Women Faculty Forum honors six with excellence awards
The Women Faculty Forum honored six winners of the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Excellence Awards on July 23. (Photo by Dwight Andrews/Office of Communications)
The WFF Excellence Awards recognize outstanding contributions made by women faculty at the Medical School. Awards are given to professors at each level and are judged on research, clinical, and educational activities.
Winners of the Excellence in Clinical Science Award are Shira Goldstein, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine; Bindu Akkanti, MD, associate professor in the Department of Internal Medicine; and Susanna Spence, MD, professor in the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging. Winners of the Excellence in Research Award are Ji Young Yoo, PhD, assistant professor in the Vivian L. Smith Department of Neurosurgery; Kendra Carmon, PhD, associate professor at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine; and Irina Serysheva, PhD, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.