty Research Prize

  • 2020 - Deverick Anderson, MD
  • 2012 - Amy Abernethy, MD
  • 2006 - Vance G. Fowler, Jr., MD, MHS
  • 2003 - Jonathan S. Stamler, MD

Research Mentoring Award for excellence in clinical science research mentoring

  • 2022 - Manesh Patel, MD
  • 2021 - Kimberly Johnson, MD, MHS (Career) and Robert Mentz, MD (Early Career)
  • 2020 - Kenneth Schmader, MD (Career) and Tracy Wang, MD (Early Career)
  • 2019 - Dawn Provenzale, MD
  • 2017 - Cathleen Colon-Emeric, MD
  • 2016 - Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH
  • 2014 - James A. Tulsky, MD
  • 2013 - Christopher O'Connor, MD
  • 2012 - Robert Califf, MD
  • 2011 - Gene Oddone, MD, MHS
  • 2011 - Laura Svetkey, MD, MHS
  • 2010 -  G. Ralph Corey, MD
  • 2009 - Harvey J. Cohen, MD

Research Mentoring Award for excellence in translational science

  • 2023 - Heather Whitson, MD (Career), Maria Blasi, MD (Early Career)
  • 2022 - J. Brice Weinberg, MD, and Scott Palmer, MD, MHS
  • 2019 - Chris Woods, MD, MPH
  • 2018 - Vance Fowler, MD, MHS
  • 2017 - Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD
  • 2014 - Marilyn J. Telen, MD
  • 2013 - William Kraus, MD
  • 2011 - Anna Mae Diehl, MD
  • 2009 - John R. Perfect, MD

Research Mentoring Award in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

  • 2023 - Katherine Garman, MD

Research Mentoring Award for excellence in laboratory-based research

  • 2011 - Gerry Blobe, MD, PhD
  • 2011 - Bart Haynes, MD
  • 2009 - Howard A. Rockman, MD

Excellence in Professionalism Award

  • 2023 - Kristin Dicks, MD
  • 2022 - Lesley Curtis, PhD
  • 2021 - Kevin Thomas, MD
  • 2020 - Larry Crawford, MD
  • 2020 - Andrew Muir, MD 
  • 2019 - Harry Phillips, MD
  • 2018 - Cara O'Brien, MD
  • 2017 - Joseph Rogers, MD
  • 2017 - Diana McNeill, MD
  • 2016 - Christopher Granger, MD
  • 2015 - Daniel Mark, MD
  • 2014 - Laura P. Svetkey, MD, MHS
  • 2013 - William Yancy, MD

Gordon G. Hammes Faculty Teaching Award

  • 2016 - Andrew Alspaugh, MD

Michelle P. Winn Inclusive Excellence Award

  • 2020 - Kimberley Evans, MD
  • 2020 - Tamaa Saint-Surin, MD (Resident)
  • 2019 - Dinushika Mohottige, MD, MPH (Fellow)
  • 2016 - Kevin Thomas, MD

Master Clinician/Teacher Award

  • 2023 - Saumil Chudgar, MD
  • 2022 - Aimee Chung, MD, and Anne Phelps, MD
  • 2021 - Terry Fortin, MD
  • 2020 - Michael Berkoben, MD
  • 2020 - Joseph Moore, MD
  • 2019 - Murat Arcasoy, MD
  • 2019 - Chet Patel, MD
  • 2019 - Joanne Wilson, MD
  • 2018 - Louis F. Diehl, MD
  • 2017 - Andy Alspaugh, MD
  • 2017 - Carlos de Castro, MD
  • 2017 - Andrew Wang, MD
  • 2016 - Anthony Galanos, MD
  • 2015 - James Tcheng, MD
  • 2014 - Aimee Zaas, MD, MHS
  • 2013 - Stan Branch, MD
  • 2012 - Warner Burch, MD
  • 2011 - Dan Sexton, MD