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AAMC Press Room
Oct. 28-31, 2000, Hyatt Regency Chicago
312-565-4270, Skyway 261Embargoed for Release
7:00 p.m., EST, Oct. 28, 2000AAMC Honors Outstanding Medical Educators
Washington, D.C., October 28, 2000 -- The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) honors four individuals for their outstanding work as innovative and skilled medical educators with distinguished teaching awards presented at the Association's 2000 annual meeting in Chicago. Established by the medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the awards recognize faculty who devote their time and energy to providing medical students with an educational experience of the highest quality. The AOA award is in honor of Robert J. Glaser, M.D., long-time executive secretary of AOA.
Frank M. Calia, M.D.
In his three-decade career as a teacher, administrator, and physician, Dr. Frank Calia has dedicated himself to the development and education of medical students and house officers. A professor and vice dean at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, he has received an unprecedented number of the student-initiated Golden Apples and Teacher of the Year awards for his work as a mentor and role model.
Dr. Calia has led the school in curricula development and reform. He has chaired the University of Maryland School of Medicine Curriculum Coordinating Committee, Academic Advancement Committee, and Curriculum Revision Steering Committee.
In addition, Dr. Calia participates in the biweekly Junior Medicine Conference, a teaching conference for third-year medical students at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Mercy Medical Center, and a teaching conference at the University of Maryland Hospital and Veterans Affairs Medical Center held annually from September through June.
A graduate of Tufts University, he became a member of Maryland's faculty in 1969. He was appointed vice dean of the University of Maryland's School of Medicine in 1992 and named senior associate dean for Academic Affairs in 1995. Dr. Calia has served as AOA faculty counselor for over 25 years.
Cyril M. Grum, M.D.
Throughout his 20 years at the University of Michigan, Dr. Cyril M. Grum, professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, has received many honors for excellence in teaching. He received the Kaiser Permanente Award for Excellence in Teaching-the university's top teaching honor in 1994, and has been nominated on several other occasions. During his tenure at the University of Michigan, Dr. Grum has demonstrated his dedication to medical student education through his directorship of the Internal Medicine Clerkship. His simple yet laudable goal in educational research is the same as his goal in leading the clinical curriculum-to improve medical education.
In 1994 Dr. Grum assumed the leadership of the third-and fourth-year medical school curriculum and served students as a Galens Medical Society prefect and Alpha Omega Advisor. He has been awarded the Galens Silver Shovel Award and given the Marshall Award by six graduating medical school classes for his exceptional contributions. Dr. Grum has also won national recognition for conducting research in medical education, and is extensively published in this area.
Dr. Grum received his M.D. degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin and was a research fellow at the University of Michigan, where he served as a preceptor for third-year medical students rotating on the Internal Medicine Clerkship.
Ronald J. Markert, Ph.D.
Dr. Ronald Markert, professor of medical education and faculty scholar at Creighton University School of Medicine, is nationally known as a specialist in educational development and evaluation. During his 20-year tenure as a faculty member at Wright State University School of Medicine, five classes of second-year medical students selected him for the Teaching Excellence Award, more than any other pre-clinical faculty member. In addition, Wright State honored Dr. Markert in 1995 with the title of Distinguished Professor of Teaching.
Dr. Markert is widely acknowledged for his teaching and facilitating skills in promoting continuous improvement in medical education courses. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and provided a far greater number of presentations. The quantity and quality of Dr. Markert's scholarly work demonstrates his capabilities in generating new ideas, formulating research studies, and collaborating with colleagues.
After receiving his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, he began his career at Wright State University School of Medicine in 1976. Presently, he is a professor of Medical Education and director for the Center for Medical Education and a faculty scholar with Creighton University School of Medicine.
Jeanette J. Norden, Ph.D.
At Vanderbilt University, Dr. Jeanette J. Norden, was the first recipient of two distinguished teaching awards, the Vanderbilt University Chair of Teaching Excellence in 1994, and the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award, 2000. Dr. Norden has been recognized nationally and internationally for her dedicated and innovative teaching of medical students.
Dr. Norden is known for her diverse teaching styles. Employing traditional lectures, small group discussions, CD-roms, and lab exercises, she helps students acquire not only a knowledge base in the neurosciences, but one in clinical reasoning and interpersonal skills as well.
In addition, Dr. Norden has been recognized by the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University as "the most successful medical teacher in the country in recent years." She will lecture throughout Australia and Germany in the coming year.
Dr. Norden received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University and continued her postgraduate work there in Anatomy and Human Development Counseling. She began her career at Vanderbilt in 1979 as an assistant professor, and was named director of medical education in the Department of Cell Biology in 1999.
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