Back row: Dennis S. Charney, MD, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System, right, and Joanne Stone, MD, MS, Faculty Council President and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, left, presided over the Faculty Awards ceremony. Honorees included, front row, from left: Lauren Peccoralo, MD, MPH; Jeffrey Laitman, PhD; Christina Weltz, MD; Nathan Kase, MD; and Chitra Upadhyay, PhD; back row, starting second from left: Juan Wisnivesky, MD, DrPH; Madhav Menon, MD; Gaelle Doucet, PhD; Florian Krammer, PhD; and Ari Greenspan, MD.
The annual Faculty Awards ceremony recently recognized 14 outstanding physicians, researchers, and educators of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Honorees included senior faculty who have made significant contributions to Mount Sinai and to their fields, as well as junior faculty who have demonstrated exceptional potential in the early stages of their careers in medicine and science.
The Honorees:
Faculty Council Lifetime Achievement Awards: Nathan Kase, MD, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science; and Jeffrey Laitman, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Medical Education
Faculty Council Senior Faculty Awards: Andrew Hecht, MD (Orthopedics); Florian Krammer, PhD (Microbiology); Christina Weltz, MD (Surgery); and Juan Wisnivesky, MD, DrPH (Medicine)
Faculty Council Junior Faculty Awards: Lauren Peccoralo, MD, MPH (Medicine); and Junqian Xu,PhD (Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology)
Dr. Harold and Golden Lamport Research Awards (Basic Research): Ian Maze, PhD (Neuroscience); and Chitra Upadhyay, PhD (Medicine); (Clinical Research): Gaelle Doucet, PhD (Psychiatry); and Madhav Menon, MD (Medicine)
Solomon Silver Award in Clinical Medicine: Ari Greenspan, MD (Medicine)
Special Faculty Council Award of Appreciation: Tanvir Choudhri, MD (Neurosurgery)