Congratulations to Loren I. Alving, MD, on her appointment to the Mr. and Mrs. David George Rowe and Stephen W. Rowe Endowed Chair for Teaching in Neurology. The purpose of the endowed chair is to support teaching in the UCSF Department of Neurology. Dr. Alving is a health sciences clinical professor in Neurology; director of the UCSF Fresno Alzheimer & Memory Center and director of the UCSF SJV PRIME. This is the first endowed education chair appointed at UCSF Fresno.
Kudos to Kathryn Bilello, MD, UCSF clinical professor; director of the UCSF Fresno Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and Central California Faculty Medical Group physician on being named to the Pulmonary Disease Board by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Congratulations to the numerous award winners who were announced at UCSF Fresno’s 2022 Resident and Fellow Commencement:
Each year, the UCSF School of Medicine awards the prestigious Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching to four members of the clinical faculty. These awards recognize outstanding teaching, motivational skills and communications abilities. One of these prestigious awards is reserved for a faculty member at UCSF Fresno. The winner of the 2022 Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching at UCSF Fresno is Brian Chinnock, MD, RDMS. Dr. Chinnock is a health sciences clinical professor and research director in the UCSF Fresno Department of Emergency Medicine.
Outstanding First-Year Resident: Jessica Wang, DO, UCSF Fresno Family and Community Medicine Residency Program
Outstanding Resident or Fellow Teacher: Julian Nguyen, DO, UCSF Fresno Family and Community Medicine Residency Program
Outstanding Attending Teacher: Kulraj Dhah, DO, UCSF Fresno Department of Family and Community Medicine
Outstanding Non-Physician Teacher: Julianne Jacober, CNM, Community Regional Medical Center
Borba Faculty Research Award: Marina Roytman, MD, UCSF Fresno Department of Internal Medicine
Borba Fellow Research Award: Andrew Hwang, MD, UCSF Fresno Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship
Borba Resident Research Award: Omar Mahmood, MD, UCSF Fresno Internal Medicine Residency Program
VA ICARE Award: Omar Mahmood, MD, UCSF Fresno Internal Medicine Residency Program
Leon S. Peters Resident of the Year: Rachna Casteel, DDS, UCSF Fresno Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Program
Leon S. Peters Fellow of the Year: James Yang, MD, UCSF Fresno Department of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship
Fresno Madera Medical Society Steven N. Parks, MD, Leadership Award: Heather Chow, DO, UCSF Fresno Pediatrics Residency Program
Kudos to Emy Lopez Phillips, EdD, on being appointed the inaugural director of the newly created UCSF Fresno Office of Health Career Pathways within the Department of Undergraduate Medical Education.
Congrats to Marina Roytman, MD, on being inducted to the Marquis Who’s Who Biographical Registry.
