The Faculty Executive Committee shall consider all matters of general concern to the Faculty. Bring before the Faculty any recommendations generated by it, by the other Standing Committees and by Special Committees of the Faculty. Make recommendations to the Faculty concerning the disposition of existing or new departments and organized divisions into groups defined in Article 4.0. Circulate to the Faculty all important motions at least two days in advance of the regular meeting of the Faculty. Act for the Faculty within the Bylaws and Regulations of the Faculty of the School of Medicine (PDF). All actions taken on behalf of the Faculty shall be reported to the Faculty at the next meeting. Appoint ad hoc committees as necessary.
There are five faculty award categories overseen by the Committee on Honors and Awards and the Committee on Research Affairs. The nomination period is open annually, between November - February/April (depending on the award). Full details on each award are available below.
The C. John Tupper Prize for Excellence in Teaching, is the highest teaching award given by the School of Medicine. Created by the founding dean of the UC Davis School of Medicine, this award is intended to recognize significant contributors to education.
The award is given by the School of Medicine for the educational contributions of a faculty member over a period of a career. The successful candidates may be characterized by a trajectory of sustained significant recognitions and /or may have been previously recognized (e.g, teaching awards) for their contributions to medical education at UC Davis School of Medicine. Since one of the important factors in the selection is that the awardee is widely recognized as an outstanding teacher, the Committee on Honors and Awards welcomes nominations from multiple constituencies, such as faculty, students, and staff.
Among the criteria used to judge nominees are:
Candidates may come from either clinical or basic science as well as administrative faculty within the School of Medicine. Teaching may include design of curricula in which the learning of all students is enhanced by sustained input into curricular development through contributions of time and skills.
Pre-proposal nomination letters of no more than two pages are being solicited from the faculty, alumni, staff, and students, and should describe the nominee’s qualifications, particularly those that set the candidate apart as a distinguished educator. Please include a Curriculum Vitae, teaching evaluations, contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion, and other pertinent documents. After a preliminary review, full nomination packets will be requested for the top nominees for consideration by the Committee on Honors and Awards.
Nomination submissions for the 2024 award are expected between November 2023 - February 2024.
Please send or email to:
Lao Thao
Office of Medical Education
School of Medicine
University of California, Davis
4610 X St., Suite 2101D
Sacramento, CA 95817
Tel: 916-734-3530
email: lythao@ucdavis.edu
The recipient of the C. John Tupper Prize for Excellence in Teaching will receive a plaque and a monetary honorarium, with announcement and presentation at the School of Medicine’s annual Senior and Faculty Awards Dinner.
2023 | Melody Hou, M.D., M.P.H. and Jennifer Plant, M.D., M.Ed. |
2022 | Mark Henderson, M.D., M.A.C.P. |
2021 | Heike Wulff, Ph.D. |
2020 | Ted Wun, M.D., F.A.C.P. |
2019 | John Richards, M.D., F.A.A.E.M., F.R.S.M. |
2018 | Karnjit K. Johl, M.D, F.A.C.P. |
2017 | Richard A. Marder, M.D. |
2016 | Thomas N. Blankenship, Ph.D. |
2015 | Colleen Sweeney, Ph.D. |
2014 | Anthony F. Jerant, M.D. |
2013 | Michael S. Wilkes, M.D., Ph.D. |
2012 | Lavjay Butani, M.D. |
2011 | James E. Goodnight, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. |
2010 | Mary K. Miller, Pharm. D., M.D. |
2009 | Mark Servis, M.D. |
2008 | Regina Gandour-Edwards, M.D. |
2007 | Richard Tucker, Ph.D. |
2006 | Douglas Gross, M.D., Ph.D. |
2005 | Vijaya Kumari, M.B.B.S., Ph.D. |
2004 | Stuart Cohen, M.D. |
2003 | Paul G. Fitzgerald, Ph.D. |
2002 | Ezra Amsterdam, M.D. |
2001 | John Anderson, M.D. |
2000 | James Holcroft, M.D. |
1999 | Arun Rangaswami, M.D. |
1998 | David H. Wisner, M.D. |
1997 | John T. Owings, M.D. |
1996 | Faith T. Fitzgerald, M.D. |
1995 | James Holcroft, M.D. |
1994 | F. William Blaisdell, M.D. |
The Hibbard Williams Award for Extraordinary Achievement recognizes contributions made to the School of Medicine’s mission that do not fall clearly into the categories of either teaching or research. This award recognizes a broad range of contributions such as public service, academic achievements that bring distinction to the university, raising its profile at a national or international level, etc. These contributions may be either singular in nature, or they may represent a long-term achievement in a particular arena. Above all, the contribution(s) must be truly exceptional. As such, the award may not be given every year, or may, on occasion, be awarded to more than one individual in a single year. Recipients of this award receive it only once.
This award requires a 1- to 2-page pre-proposal nomination that summarizes the candidate's accomplishments, trajectory, contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion, and curriculum vitae. The Committee on Honors and Awards will consider all nominations. Those appearing to be of sufficient merit will trigger a request for more documentation from each of the nominators. Because the nature of the nominees’ contributions will vary, the exact nature of the documentation will be decided on a case-by-case basis. Pre-proposal nominations may be submitted to the Committee on Honors and Awards at any time; those received after the deadline will be considered in the next awards cycle.
Nomination submissions for the 2024 award are expected between November 2023 - February 2024.
Please send or email to:
Lao Thao
Office of Medical Education
School of Medicine
University of California, Davis
4610 X St., Suite 2101D
Sacramento, CA 95817
Tel: 916-734-3530
email: lythao@ucdavis.edu
The recipient will be selected by the Committee on Honors and Awards with consultation from the Dean of the School of Medicine and announced at the School of Medicine’s annual Senior and Faculty Awards Dinner. This award is a plaque and monetary honorarium.
2023 | Craig McDonald, M.D. |
2022 | Timothy Albertson, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. and Randi Hagerman, M.D., F.A.A.P. |
2021 | Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D. and Diana L. Farmer, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S. |
2020 | Nathan Kuppermann, M.D., M.P.H. |
2019 | Sally Rogers, Ph.D. |
2018 | Klea Bertakis, M.D., M.P.H. |
2017 | Reen Wu, Ph.D. |
2016 | Frederick J. Meyers, M.D., M.A.C.P. |
2015 | Thomas S. Nesbitt, M.D., M.P.H. and Joseph Silva, Jr., M.D., M.A.C.P. |
2014 | Mark J. Mannis, M.D. |
2013 | Kit S. Lam, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P. |
2012 | J. Nilas Young, M.D. |
2011 | Douglas S. Gross, M.D., Ph.D. |
2010 | Ezra Amsterdam, M.D. and David G. Greenhalgh, M.D., F.A.C.S. |
2009 | Fitz-Roy Curry, Ph.D. |
2008 | Robert Hales, M.D., M.B.A. and Amparo Villablanca, M.D. |
2007 | Neil Flynn, M.D. |
2006 | Faith Fitzgerald, M.D. |
Since 1975, the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals have supported annual awards for excellence in teaching at the UC Davis School of Medicine and affiliated hospitals. Faculty recipients receive a plaque and a generous monetary award of $1,200 each.
There are three awards presented annually at the Senior and Faculty Awards Banquet:
Undergraduate medical students, residents, and full-time faculty members are eligible to make nominations in one or more of the award categories.
Characteristics to be considered in making nominations should include enthusiasm, sincere interest in and willingness to help students and residents, ability to motivate learning, quality of lectures and teaching aids, contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion, quality of clinical (bedside) teaching, and (where appropriate) the demonstrated ability to serve as a model clinician.
These preliminary nominations are limited to all faculty members with a record of sustained excellence (>3 years) in all phases of teaching medical students. The top three nominees in each category will be placed on a ballot and resubmitted to the students. A faculty member who has received this award in the past four years is not eligible. The recipients for the last four years are listed as follows:
Year | Basic Science | Clinical Science | Volunteer Clinical Faculty |
2023 | Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, M.D. | Shubha Ananthakrishnan, M.D. | Ronald Jan, M.D. |
2022 | Hana Anderson, Ph.D. | Rachael Lucatorto, M.D. | Julie Westberg, M.D. |
2020 | Colleen Sweeney, Ph.D. | Melody Hou, M.D., M.P.H. | Jeffrey Skilling, M.D. |
The generosity of the Kaiser Foundation Hospitals permits us to recognize the teaching contributions of our faculty, please carefully consider responding to this request for nominees. Nominators may nominate one candidate in each of the three categories, but nominating an individual in every category is not required. If a nominee is listed in an incorrect category by mistake, their name will be moved to the correct category.
The 2024 nomination form will be available here in January.
The combined nominees received will be submitted to the student body for election of awardees in each category.
Nomination submissions for the 2024 award are expected between January - March 2024.
Submit the complete form to: Committee on Honors and Awards (Attn. Lao Thao), email: lythao@ucdavis.edu
The Joan Oettinger Memorial Award is in honor of Joan Oettinger who was a UC Davis graduate student who died of lung cancer in July 1970. Her husband, Martin, was a senior lecturer in economics at UC Davis before his death in 1986. This award is presented annually during the UC Davis School of Medicine Spring General Faculty Meeting.
Nomination Process:
Nominations must be submitted electronically as one PDF packet and include the following:
Nomination submissions for the 2024 award are expected between January - April 2024.
Submit the completed packet electronically to: the Committee on Research Affairs, email: HS-FEC@ucdavis.edu
2023 | William Murphy, Ph.D. | Dermatology, Internal Medicine |
2022 | Arta Monjazeb, M.D., Ph.D. | Radiation Oncology |
2020 | David Cooke, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
2020 | Diana Miglioretti, Ph.D. | Internal Medicine |
2018 | Angela Haczku, M.D., Ph.D. | Internal Medicine |
2017 | Tzipora Goldkorn, Ph.D. | Internal Medicine |
2016 | Kermit Carraway, Ph.D. | Biological Chemistry and Molecular Medicine |
2015 | Primo Lara Jr., M.D. | Internal Medicine |
2014 | Amir Zeki, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
2014 | Michael Schivo, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
2013 | Joshua Fenton, M.D, Ph.D. | Family and Community Medicine |
2012 | Nicholas Kenyon, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
2011 | Susanna Park, M.D., Ph.D. | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences |
2010 | Hongwu Chen, Ph.D. | Biological Chemistry and Molecular Medicine |
2009 | Scott Hundahl, M.D. | Surgery |
2008 | Su Hao Lo, Ph.D. | Biological Chemistry and Molecular Medicine |
2007 | Richart Harper, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
2006 | Hsing-Jien Kung, Ph.D. | Biological Chemistry and Molecular Medicine |
2005 | Fu-Tong Liu, M.D., Ph.D. | Dermatology |
2004 | Robert Weiss, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
2003 | Susan Murin, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
2002 | Paul Gumerlock, Ph.D. | Internal Medicine |
2001 | Derick Lau, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
2000 | Gerald DeNardo, M.D. | Radiology |
2000 | Sally DeNardo, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
1999 | Albert van der Vliet, Ph.D. | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
1998 | David Gandara, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
1995 | Jesse Joad, M.D. | Pediatrics |
1993 | Reen Wu, Ph.D. | Internal Medicine |
1992 | John Keltner, M.D. | Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences |
1991 | Ralph deVere White, M.D. | Urology |
1990 | Anthony Cheung, Ph.D. | Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
1989 | Frederick Meyers, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
1988 | E. Eric Gershwin, M.D. | Internal Medicine |
1987 | Jerry Lewis, M.D. | |
1986 | Robert Rucker, M.D. | |
1985 | Lucien Jacobs, M.B.B.S. | |
1984 | Karen Reiser, M.D. | Neurological Surgery |
1983 | Jerold Last, Ph.D. | Internal Medicine |
1980 | Demosthenes Pappagianis, M.D., Ph.D. | Medical Microbiology and Immunology |
1979 | Jerold Last, Ph.D. | Internal Medicine |
1978 | Elliott Goldstein, M.D. | |
1977 | Carroll Cross, M.D. | Physiology and Membrane Biology |
The School of Medicine Research Award is given to a School of Medicine faculty member in recognition of outstanding contributions to biomedical science and medicine through laboratory or clinical research. The awardee will receive an award of $350 and $15,000 for support of a research fellow. Candidates will be evaluated by the Committee for Research Affairs.
Nomination Process:
Nominations must be submitted electronically as one PDF packet and include the following:
Nomination submissions for the 2024 award are expected between January - April 2024.
Submit the completed packet electronically to: the Committee on Research Affairs, email: HS-FEC@ucdavis.edu
2023 | Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, M.D. |
2023 | Ramsey Badawi, Ph.D. |
2018 | Fred Meyers, M.D., M.A.C.P. |
2018 | Charles DeCarli, M.D., Ph.D. |
2017 | Diana Miglioretti, Ph.D. |
2016 | William Murphy, Ph.D. |
2016 | Nathan Kuppermann, M.D. |
2015 | Charles Bevins, Ph.D. |
2014 | Alice Tarantal, Ph.D. |
2013 | Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Ph.D., M.P.H. |
2013 | Andreas Baumler, Ph.D. |
2012 | Donald Bers, Ph.D. |
2011 | Ralph deVere White, M.B.B.Ch., B.A.O. |
2011 | Paul Hagerman, M.D., Ph.D. |
2010 | Ezra Amsterdam, M.D. |
2008 | Sally Rogers, Ph.D. |
2007 | Ebenezer Yamaoah, M.D. |
2006 | Kit Lam, Ph.D. |
2005 | Garen Wintemute, M.D. |
2005 | Hsing-Jien Kung, Ph.D. |
2004 | Randi Hagerman, M.D. |
2004 | Anthony Cheung, Ph.D. |
2002 | Saul Schaefer, M.D. |
2001 | John Boone, Ph.D. |
2000 | Hanspeter Witsch, M.D. |
1999 | Marc Kaufman, Ph.D. |
1998 | Irwin Feinberg, M.D. |
1997 | Richard Kravitz, M.D. |
1996 | Reen Wu, Ph.D. |
1994 | Eugene Renkin, Ph.D. |
1993 | Blaine Beaman, Ph.D. |
1992 | Richard Chole, M.D., Ph.D. |
1991 | Stanley Meizel, Ph.D. |
1990 | Jerold Last, Ph.D. |
1989 | Fitz-Roy Curry, Ph.D. |
1988 | Robert Cardiff, M.D., Ph.D. |
1987 | Charles Halsted, M.D. |
1986 | Vincent Ziboh, M.D. |
1985 | M. Eric Gershwin, M.D. |
1984 | Murray Gardner, M.D. |
1983 | Donald Walsh, Ph.D. |
1980 | John Hershey, Ph.D. |
1979 | Carroll Cross, M.D. |
1979 | M. Eric Gershwin, M.D. |
1978 | Dean Mason, M.D. |
1977 | Eliezer Benjamini, Ph.D. |
1977 | Charles Abidgaard, M.D. |
1976 | Robert Traut, Ph.D. |
Pharmacology
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Otolaryngology
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Pharmacology
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Internal Medicine
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Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
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