F. Stanford Massie Jr., M.D., professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, is the senior faculty winner of the Dean’s Excellence Award for Teaching. 

Massie, who joined the UAB faculty in 1997, has led the instruction of more than 2,500 first- and second-year medical students in his 17 years as director of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. He is the recipient of multiple teaching awards from students, internal medicine residents and peers in the Department of Medicine, including the Top Ten Teacher Award (1998-2003; 2006-2007; 2010-2011); Best Clinical Teacher in Medicine Tinsley Harrison Award (00’-01’); Department of Medicine Award for Clinical Excellence Award (2005-2011); Outstanding Teacher in Division of General Internal Medicine (2007-2008; 2009- 2010); and DOM Teaching Excellence Award (2015). He has also won top honors at the school level, including the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award.