Meet the 2024 John S. Perkins Award Winners
Recipients of this year’s awards honoring staff members for exceptional service to the BU include Richard Vezina, associate director of the Slone Epidemiology Center.
Recipients of this year’s awards honoring staff members for exceptional service to the BU include Richard Vezina, associate director of the Slone Epidemiology Center.
Benjamin is this year’s recipient of the AHA’s Louis B. Russell Jr. Memorial Award for outstanding service to under-resourced communities.
The award honors a member who has made important and continuing contributions to the association.
Election to Alpha Omega Alpha is an honor signifying a lasting commitment to professionalism, leadership, scholarship, research and community service.
Ricardo Cruz, MD, MPH, MA, and Shamaila Khan, PhD, each have been recognized for addressing and improving diversity and a culture of inclusion, equity and accessibility throughout the school community.
The annual award honors an outstanding educator and acknowledges the importance of teaching skills and commitment to students and education.
This award is presented to faculty demonstrating outstanding compassion in the delivery of care, respect for patients, their families and health-care colleagues, as well as clinical excellence.
This year’s recipients are Molly Cohen Osher, MD, MMedEd; Christine Cary Cheston, MD; William Lehman, PhD; Jeffrey L. Browning, PhD, and Vanessa Villamarin, MD.
Barbara Fifield Brandt, PhD, EdM, campaigned for the recognition for two years.
His nominators say, “Andy provides outstanding service to the research core…He consistently demonstrates the utmost professionalism.”