Dean's Awards | Faculty Development | UC Davis Health

The Dean's Award for Excellence recognizes outstanding faculty contributions in the core mission areas of research, education, clinical care and community engagement.

The purpose of the award is to reward the outstanding performance of a faculty member (Academic Federation or Academic Senate) and to acknowledge their contribution as a transformative leader in our collegial community. The nominee’s efforts must clearly contribute to UC Davis Health being a destination of choice to all those we serve.

The award categories are:

• Education – provides outstanding learning opportunities for students
• Research – leader in innovative research, making high-impact discoveries
• Clinical Care – provides high-quality patient-oriented services
• Community Engagement – enhances the qualify of life of our local and regional communities (Community organizations are also welcome to submit nominations for faculty who have demonstrated transformative leadership qualities in the community.)

The Dean's Award for Inclusive Excellence recognizes outstanding faculty contributions in the areas of research, education, clinical care and community engagement.

The purpose of the award is to reward the outstanding performance of an Academic Federation or Academic Senate faculty member and to acknowledge their contribution as fostering inclusive excellence in our collegial community.

The award categories are:

• Education – provides outstanding learning opportunities by utilizing innovative teaching methods that integrate inclusive and health equity principles into their curriculum development and teaching
• Research – makes high-impact discoveries that focus on reducing/eliminating health inequities
• Clinical Care – provides high-quality, patient-oriented, culturally-responsive care services
• Community Engagement – enhances the quality of life of our local and regional communities by demonstrating a drive to reduce/eliminate health inequities (Community organizations are also welcome to submit nominations for faculty who have demonstrated transformative leadership qualities in the community.)

A mentor plays a critical role in the successful development of others to realize their full academic potential. However, often an individual’s effort to provide mentorship is not reflected or adequately recognized in the mentor’s professional record.

The goal of this award is to recognize and reward School of Medicine faculty (Academic Federation and Academic Senate) who excel in mentoring and thus contribute to the success of our faculty and UC Davis Health. We wish to focus recognition of this activity on those mentors that have specifically helped early career faculty to succeed.

Faculty at the level of Associate Professor and Full Professor are eligible to be nominated for this award. The mentoring awards recognize excellence in teaching, clinical care or research mentoring.

We encourage multiple nominations to be submitted for individual nominees, including from mentees, if possible. Nominations that include multiple perspectives are encouraged and helpful to the review committee in reviewing nominations.

The purpose of the Dean's Team Award for Excellence is to acknowledge outstanding, high-performing, multidisciplinary team efforts and approaches that contribute to advancing our mission. The multidisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary team model should embody and exemplify a sustainable collaborative approach that aligns our collegial community with our mission of providing excellent patient care, conducting groundbreaking research, fostering innovative, interprofessional education, and creating dynamic, productive partnerships within the community. The team's efforts must clearly contribute to UC Davis Health being a destination of choice to all those we serve.

The mission categories are:

• Education – provides outstanding learning opportunities for students
• Research – leader in innovative research, making high-impact discoveries
• Clinical Care – provides high-quality patient-oriented services
• Community Engagement – enhances the qualify of life of our local and regional communities (Community organizations are welcome to submit letters of support.)

The purpose of the Dean's Team Award for Inclusive Excellence is to acknowledge outstanding, high-performing, multidisciplinary team efforts and approaches that contribute to advancing inclusive excellence. The multidisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary team model should embody and exemplify a sustainable, collaborative and inclusive approach that aligns our collegial community with our mission of discovering and sharing knowledge to advance health. In the spirit of inclusive excellence, the team’s efforts must clearly contribute to UC Davis Health being a destination of choice to all those we serve.

The categories for this award are:

• Education – provides equitable access to outstanding learning opportunities for personal and professional growth that integrate inclusive and health equity principles
• Research –makes high-impact discoveries that focus on reducing/eliminating health inequities for the communities we serve
• Clinical Care – provides high-quality, patient-oriented, culturally-responsive care services
• Community Engagement – enhances the quality of life of our local and regional diverse communities (Community organizations are also welcome to submit nominations.)