RECOGNITION AWARDS
EXCELLENCE IN MENTORING AWARDS
The Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership announces the Mentoring Awards:
- William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
- A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award
- Young Mentor AwardÂ
It is widely understood that successful career development in basic/clinical medicine (teaching, research, clinical, administration) requires the experience of quality mentoring relationships.

2012-2013 Excellence in Mentoring Award recipients will be recognized at an award ceremony on June 5, 2013, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. in the Carl Walter Amphitheater located in Daniel C. Tosteson Medical Education Center at 260 Longwood Avenue. -- Download Flyer 
- William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
Joseph Avruch, MD, Professor of Medicine, MGH
Bruce Bistrian, PhD, MD, Professor of Medicine, BIDMC
David Clapham, MD, PhD, Aldo R. Castaneda Professor of Cardiovascular Research, BCH
Russell Phillips, MD, William Applebaum Professor of Medicine, HMS, BIDMC
Jane Weeks, MD, Professor of Medicine, DFCI
- A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award
Mercedes Becerra, ScD, Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, HMS
Timothy Ferris, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, MGH
Marian Hannan, DSc, Associate Professor of Medicine, HSL, BIDMC
Sharon Inouye, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, HSL, BIDMC
Harald Paganetti, PhD, Professor of Radiation Oncology, MGH
Jose Romero, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, BWH
Ingrid Bassett, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, MGH
Peter Bex, PhD, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, SERI
Benjamin Ebert, MD, DPhil, Associate Professor of Medicine, DFCI
Winston Kuo, DMSC, DDS, Assistant Professor of Oral and Developmental Biology, HSDM
Galit Lahav, PhD, Associate Professor of Systems Biology, HMS
Samuel Lin, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, BIDMC
Biju Parekkadan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, MGH
Duane Pinto, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, BIDMC
Ruth Ann Vleugels, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Dermatology, BWH
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Nomination Guidelines
You may nominate up to one individual for each
award. The
required years of service as a faculty member (Instructor
through Professor) at HMS/HSDM for each of these
Awards are:
- A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award - no minimum years of service
- William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award - a minimum of 20 years of service (it needn't be continuous service)
- Young Mentor Award – a maximum of 10 or less of years of service
Your recommendation should reflect the extent to which the mentor has provided sponsorship, encouragement and support for the career and/or personal development of yourself as well as for the career and/or personal development of other faculty, trainees, and students. Please be mindful when making your nomination that you are doing so for someone who merits recognition as an effective and outstanding mentor. It is not primarily for teachers.
The guidelines for submitting a nomination are as follows:
- Nominations must include a narrative of how
this individual's mentoring has affected your career and/or the
careers of others. Nominations without such
will not be considered. It is often helpful
to provide specific anecdotes/examples about the
mentor or ways in which the mentor has shown an investment
in one’s professional and/or personal development. The
following are a few examples of the qualities one
might look for in a mentor.
- Long-term commitment to mentoring
- Advisor/Guide
- Developer of talent/Coach
- Opener of doors/Sponsor
- Interpreter of organizational and/or professional rules
- Successful role model
- Protector/Shield
- Rule setter/Boss
- Each nominator may name up to one individual
for each award
- Each nominator may solicit additional nominations
for his/her nominee(s), not to exceed four
- Nominator must be or have been mentored by the
nominee(s)
Deadline for submitting 2013-2014 nominations: TBA

For more information, please contact:
Brian L. Anderson
Program Manager
Harvard Medical School
Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership
164 Longwood Avenue, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02115-5818
Tel: 617-432-1083
Fax: 617-432-3834
E-mail: dcp_mentoringaward@hms.harvard.edu

2011-2012 Honorees

Photo by Jeff Thiebauth
Left to right:
1st row: Bernard Lee, Arin Greene, Jeffrey Flier, Joseph Loscalzo, Jim Wu, Samara Reck-Peterson
2nd row: Ross Baldessarini, Kenneth Mukamal, Ellen McCarthy, Khalid Shah, Louis Nguyen, David Bangsberg, Stephen Calderwood
3rd row: Kenneth Bloch, Matthew Lensch (accepting the award on behalf of George Daley), R. Michael Scott
Missing: George Daley, Rachel Wilson
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William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award
Ross J. Baldessarini, MD, DSc (hon), Professor of Psychiatry (Neuroscience), McL
Stephen B. Calderwood, MD, Morton N. Swartz, M.D. Academy Professor of Medicine (Microbiology and Molecular Genetics), MGH
Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, BWH
R. Michael Scott, MD, Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery), CHB
A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award
David R. Bangsberg, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, MGH
Kenneth D. Bloch, MD, William Thomas Green Morton Professor of Anaesthesia, MGH
George Q. Daley, MD, PhD, Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, CHB
Ellen P. McCarthy, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, BIDMC
Kenneth J. Mukamal, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, BIDMC
Young Mentor Award
Arin K. Greene, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, CHB
Bernard T. Lee, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Surgery, BIDMC
Louis L. Nguyen, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, BWH
Peter J. Park, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, CHB
Samara L. Reck-Peterson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, HMS
Khalid Shah, MS, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, MGH
Rachel Wilson, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
Jim Wu, MD, Assistant Professor of Radiology, BIDMC
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