{"id":143916,"date":"2026-05-06T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?post_type=bu-article&p=143916"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T19:57:40","slug":"2026-faculty-and-staff-award-recipients","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/news-events\/articles\/2026\/2026-faculty-and-staff-award-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Faculty and Staff Award Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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The end of the academic year presents an opportunity to recognize members of our community for their excellence in mentoring, teaching and service.

Congratulations to these distinguished 2026 awardees!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2026 Faculty and staff award recipients with Dean ad interim Hee-Young Park (center). Not pictured Thanh N. Nguyen, MD, and Raymond C. James, RN.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Metcalf Award<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Monica Pessina<\/a>, PhD<\/strong>
Clinical Associate Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanley L. Robbins Award for Excellence in Teaching<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Paige K. Curran<\/a>, MA<\/strong>
Assistant Professor, Medical Sciences & Education <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Christine Campbell Reardon<\/a>, MD<\/strong>
Clinical Professor, Medicine\/Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Educators of the Year<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Preclerkship<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Ruby Bartolome<\/a>, DO<\/strong>
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clinical<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Radha Govindraj<\/a>, MD<\/strong>
Assistant Professor, Medicine\/GIM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Master\u2019s<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Vanessa Xanthakis<\/a>, PhD<\/strong>
Associate Professor, Medicine\/Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology <\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Jones<\/a>, PhD<\/strong>
Associate Professor, Medicine\/Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excellence in Research Mentorship – MD<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thanh N. Nguyen<\/a>, MD<\/strong>
Professor, Neurology, Neurosurgery and Radiology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excellence in Research Mentorship – PhD<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Henderson<\/a>, PhD<\/strong>
Professor, Medicine\/Infectious Diseases and Virology, Immunology & Microbiology <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excellence in Faculty Mentorship: Early-Career<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Kirsten Austad<\/a>, MD, MPH<\/strong>
Assistant Professor, Family Medicine <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excellence in Faculty Mentorship: Senior<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Elisha M. Wachman<\/a>, MD<\/strong>
Professor, Pediatrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community Service & Engagement: Faculty<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sabrina A. Assoumou<\/a>, MD, MPH <\/strong>
Associate Professor, Medicine\/Infectious Diseases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Community Service & Engagement: Staff<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Raymond C. James<\/a>, RN, MSCR<\/strong>
Clinical Research Nurse Specialist, Neurology <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resident of the Year<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Cassandra Chua<\/a>, MD<\/strong>
Resident, General Internal Medicine <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above & Beyond Staff Award<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Nichole Ciccarelli, EdM<\/a><\/strong>
Director of Student Affairs, MD Program <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ray Nicks, MS<\/a><\/strong>
Research Fellow, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The end of the academic year presents an opportunity to recognize members of our community for their excellence in mentoring, teaching and service.Congratulations to these distinguished 2026 awardees! Metcalf Award Monica Pessina, PhD Clinical Associate Professor, Anatomy & Neurobiology Stanley L. Robbins Award for Excellence in Teaching Paige K. Curran, MA Assistant Professor, Medical Sciences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":143988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"bu_prepress_billboard":"","_bu_prepress_primary_term":"Awards & Honors","_bu_prepress_primary_term_manual":""},"tags":[356,387],"bu-publication":[367],"medicine-article-category":[],"medicine-topic":[],"news-article-category":[378],"news-topic":[],"bu_edition":[390],"media_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/143916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/bu-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143916"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/143916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144139,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-article\/143916\/revisions\/144139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143916"},{"taxonomy":"bu-publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu-publication?post=143916"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-article-category?post=143916"},{"taxonomy":"medicine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medicine-topic?post=143916"},{"taxonomy":"news-article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article-category?post=143916"},{"taxonomy":"news-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topic?post=143916"},{"taxonomy":"bu_edition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_edition?post=143916"},{"taxonomy":"media_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media_type?post=143916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}