WESH AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE FOR PROMOTION OF WOMEN IN ACADEMIC HEALTH PROFESSIONS

This award is given to the person who best demonstrates excellence in his/her commitment to the advancement and promotion of women in academic health professions.

Criteria: This award is given to senior administrators for excellence in enhancing the careers of women faculty.  The following criteria should guide your nomination:

• Senior administrators are individuals who are at least a dean or equivalent position in an AHC, national leaders in non-traditional positions and/or philanthropists, etc.
• Demonstrates personal commitment to the advancement and promotion of women to executive positions in academic health professions
• Actively participates in programs or activities at a local (institutional) and/or national level.  Such activities could include: public speaking, articles/ publications, developing programs, encouraging the development of programs at his/her institution or nationally, etc.
• Actively mentors women faculty; encourages and supports their advancement
• Serves as a role model for other administrators

Award for Excellence Reception: Congratulations to the 2011 recipient of the Award for Excellence, Nancy J. Tarbell, MD.  Dr. Tarbell is the Dean for Academic and Clinical Affairs at Harvard Medical School.  

Past Recipients:

• 2000 AAMC: Layton S. McCurdy, MD, Dean, Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
• 2001 AAMC: John D. Stobo, MD, President, University of Texas Medical Branch
• 2002 ADEA: Jeanne C. Sinkford, DDS, PhD, Associate Executive Director, ADEA; Dean Emerita, Howard University College of Dentistry
• 2002 AAMC: Janet Bickel, MA, Associate Vice President and Director, Women in Medicine Programs, AAMC
• 2003 AAMC: Nancy E. Gary, MD, MACP, Dean Emerita, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine; former Dean, Albany Medical College
• 2004 ADEA: Sharon P. Turner, DDS, JD, Dean, University of Kentucky College of Dentistry; former Dean, Oregon Health & Science University School of Dentistry 
• 2004 AAMC: Peter Walker, MD, Dean, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine
• 2005 ADEA: J. Bernard Machen, DDS, MS, PhD, President, University of Florida; former President, University of Utah; former Provost, University of Michigan
• 2005 AAMC: Page S. Morahan, PhD, Founding Director, ELAM Program, Drexel University College of Medicine
• 2006 ADEA: D. Walter Cohen, DDS, Founder, ELAM Program, and Chancellor Emeritus, Drexel University College of Medicine
• 2006 AAMC: Allen S. Lichter, M.D.,  Former Dean at the University of Michigan Medical School and Newman Family Professor of Radiation Oncology
• 2007 ADEA: Marcia Boyd, DDS, Former Dean and Professor Emerita of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of British Columbia
• 2007 AAMC:  Margaret L. Kripke, Ph.D. , Special Assistant to the Provost Professor of Immunology Vivian L. Smith Chair Emerita, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
• 2008 ADEA: Lisa A. Tedesco, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs – Graduate Studies
• 2009, AAMC: Dr. Carol P. Herbert, Dean, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, at the University of Western Ontario
• 2010, AAMC: Ann C. Bonham, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

Ann C. Bonham, PhD (AAMC) receives from Wendy W. Brown, MD at the 2010 WESH Award for Excellence for Promotion of Women in Academic Health Profession