The SGSA-Robert “Bob” Sabalis Award for Exemplary Service is presented to a current or former SGSA representative who has demonstrated exemplary service to the SGSA.
“Exemplary service” is defined as significant and sustained leadership, expertise, and/or creativity in addressing an issue or issues of importance to the SGSA. Nominees for this award shall have demonstrated, in activities appropriate to membership in the SGSA, an extraordinary record of accomplishment, collaborative leadership, resourcefulness, dedication, mentoring of SGSA colleagues, and commitment to the mission of the SGSA.
This service can be as a medical school faculty or staff member; a GSA Institutional Representative or GSA Individual Member; the chair or a member of a GSA national committee or section (Admissions, Student Diversity Affairs, Student Affairs, Student Financial Assistance, Student Records); a GSA representative to a AAMC advisory committee (AMCAS, ERAS, VSAS, CiM, MCAT, and others); or a GSA national or regional officer.
Presentation
This award may be presented at the SGSA spring regional business meeting.
Procedure
A call for nominations shall be announced annually at the SGSA regional business meeting at the fall AAMC Annual Meeting and via email by the SGSA listserv. Any SGSA representative may submit a nomination to the SGSA Awards Nominating Committee. No self-nominations will be considered. Nominations will be submitted to the SGSA Awards Nominating Committee Chair, by means of a standard nomination form preceding the SGSA regional spring meeting. The nominee’s curriculum vitae must accompany the nomination form.
Nomination Form
Please return the completed Nomination Form and Nominee's Curriculum Vitae to:
Christina J. Grabowski, PhD
Immediate Past Chair, SGSA
Associate Dean for Admissions and Enrollment Management
University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix. E. Heersink School of Medicine
cjgrabow@uab.edu
Recent Award Recipients
2022
Adrian Jones, JD
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
2021
Angela Mihalic
University of Texas Southwestern
2020
Robert "REL" Larkin
University of Central Florida
2019
Doug Taylor
East Tennessee State University, Quillen College of Medicine
2018
Jerry Clark, MD
University of Mississippi School of Medicine
2017
Hilit Mechaber, MD
University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
2016
Robert Hernandez, MD
Florida International University, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
2015
Marc Kahn, MD
Tulane University School of Medicine
2014
Georgette Dent, MD
University of North Carolina School of Medicine