Medical students honored their outstanding mentors, professors, courses and course directors at the Argus Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 27 during a live ceremony on Zoom.
The Argus Awards, created in 1996, allow medical students to nominate faculty members by course evaluations and vote to select award winners for each category.
Winners of the 2020 Argus Awards are:
Pre-Clinical Awards
Best Introductory Module
Fundamentals of Medicine
Module Director(s): Laura Fraser, Ph.D., Cell, Developmental & Integrative Biology; Block Leaders: Martin Young Ph.D., Medicine; Teresa Wilborn, PharmD, Ph.D., Pharmacology & Toxicology; Peter Anderson, DVM, Ph.D., Pathology; Rachel Lee, M.D., Medicine; Mukesh Patel, M.D., Medicine
Best MS1 Organ Module
Cardiovascular
Module Director(s): Silvio Litovsky, M.D., Pathology; Harish Doppalapudi, M.D., Medicine
Best MS2 Organ Module
Neurosciences
Module Director(s): Robin Lester, Ph.D., Neurobiology; Victor Sung, M.D., Neurology; Michael Lyerly, M.D., Neurology; Tobias Martinez, M.D., Psychiatry; Kenneth Fallon, M.D., Pathology; Teresa Wilborn, PharmD, Ph.D., Pharmacology & Toxicology; William Brooks, Ph.D., Cell, Developmental & Integrative Biology
Best Educator: Patient, Doctor & Society
Caroline Harada, M.D., Medicine
Best Educator: Fundamentals of Medicine
Teresa Wilborn, PharmD, Ph.D., Pharmacology & Toxicology
Best Block Leader: Fundamentals of Medicine
Rachael Lee, M.D., Medicine and Mukesh Patel, M.D., Medicine
Best Educator: Cardiovascular
Harish Doppalapudi, M.D., Medicine
Best Educator: Pulmonary
James Johnson, M.D., Medicine
Kevin Leon, M.D., Medicine
Best Educator: Gastrointestinal
James Willig, M.D., Medicine
Best Educator: Renal
Ashita Tolwani, M.D., Medicine
Best Educator: Musculoskeletal & Skin
William Brooks, Ph.D., Cell, Developmental & Integrative Biology
Best Educator: Neurosciences
Michael Lyerly, M.D., Neurology
Best Educator: Hematology/Oncology
Frida Rosenblum, M.D., Pathology
Best Educator: Endocrine Systems
Shawn Galin, Ph.D., Medicine
Best Educator: Reproductive Systems
Jennifer Gordetsky, M.D., Pathology
Clinical Awards
Caduceus Club Award for Best Clinical Department on the Birmingham Campus
Internal Medicine
Caduceus Club Award for Excellence in Clinical Education on the Birmingham Campus
Hussein Abdullatif, M.D., Pediatrics
Winter Williams, M.D., Medicine
Best Clinical Department: Huntsville Campus
Internal Medicine
Best Clinical Educator: Huntsville Campus
Parekha Yedla, M.D., Medicine
Best Clinical Department: Montgomery Campus
Surgery
Best Clinical Educator: Montgomery Campus
Robert Engles, M.D., Surgery
Best Clinical Department: Tuscaloosa Campus
Pediatrics
Best Clinical Educator: Tuscaloosa Campus
Heather Taylor, M.D., Pediatrics
Best Resident Educator: Birmingham Campus
Jeffrey Shen, M.D., Medicine
Best Resident Educator, Huntsville Campus
Jesse Faulk, M.D., Internal Medicine & Wade Edwards, M.D., Family Medicine
Best Resident Educator: Montgomery Campus
Vishnu Nagalpuram, M.D., Internal Medicine
Best Resident Educator:Tuscaloosa Campus
Joshua Price, M.D., Family Medicine
Best Community-Based Educator: Birmingham
Jarrod Speer, M.D., Family Medicine
Best Community-Based Educator: Huntsville
Gabriel Belue, M.D., Family Medicine
Best Community-Based Educator: Montgomery
Robert Engles, M.D., Surgery
Best Community-Based Educator: Tuscaloosa
Quinton D. Matthews, M.D., Surgery
Award for Medical Student Support
Kenneth Hurd, Medical Education
The Dale J. Benos Award for Educational Excellence
Mark Bevensee, Ph.D., Cell, Developmental & Integrative Biology
ICM CSS Award
Laurie Marzullo, M.D., Pediatric Emergency Medicine