The PEAR, Professional Educator Appreciation and Recognition, Awards are a student-led initiative to recognize those individuals who have had a significant impact on students during their medical training. The award seeks to highlight and reinforce positive examples of professionalism and teaching; it focuses on collecting the positive stories from the student experience.
Any ²ÝÁñÉçÇøÈë¿Ú student can nominate preclinical faculty, attending physicians, residents, physician assistants, nurses and others on the medical team who have challenged them, expanded their knowledge or imparted a significant lesson. Submissions are shared with the award recipient and his or her department chair. Students can .
PEAR Awards are supported by the Center for Professionalism, led by Dr. Ellen Friedman.
2023 Recipients
- Rouzbeh Kotaki
- Jeffrey Cao
- Afroze Ali
- Judi Coleman
- Mike Ren
- David Lundy-Weiss
- Bryan Tucker
- Ramachandr Reddy
- Mostafa Belghasem
- Michael Anderson
- Jai Gandhi
- Kathryn Jordan Kemere
- David Holmes
- Fernando Cuascut
- Farida Abid
- Amir Shamshirsaz
- Charenya Anandan
- Lauren Tamara Wilson
- Hayden Hall
- Eric Silberfein
- Mark E. McIntyre II
- Robert Taylor Ripley
- Jenifer Dinis Ballestas
- Roberto Mario Vera
- Samuel Randall
- Samuel Creden
- Yishay Ben Moshe
- Oluwatunmise Fawole
- Ashu Syal
- Yu Yang
- Atif Iqbal
- Catherine Seger
- Jeremy Ward
- Mariam Hull
- Jonathan Pan
- Irene Jeong-Ah Lee
- Shayan Bhathena
- Jyotinder Punia
- Lisa Brubaker
- Parker Hughes
- Ashley Waldon
- Victoria Brehm
- Jonnae Atkinson
- Kenneth Barning
- Corina Lopez
- Alvin To
- Victoria Huynh
