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Names and Faces: Top Educators

BWH Faculty Receives Mentoring Awards

HMS Office for Diversity and Community Partnership named five honorees from BWH to receive the 2008-2009 Excellence in Mentoring Awards. Recipients are: Martha E. Shenton, PhD, director of the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, who received the William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award; Christian Arbelaez, MD, MPH, of Emergency Medicine, who received the Young Mentor Award; Li-Li Hsiao, MD, PhD, of the Renal Division, who received the Young Mentor Award; Koenraad J. Mortele, MD, of the Radiology Department, who received the Young Mentor Award; and Joia S. Mukherjee, MD, MPH, of the Department of Medicine and the Division of Global Health Equity, who received the Young Mentor Award.

Nadelson Honored with Renaissance Woman Award

Carol Nadelson, MD, director of the Office for Women's Careers at BWH, was selected as the recipient of the Alma Dea Morani, MD, Renaissance Woman Award for 2009. The award, presented by the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine, honors an outstanding woman physician who has furthered the practice and understanding of medicine and made significant contributions outside of medicine, in the humanities, arts or social sciences. Nadelson's determination has carried her beyond traditional pathways in medicine and science, and has challenged the status quo with a passion for learning. Nadelson will receive a sculpture representing humanism in medicine at the award presentation in October.

Distinguished Mentor Award Given to Trier

The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) presented Jerry S. Trier, MD, AGAF, with the Distinguished Mentor Award for his outstanding mentorship over a career which spans more than 40 years of teaching and mentoring medical students, residents and fellows. The AGA recognized Trier for his unique ability to reflect, synthesize, teach and support the individual development of faculty and fellows throughout a variety of phases of their careers. Many of his trainees and students have become medical school deans and department heads.

He served as the president of the AGA in 1985 and was a member of the Governing Board from 1983 to 1988. Trier is a professor of medicine, emeritus, at HMS, which he has served since 1973.