Educational Recognition Awards
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, 4–6 p.m.
Location: Albert Sherman Center Auditorium
The annual Educational Recognition Awards ceremony is held as a means of reaffirming education as the founding and primary mission of the campus. The event is characterized by recognition of educational excellence in all three schools; a celebration of the collaboration among the three schools; and pride in the dedication, passion and creativity of faculty. Recipients are nominated and chosen by their faculty colleagues. Students also participate in the nominating process within the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing. The awards are presented by the deans of each school at an event held in the second half of the academic year.
The Last Lecture provides an educator the opportunity to share a message they would want to give students if they had only one lecture left to give. Medal recipients are nominated by the faculty and selected by the chancellor. Criteria for this honor include having fostered students’ personal, intellectual and professional development.
The 2025 Last Lecture will be presented by Mary Callery O’Brien, MD, recipient of the 2024 Chancellor’s Medal for Distinguished Teaching.
The 2025 Educational Recognition Award recipients
Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing
Dean’s Award
Teri Aronowitz, PhD, APRN, FNP-BC, FAAN
Clinical Education Award
GEP – Rebecca Hammond, MSN, RN
DNP - Tyler Warren, MSN, AG-ACNP
Student Education Award
Mary Antonelli, PhD, RN, MPH
Patient Educator Award
Robert Dyer
Ace Young
Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Dean’s Award
David Grunwald, PhD
Faculty Awards
Ann Rothstein, PhD
Io Long Chan, PhD
Flaviane Silva, PhD
Robert Brewster, PhD
Educational Service Award
Paul Greer, PhD
T.H. Chan School of Medicine
Dean’s Award: Lamar Soutter Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Medical Education
Heather-Lyn Haley, PhD
Deborah DeMarco Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education
Elizabeth A. Murphy, MD
Educational Achievement (Star) Awards
Ryan Tai, MD
Wissam Deeb, MD
Linda Long-Bellil, PhD, and Heather Finlay-Morreale, MD
Resident/Fellow Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education
Tenes Paul, DO
Chidubem Ezenna, MD
Student “Star” Award
Jenny LaPalme
Retired Faculty Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Medical Education
Scott Wellman, MD
Administrative/Specialized Staff Award
Michele Carlin