BUSM Faculty and Staff Awards & Commencement Speaker Announced

Honoring the outstanding service of faculty and staff members of Boston University School of Medicine is an important aspect of BUSM. Dean Karen Antman, MD announced the 2015 awards at the BUSM faculty meeting on Thursday, May 7. The faculty awards are being presented at the 2015 BUSM Commencement on Saturday, May 16, and the Office of Academic Affairs Awards are being presented at John McCahan Education Day on Wednesday, May 20. She also shared the 2015 Commencement speaker.

Stanley L. Robbins Award for Excellence in Teaching
Lorraine Stanfield, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Committee on Faculty Affairs Educator of the Year Awards

Educator of the Year in Preclinical Sciences
Judith D. Saide, PhD
Associate Professor of Physiology & Biophysics

Educator of the Year in Clinical Sciences
Jane E. Mendez, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery

Educator of the Year in Graduate Medical Sciences,
Master’s Degree Programs
Maryann MacNeil, MA
Instructor of Anatomy & Neurobiology

Educator of the Year in Graduate Medical Sciences,
Doctoral Degree Programs
C. James McKnight, PhD
Associate Professor of Physiology & Biophysics

Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award
Tracey A. Dechert, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery

Office of Academic Affairs Voluntary Faculty Award of Excellence
Louis D. Fiore, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology

Office of Academic Affairs Excellence in Service Award
Jodie Trainor
Administrative and Financial Manager

BUSM Commencement Speaker

Howard Bauchner, MD
Editor-in-Chief of JAMA

Dr. Bauchner, is the Editor-in-Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association. Named in 2011, he is the journal’s 16th editor.

Prior to being named JAMA Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Bauchner was a professor of pediatrics and community health sciences at Boston University. He served as the vice chairman of the department of pediatrics at BMC/BUSM and assistant dean, alumni affairs and continuing medical education at BUSM. He was the editor-in-chief of the Archives of Disease in Childhood, the official publication of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in the United Kingdom. He was the first U.S.-based editor of that journal. He has participated on many editorial boards, including currently for the British Medical Journal and Journal Watch. Dr. Bauchner has published more than 125 papers in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include health promotion, clinical trials and quality improvement.