Nominate an MPH professor for the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award!

I'm just copying an e-mail we all received here because I don't recognize any MPH professors in the list of previous winners.  Since we all know we have some great professors in the program, we encourage you to nominate the one you think is best!  


 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award

The Chancellor selects faculty members in the schools of Health Professions, Medicine, and Nursing at the

University of Kansas Medical Center to be recipients of the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award.

Faculty members with excellence in teaching while at KUMC may be nominated by a faculty colleague, student, or alumnus.  Each nomination must include:

1.      Nominator's letter summarizing the faculty member's

               a.   worthiness for receiving this award;

               b.   formal teaching responsibilities; and

               c.   voluntary additional teaching (interdepartmental, etc.), if any;

2.      Nominee's curriculum vitae, indicating reception of other teaching awards, if any;

3.      Copies of past formal evaluations of the nominee's teaching made by students and residents; and

4.      Evaluations by faculty peers.

Additional letters in support of the nomination are not required but are recommended.  A maximum of five individuals’ letters will be accepted.  Nominations must be submitted by Friday, January 27, 2012, and directed to my attention, Office of Academic Affairs, 5015 Wescoe, Mail Stop 1040, University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas  66160.

I hope you will take this opportunity to nominate a member of our faculty.  Listed below are previous winners currently on faculty who are not eligible to receive it again.

Martha Barnard                                     Michael Parmely

Gustavo Blanco                                    Thomas Pazdernik

Wanda Bonnel                                      Brian Petroff

Diane Boyle                                         Janet Pierce

James Calvet                                       Allen Rawitch

Cheng Cho                                          Gregory Reed

Glen Cox                                             Pamela Shaw

Ivan Damjanov                                      Carol Smith

Winifred Dunn                                      Peter Smith

Dianne Durham                                    Donna Sweet

George Enders                                     Merrill Tarr

James Fishback                                   Cynthia Teel

Allan Fleming                                       Kimberly Templeton

Katherine Fletcher                                James Thomas

Linda Frazier                                        Anne Walling

Norberto Gonzalez                                Karen Wambach

Gary Gronseth                                      Judith Warren

Edna Hamera                                       Michael Werle

Vicki Hicks                                           Louis Wetzel

Daniel Hinthorn                                     Anita Wingate

Douglas Horbelt                                    Robert Wittler

Robert Klein                                         John Wood

Janice Loudon                                      Douglas Wright

David Meyers                                       Xiaoming Zhang

Garold Minns                                        

Michael Moncure                                  

Scott Moser                                         

Allen B. Rawitch, Ph.D.

Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

and Dean of Graduate Studies

5015 Wescoe, MS 1040

Ext. 8-1258