Photography by Ryan Anderson, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
Congratulations to the 2023 TEACH Award Recipients
Innovative Teaching Award
Charles E. “Bud” Conklin Jr., DDS
Dentistry
The Innovative Teaching Award recognizes the use of new teaching strategies or the implementation of existing strategies in new ways to enhance learning. Innovative teaching encompasses teaching students from diverse learning backgrounds, a passion and enthusiasm for meaningful teaching, application of teaching technologies, and creativity in engaging students.
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning Award
It Takes a Team!
Kimberly P. Simcox, DO
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Natalie E. Karp, MD
Urogynecology
Jaclyn D. Nunziato, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award recognizes outstanding achievements in research, scholarly activity, and creative accomplishments that focus on the effectiveness of teaching methods. Recipients will embody the Environment of Inquiry related to teaching by systematically investigating questions associated with learning and the conditions under which it occurs in order to improve outcomes.
Feedback Award
Carl S. Henderson, DO
Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
The Feedback Award recognizes the skill of effectively incorporating feedback into daily routines that focus on specific behaviors, assess performance, guide reflection, promote expertise, and identify a learner’s readiness to change. Excellence in Feedback involves key principles of “Good Feedback” which include aligning goals, feedback that is well-timed, regulating and limiting feedback to remediable behavior, and maintaining a focus on specific performance, decisions and actions. Recipients will have provided invaluable and supportive academic feedback, in both content and delivery method, which helps others to develop and excel in their work. Nominees for this award should utilize feedback as an integral part of the daily partnership between the learner and teacher and deliver both timely and constructive feedback allowing for improvements before the next assessment.
Educator Mentorship Award
Rebecca R. Pauly, MD
Vice Dean, Virginia Tech School of Medicine
The Educator Mentorship Award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated excellence in counseling and guidance towards another’s teaching practice and/or educational research. Mentorship is a long-term commitment to the education and advancement of learners and/or faculty at VTCSOM and RUC.
Rising Star Award
Rachel Altizer, BSN, RN, CCRN
Center for Simulation, Research, & Patient Safety
The Rising Star award recognizes emerging leaders in health professions education whose teaching experience demonstrates ongoing and promising growth in contribution to teaching and increased levels of teaching leadership and responsibility. Recipients of this award have at least one year of teaching experience and are in no more than their fifth year of continuous service as a faculty member. This award is intended to acknowledge faculty members who show extraordinary potential at the beginning of their academic careers.
TEACH Award of Distinction
Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
AMA Stemmler Fund Grant Team
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine & Virginia Tech Department of Engineering Education
(In order as pictured)
Natalie E. Karp, MD
Sarah Henrickson Parker, PhD
Jed Gonzalo, MD, MSc
Brock Mutcheson, PhD, MEd
David Musick, PhD
(Not pictured)
Jacob Grohs, PhD
Andrew Katz, PhD
Heidi Lane, EdD
Read the VT News article about this
prestigious grant and the team’s
project.
Over the last few years, we have seen an increase in unique nominations that do not perfectly align with our other award criteria but certainly deserve recognition. Therefore, this year our Awards & Recognition subcommittee decided that we would designate a new award category: the TEACH Award of Distinction. This year’s Award of Distinction was nominated under the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning category.
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award recognizes outstanding achievements in research, scholarly activity, and creative accomplishments that focus on the effectiveness of teaching methods. Recipients will embody the Environment of Inquiry related to teaching by systematically investigating questions associated with learning and the conditions under which it occurs in order to improve outcomes.