| Above: Scenes from the Celebration of Faculty Excellence held in Cox Hall, Oct. 18, 2017
The week of October 16, 2017 was Faculty Recognitions Week in the Emory University School of Medicine. The Department of Surgery was well represented in this celebration of faculty accomplishments and excellence in patient care, research, and education.
The following senior promotions were recognized:
Professor:
Gary Bouloux, DDS, MD, MDSc, Edward Chen, MD, and Nicole Turgeon, MD.
Associate Professor:
Shelly Abramowicz, DMD, MPH, Kenneth Cardona, MD, Yazan Duwayri, MD, Rachel Patzer, PhD, MPH, Allan Pickens, MD, and Virginia Shaffer, MD.
Ravi Rajani, MD, received a 2017 Dean's Teaching Award. Recipients are nominated by colleagues and students and chosen by the Teaching Awards Committee for their dedication to medical student teaching and their many contributions as course directors and mentors. Dr. Rajani was one of eight faculty given this award from over 20 eligible candidates. In addition to being the chief of vascular and endovascular surgery at Grady Memorial Hospital, Dr. Rajani is the associate program director for the general surgery residency, primarily overseeing surgical education at Grady. Under his direction, the vascular surgery service at Grady trains residents from both Emory University and the Morehouse schools of medicine, and includes trainees from vascular surgery, general surgery, interventional radiology, and trauma surgery.
I. Raul Badell, MD, received the 2017 Emory 1% Award, which recognizes investigators whose NIH grant proposals have received study section review scores in the top one percentile. Dr. Badell's study will investigate the mechanisms of donor-specific antigen (DSA) formation following kidney transplantation.
Juvonda Hodge, MD, Walt Ingram, MD, and Rachael Williams, MD, were recognized as representatives of the Burn Unit for the service's excellent Press Ganey patient satisfaction scores for Calendar Year to Date 2017 (Q1-Q3).
Robert Guyton, MD, and Neal Iwakoshi, PhD, were inducted into Emory's Millipub Club, which recognizes current Emory faculty who have published one or more individual papers throughout their careers that have each garnered more than 1,000 citations. Such papers are commonly considered "citation classics" and represent high impact scholarship.
Edward Chen, MD, David Kooby, MD, and Bradley Leshnower, MD, were named Woodruff Leadership Academy Fellows for 2018. They and the WLA's additional 2018 fellows were chosen via a rigorous selection process from nominees throughout the health sciences. The WLA combines a program of classroom sessions, off-site team projects, and weekend retreats to motivate professionals and managers within the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center to develop, exercise, and strengthen individual leadership potential.
Bryan Morse, MD, was recognized as a Hidden Gem. These faculty members are nominated by their departments in recognition of their outstanding, but often unnoticed or unrecognized, contributions to Emory or beyond. In the words of John Sweeney, MD, Emory Surgery Department Chair:
"As chief of the Emory General Surgery B Service at Grady, Dr. Morse has contributed greatly to the hospital's Acute Care Surgery Service. His skills in the operating room are such that he has become known as the go-to surgeon for minimally invasive procedures. As a clinical facilitator, he has been a major bridge builder during the process of merging the Emory and Morehouse trauma services. And His diligence as Associate Trauma Medical Director during the recent American College of Surgeons Level I trauma center verification visit was a notable contributor to the Grady service receiving verification." | 
