Honors and Awards

Deadline for completed submissions extended to Friday – November 17, 2023.

Clinical Excellence Awards (2 awards available)

The Annual College of Medicine - Tucson Clinical Excellence Award recognizes physician faculty members at the Assistant or Associate Professor level for outstanding clinical care.
Nominations of physician faculty are welcome from all members of the College of Medicine community: faculty, staff, residents, administrators and students.

The selection of the person receiving this award will be based on the following criteria:

• Delivers consistently outstanding clinical care
• Has an approximate clinical effort of .50 or higher FTE
• Is readily available for consultation with other faculty, demonstrating an outstanding ability to assist and share expertise with colleagues
• Encourages medical students and residents to ask questions and express their ideas or opinions
• Uses innovative methods to assure a positive clinical outcome
• Is humanistic in his/her approach to patient care and interaction with colleagues and other healthcare professionals
• Demonstrates a sincere commitment to patient care and patient access to care

To be considered for the award, please submit the following information:

1. Personal statement/philosophy of clinical care (no more than one single-spaced page)
2. A biosketch (CV or NIH Biosketch are acceptable)
3. Letters of support from patients/students/trainees/colleagues/division chief/department head (minimum of 2, no more than 5)
    

Please submit all materials here

Submissions will be reviewed and awardees selected by a committee made up of COM-T and health system leadership.

Deadline for completed submissions extended to Friday – November 17, 2023.

Research Excellence Awards

These awards recognize faculty investigators at the Assistant or Associate Professor level who have demonstrated outstanding research efforts and advancement of science.

1. Clinical Investigator Award:

This award recognizes an investigator who writes, designs, and runs clinical trials or clinical research studies at the College of Medicine -Tucson. The recipient is involved on a national stage for their disease/area of focus and demonstrates success in moving the field forward based on their work.
The selection of the person receiving this award will be based on the following criteria:

• Actively engaged in clinical trials or clinical research, serving as site and/or national PI
• Consistently accrues open clinical trials to support COM-T’s clinical research efforts
• Is readily available to research personnel and research participants to answer questions, manage queries, and sign-off on required documentation
• Designs and runs investigator-initiated trials
• Publishes research results in high-impact journals
• Is recognized on the national or international level as a clinical research thought leader in his/her area of expertise

2. Basic and Translational Investigator Award:

This award recognizes an investigator who conducts research aimed at basic science and translational research discoveries or the development of patents, technology, or devices.

The selection of the person receiving this award will be based on the following criteria:

• Actively engaged in basic research supported by externally peer-reviewed funding OR serves as a liaison between basic researcher and the clinic to translate scientific discoveries into clinical research
• Consistently contributing to the basic or translational research mission of the COM-T
• Makes additional contributions to COM-T research mission through service or mentoring of trainees at any level
• Publishes research results in high-impact journals
• Recognized on the national or international level as a basic/translational research thought leader

To be considered for these awards, please submit the following information:

1. Personal statement and description of the impact of your work in your field (no more than one single-spaced page)
2. A biosketch (please only submit a biosketch - do not submit CV)
3. Letters of support from colleagues/division chief/department head (minimum of 1, no more than 3)
    

Please submit all materials here

Submissions will be reviewed by a committee selected by the Office of Research. Reviewers will consider the nominee’s rank as Assistant or Associate Professor and evaluate according to expectations of that rank. Final awards approval will be made by the Vice Dean of Research and Graduate Studies and Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research.

Deadline for completed submissions extended to Friday – November 17, 2023.

DEI Excellence Awards

1. Individual (2 awards available)
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award honors the cumulative contributions of a faculty member to advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at UACOMT. Contributions can include, but are not limited to, the mentoring of diverse students, residents/fellows, and faculty; advising students or student organizations; curriculum development, academic teaching, research, or service.

• Candidate demonstrates a sustained record of serving as an advocate for DEI.
• Candidate must have contributed in significant ways to strengthen the overall climate of inclusion at UACOMT.
• Candidate advances inclusion and equity with contributions that have resulted in a positive campus outcome.

2. Departmental (1 award available)

This award honors a department that has had a demonstrable impact in shaping and driving the DEI agenda at UACOMT; and demonstrates the sustained value it has added to the institution. Nominations should indicate how the nominee meets one or more of the following criteria:

• Engaged in an initiative that is considered a best practice that impacts DEI within the department, institution, and/or community”.
• Implemented successful initiatives that have involved or led to real changes in “the way we do things around here.”
• Implemented steps toward fostering diversity in the workplace with programs that maximize the potential of all people.

Nomination Process:
A nominator may choose to complete and submit a nomination for an individual or department. Final submission requires:

1. Completed nomination form - Click Here to Download Form
2. Two letters of support (no more than 500 words each) for the nominee (individual or department) on how they significantly promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion among UACOMT faculty, staff, students, and residents/fellows.
3. CV or biosketch for Individual Award nominations
    

Please submit all materials here

Submissions will be reviewed and awardees selected by the Faculty Diversity Advisory Committee.

Deadline for completed submissions extended to Friday – November 17, 2023.

Excellence in Graduate Medical Education (GME) (2 awards available)

The Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education (GME) is open to any faculty member who, in the past year, has demonstrated outstanding effort in advancing the educational quality of Residents and/or Fellows. Innovative teaching methods, implementation of best practices, and outstanding curricular development are some examples.

Selection will be based on the impact the faculty member’s work has had with regard to:

• Optimizing the quality of education in their program
• Enhancing GME at COM-T
• Contributing to GME in their specialty at the national level
• Having an impact on the advancement of GME beyond their program/specialty

In order to be considered for this award, please submit the following:

1. Personal statement and description of your work and the impact it has made (no more than one single-spaced page).
2. A biosketch (CV or NIH Biosketch are acceptable)
3. Letter of support from department head or Designee
4. (optional) Letters of support from no more than 2 additional colleagues

Letters of support should illustrate how the nominee’s work has had a significant positive impact in GME and what characteristics have made them unusually effective.

Please submit all materials here

Nominations will be reviewed and awardees will be selected by a group of GME education leaders.

Deadline for completed submissions extended to Friday – November 17, 2023.

WIMS GRACE Excellence Awards

Two Individual available:
The Women in Medicine and Science -WIMS GRACE* award recognizes faculty who have made significant contributions to improve the careers of fellow women physicians and celebrates those who lift others up and breakdown barriers for women faculty in COM-T.

Nomination Process:
To be considered for the award, please submit the following information:

1. Completed nomination form - Click Here to Download    
2. Two letters of support (no more than 500 words each) for the nominee on how they significantly promoted career advancement of women among UACOMT faculty, staff, students, and residents/fellows. ​
3. CV or biosketch 
    

Please Submit All Nominations Here

Submissions will be reviewed, and awardees selected by the WIMS steering committee.

Is there a faculty member who has contributed to your success, fostered your development or opened doors for you?

If so, please give your mentor the opportunity to be recognized with a COM-T Faculty Mentoring Award!

We invite all COM-T faculty to nominate a senior faculty or peer mentor who has contributed to their professional development and advancement. Nominations will be reviewed and awardees selected by the Dean’s Council on Faculty Affairs. These faculty mentors will be recognized at a COM-T Awards Ceremony on February 28, 2024.

Nominations should be no more than one page and should address how your mentor has demonstrated excellence across the following areas:

1. Sharing of time and accessibility to mentees
2. Supporting the mentee’s development with concrete evidence of successful achievement of goals or project completion
3. Fostering a positive and inclusive culture
4. Expanding mentee’s network and professional connections
5. Serving as a role model for colleagues by maintaining high standards for excellence in their own discipline and across the institution

Specific eligibility:

• Previous winners are eligible for nomination two years from their previous win.
• Three-time winners will be awarded a lifetime mentoring award and are no longer eligible for future nominations.
  • View previous winners here. 
• Both nominator and nominee must be current faculty members of the College of Medicine - Tucson. 

The deadline for receipt of nominations is November 9, 2023.

Submit your nomination HERE