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Names and Faces: Excellence in Teaching

Osman, Robertson Receive BWH Minority Faculty Career Development Award

Barbara Bierer, MD, senior vice president for Research and director of the Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, is shown with Drs. Nora Osman and Audra Robertson, the 2009 recipients of the BWH Minority Faculty Career Development Award (MFDCA).

The Office for Multicultural Faculty Careers in June held its annual spring luncheon. BWH President and CEO Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, greeted more than 50 BWH and HMS affiliated faculty, staff, trainees and students who attended the event held annually to welcome new interns and fellows, honor graduating trainees and celebrate accomplishments.

Barbara Bierer, MD, senior vice president for Research and director of the Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, presented the BWH Minority Faculty Career Development Awards to Nora Osman, MD, of Brigham Circle Medical Associates, and Audra Robertson, MD, MPH, of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Osman is an instructor in Medicine and within the Department of Medicine. She serves as the director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA), and assistant clerkship program director. Through her work in the OMA, Osman has increased the number of underrepresented minority trainees at BWH and has worked with the hospital administration to develop hospital-wide programs addressing this important issue. She serves on the advisory boards of the BWH Office of Multicultural Faculty Careers and Women’s Careers. As the assistant clerkship director for the core medicine rotation at BWH, she is responsible for the development and implementation of the ambulatory curriculum for the Harvard Medical School students completing internal medicine rotations at BWH. Osman received her MD from the University of California at San Francisco and completed internal medicine residency training at BWH.

Robertson is an instructor in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology and serves as the clinical director of the Birth Equity Initiative: Eliminating the Racial Disparities in Infant Mortality in the Center for Community Health and Health Equity at BWH. She actively investigates the racial disparity in infant mortality and works to establish a clinical and community based intervention program to eliminate this disparities. Prior to joining the faculty at BWH in 2007, Robertson completed the Commonwealth Fund Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard Medical School and obtained a master’s in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Robertson received her MD from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and completed a chief residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at BWH.

Established in 1996, the BWH Minority Faculty Career Development Award is granted annually to support the development of early-career underrepresented minority academicians. It is an unrestricted $150,000 award aimed to assist in career development and enhance faculty retention.

2009 CCI Teaching Excellence Awards

Joanne Ingwall
Ann Ogletree
Ian Shempp

Joanne Ingwall, PhD, Ann Ogletree and Ian Shempp are this year’s recipients of the Teaching Excellence Awards presented by the Center for Clinical Investigation (CCI) Education program. The recipients were selected after receiving the highest student evaluations from courses they taught at CCI during the 2008-2009 program.

Ingwall—Drawing on her vast experience as HMS professor of Medicine, BWH researcher and renowned mentor presented “The Secrets of a Successful Researcher” in the CCI Research Leadership Seminar.

Ogletree—A senior Human Research Specialist of the Partners Human Research Committee, Ogletree led one of CCI’s IRB Roundtable Series discussions called “Preparing Research Consent Forms: Updated Templates and Tools.” She also teaches the IRB’s regularly scheduled Consent Writer’s Workshops held at both BWH and MGH.

Shempp—As Senior Research Project Manager of SICU STAR Center at BWH, he taught the Clinical Research Recruitment component of CCI’s Study Coordinator Orientation this year. He shared his vast experiences in study coordination at various CCI lectures over the past three years.

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 lifelong career of 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.

Trier served as the president of the AGA in 1985 and was a member of its governing board from 1983 to 1988. Trier is a professor of medicine, emeritus, at HMS, where he has served since 1973.

BWH Faculty Receive Excellence in Mentoring Awards

The HMS Office for Diversity and Community Partnership named five honorees from BWH to receive the 2008-2009 Excellence in Mentoring Awards. The 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 Radiology, 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.