{"id":17629,"date":"2021-03-24T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/?page_id=17629"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T15:20:16","slug":"staff-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/dom-awards\/staff-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Staff Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nominations for these annual awards open in late spring\/early summer via email announcement from the Chair’s office and postings on the DOM Website. The winners are announced at the Evans Day Celebration in the fall.<\/p>\n

David \u201cAaron\u201d Freed Compassion & Excellence Award<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Nominations are open!<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The\u00a0Da<\/strong>vid \u201cAaron\u201d Freed Award<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>has been awarded annually since 2019 and honors a non-faculty member who goes above and beyond their expected duties to pursue professional excellence and exemplary citizenship. It is given in memory of Aaron Freed, a longtime member of the departments IT support team who demonstrated daily a deep commitment to his work and his coworkers.<\/p>\n

To Aaron Freed, working in IT didn\u2019t just mean working with computers and solving technical problems. At his heart and soul, Aaron loved his work and the people he worked with. He was not only a valued resource of knowledge and support, but also a selfless friend on whom everyone could depend. Steadfastly dedicated to this community, Aaron regarded everyone he worked with as family and never hesitated to go above and beyond his normal duties to lend a hand (or an ear) whenever he could. The Aaron Freed Award was created in honor of Aaron\u2019s legacy of compassion and excellence and aims to recognize a current non-faculty member of the DOM who shares these qualities.<\/p>\n

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  1. Who can nominate<\/u>: Any faculty or staff member can nominate for this award<\/li>\n
  2. Who can be nominated<\/u>: Nominee should be a non-faculty staff member of the Department of Medicine for at least 1 year<\/li>\n
  3. Who is ineligible:<\/span> Any past winner<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Past Winners (ineligible for nomination)<\/h4>
    <\/p>\n

    2025 – Renee Pittman<\/span>
    \n2024 – Casaundra Knight – Hematology & Medical Oncology
    \n2023 – Dennis Chow – Central Finance
    \n2022 – Jennifer Fosbroke – General Internal Medicine
    \n2021 – Linda Neville, Program Manager, Academic Primary Care, Preventive Medicine & Addiction Medicine Fellowships
    \n2020 – Nicole Nguyen, Sr. Administrative Coordinator, Internal Medicine Residency Office
    \n2019 \u2013\u00a0John Farrell <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

    Maria Antoinette Evans Diversity Award<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    Nominations are open!<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    The Maria Antoinette Evans Award\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>is awarded to a Department of Medicine non-faculty member who promotes the departmental values of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the Department of Medicine or in the broader community. \u00a0This person promotes the culture of diversity through their work, research, teaching or as an ally to underrepresented groups and can include administrators and other staff who are non-faculty members.<\/p>\n

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    1. Who can nominate<\/u>: Any faculty or staff member can nominate for this award<\/li>\n
    2. Who can be nominated: <\/u>Nominee should be a non-faculty staff member of the Department of Medicine for at least 1 year<\/li>\n
    3. Who is ineligible:<\/span> Any past winner<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Past Winners (ineligible for nomination)<\/h4>
      <\/p>\n

      2025 – Teresa Acosta, MPH<\/span>
      \n2024 – Jen Murphy, MBA
      \n2023 – Erin Kane – Computational Biomedicine & Daneiris Heredia-Perez, MSPM – General Internal Medicine
      \n2022 – Inel Ferrara – Hematology\/Oncology & Amanda Tran, MPH – Geriatrics
      \n2021 – Rachelle Joseph, Director, Research Administration
      \n2020 – Rania Omar Burke, PhD<\/p>\n

      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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      See additional DoM STARDoM Awards Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Nominations for these annual awards open in late spring\/early summer via email announcement from the Chair’s office and postings on the DOM Website. The winners are announced at the Evans Day Celebration in the fall. David \u201cAaron\u201d Freed Compassion & Excellence Award Nominations are open! The\u00a0David \u201cAaron\u201d Freed Award\u00a0has been awarded annually since 2019 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13469,"featured_media":10719,"parent":17622,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17629"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25780,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17629\/revisions\/25780"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}