Pediatric Recognition Banquet - 2007

On June 20, 2007 the Department of Pediatrics hosted its annual Pediatric Recognition Banquet to honor pediatric residents, fellows, researchers, and faculty members. These individuals have shown excellence and dedication in the advancement and practice of pediatric medicine over the past academic year. Graduating residents and fellows were also recognized for the completion of their programs. Below are the following awards and recipients honored at the Pediatric Recognition Banquet. Gold Headed Cane Award Resident and Fellow Awards Faculty Awards Research Awards

Interim Department Head, Joseph Neglia, M.D.

Gold Headed Cane Award

This award is the highest honor the Department of Pediatrics can grant to an individual. It represents the recipient's life-long dedication to children and the practice of medicine.

• Congratulations to Dr. Norma K. C. Ramsay for recieving this prestigious honor.

Norma K.C. Ramsay, M.D. & Previous Gold Headed Cane Award Winners

Resident and Fellow Awards

• Special Outstanding Resident Award
• • Presented to Erin Osterholm, M.D.

• Susan Vincent Outstanding Resident Teaching Award
• • Presented to Jared Austin, M.D.

2007 Graduating Pediatric Residents

• Mark Snelling Outstanding Fellow Award
• • Presented to Elliot Tucker, M.D. - Cardiology

• The Margaret Kendrick Hostetter, M.D. Award for Research by a Fellow in Pediatric Subspecialty Training
• • Presented to Troy Lund, M.D. - Hematology/Oncology

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Faculty Awards

The following awards, chosen by resident and fellow vote, are recognized for their dedication to educating the next generation of pediatric doctors.

• Master Teacher Honorees
  This honor is granted to faculty members who have received the Pediatric Faculty Educator Award four or more years. Presented to:
• • Richard Anderson, M.D.
  • Becky Carpenter, M.D.
  • David Cornfield, M.D.
  • Mitchell Einzig, M.D.
  • Sixto (Ex) Guiang, M.D.
  • Margie Hogan, M.D.
  • Margaret Hostetter, M.D.
  • Youngki Kim, M.D.
  • James McCord, M.D.
  • Drew Ozolins, M.D.
  • Joseph Sockalosky, M.D.

• Oustanding University of Minnesota Children's Hospital Faculty Educator Award
• • Chandy John, M.D.
  • Youngki Kim, M.D.
  • Nimi Singh, M.D.

• Outstanding Affiliated Pediatric Faculty Educators
• • Margie Hogan, M.D.
  • James McCord, M.D.
  • Stephen Swanson, M.D.

• George R. Noren, M.D. HCMC Pediatric Faculty Teaching Award
• • Stephen Swanson, M.D.

• Homer and Maurine Venters Clinical Teaching Award
• • Tim Johanson, M.D.

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Research Awards

• University of Pediatrics Foundation Scholar Award
  This award was established by the UCF Board of Directors to support the research of a promising research scholar in the Department of Pediatrics. Presented to:
• • Arif Somani, M.D.
  • Jin-Young Han, M.D., Ph.D.

• The Alexander Charles Jundt Research Award
• • Presented to Xianzheng Zhou, M.D., Ph.D.
    for his study entitled: Adoptive cord blood T-cell therapy for refractory leukemia by the Sleeping Beauty transposon system.

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