2025 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the 2025 winners of the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards. May is designated as teaching excellence month for McGovern Medical School.
New to the awards in 2025 is a shifted focus toward junior faculty. Senior faculty who have been awarded the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards five or more times have been designated as Esteemed Educators and are no longer eligible for the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards.
Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awardees 2024-25
Anesthesiology
Kendra Brown, MD
Janefrances Egbosiuba, MD
Rhashedah Ekeoduru, MD
Kristin Falce, MD
Christina Goehl, MD
John Gray, MD
Jamal Hasoon, MD
Hayden Jefferies, DO
Sean Kelly, MD
Sabina Khan, MD
Haw Yu Lin, MD
Daniela Magdaleno Montero, MD
Sanjana Malviya, MD
Osamudiamen Obanor, MD
Onyi Onuoha, MD
Barbara Orlando, MD
Tolulope Oso, MD
Aubrey Samost-Williams, MD
Vishwas Seshachellam, DO
Ashley Upton, MD
Naveen Vanga, MD
Danielle White, MD
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Askar Akimzhanov, PhD
Kuang-Lei Tsai, PhD
Seung-Hee Yoo, PhD
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Steve Eisenberg, MD
Robert Hetz, MD
Kourosh Keyhani, DO
Philip Rascoe, MD
Naveed Saqib, MBBS
Shihuan Wang, MD
Dermatology
Megan Rogge, MD
Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Abeer Abdelhafez, MD, PhD
Shahroz Aziz, MD
Kiran Chang, MBBS
Bo Chen, MD
Naga Ramesh Chinapuvvula, MBBS
Steven Chua, MD, PhD
Nikoo Fattahi, MD
Ching Mei Feng, PhD
Ernest Fonocho, MD
Jose Gavito-Higuera, MDTianliang Gu, PhD
Joseph Hasapes, MD
Katrina Hughes, MD
Erika Odisio, MD
Rohan Samant, MBBS
Mohamed Shahin, MD
Hongyu Wang, MD, PhD
Emergency Medicine
Hamzah Abduljabar, MD
Jeffrey Chen, MD
Diego Craik Tobar, MD
Jessica Dunn, MD
Akshay Elagandhala, MD
Brandy Ferguson, MD
Kayleigh Fischer, MD
Michael Garcia, MD
Jasmine Ginn, MD
Christine Ju, MD
Katheryn Larimore, MD
Thomas McCarty, MD
Ezenwa Onyema, MD
Shreyans Sanghvi, MD
Michael Vu, MD
Shabana Walia, MD
Daniel Wang, MD
Family and Community Medicine
Olasunkanmi Adeyinka, MBBS
Nathan Bender, MD
George Golod, MD
Brian Hite, MD
Tariq Mansoor, MBBS
German Martinez-Gamba, MD
Mihir Parikh, MD
Anam Rajput, MD
Behrooz Saffari, MD
Irvin Sulapas, MD
Rod Turner, MD
Joaquin Villegas Inurrigarro, MD
Krystina Yu, DO
Elena Zamora, MD
Institute of Molecular Medicine
Myriam Fornage, PhD
Mikhail Kolonin, PhD
Ali Marian, MD
Vihang Narkar, PhD
Kai Sun, B.M., PhD
Sheng Zhang, PhD
Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Hyun-Eui Kim, PhD
Dung-Fang Lee, PhD
Yang Liu, PhD
Travis Moore, PhD
Yong Zhou, PhD
Internal Medicine
Nuzha Amjad, MD
Divya Bhamidipati, MD
Karthik Bhandari, MD
Brooks Cash, MD
Amit Correa, MBBS
Akshar Dash, MD
Paula Debroy Monzon, MD
Puja Gandhi, MD
William Harding, MD
Elizabeth Holt, MD
Carissa Huq, MD
Bochra Jandali, MD
Jaya Kala, MBBS
Tarif Khair, MD
Ariana Klein, MD
Richard Kulmacz, PhD
Christopher Leung, MD
Neha Maithel, MD
Barani Mayilvaganan, MD
Emma Napoli, MD
Maulin Patel, MD
Rex Paulino, MD
Gloria Salazar Cintora, MD
Ranya Selim, MD
Gautam Sikka, MD
Mahalia Smith, MD
Sara Taveras Alam, MD
Katherine Terracina, MD
Victoriano Valdez, MD
Matthew van Norman, DO
Angelique Wong, MD
Michael Zhu, MD
Ali Ziaolhagh, MD
McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics
Joelle Robertson-Preidler, PhD
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Nicholas De Lay, PhD
Anna Konovalova, PhD
Jennifer Walker, PhD
Neurobiology and Anatomy
Michael Beierlein, PhD
Fabricio Do Monte, DVM, PhD
Shin Nagayama, PhD
Andrea Stavoe, PhD
Neurology
Aidan Azher, MD
David Babitt, MD
Pedro Balaguera Cuervo, MD
Melissa Christie, MD
Kyrillos Eskander, MD
Salman Farooq, MD
Jay Gavvala, MD
Rajesh Gupta, MBBS
Katherine Harris, MD
Ashutosh Kaushal, MD
Khalid Khalid, MD
Christina Kim, MD
Gab Seok Kim, PhD
Xiaojin Li, PhD
Sishir Mannava, MD
Narges Moghimi, MD
Kimberly Monday, MD
Rodrigo Morales, PhD
Maria Parekh, MD
Andrey Tsvetkov, PhD
Akihiko Urayama, PhD
Neurosurgery
Spiros Blackburn, MD
HuiMahn Choi, MD
Walid Ibn Essayed, MD
Ryan Kitagawa, MD
Jessica Stark, MD
Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
Ahmed Abouseif, MD
Farah Amro, MD
Diego Aviles, MD
Olivia Dziadek, MD
Aya Mohr Sasson Mohr, MD
Alvaro Montealegre, MD
Catherine Moody, MD
Ahmed Salaheldin Zaki Moustafa, MD
Rachel Newman, MD
Ciera Oshodi, MD
Jacqueline Parchem, MD
Keith Riggs, MD
Aaron Roberts, MD
Mary Rysavy, MD
Megan Shepherd, MD
Irene Stafford, MD
Carol Tran-Cao, MD
Ophthalmology
Ying Chen, MD
Ruchi Shah, MD
Orthopedic Surgery
Catherine Ambrose, PhD
John Conway, MD
Jonathan Eastman, MD
Steven Flores, MD
Adam Freedhand, MD
Taggart Gauvain, MD
Michael Greaser, MD
James Gregory, MD
Patrick Kellam, MD
Eric Klineberg, MD
Surya Mundluru, MD
David Rodriguez-Quintana, MD
Otorhinolaryngology
Ron Karni, MD
Vivian Kaul, MD
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Suhair Al Salihi, MD
Yasir Ali, MD
Brian Cheng, MD
Mahmoud Elsayad, MD
Nnaemeka Ibeh, DO
Brenda Mai, MD
Pediatric Surgery
Jason Au, MD
Danielle Hsu, MD
Allison Speer, MD
Pediatrics
Roukaya Al Hammoud, MD
Haitham Al-Wahab, MD
Catherine Beaullieu, MD
Bibek Bista, MD
Charles Boren, DO
Fatima Boricha, MBBS
Monica Bray, MD
Asha Davidson, MD
Leslie Dunnington, MS
Laura Farach, MD
Tina Findley, MD
Stuart Fraser, MD
Ashley Gibson, MD
Ansam Hasan, MD
Elizabeth Hillman, MD
Jennifer Kinney, MD
Melissa Kwan, MD
Tu Mai, MD
Vershanna Morris, MD
Supriya Nair, MD
Vinay Prabhu, MBBS
Dalilah Reyes De Jesus, MD
Paige Roberts, MS, RD, LD
Kristina Tebo, MD
Nathan Valenti, MD
Ashley Webb, MD
Sarah Wilson, MD
Prajakta Yeragi, MBBS
Ramia Zakhour, MD
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Elaine Magat, MD
Michael Nguyen, MD
Kemly Philip, MD
Ryan Stork, MD
Kristin Varacalli, DO
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Zachary Appenzeller, PsyD
Dean Atkinson, MD
Taiwo Babatope, MD
Kawal Bir, MB, BS
Luis Fernandez-Wische, MD
Gabriel Fries, PhD
Madeline Gabe, MD
Omar Gonzales, MD
Jane Hamilton, PhD
Umair Hemani, DO
Martin Huynh, MD
Seema Jacob, PsyD
Brandi Karnes, MD
Tyler Kimm, MD
Matthew King, MD
Micah Knobles, MD
Olaniyi Olayinka, MD
Ayotomide Oyelakin, MBBS
Nicholas Patniyot, MD
Anilkumar Pillai, PhD
Marsal Sanches, MD, PhD
Cesar Soutullo, MD, PhD
Andrea Taylor, PhD
Consuelo Walss-Bass, PhD
Surgery
Colton Cowling, MD
Ekatarina Elliot, DO
Julie Holihan, MD
David Meyer, MD
Krislynn Mueck, MD
Michael Wandling, MD
Esteemed Educators – Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awardees 2024-25
Anesthesiology
Daniel An, DO
Carlos Artime, MD
Lauren Brollier, MD
Amy Graham-Carlson, MD
Sara Guzman-Reyes, MD
Rishi Kumar, MD
Travis Markham, MD
Katherine Normand, MD
Omonele Nwokolo, MD
Olga Pawelek, MD
Paul Potnuru, MD
Colleen Rodriguez, MD
Madhumani Rupasinghe, MD
Srikanth Sridhar, MD
George Williams, MD
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phillip Carpenter, PhD
Vasanthi Jayaraman, PhD
Wenbo Li, PhD
John Putkey, PhD
Dermatology
Steven Mays, MD
Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Nicholas Beckmann, MD
Eliana Bonfante-Mejia, MD
Miguel Fabrega, MD
Emma Ferguson, MD
Manickam Kumaravel, MBBS
Eduardo Matta, MD
Jennifer McCarty, MD
Daniel Ocazionez Trujillo, MD
Latifa Sanhaji, MD
Clark Sitton, MD
Susanna Spence, MD
Patricia Svolos, PhD
Emergency Medicine
Amee Amin, MD
Salil Bhandari, MD
Michael Boyars, MD
Benjamin Cooper, MD
Hilary Fairbrother, MD
Carolyn Gardiner, MD
Adeola Kosoko, MD
Robert Lapus, MD
Samuel Luber, MD
Sara Miller, MD
Nnaemeka Okafor, MD
Daniel Ostermayer, MD
Kunal Sharma, MD
Gowri Stevens, MD
Katrin Takenaka, MD
Michael Van Meter, MD
Jessica Wilson, MD
Family and Community Medicine
Michael Altman, MD
Pedro Aquino, MD
Justin Balla, MD
Shira Goldstein, MD
Deepa Iyengar, MBBS
Naveen Mahmood, MD
Vijaya Mallela, MD
Shrabanee Mitra, MBBS
Phuc Duc Nguyen, MD
Thomas Northrup, PhD
Bal Reddy, MD
Yu Wah, MBBS
Carman Whiting, MD
Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Abebe Alemayehu, PhD
Shane Cunha, PhD
Catherine Denicourt, PhD
Carmen Dessauer, PhD
Guangwei Du, PhD
Jeffrey Frost, PhD
Oleh Pochynyuk, PhD
Kartik Venkatachalam, PhD
Edgar Walters, PhD
Internal Medicine
Rodeo Abrencillo, MD
Gabriel Aisenberg, MD
Bindu Akkanti, MD
Ben Barnett, MD
Konstantinos Charitakis, MD
Sujith Cherian, MBBS
Kha Dinh, MD
Akinsan Dosekun, MBBS
Pratik Doshi, MD
Andrew DuPont, MD
Charles Ericsson, MD
Rosa Maria Estrada-Y-Martin, MD
Mark Farnie, MD
Kevin Finkel, MD
John Foringer, MD
Francisco Fuentes, MD
Anneliese Gonzalez, MD
Rukma Govindu, MBBS
Absalon Gutierrez, MD
Katie Guttenberg, MD
Caroline Ha, MD
John Higgins, MBBS
Modupe Idowu, MD
Pushan Jani, MBBS
Philip Johnson, MD
Nils Johnson, MD
Mubeen Khan, MD
Bruce Kone, MD
Susan Laing, MD
Ruckshanda Majid, MBBS
Reeba Mathew, MBBS
Brandy McKelvy, MD
Donald Molony, MD
Cristina Murdock, MD
Philip Orlander, MD
Bela Patel, MD
Monica Patel, MD
Siddharth Prakash, MD, PhD
Nahid Rianon, MBBS, PhD
Lilit Sargsyan, MD
Neel Shah, MD
Filemon Tan, MD, PhD
Jade Teakell, MD, PhD
Poyee Tung, MD
Karen Vigil, MD
Dia Rose Waguespack, MD
Mark Warner, MD
Robby Wesley, DO
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Ronald Mackenzie, PhD
Heidi Kaplan, PhD
Michael Lorenz, PhD
Neurobiology and Anatomy
Nachum Dafny, PhD
Pramod Dash, PhD
Daniel Felleman, PhD
Claire Hulsebosch, PhD
Nobuhide Kobori, MD, PhD
David Marshak, PhD
Han Zhang, MD
Jing Zhao, BM (MD), PhD
Neurology
Suur Biliciler, MD
Shivika Chandra, MBBS
Erin Furr Stimming, MD
Amanda Jagolino-Cole, MD
John Lincoln, MD, PhD
Thy Nguyen, MD
Mya Schiess, MD
Shaun Smart, MD
Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Pamela Berens, MD
Asha Bhalwal, MBBS
Jenny Duret-Uzodinma, MD
Julie Gutierrez, MD
Sara Holcombe, DO
Randa Jalloul, MD
Elizabeth Nugent, MD
Lavanya Palavalli Parsons, MD
Ramesha Papanna, MBBS
Pamela Promecene, MD
Karen Schneider, MD
Eugene Toy, MD
Ophthalmology
Grace Lindhorst, MD
Orthopedic Surgery
Timothy Achor, MD
Andrew Choo, MD
Lindsay Crawford, MD
Allen Criswell, MD
Shah-Nawaz Dodwad, MD
Robert Fullick, MD
James Kellam, MD
Matthew Koepplinger, DO
Alfred Mansour, MD
Stacey Martin, MD
Kenneth Mathis, MD
Wade McAlister, MD
William McGarvey, MD
John Munz, MD
Milton Routt, MD
Stephen Warner, MD, PhD
Kyle Woerner, MD
Shiraz Younas, MBBS
Otorhinolaryngology
Ibrahim Alava, MD
William Yao, MD
Sancak Yuksel, MD
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Yu Bai, MB, PhD
Diane Edmondson, PhD
Rhonda Ghorbani, MD
Nghia Nguyen, MD
Karan Saluja, MBBS
Amanda Tchakarov, MD
Md Wahed, MBBS
Priya Weerasinghe, MD, PhD
Yu Helen Zhang, MD
Pediatric Surgery
Mary Austin, MD
Matthew Harting, MD
Manish Shah, MD
Kuojen Tsao, MD
Pediatrics
Chiamaka Aneji, MBBS
Myla Ashfaq, MS
Autumn Atkinson, MD
Rebecca Beyda, MD
Michael Chang, MD
John Chapman, MD
Lisa De Ybarrondo, MD
Monaliza Evangelista, MD
Jose Garcia, MD
Amalia Guardiola, MD
Gloria Heresi, MD
Paul Hillman, MD, PhD
Mark Hormann, MD
Essam Imseis, MD
Cindy Jon, MD
Ankur Kamdar, MD
Amir Khan, MBBS
Suzanne Lopez, MD
Ann Marshburn, MD
Neethu Menon, MBBS
Shadé Moody, MD
Ricardo Mosquera, MD
Hope Northrup, MD
Kristine O’Connor, MD
Emma Omoruyi, MD
Susan Pacheco, MD
Norma Pérez, DO
Nidra Rodriguez, MD
Nunilo Rubio, MD
Joyce Samuel, MD
Joshua Samuels, MD
Keely Smith, MD
Nivedita Thakur, MD
Melissa Van Arsdall, MD
Robert Yetman, MD
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Nikola Dragojlovic, DO
Christopher Falco, MD
Joel Frontera, MD
Stacey Hall, DO
Ajai Sambasivan, MD
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Elaheh Ashtari, PsyD
Jonathan Findley, MD
Silvia Hafliger, MD
Gregory Hestla, MD
Vineeth John, MBBS
Katherine Loveland, PhD
Caesa Nagpal, MBBS
Bobby Nix, MD
Deborah Pearson, PhD
Teresa Pigott, MD
Cynthia Santos, MD
Lokesh Shahani, MBBS
Michael Weaver, MD
Surgery
Sasha Adams, MD
Kulvinder Bajwa, MD
Farzaneh Banki, MD
Daniel Freet, MD
John Harvin, MD
Todd Huzar, MD
Lillian Kao, MD
Saleem Khan, MBBS
Melina McCarty, MD
Stefanos Millas, MD
Thaddeus Puzio, MD
Emily Robinson, MD
Tamara Saunders, MD
Shinil Shah, DO
James Wallace, MD
Todd Wilson, MD