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 | | This year's Owl Club awards are special for Kevin Krane, left, vice dean for academic affairs at the Tulane School of Medicine, who received the top faculty prize, the Clifford Newman Student Advocacy Award. Congratulating him is Sara Dwyer, former Associated Student Body president and third-year medical student. |  | | The prestigious Outstanding Department trophy goes to the internal medicine department. Pat Delafontaine, left, professor and interim chair of the medicine department, and Elma LeDoux, center, associate professor, accept the award from Andrew Schutzbank, right, vice president of the Owl Club. |  | | Medical students, faculty, residents and staff members gather for the Owl Club awards celebration in the foyer of the renovated medical school building at 1430 Tulane Ave. (Photos by Krishna Raghavan) | |
As another year came to a conclusion at the Tulane University School of Medicine, medical students took time to honor the faculty, residents and staff who have helped them become future physicians.
The Owl Club held its annual awards ceremony on Friday (May 11) in the medical school auditorium, with a reception and banquet following the awards.
The medical students presented the top faculty prize, the Clifford Newman Student Advocacy Award, to N. Kevin Krane, vice dean for academic affairs, who was among those instrumental in keeping the medical school running through the year it was in exile in Houston after Hurricane Katrina.
This award honors the late Wiley Clifford Newman Jr., a physiologist and longtime associate dean of the medical school who won an Owl Club outstanding teaching award four times.
This year the medical school suffered a tragedy with the loss of Leon Weisberg, chief of the section of neurology. To honor his memory, the Owl Club created the Leon A. Weisberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching with the help of his wife, Laurie Weisberg. The first recipient of this award was Elma LeDoux, associate professor of cardiology. A former student of Weisberg's, she said she "could think of no higher honor than receiving an award in Dr. Weisberg's name."
"The Owl Club awards are a great chance for us, as students, to thank our faculty for their endless time and dedication. Students and faculty approach this event with great enthusiasm, as it is truly a celebration of everything that is wonderful about Tulane medical school," says Andrew Schutzbank, vice president of the Owl Club.
The annual Owl Club award winners are nominated and selected by the medical school class taught by the professors and residents.
First-year awards:
Professor of the year: Frank Jones Honorable Mention: Sandor Vigh Course of the year: Gross Anatomy Best course and director for distance learning: Neuroscience/Catherine Cusick
Second-year awards:
Best Professor: Craig Clarkson Best Class: Mechanisms of Disease Most likely to have been a hippie: Cindy Morris Person you would most likely call from jail: Jeff Wiese
Combined third- and fourth-year awards:
Inpatient & Outpatient Internal Medicine awards: Mark Hamblin and Patrick McDonald (attending physicians), Chad Miller (resident) Inpatient & Outpatient Surgery awards: Ralph Corsetti attending), Lance Burns (resident) Neurology: the late Leon Weisberg (attending), Jamie Huddleston (resident) Psychiatry: Alvin Rouchell (attending), Ira E. Gaddy (resident) Family Medicine: Jim Theis (attending) Pediatrics: Leron Finger (attending), Chris Joplin (resident) OB/Gyn: Chi Dola (attending), Nicole DeSimone (resident) Radiology: Alan Jacobson (attending), Sean Johnston (resident) ER : Bernard Hayman (attending) Weisberg Excellence in Clinical Teaching award: Elma LeDoux Coordinator of the Year: Roberta Cartaginese (Family Medicine) Office of Student Affairs/Medical Education Award: Rondel Frank Clerkship of the Year: Medicine
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