Teacher of the Year Awards

  • Dr. Hesham Youssef receiving the Rooney Gverzdys Award for Resident Teacher of the Year

  • Dr. Sonja Payne receiving the Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award

  • Dr. Hilda Alfaro receiving the Fellow Teacher of the Year Award

  • Dr. Sonja Payne receiving the Jr. Faculty Teacher of the Year Award

  • Dr. Manikandan Rajarathinam receiving the Pain Medicine Teacher of the Year Award

  • Dr. Kristine Marmai receiving the Faculty Mentor of the Year Award

  • Dr. Jillian Belrose receiving the Resident Research Award

  • Dr. Terence Leeper receiving the Resident as Teacher Award

  • Dr. Zach Davidson receiving the Resident as Mentor Award

Awarded for the 2020-2021 Academic Year were the following:

Faculty Awards:

Rooney Gverzdys Teacher of the Year – Dr. Kristine Marmai
Jr. Consultant Teacher of the Year – Dr. Raffael Zamper
Consultant Mentor of the Year – Dr. Sonja Payne
Fellow Teacher of the Year – Dr. Raffael Zamper
Undergraduate Teacher of the Year – Dr. Aldo Espinosa
Pain Medicine Teacher of the Year – Dr. Manikandan Rajarathinam

Resident Awards:

Resident as Teacher Award – Dr. James Pius
Resident as Mentor Award – Dr. James Pius
Resident Research Award – Dr. Sandy Bae and Dr. Abdulrahman Alboog

Awarded for the 2018-2019 Academic Year were the following:

Rooney Gverzdys Award for Resident Teacher of the Year - Dr. Hesham Youssef
UME Teacher of the Year – Dr. Sonja Payne
Fellow Teacher of the Year – Dr. Hilda Alfaro
Pain Medicine Teacher of the Year – Dr. Manikandan Rajarathinam
Jr. Faculty Teacher of the Year – Dr. Sonja Payne
Faculty Mentor of the Year – Dr. Kristine Marmai

Resident Research Award – Dr. Jillian Belrose
Resident as Mentor Award – Dr. Zach Davidson
Resident as Teacher Award – Dr. Terrence Leeper