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2023 External Award Recipients – Medicine – Chicago

Chris Colbert
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine

  • Excellence in Education Award, American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians

Ekrem Emrah Er
Assistant Professor, Physiology and Biophysics

  • NIH MERIT Award

Xiaohong Joe
Professor, Radiology

  • President, American Board of Medical Physics

Jan Kitajewski
Professor & Department Head, Physiology and Biophysics

  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Pavitra Kotini-Shah
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine

  • Appointed to Congressional Delegation for Women’s Health Access Matters

Jennifer Lim
Professor, Ophthalmology

  • American Society of Retina Specialists Presidential Honor Award 2023

Janet Lin
Professor, Emergency Medicine

  • Appointed President, Chicago Board of Health

Pauline Maki
Professor, Psychiatry

  • Health Education Visionary Award, Society for Women’s Health Research

Heather Nixon
Professor, Anesthesiology

  • Distinguished Educator in Anesthesiology Award, American Society of Anesthesiologists and Society of Education in Anesthesia

Subhash Pandey
Professor, Psychiatry

  • Distinguished Researcher Award

Lucy Park
Visiting Associate Professor, Pediatrics

  • Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for Outstanding Curricular Book

Carol Podlasek
Associate Professor, Urology

  • Zorgniotti-Newman Award, International Society of Sexual Medicine (ISSM)

Mark Rasenick
Professor, Physiology & Biophysics and Psychiatry

  • President-Elect, American Brain Coalition

Damiano Rondelli
Professor, Medicine

  • Honorary Degree Doctorate, Universidad Mayor San Andres

Lijun Rong
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology

  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Trevonne Thompson
Professor, Emergency Medicine

  • Appointed to Board of Directors, American College of Medical Toxicology

Almudena Veiga-Lopez
Associate Professor, Pathology

  • Stephen B. Harris Mid-Career Scientist Award, Reproductive and Developmental Toxicology Specialty Section, Society of Toxicology

Christina Wells
Instructor, Family and Community Medicine

  • 2022 President’s Award, Illinois Academy of Family Physicians

Matthew Witthaus
Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine

  • Degree of Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians