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Trailblazer Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education

The Trailblazer Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education recognizes our faculty's time and effort devoted to educating future physicians. Nominated by their peers, recipients of the award are recognized as effective teachers who engage, inspire, and mentor learners, demonstrate teaching innovations in curriculum design, and serve as a catalyst for enhancing teaching and learning. Additionally, the award committee awards one Trailblazer Teaching Award recipient the Trailblazer of the Year award. The Trailblazer of the Year, notated in bold, demonstrates the qualities above, is respected as a dynamic medical educator, and leads peers in curricular adaptation and innovation.


2022 Recipients

Osman Athar, MD
Elena Dent, PhD
Michael Hall, MD
Clark Henegan, MD
Zeb Henson, MD
Bryan Hierlmeier, MD
Nick Hoda, MD
Candace Howard-Claudio, MD, PhD
Brett Jeter, MD
Daniel Kennedy, MD
Jessie Lavender, MD
Lance Majors, MD
Chawla LaToya Mason, MD
Jarrett Morgan, MD
Vinayak Nahar, MD, PhD
Allen Richert, MD
Stan Smith, PhD
Jose “Pepe” Subauste, MD
Emily Tarver, MD
Jenner Tiscareno, MD
Marc Walker, MD
Brandon Weatherly, MD
Lyssa Weatherly, MD
Charletta Wright, MD
Kathy Yee, PhD


2021 Recipients

Saurabh Bhardwaj, MD
Adam Byrd, MD
Joseph Chaudry, MD
Amanda Clark, MD
Caroline Compretta, PhD
Savannah Duckworth, MD
Roy Duhé, PhD
Kevin Freeman, PhD
Jessie Harvey, MD
Michelle Horn, MD
Pegah Hosseini-Carroll, MD
Candace Howard, MD, PhD
Marla Johnson, MD
Jahanzeb Khan, MD
Larry McDaniel, PhD
Matthew Morris, PhD, PsyD
Vinayak Nahar, MD, PhD
Kathryn Nutter, MD
Wayne Shannon Orr, MD
Anand Prem, MD
Ellen Robertson, PhD, OTR/L
Stanley Smith, PhD
Sarah Sterling, MD


2020 Recipients
Kenneth Bennett, MD
Beverly Bryant, MD
Caroline Compretta, PhD
Jonah Gunalda, MD
Jessie Harvey, MD
Laura Hendon, CGC
Nick Hoda, MD
Brett Jeter, MD
Mark Ladner, MD
Anna Lerant, PhD
Vanetta Levesque, MD
LaToya Mason, MD
Michael McMullan, MD
Risa Moriarity, MD
Robert Morris, MD
Rahat Noor, MD
Chris Reed, DO
Randall Reid, MD
Damian Romero, PhD
Tom Skelton, MD
Jenner Tiscareno, MD
Lauren Tucker, MD
Laura Vick, MD

2019 Recipients
Allison Barrett, MD
William Black, MD
James Brock, MD
Amanda Clark, MD
Savannah Duckworth, MD
Jonah Gunalda, MD
Kimberly Harkins, MD
Zeb Henson, MD
Robert Hester, PhD
Joy Houston, MD
Kimberly Paduda, MD
Peter Pendergrass, MD
Shannon Pittman, MD
Julie Schumacher, PhD
Sarah Sterling, MD
Henrique Vale, MD
Srinivasan Vijayakumar, MD
Melanie Wilson, PhD
Licy Yanes, MD

2018 Recipients
Caroline Compretta, PhD
Crystal Lim, PhD
Alan Penman, MBCHb, PhD, MPH
Mallikarjuna Pabbidi, DVM, PhD
Robin Rockhold, PhD
Jennifer Sasser, PhD
Kimberley Ward, MD

2017 Recipients
Sarosh Batlivala, MD
John Correia, PhD
Dongmei Cui, MD (hon), PhD
Ryan Darling, PhD
Rana El Feghaly, MD, MSCI
Ivonne Galarza, MD
Sara Gleason, MD
Cameron Guild, MD
Robert Hamilton, MD
Virginia Harrison, MD
Zeb Henson, MD
John Ingram, MD
Jeremy Jackson, MD
Jon Jackson, MD
Robert Kramer, PhD
Lakshmi Kurnutala, MD
David R. Norris, MD
Kim Paduda, MD
Ian Paul, PhD
Alan Penman, MBCHb, PhD, MPH
Scott Rodgers, MD
Jimmy Stewart, MD
Stephen Stray, PhD
Samuel Thigpen, MD
Thais Tonore, MD
Eric Vallender, PhD
Susan Warren, PhD
Daniel Williams, PhD
Holly Zimmerman, MS, CGC