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DEPARTMENT OF ANESTHESIOLOGY

Rita Agarwal, MD – Promoted to Professor, continues to be on Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Board of

Directors, elected to Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Program Directors Board of Directors. Co-Founded

the Special Interest Group of Pediatric Pain Management, helped create and moderate the Pediatric Pain

Conference.

Mark H. Chandler – Director, Preanesthesia Clinic, DHMC, Colonel, US Army; Colorado Army National

Guard State Surgeon, two tours Operation Iraqi Freedom, one tour Operation Enduring Freedom

(Afghanistan) and invited Keynote Speaker CPAM (Canadian Perioperative Anesthesia & Medicine)

Meeting, May 2012.

Sara S. Cheng, MD, PhD – Student Mentored/Supported – Chloe Hughes, MS4 and Academic Editor,

PLoS One.

Uwe Christians, MD, PhD – Students Mentored/Supported – Rahul Bohra, Structural Biology and

Biophysics Program, PhD student, graduated May 2012 and Jacek Klepacki, Structural Biology and

Biophysics Program, PhD student. Board Membership – Editorial Boards: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring,

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Drug Metabolism and Disposition.

Randall M. Clark, MD – Journal reviewer: Anesthesia and Analgesia, Board membership: American

Society of Anesthesiologists, Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists, Pediatric Anesthesiology Leadership

Council, and Colorado Medical Society (now relinquished) Presentations: New York State Society of

Anesthesiologists Post-Graduate Assembly “Anesthesia Management for the Pediatric Patient with

Coexisting Cardiac Disease” and “Current Issues Forum: Strategies for Managing Scope of Practice

Challenges” December 2011, Society of Academic Anesthesiology Associations Annual Meeting “Ongoing

Professional Practice Evaluation: Best Practices” November 2011, and Colorado Society of

Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, “Anesthesia for Pediatric Trauma and Burns” September 2011.

Holger Eltzschig, MD, PhD – Elected to Director, Research Enterprise Committee, Department of

Anesthesiology, University of Colorado. Received the Heinrich-Dräger Research Award for Intensive Care

Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. Elected as Member to the American Society of Clinical Investigation

(ASCI). Invited Keynote Speaker to Simon Gelman Symposium, Harvard Medical School in Boston MA.

Invited Keynote Speaker to Annual Meeting of the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists in Seoul Korea.

Invited Keynote Speaker to Research Symposium, University of Tubingen, Germany.

Ana Fernandez-Bustamante, MD, PhD - received the Clinical-Translational Mentored Research Grant

from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER).

Robert H. Friesen, MD – Presentations – “Repeatability and Accuracy of Carboxyhemoglobin

Measurement by Pulse CO-Oximetry in Children” American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting,

Chicago, October, 2011, “Noninvasive Carbon Monoxide Screening for Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Exposure in Children” American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, Chicago, October, 2011,

Round Table Discussion: Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Annual Meeting,

Chicago, October, 2011, and “Perioperative Management of Pulmonary Hypertension” Society of

Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, Boston, April, 2012. National/International Activities

– Chair, Editorial Board for journal, Pediatric Anesthesia and Board of Directors, Congenital Cardiac

Anesthesia Society.

Jeffrey Galinkin, MD, FAAP – National Committees include the Pediatric Advisory Board and

appointed to the Research Subcommittee Member of the MDDS Foundation. Jan 2012. Invited lecturer

“Postoperative Infections, Can we prevent them?” and “Lightwand Intubation” February, 2012, Colorado


Review of Anesthesia and Ski Holiday (CRASH) 2012. Vail, Colorado. Invited lecturer at Children’s

Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA “Anesthesiology Research at Children’s Hospital Colorado: A

Case Study in the Development of a Translational Research Program.” and “Practical applications of -

omics technologies” June 2012.

Glenn Gravlee, MD – Distinguished Service Award, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists

Adrian Hendrickse, MD – Pask Certificate of Honour 2012 awarded by the Association of Anaesthetists

of Great Britain and Ireland for anaesthesia support to British Armed Forces in Afghanistan 2001-2012.

Thomas K. Henthorn, MD – President of the Morton Society and President-Elect of the Center for

Personalized Education for Physicians (CPEP) Board of Directors

Dirk Homann, MD – Journal Review: Diabetes, PLoS Pathogens, PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Microbial

Immunology and Clinical Immunology. Editorial Board member, Frontiers in Microbial Immunology,

Editorial Board member, PLoS ONE, Advisory Board member, DARPA Program on Modeling Immunity

for Biodefense, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

Leslie C. Jameson, MD – Editor-in-Chief of the Practice Performance Assessment and Improvement

(PPAI).

Daniel Janik, MD - Immediate Past President Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists; Member of the

American Society of Anesthesiologists House of Delegates; Invited Faculty for Workshop on

Intraoperative Neuromonitoring at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurosciences in

Anesthesiology and Critical Care.

Susan Mandell, MD, PhD – Elected to USA Best Doctors 2011. Elected to Advisory Committee of Liver

and Intensive Care Group of Europe. Appointed Section Editor for International Liver Transplantation

Society Educational Web site.

Ferenc Puskas, MD, PhD – Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship Director – Fellows mentored were

Gregory Wolff, MD and Quinn Stevens, MD

Natalie Serkova, PhD – Invited to serve as an onsite reviewer for the U.S. Department of Energy Office

of Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE SCGF) Program, as well as for the California Breast Cancer

Research Program (“Treatment and Detection” Review Panel), as well as on the Special Emphasis NIH

Panel on “Technology Development for Metabolomics” (ZRG1 BST-P (50). Elected the Editor-in-Chief for

“Cancer Metabolomics” (a Versita Publisher journal). Invited on the Editorial Board for “Recent Patents

on Medical Imaging” and “ISRN Molecular Imaging”. Invited to participate on the NIH R25 GM103798

grant “University of Alabama at Birmingham Metabolomics Workshop: from Design to Decision” as

Metabolomics lecturer/ co-investigator (PI: S. Barnes, UAB). Invited to give a Grand Round lecture “1H-

NMR Based Metabolomics: Application in Translational and Clinical Medicine”, Department of

Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Marina Shindell, DO - Promoted to Associate Professor. University of Colorado School of Medicine

Admission Committee. Continued on as a Foundations of Doctoring Preceptor. Joined Liver

Transplantation team. Became medical director of pre and post anesthesia care units.

Robin B. Slover, MD – Problem based learning discussion at the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia

Annual Meeting


Breandan L. Sullivan, MD – Invited to present at Society for Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists 2012

and 2013 annual meeting. Awarded Teacher of the Year Award (second year in a row) Department of

Anesthesiology University of Colorado Hospital. Awarded "Sunshine Award" University Hospital

Operating Room Staff for the "Most Self Sufficient Anesthesiologist"

Nathaen Weitzel, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology.

Cristina L. Wood, MD – Presentations – “Cesarean delivery of an anticoagulated parturient with high

pressure gradients across bi-leaflet St. Jude mitral and tricuspid mechanical valves: A Case Report”

Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, Monterey, CA, May 2012, “EXIT (Ex-utero intrapartum

treatment) Procedure: Anesthesia Considerations” Anesthesiology Grand Rounds, University of Colorado

Hospital, Aurora, CO, April 2012, “Neurosurgery and Pregnancy” Anesthesiology Grand Rounds,

University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, February 2012, “Neonatal Resuscitation” Resident Lecture,

University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, October 2011, and “Postdural Puncture Headache: Who’s

headache is it anyway?” Colorado Society of Anesthesia Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, September 2011.

Epic Superuser and Implementation of Epic computer system.

BARBARA DAVIS CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD DIABETES

George Eisenbarth, MD, PhD - Professor, Executive Director of Barbara Davis Center, received the

American Diabetes Association 2012 Albert Renold award for his career achievements in mentorship and

diabetes research and the Pediatric Endocrine Society’s Robert M. Blizzard Award.

Georgeanna J. Klingensmith, MD - Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Barbara Davis Center,

received the 2012 American Diabetes Association Award for Physician Clinician in Diabetes for her

contributions to clinical care and education in the field of type 1 diabetes and the Children’s Diabetes

Foundation 2012 High Hopes Award for contributions to the care of children with diabetes.

John C. Hutton, PhD - Professor, Research Director of Barbara Davis Center received the 2012 Gerold

G. Grodsky Award from the Western Region Islet Study Group and the 2012 Paul Lacy Medal Lecturer

Award from the Midwest Islet Club.

DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR GENETICS

David Bentley, PhD - Graduate School Mentoring Award, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical

Campus, 2012; Awarded a second NIH R01 grant, “Mis-regulation of mRNA poly (A) site selection in

cancer cells (PQ11)”

Richard Davis, PhD - Invited Talk: Evolution of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes 2012 (CSHL)

“Elimination of Germline-expressed Genes by Chromatin Diminution Reveals Remarkable Gene

Regulation in the Nematode Ascaris”

James DeGregori, PhD - Awarded an NIH R01 grant, “Rationally designed targeted therapeutic

approaches for NSCLC”; Awarded two Leukemia Lymphoma Society grants, “Inhibiting ATM/ATR

pathways to potentiate AML elimination by targeting FLT3” and “Continued development of rational

combination therapies for Ph+ leukemias”; Invited Lecture: Plenary lecture, NASA 22nd Space

Radiation Investigators’ Workshop, League City, TX, Sept 2011; Seminar, CU Boulder, April 2012,

Keynote address for Biology of the Cancer Cell Symposium


Elan Eisenmesser, PhD - Invited Lecture: International Exosome Conference, Colorado State

University, Fort Collins, CO, “Cyclophilin-A and EMMPRIN: moonlighting outside of the cell”;

Invited Lecture: Denver University, “Cyclophilins and their receptor: Everybody’s moving”

Kirk Hansen, PhD - Started the Colorado Biological Mass Spectrometry Society with Dr. Reisdorph from

National Jewish Medical Center and Dr. Prenni from Colorado State University; Organized and

coordinated personalized tours of the Proteomics Facility to over 15 groups ranging from high school

students to department chair candidates and hiring committees; Reviewer for Health Research Council of

New Zealand; Reviewer for Children’s Hospital internal grant program

Jay Hesselberth, PhD - Awarded a Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award; Associate Editor, G3:

Genes | Genomes | Genetics

Robert Hodges, PhD - Member of the Scientific Committee of the 33rd International Symposium on the

Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP 2013) Westin Waterfront, Boston;

Invited Lecture: Second annual Colorado Vaccine Summit, Longmont, CO, “Engineering Novel α-helical

Peptides as Virus Vaccines”; Invited Lecture: World Vaccine Congress 2012, Washington, DC, “Universal

influenza vaccine – new design”

Mingxia Huang, PhD - Editorial board member of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Invited Talk:

Enzyme Ribonucleotide Reductase Symposium

Aaron Johnson, PhD - Appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular

Genetics; Awarded an NIH R00 grant, “Comprehensive characterization of Heterochromatin Domains”

Mark Johnston, PhD - Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Editor-in-Chief,

GENETICS; Invited Talk: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University,

Goteborg, Sweden; Invited Talk: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State

University, Shreveport, LA; Invited Talk: Keynote speaker: Big Sky Mycology Meeting, Bozeman, MT;

Invited speaker: Yeast Genetics Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; Spotlighted in Spring 2012

CU Medicine Today “Lager Yeast and the power of curiosity”

Jeffrey Kieft, PhD - Awarded an NIH R01 grant, “Manipulation of cellular translation machinery by

viral RNAs”; Selected Speaker: EMBL Conference on Protein Synthesis and Translational Control,

Heidleberg, Germany; Speaker: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Meeting, Janelia Farm

Research Campus, VA; Speaker: Rocky Mountain Virology Club Annual Meeting, Pingree Park, CO;

Invited Speaker: FASEB meeting on Catalytic RNAs, Snowmass, CO

Changwei Liu, PhD - Invited Lecture: The 4th International Conference on Protein Degradation

proteasome and lysosome pathways”; Invited Lecture: Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern

Medical Center, “Regulating SMN stability via ubiquitination/deubiquitination”; Invited Lecture: The

ASBMB 2012 Annual Meeting, San Diego “Ubiquitin chain trimming recycles the substrate binding sites

of the 26S proteasome and promotes degradation of lysine 48-linked polyUb conjugates”

Paul Megee, PhD - Grant Review: National Institutes of Health, K99/R00 NIH grant review panel;

Invited Seminar: Front Range Microtubule Meeting, University of Colorado School of Medicine

David Pollock, PhD - Awarded a second NIH R01 grant, “Genome-wide mutation models to decipher

function”

Robert Sclafani, PhD - Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology; Editorial Boards: G3:

Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Annual Review of Genetics; Invited Lecture: 24th Annual Fanconi Anemia


Research Fund Scientific Symposium Denver, CO, “Potential Therapeutic Use of Resveratrol for Head

and Neck Carcinogenesis in Fanconi Anemia”

James Sikela, PhD - Invited Speaker: Keystone Symposium on Functional Consequences of Structural

Variation in the Genome, Steamboat Springs CO, “1q21.1 Duplications, Disease and Evolution”; Invited

Speaker: American Society for Human Genetics Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, "Human lineage-

specific CNVs: DUF1220 domain copy number linked to cognitive disease and brain evolution”; Invited

Speaker: Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand, “DUF1220 domains

and the search for the genes that made us human”; Invited Speaker: Ghent University, Ghent Belgium,

“DUF1220 domains, cognitive disease and human brain evolution” ; University of Colorado Anschutz

Medical Campus Press Release, from the online edition of The American Journal of Human Genetics,

“Evolutionary increase in size of human brain explained”; Awarded a Linda Crnic Institute grant, “The

goal of this grant is to identify genes on Chr21 that are involved in phenotypes related to Down

syndrome”; Awarded a Butcher Foundation Pilot Grant, “Structural Studies of DUF1220 Protein

Domains”

Rui Zhao, PhD - Awarded an NIH R03 grant, “Identify inhibitors of the transcriptional co-repressor

CtBP using HTS for cancer therapy”; Awarded a Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute

Pilot grant “Targeting a transcriptional co-repressor CtBP for cancer therapy”; Awarded a Cancer League

of Colorado Research grant “Inhibiting the transcriptional co-repressor CtBP for cancer therapy using cell

penetrating peptide”

DEPARTMENT OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Linda Barlow, PhD – Served as Director, Cell Biology, Stem Cells & Development (CSD) graduate

program, and Chair of the CSD Preliminary Exam Committee. Promoted to Professor.

Brad Bendiak, PhD – Nominated to Committee on Assessing the Importance and Impact of Glycomics

and Glycosciences, National Research Council.

Steven Britt, MD – Served as Clinical Co-Director, Human Body Block, SOM; Chair, Graduate Advising

Committee (CSD); Chair, Seminar Committee (Program in Neuroscience), Associate Editor, Fly.

Michael Carry, PhD – Served as Chair, Gross Anatomy Search Committee; Assistant Secretary (CSAB),

Essentials Core Block Directors Committee; 2012 Outstanding Basic Sciences Instructor.

Thomas Evans, PhD – Served as Chair, Molecular Biology Graduate Recruitment/Admissions

Committee; Chair, CSD Graduate Program Student Advisory Committee.

Thomas Finger, PhD – Served as President for Rocky Mountain Region Neuroscience Group (Regional

Chapter of Soc. Neuroscience).

Wendy Macklin, Ph.D. –Served as Chair, NIH study section Cell and Molecular Biology of Glia; served

on Research Programs Advisory Council for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; reviewed FAST

Forward grants for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; served as a MAC poster judge and Women in

Cell Biology Career mentor at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology; served on

search committee for the Chair of the Department of Surgery.

Sandra Martin, PhD – Served as Chair, Preliminary Exam Committee.


Robin Michaels, PhD – Received 5th Annual Faculty Professionalism Award; AAMC Mid-Career Women

Faculty Professional; Received President’s Teaching Award; Served as Faculty Marshall for the SOM

graduating Class of 2012; Served as Secretary Treasurer, Colorado State Anatomical Board; served as

Assistant Dean/Chair, Essentials Core Medical Curriculum; Chair, Task Force on Tracks; Chair, Task

Force on Gaps & Redundancy; Appointed Visiting Professor, University of Zimbabwe School of Medicine.

Chad Pearson, PhD – Selected as 2011 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, and 2012 Boettcher

Investigator.

Rytis Prekeris, PhD – Served as Chair and Organizer of 2012 Annual Front Range Cytoskeleton

Conference; Served as a Member of Special Emphasis Review Panel (ZGM1 MBRS-7) for NIH-GM;

Invited Speaker in EMBO Conference “Dynamic Endosomes: Mechanisms Controlling Endocytosis”;

Invited Speaker at the Annual American Society for Cell Biology Meeting.

Diego Restrepo, PhD – Served as Director of the Center for Neuroscience (CNS); Awarded MCESUP

from the government of Chile, an award to perform a one week advanced neuroscience course for PhD

students in Chile.

Ernesto Salcedo, PhD – Program Coordinator, BRAiN training program.

Victor Spitzer, PhD – Received Gordon and Marilyn Peters Gift to Center for Human Simulation;

Appointed Director, Master’s in Modern Human Anatomy Program.

Selected by the American Association of Clinical Anatomists as local host for the 30th Annual Meeting

(July 9-12, 2013) and Director of the post-graduate course on July 13, 2013.

Norma Wagoner, PhD – Appointed Co-Director, Master’s in Modern Human Anatomy Program.

DEPARTMENT OF DERMATOLOGY

Neil Box, PhD – Co-Chair, Mini-symposium on “Pigmentation and Melanoma”, Annual Meeting of the

Society for Investigative Dermatology, 2012; Invited speaker, Eastern Oncology Group Melanoma

Prevention Working Group meeting, VIII International Melanoma Congress. Invited Speaker, QIAGEN

Symposium Series, Houston, Raleigh, and San Diego.

Anna Bruckner, MD – Appointed Associated Professor (07/12). Listed in Best Doctors in America.

Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH – Graduate Program Outstanding Research Mentor Award,

Preventive Medicine Residency Program Award.

Peter Koch, PhD – Promoted to Professor; Co-Chair, Minisymposia on “Cell Adhesion and Matrix

Biology”, Annual Meeting of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, 2012

Christopher K. Law MD – Outstanding Journal Research Article published in Obesity (Awarded by the

Obesity Society in October 2011) "Fat Redistribution Following Suction Lipectomy: Defense of Body Fat

and Patterns of Restoration", et al.

Lela Lee, MD – Received 5280 Top Doctor Award. I am also listed in Best Doctors in America

David Norris, MD Professor and Chairman Department of Dermatology – Invited speaker: 70th

Annual American Academy of Dermatology Meeting 03/12, Society for Investigative Dermatology 05/12,


University of Arkansas: “Melanoma Update” 05/12, 18th China National Annual Congress of Dermatology

& Venereology, Beijing, China 06/12

Lori Prok, MD – Appointed Assistant Section Editor, Off-Center Fold Dermatology Section, JAMA

Dermatology (Formerly Archives of Dermatology). Awarded Women’s Dermatologic Society Mentorship

Grant (2012). Mentor for Dr. Joshua Schulman, resident in Dermatology at University of California, San

Francisco. Awarded Society for Pediatric Dermatology Mentorship Grant (2012). Mentor for Dr. Adam

Rubin, attending dermatologist and dermatopathologist at University of Pennsylvania. Named 5280 “Top

Doc”: 2012, 2011. Awarded Golden Stethoscope Award for medical student precepting (“Best Specialty

Preceptor”), 2012. Elected Executive Board Member, Secretary, Colorado Dermatologic Society

Dennis Roop, PhD – Honored by FIRST Foundation for ground-breaking research to correct inherited

skin disease.

Yigun Shellman, PhD – Editorial Board member at PLoS ONE. Preceptor for University of Colorado

Cancer Center Fellows; The Institutional Biosafety Committee member of University of Colorado; Ad hoc

reviewer for Journal of Investigative Dermatology, PLoS One, Biochemical Pharmacology.

Qinghong Zhang, PhD – Recipient of Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute CO-Pilot

Award, University of Colorado Cancer Center Seed Grant Award, Colorado Skin Disease Research

Center, and Merit Award for Exemplary Efforts in Clinical, Educational, or Research Endeavors.

Appointed to the Dean’s Office Pilot Grant Committee. Scientific Reviewer for AICR fund, UK. Invited

speaker, Chinese Dermatology Congress, Beijing, China.

DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Jean Abbott, MD, MH – Received the 2012 Advancement of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine

Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Barbara Blok, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Kelly Bookman, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and received the

President’s Award from the University of Colorado Hospital

Michael Breyer, MD – Received the 2012 Peter Rosen Leadership Award from the Denver Health

Emergency Medicine Residents, nominated by the Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residents for the

2012 Associate/Assistant Program Director of the Year Award, received the 2012 Attending of the Year

Award from the Denver Health Emergency Department Staff, and nominated by the Foundations of

Doctoring students in 2012 for the Golden Stethoscope Award for Best Emergency Medicine Preceptor

Vaughn Browne, MD, PhD – Received the 2012 Outstanding Physician Award from the University of

Colorado Hospital Emergency Department nurses

Jennie Buchanan, MD – Received the 2012 Award for Best Attending Lecture from the Denver Health

Paramedic School, received the 2012 Award for Outstanding Teacher from the Denver Health Emergency

Medicine Residents, and nominated by the Foundations of Doctoring students in 2012 for the Golden

Stethoscope Award for Best Emergency Medicine Preceptor

Brett Burbridge, PA-C – Received the 2012 Physician Assistant of the Year Award from the University

of Colorado Hospital Emergency Department nurses, and appointed as Chief Physician Assistant


Richard Byyny, MD, MSc – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Christopher Colwell, MD – Received the 2012 Positively Collaborative Award for outstanding

collaboration toward the improvement of Colorado’s trauma system, and promoted to Professor of

Emergency Medicine

Andrew French, MD – Received the 2012 Leadership Development Fellowship Program Award from the

Colorado Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians

Adit Ginde, MD, MPH – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, became a Fellow of the

American College of Emergency Physicians, received the Beeson Career Development Grant from the

National Institute of Aging, member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Chapter of the American

College of Emergency Physicians, finalist for the Junior Investigator Award from the American College of

Emergency Physicians Research Forum, received the Trailblazers in Emergency Medicine Award from

the Emergency Medicine Foundation, received the Young Investigators Award from the Society for

Academic Emergency Medicine, and nominated by the Foundations of Doctoring students in 2012 for the

Golden Stethoscope Award for Best Emergency Medicine Preceptor

Benjamin Honigman, MD – Appointed Associate Dean of Clinical Outreach for the University of

Colorado School of Medicine, appointed Medical Director of Clinical Outreach for the University of

Colorado Hospital, and named as one of 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver in 2012

Renee King, MD, MPH – Member of the Joint US/Canadian Global Health Curriculum Committee

Debra Kreisberg, PhD – Received a training grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and

Environment to develop collaborative systems in disaster response and received a Hospital and Health

Preparedness grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Eric Lavonas, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Charles Little, DO – Received a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

to develop research and training programs in disaster preparedness

Steven Lowenstein, MD, MPH – Member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Prevention Center

David Matero, MD – Member of the Board of Directors for the Council of Residency Directors

Andrew Monte, MD – Received a Research Training Grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation,

awarded as a Hartford Scholar from the American Geriatric Society, and nominated by the Foundations

of Doctoring students in 2012 for the Golden Stethoscope Award for Best Emergency Medicine Preceptor

Kathryn Mueller, MD, MPH – Elected Vice-President of the American College of Occupational and

Environmental Medicine

Kristen Nordenholz, MD – Received the 2012 Pioneer Award from the University of Colorado Hospital

David Richards, MD – Nominated by the Foundations of Doctoring students in 2012 for the Golden

Stethoscope Award for Best Emergency Medicine Preceptor

Jeffrey Sankoff, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine


Comilla Sasson, MD – Received a Career Development Award from the Emergency Medicine

Foundation and received a Scientist Development Grant Award from the American Heart Association

Fred Severyn, MD – Chair of the Emergency Cardiac Care Committee for the American Heart

Association and received the 2012 Stephen V. Cantrill Master Teacher Award from the Denver Health

Residency in Emergency Medicine

Lee Shockley, MD – Received TEAMS Awards for a project to expedite emergency to inpatient transfers

and the establishment of the Clinical Transition Unit and received a STAR Award recognizing his work in

preparing the emergency medicine team for the successful Joint Commission Survey

Jacqueline Ward-Gaines, MD – Received the 2012 Clinical Excellence Award from the University of

Colorado Hospital Emergency Department nurses

Stephen Wolf, MD – Received the 2012 Distinguished Educator Award for Educational Leadership from

the Council of Residency Directors and received the 2012 Excellence in Educational Administration and

Leadership Award from the Academy of Medical Educators

Jennifer Wiler, MD – Member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Medical Society, member of the

Board of Directors for the Colorado Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and

received a Service Recognition Award from the American Medical Association Women Physicians

Congress for holding the position of Chair for the last four years

Lynne Yancey, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Richard Zane, MD – Appointed inaugural Chair of the Department of Emergency and received the

Faculty Mentoring Award named in his honor from Brigham and Women’s Hospital

DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE

Grace Alfonsi, MD – Listed in 5280 magazine as Top Doctors of Denver and listed on the US News web

pages as US News Top Doctors. Inducted as Fellow of the AAFP at the annual meeting, and received

University of Colorado Faculty Development Initiative Program Award to attend the Harvard School of

Public Health Course of Management of community health centers.

Brian Bacak, MD, FAAFP – In July 2011 completed term as the Colorado Academy of Family

Physicians Board Chair and recognized as 2011 Colorado Academy of Family Physicians Teacher of the

Year. Promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, assumed role as Chair,

Department of Family Medicine, at Rose Medical Center. In 2012 re-joined the Board of Directors for the

Colorado Academy of Family Physicians as an Alternate-Delegate to the American Academy of Family

Physicians annual Congress of Delegates.

Elizabeth A. Bayliss, MD, MSPH - Associate Editor, Annals of Family Medicine. Promoted to Director

of Scientific Development, Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado 2010-2011. US

Department of Health and Human Services, Multiple Chronic Conditions Expert Steering Committee,

October 2011. National Institute on Aging and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Expert Panel

on Outcome Measures for Older Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions. September, 2011.

Michael Benavidez, MD – Recognized in 5280 magazine as best family and sports medicine doctors in

Denver.


Terri Blevins, MA – Recipient of the Dr. Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Award for exceptional ability in

promoting the overall mission of the University of Colorado School of Medicine; appointed to the Associate

of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Careers in Medicine (CiM) Advisory Committee; presented a

poster on a model for Enrichment and Remediation at the AAMC 2011 Professional Development

Conference for Student Affairs and Careers in Medicine.

George Bock, MD – Listed in 5280 Magazine as ―Top Doctors of Denver as well as the US News

webpages as US News Top Doctors.

Michael Bross, MD – Appointed to Associate Professor in Family Medicine, recognized as the 2011

Teacher of the Year in Family Medicine.

Jeffrey Cain, MD – Member of the Board of Directors for the AAFP and the AAFP Foundation. Board of

Directors for the Amputee Coalition and Chair of the AC Advocacy Committee, introducing bipartisan

federal legislation in US House and Senate for prosthetic insurance coverage, Member of the Colorado

Medical Services Board working on the Colorado Health Care Policy and Finance, President Elect of the

American Academy of Family Physicians, Board of Directors of the Colorado Medical Services Board

overseeing Colorado Medicaid and CHP+.

B. Ned Calonge, MD – Named President and CEO of the Colorado Trust.

Stephanie M Chu, DO—received Richard Patt, M.D. Community Preceptor Award for Rose Family

Medicine Residency, June 2012.

Maribel Cifuentes, BSN, RN – Invited keynote, Addressing Health Behavior Change in the PCMH:

Lessons from Prescription for Health at the 32nd Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine,

September 2011. Invited International Advisor ―PVS Learning Seminar III – Strengthening collaboration

in the community to promote healthy habits, Bilbao, Spain, October 2011. Invited keynote, Addressing

Health Behavior Change in the PCMH: Lessons from Prescription for Health at 2nd Annual Tri-Service

Medical Home Summit: Building an Integrated Medical Home Brick by Brick, October 2010. Invited

International advisor for Integrating Promotion of Health Behaviors in Primary Care from theory to

practice: A collaborative learning seminar at Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Bilbao, Spain,

September 2010.

Colleen Conry, MD – Vice-chair of the Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine, ACGME;

member of the NCQA Programs Committee, member of the American Academy of Family Physicians

Commission on Quality and Practice, and faculty for the National Institute for Program Director

Development. Member Board of Directors, Center for Personalized Education for Physicians and received

Clinician of the Year Award from the Department of Family Medicine.

Lauren DeAlleaume, MD – One of 14 Denver Health Doctors listed on U.S. News Top Doctors. Inducted

as a Fellow of the AAFP at the annual meeting.

Frank deGruy, III, MD, MSFM – Elected Member of the Institute of Medicine. Member of the Council of

Academic Family Medicine Organizations. Chair, National Integration Academy Council, 2010-2012.

Board of Directors, 2040 Partners for Health, 2006-2012. Board of Directors, Colorado Institute of Family

Medicine, 2009-2012. 2011-2012 President of North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG).

Chair, Family Physicians Inquires Network Board of Directors (FPIN) 2003-2012; Treasurer, National

Network of Depression Center (NNDC), 2009-2012; 2011 Past President, Collaborative Family Healthcare

Association. Elected as a member to the Alabama Beta Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society.

Named one of the 2010 recipients of the University of South Alabama‘s (USA) Distinguished Alumni

Awards. This is the highest honor USA can bestow on an alumnus.


Mark Deutchman, MD – Received the Chancellor Teaching Recognition Award for 2010-2011. Elected to

the Academy of Medical Educators 2011; Invited speaker at National Inter-professional Initiative on Oral

Health and 2010 finalist for Denver Business Journal – Anthem BC/BS ―Champions in Healthcare‖

Nominated by Delta Dental of Colorado Foundation for Champions for Healthcare for work on oral health

in Colorado.

Perry Dickinson, MD – Served as Immediate Past President and on the Board of Directors of the Society

of Teachers of Family Medicine, as a member of the Council of Academic Family Medicine, as a member of

the AHRQ Expert Working Group on Practice Facilitation, as a member of the Steering Committee of the

national Family Medicine Length of Training Pilot Project, and as a member of the core faculty for the

national Tri-board Primary Care Faculty Development Initiative. Chaired a grant review panel for AHRQ

and served on a grant review panel for PCORI. Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin, the

University of South Alabama, Harbor UCLA, the University of Pittsburg, Mayo Clinic, Albert Einstein

University, and the Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education. Immediate Past-President and Board

member for the North American Primary Care Research Group. President of Board of Directors for the

Annals of Family Medicine, Inc. Chaired an Expert Panel for Revision of the NCQA PPC-PCMH

Standards for the American Academy of Family Physicians. Invited speaker of NIH meeting on

Identifying Core Behavioral and Psychosocial Data Elements for the Electronic Health Record.

Doug Fernald, MA – Received Researcher of the Year award in Department of Family Medicine.

Jennifer Fisher, DNP, WHNP – Invited speaker for Incorporating Competencies into Learner

Assessment at the 3rd Annual EMS Arcadia Users Summit, August, 2010, Oakland, CA. Promoted to

Associate Professor and appointed Interim Director of the Center for Advancing Professional Excellence

2012.

Larry A. Green, MD – 2010 Thomas W. Johnson Award for recognition and in appreciation of

outstanding career contributions to family medicine education. Elected to Board of Directors of American

Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), Chair of ABMS Ethics and Professionalism Committee. The 2011

Robert P. Carter Research Lecturer at Michigan State University. Elected to Board of Directors of

American Board of Family Medicine Foundation. Re-appointed to the National Committee on Vital and

Health Statistics (NCVHS). Co-Chair of NCVHS Populations Subcommittee. Member ACGME Family

Medicine Milestones Development Committee. Member Steering Committee for the American Boards of

Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Internal Medicine-Health Resources and Services Administration

National Faculty Development Pilot Program. Institute of Medicine Study Committee for Integrating

Public Health and Primary Care.

Greg Gutierrez, MD – Recognized in 5280 magazine as best family and sports medicine doctor in

Denver.

Chandra Hartman, MD, FAAFP – Elected as Delegate for Special Constituencies to the National

Congress of Delegates for American Academy of Family Physicians. Nominated for Colorado Academy of

Family Physicians Teacher of the Year award. Received Inpatient Teacher of the Year Award from Rose

Family Medicine Residency. Elected to Board of Directors, Colorado Academy of Family Physicians.

Received Degree of Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians.

John Hill, DO – Serves on the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) Committee on

Musculoskeletal ultrasound; establishing national teaching standards and standards of care for MSK

Ultrasound. Invited speaker for 2011 International Team Physician Course in Nairobi Kenya, November

2011. Obtained three patents on the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound to identify muscle glycogen

storage and the software analysis to quantify glycogen levels.


Inigo San Millan, PhD—Invited keynote speaker at the Maximizing Cycling Performance Symposium

in NYC. Invited speaker at the 2nd National Cycling Medicine Conference; Invited speaker for a Lactate

Metabolism Symposium at 2012 American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Annual Meeting.

Appointed as Director of the Exercise Physiology Laboratory for the new Anschutz Health and Wellness

Center.

Bonnie Jortberg, PhD – Received the Department of Family Medicine 2011 Rising Star of the Year in

Research and Education award. Received Faculty Development Award to Complete PhD in Human

Nutrition in December 2011. Promotion to Assistant Professor in 2012.

Barbara Kelly, MD – Led initiative resulting in AF Williams Clinic being awarded Level 3 NCQA

certification as a Patient Centered Medical Home in May 2011. Honored with Clinical Leadership Award

2011 for the Department of Family Medicine. Phoenix Summit Member for the STFM Group on Hospital

Medicine and Procedural Training. Active Fellow at the American Society of Colposcopy and Cervical

Pathology.

Morteza Khodaee, MD, MPH – Invited speaker at American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific

Assembly in Orlando, September 2011. Completed the Grant Generating Project Fellowship, a family

medicine research capacity building project of the AAFP Foundation, the NAPCRG, and the STFM.

Recognized as an “Active Teacher in Family Medicine” by the AAFP. Nominated for the University of

Colorado School of Medicine Golden Stethoscope award for Excellence in Medical Student Clinical

Education. Invited Course Faculty of the AMSSM Research Workshop for Sports Medicine Fellows in Ann

Arbor, Michigan, July 2011.

Amber Koch-Laking, MD - Received Clinical Rising Star of the Year award from the Department of

Family Medicine.

Jay Lee, MD – Appointed by the Governor to serve a second term on the Colorado Health Service Corps

Advisory Council. Invited by Health Team Works to join its Childhood Obesity Guideline Committee.

Listed in 5280 Magazine‘s ―Top Doctors‖ of Denver. Awarded the Faculty Development Initiative

Program Award, Department of Family Medicine.

Lucy Loomis, MD – President elect of the Denver Medical Society. Inducted as Fellow of the AAFP at the

annual meeting.

Corey Lyon DO, FAAFP – Began serving as Help Desk Answers’ Editor-in Chief for the Family

Physician Inquiries Network (FPIN), nominated as Vice President of Membership and Education, Family

Physician Inquiries Network Board of Directors (FPIN), selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of

Family Physicians (AAFP), invited speaker at Residency Program Solutions Conference in Kansas City,

April 2012 (RPS), the Society of Teacher of Family Medicine conference in Seattle, April 2012 (STFM),

and STFM’s Conference on Medical Student Education in Long Beach CA, February 2012, Recipient of

the University Of Colorado Family Medicine’s Residency’s Faculty Teacher of the Year.

Helen Macfarlane, MA – Recipient of the Academy of Medical Educators‘ Citation In Recognition of

Excellence in Educational Scholarship.

Wendy Madigosky, MD, MSPH – Selected as inaugural member of Academy of Medical Educators in

2010. Promoted to Associate Professor of Family Medicine in July 2011. Invited to serve as the Faculty

Network Advisor for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Open School. Selected as a 2012

member of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s Faculty Scholars Program 2012.


Benjamin F. Miller, PsyD - Invited speaker at the Argument for Psychologists in Integrated Healthcare

Reform APA conference in Washington DC. Invited speaker at Integrating Primary and Behavioral

Healthcare: How to Advance the National Conversation in Orlando Fl. Invited speaker at Fighting

Fragmentation at the level of innovation: Integration Mental Health and Primary Care in Richmond VA.

Invited speaker at the Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration: Roles of the key team members

conference in Philadelphia, PA. Invited speaker at Four Pillars of Healthcare Integration: Practice,

Workforce, Payment and Policy in Philadelphia PA. Invited speaker at changing the game: Uniting the

field of integrated Primary Care through research in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. Invited speaker at Mental

Health and Primary Care in Orlando Fl. Invited speaker at Innovation in Practice Design and the

Importance of Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care: Research, Practice, and Policy

Implications for Healthcare in Bethesda MD. Invited speaker at Studying the Impact of Behavioral

Health and Primary Care through Electronic Medical Records: The CONNECT project in Bethesda MD.

Received “Rising Star of the year in Research” award in April 2012. Serves as President of Collaborative

Family Healthcare Association. Became member of International Advanced Board for British Journal of

General Practice. Member of NIH Loan Repayment Program. Member of AHRQ Innovations exchange

expert panel.

Linda Montgomery, MD – Recipient of the University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency‘s Faculty

Teacher of the Year 2011. Named as a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Named

Program Director for the University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency, elected President of the

Family Practice Inquiry Network.

John Nagle, MPA – Appointed to the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Membership Committee.

Appointed to Members of the Council of Academic Family Medicine Residency Innovation Task Force.

Member of Teachers of Family Medicine Membership Committee. Member of the Council of Academic

Family Medicine Residency Innovation Task Force, Appointed as the Director of Statewide Four-Year

Family Medicine Residency Program pilot.

David Nowels, MD, MPH – Elected to the Test Writing Committee for the Hospice and Palliative

Medicine National Board Certification Exam in 2012. Serve as an Associate Editor for PC-FACS (Fast

Article Critical Summaries for Clinicians in Palliative Care) Psychosocial Section. Invited speaker at:

University of Colorado Annual Family Medicine Review Course; Annual University of Colorado Hospital

Palliative Medicine Course 2012; Colorado Academy of Family Practice Annual Scientific Conference.

Received accreditation by the Residency Review Committee for the Colorado Palliative Medicine

Fellowship Program. Received the Special Leadership award in Department of Family Medicine.

Wilson D. Pace, MD – Appointed to BOD of the DARTNet Institute, asked to serve as CEO of the

DARTNet Institute- volunteer position. Appointed editorial advisory group Annals of Family Medicine,

re-appointed to editorial board JCO Journal on Patient Safety and Quality. Invited speaker: Academy

Health National Health Policy meeting, Academic Pediatric Association – Advancing Quality

Improvement for Children’s Healthcare Research, Culture of Data Conference, Denver, CO, EDM Forum

Symposia on Patient Reported Outcomes, Annual CTSA Community Engagement Conference, Invited

site visit and speaker University of Vermont, Fletcher Allen Health Care Consultant for PBRN/QI

development: AAP Quality Improvement and Innovation Network, ACPNet, electronic Pediatric in Office

Settings, WAMI Practice-based Research Network Received DFM Researcher of the Year Award, Selected

as Committee Chair for the National CTSA Committee on PBRN-CTSA Engagement, Keynote speaker:

A.T. Still University Research Symposium, selected to Board of Director‘s A.T. Still Research Foundation,

invited speaker-Brookings Institute-CMS Symposium on Secondary Use of Clinical Data, invited speaker,

AHRQ-Academy Health Electronic Data Elements Forum, invited speaker– NIH Comparative

Effectiveness Research Forum, Invited speaker, NIH-AHRQ Personalized Medicine Meets CER

Symposium.


Laura Pickler, MD, MPH - Appointed to National Coordinating Center for the Regional Genetic and

Newborn Screening Service Collaboratives Medical Home Workgroup, Physician Lead for Colorado State

Youth Advisory for Youth with Special Health Care Needs. Physician Advisor on Medical Transition at

the Colorado Department of Health and Human Services, Governor appointed member of Colorado Fetal

Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Commission, Family Medicine Representative on the American Academy of

Pediatrics Transitions Clinical Report Authoring Workgroup, Invited Professorship on Medical Home by

the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Sourav Poddar, MD – Recipient of the Neer Award from the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons

Society as part of the MOON shoulder research group. Selected to serve on the Program Committee for

the 2012 American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) Annual Meeting. Selected to serve as

Program Chair for the 2013 AMSSM Annual Meeting. Invited speaker at the 34th Annual National

Strength and Conditioning Association Meeting in Las Vegas. Serving as Program Chair for 2013

American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting. Named to National Inter-Association

Task Force for Preventing Sudden Death in Sports. Selected as Chair, Sports Science Subcommittee for

NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports. Serving as Regional

Consultant, Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants. Chosen as Site-PI for NCAA EKG Screening

Feasibility Study. Sports Medicine Section Co-Editor, Lifestyle Medicine Textbook.

David Price, MD – Board of Directors, Accreditation Council of Continuing Medical Education (including

American Board of Medical Specialties/ACCME Joint Working Group on CME for Maintenance of

Certification). Elected Treasurer, American Board of Family Medicine Foundation. Co-Director, Kaiser

Permanente Colorado Center for Health Dissemination and Implementation Research. Director of

Medical Education for Permanente Federation (Oakland, CA). Awarded degree of Fellow, Alliance for

Continuing Education in the Health Professions. Invited speaker: Alliance for Continuing Medical

Education in the Health Professions ME 2012 annual meeting, including closing plenary panelist

(Orlando FL); Kaiser Permanente Center for Effectiveness and Safety Research (Pasadena CA); HMORN

Research Network (Seattle WA); CME Congress (Toronto Canada); Kaiser Permanente Conference for

Medical Educators (Berkeley CA); Colorado Alliance for CME (Golden CO); Guidelines International

Network Meeting (Berlin, Germany); Institute for Healthcare Improvement Annual Meeting (Orlando

FL). Colorado Alliance for Continuing Medical Education's "Ted Lewis Lifetime Achievement in CME"

award 2012.

Paul Schadler, MD – Keynote speaker, Inaugural Veterans Graduation Ceremony, Metropolitan State

College of Denver.

Judith Shlay, MD, MSPH – Received a National Association of City and County Health Officials Model

Practice Initiative award for program entitled ―Integration of Family Planning Services into an STD

Clinic Setting. 2011 Top Doc for 5280 under Public Health and General Preventive Medicine category.

Became Associate Director of Denver Public Health in 2011.

Cory Sperry, MD –Awarded Clinician of the Year by Department of Family Medicine 2012.

Joanna Stratton, PhD – Invited speaker at the 32nd Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine

in Chicago.

Christin Sutter, BS – Received Research Team Member of the Year award.

Kenton I Voorhees, MD – Academy of Medical Educators, University of Colorado. AAFP Residency

Program Solutions Consultant, AAFP Commission on Education Executive Committee member, Chair

AAFP Subcommittee on Graduate Curriculum, Best Doctors in America 2012, elected to the Academy of

Medical Educators, University of Colorado 2011. AAFP Residency Program Solutions Consultant, AAFP


Commission on Education Executive Committee member, Chair AAFP Subcommittee on Graduate

Curriculum., Best Doctors in America 2011.

Jack Westfall, MD, MPH – Promoted to full Professor. Presided over the 3rd Annual Health Professions

Scholars Recognition Banquet. Director of Colorado AHEC program. Named Director of the CCTSI

Community Engagement Core.

Calvin Wilson, MD – Director of joint University of Colorado/Tulane University program to develop

Family and Community Medicine in Rwanda, East Africa. Developed two new pre-doctoral courses in

Family and Community Medicine for National University of Rwanda. Served as external examiner for

Family Medicine program of Aga Khan University in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Consultant with USAID

in Baghdad, Iraq for development of national Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) program through

Ministry of Health. Named in-country director in Kigali, Rwanda December 2010 on joint University of

Colorado Denver/Tulane University program -Improving Public Health Capacity in Rwanda‖ with a focus

on development of a four year residency program in family medicine through the National University of

Rwanda.

Bradford Winslow, MD – Led Swedish Family Medicine Residency through successful accreditation site

visit, attaining the maximum reaccreditation status of five years. Named Assistant Chairman of Swedish

Medical Center Department of Family Medicine 2012. Named to Credentials Committee, Swedish

Medical Center 2012.


DEPARTMENT OF IMMUNOLOGY

Scott Alper, PhD – Served on the Antibodies Editorial Board and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the

Cancer League of Colorado.

Willi Born, PhD – Served on a Special Emphasis Panel for the review of NIAID program project

applications; Co-Chaired a session at the 4th International Conference on Gamma/Delta T Cells.

John C Camber, PhD - Alumni Advisory Board, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Gave

the Christina Nobel Lecture, University of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation. Invited speaker:

Annual Barbara Davis Center JDRF Research Conference, FASEB Conference, Cleveland Clinic, and

Virginia Commonwealth University. Site Visit Chair, NCI Molecular Biology Laboratory. Speaker and

Session Chair, Keystone Symposium.

Laurent Gapin, PhD – Promoted to Professor. Invited speaker, 6th NKT Cell and CD1 Workshop in

Chicago and at the University of Massachusetts. Served on NIAID Study Section (CMIB), member of

European Research Council, and as a Visiting Associate Professor to Chiba University in Japan.

Advisory Board of Faculty of 1000, Associate Editor for the Journal of Immunology.

James Hagman, PhD - Member of NIH CMIB Study Section, Co-chair, Block Symposium, American

Association of Immunologists (AAI), Internal Reviewer for Boettcher Awards, Reviewer for Translational

Research Initiative, Faculty Awards Committee, Chair of Molecular Biology Faculty Membership

Committee, Program in Molecular Biology Steering Committee. Editorial Boards of World Journal of

Biological Chemistry and Frontiers in B Cell Biology. Invited Speaker: Cornell University College of

Veterinary Medicine and the College of William and Mary. AAI Annual Meeting, Co-Chair Symposium

on B Cell Development; Co-Chair Max-Planck Institute in Germany, Symposium; student-invited

speaker, Montana State University.

Kathryn Haskins, PhD – Member of NIH HAI study section and Diabetes Editorial Board. Invited

Speaker – 5th Annual Aegean Conference, Greece, Distinguished Seminar Series, U. of Alabama, ABCAM

Conference, Cambridge England and 12th International Diabetes Society Meeting in Victoria BC.

Jordan Jacobelli, PhD - Invited speaker, Front Range Cytoskeleton meeting

Ross Kedl, PhD - Invited speaker: Deeley Cancer Research Center Victoria Canada and the University

of California San Diego

Laurel Lenz, PhD –Contributing Faculty Member, Immunity to Infections, Faculty of 1000. Editorial

Boards: Journal of Clinical Cancer Investigation, Frontiers in Microbial Immunology, and Frontiers in

NK cell Biology. Scientific Advisory Board Member, Bebra Therapeutics LLC. Academic Editor, PLos

One; Section Editor, Journal of Immunology. Editorial Board, F1000 Research. Reviewer: NIH NIAID

ZA1 Program Project Grant review study section, MRC Peer Review, VA Merit Award Study Section,

DOD Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program. Invited Speaker: 13th Meeting of the Society for Natural

Immunity, CA.

Philippa Marrack, PhD - Basic Science Council for American Heart Association, Member of National

Advisory Council for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Member of Gates Foundation Discovery

Expert Group.

Rebecca O’Brien, PhD - Section Head, Faculty of 1000, Immunity to Infections. Research Advisory

Panel Member, Faculty of 1000. Panel Member, NIH/NIAID Workshop.


Roberta Pelanda, PhD - Member of the editorial board of Immunological Reviews. Co-Chair, American

Association of Immunologists abstract programming. Editorial Board, Current Opinion in Immunology.

Grant reviewer for NIAID HIPC. Invited speaker: 3rd International Workshop, Pittsburg PA.

Anne-Laure Perraud, PhD - Promoted to Associate Professor; Invited speaker at the University of

Illinois COM, Max Planck Institute, Germany and Walter Straub Institution Germany.

Nicole Reisdorph, PhD – Elected Faculty Senate President. Invited speaker, Metabolomics Society.

Jill Slansky, PhD – Awarded tenure. Scientific Advisory Board, Cancer League of Colorado.

Raul Torres, PhD - Invited speaker: University of Pennsylvania, Immunology Colloquium, State

University of New York, and University of Calgary. External examiner, thesis defense, University of

Calgary. Scientist Facilitator, Key Symposia.

Jing Wang, PhD - American Society of Hematology Scholar Award.

Lawrence Wysocki, PhD – NIAID, Member Conflict Immunology Special Emphasis Panel.

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE

Division of Allergy, Asthma, and Clinical Immunology

Henry Claman, MD – Awarded Robert W. Schrier, M.D. Award of Excellence from Department of

Medicine.

Andrew Fontenot, MD – Appointed as Standing Member of the Lung Cellular, Molecular, and

Immunobiology (LCMI) Study Section at the National Institutes of Health.

Brian Freed, PhD –Named Chairman of the Cellular Therapy Alliance, a new international organization

of blood banks and cellular therapy providers with a common mission to facilitate clinical trials.

ClinImmune Labs became only the second FDA Licensed Cord Blood Bank in the U.S. as of May, 2012.

Awarded Top 50 Sponsor Program Awards (#16) for 2011.

Cara Mack, MD – Is a Standing Member on an NIH study section: 2011-2017 Digestive Diseases and

Nutrition C Subcommittee of the Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases Initial Review Group, Member.

National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH, Department of Health and Human

Services.

Lee Newman, MD – Appointed to US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Science Advisory Board,

Libby Amphibole Asbestos Review Panel.

Brent Palmer, PhD – Promoted to Associate Professor July 1, 2012.



Division of Blood and Marrow Transplant

Jonathan Gutman, MD – Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology. Promoted to Clinical Director of the

Allogenic Blood and Marrow Transplant Program.

Clayton Smith, MD – Professor, Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplant. Appointed to Division Director

of Blood and Marrow Transplant.


Division of Cardiology

Ryan Aleong, MD – Nominated and elected to Fellow of Heart Rhythm Society.

Larry Allen, MD, MHS – Awarded a K23 career development award from the NHLBI. Joined the AHA

national Get With The Guidelines Heart Failure Clinical Work Group. Received Pioneer Award from the

UCH Medical Staff. Inaugural recipient of Outstanding Early Career Scholars Program award.

Amrut Ambardekar, MD – Received a Mentored CO-Pilot Award from the Colorado Clinical and

Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI); Elected to Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

Steven Bradley, MD, MPH – Received the 2012 American Heart Association Quality of Care and

Outcomes Research Young Investigator Award.

Peter Buttrick, MD – Appointed President of the Association of University Cardiologists and the

Association of Professors of Cardiology. Gave the Anna and Harry Borun Lectureship at UCLA. Serves

on the NIH, NHLBI P01 parent review committee. Co-PI (with Drs. Stenmark and Bull) of a new NIH

grant to study PA-RV coupling. Named a “Top Doc” by US News and World Reports.

Eugenia Carroll, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor. Recipient of Channel 9’s 9Who Care award,

2012. Recipient of Cardiology’s Citizenship award, 2011.

John D Carroll MD - Appointed to Steering Committee of STS-ACC Transcatheter Valve Therapy

Registry, Visiting Professor and Named Lectureships at the University of Chicago and Tufts Medical

Center, Organized and Chaired Symposium on Advanced Image Guidance of Cardiovascular Procedures

at EuroPCR Paris, Presented as American College of Cardiology representation at FDA Advisory Panel on

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. Performed at UCH Advanced Cardiovascular Interventions for

Satellite Transmission to Two International Conferences, Steering Committee for RESPECT PFO Trial

and Meet with FDA for Pre-PMA Submission, Initiated UCH TAVR Program with Colleagues in

Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Chaired Sessions and Delivered Invited Lectures in 10 National-

International Meetings in Interventional Cardiology, Co-Editor of the first Textbook on Structural Heart

Disease Interventions.

Stacie L. Daugherty, MD, MSPH – Received the Center for Women’s Health Research Prize in Women’s

Heart Disease.

William R. Hiatt, MD - Best Doctors in America 2011-2012 and U.S. News Top Doctors. Jess R. Young

Outstanding Vascular Medicine Educator Award for exemplary contributions to the field of Vascular

Medicine from the Society of Vascular Medicine 2012 annual meeting.

Joel Garcia, MD -- Director of Interventional Services and Catheterization Laboratory at Denver Health

Medical Center received the 5280 Top Doctor Award.


Michael Ho, MD, PhD- Served as the Chair for the American Heart Association Outcomes/Qualitative

Research & Therapeutic Clinical Trials Peer Review Committee and is co-Chairing a multi-society white

paper on Shared Accountability Performance Measures.

Joseph Kay, MD – Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, and Director of the CU Adult

Congenital Heart Disease Program was elected as President of the Alliance for Research in Congenital

Cardiology (AARCC) and Chair of the Board of Directors at the ACC in 2012, and organization developed

to foster multicenter research in Adults with Congenital Heart disease.

Mori J. Krantz, MD, FACP, FACC - Was the most recent recipient of the Academic Achievement

Award, recognizing a Denver Health Medical Staff member for outstanding scholarship. Was awarded a

Colorado Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CCTSI) grant as the PI for translational work in

underserved communities. Dr. Krantz serves on the Board of Directors for Family Voices, a non-profit

that helps disabled children. Received commendation for four years of service to the US Food and Drug

Administration (FDA) Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee and remains an active

consultant. In 2012, he presented at the American Society of Addiction Medicine National Meeting, the

American Bariatric Society National Meeting, and the Third Annual Engaging Communities in Education

and Research Conference.

JoAnn Lindenfeld, MD - Elected Vice President of the Heart Failure Society of America. Named a “Top

Doctor” by 5280. Named a “Top Doctor in America”

Thomas Maddox, MD, MSc - Appointed Associate Director, VA CART Clinical Quality Program.

Appointed as Chair, Research and Publications Committee, PINNACLE Registry, American College of

Cardiology National Cardiovascular Data Registries. Appointed to Steering Committee, Get with the

Guidelines, American Heart Association. Appointed Chair and Committee Member, Program Planning

Committee for Quality of Care and Outcomes Sessions, American College of Cardiology Scientific

Sessions. Received the Best of American Heart Association Specialty Conference Poster award.

Frederick A Masoudi, MD, MSPH - Serves as the Vice Chair of the American Heart Association

Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research and an Associate Editor for Circulation:

Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. Invited plenary session speaker ("New Approaches to Measuring

Healthcare Performance) at the China Heart Congress 2011, Beijing China.

Tim McKinsey, PhD - Invited speaker and session chair, Cambridge Healthtech Institute conference on

histone deacetylases. Invited speaker, European Society of Cardiology annual meeting, FASEB

conference on histone deacetylases, and Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of

Medicine.

John Messenger, MD - Appointed to the Health Information Technology Research (HITR) Study Section,

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Selected as Writing Committee member; ACC/

AHA/SCAI Clinical Competence Statement on Cardiac Interventional Procedures. Selected as the Chair

of the Simulation Committee for the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention. Awarded

the President’s Award, Working Together University of Colorado Hospital, 2012.

Luisa Mestroni, MD – Member of the steering committee of the American Heart Association Scientific

Statement 2012 on Genetics and Genomics for the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease.

Coordinator of the new Bilateral Agreement with the University of Florence (Italy). Invited lecture at the

Annual Meeting of Experimental Biology 2012, San Diego (CA).

J. David Port, PhD – Director of the Pharmacology Training Program, co-PI, NIH T32 Training Grant

in Pharmacology, Member, Board of Directors, SouthWest Affiliate of American Heart Association, Board


Representative, Research Committee, SouthWest Affiliate of the American Heart Association, President,

Denver Metro Affiliate of the American Heart Association, Past President, Molecular Pharmacology

Division of American Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Member, CU SOM Faculty Assembly

(current president), Department of Pharmacology “Teaching Award”, Co-Director, American Society of

Pharmacology and Toxicology Summer Undergraduate Research Program, Invited Speaker, FASEB

Summer Meeting, Post-transcriptional Control of Gene Expression: Mechanisms of mRNA Decay.

Judith Regensteiner, PhD – Received a Clinical Research Award from the American Diabetes

Association to study leg blood flow in people with type 2 diabetes. Was re-awarded the 2.5 million dollar

NIH Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health K-12 grant.

R. Kevin Rogers, MD – Certified as a Diplomat in Interventional Cardiology by the American Board of

Internal Medicine. Certified as a Diplomat in Vascular Medicine and Endovascular Medicine by the

American Board of Vascular Medicine. Certified as a Registered Physician in Vascular Interpretation

/Physician’s Vascular Interpretation by the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography.

John Rumsfeld, MD, PhD – Appointed National Director of Cardiology, U.S. Veterans Health

Administration. Named Chair, American Heart Association Quality of Care and Outcomes Research

Scientific Council.

Brian L. Stauffer, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor. Director of the Cardiovascular Fellowship

Core Curriculum. Received R01 funding to study novel mechanisms of heart failure in children.

Carmen Sucharov, PhD – Promoted to Associate Professor.

Gene Wolfel, MD – Named as one of 5280’s ”Top Docs" for Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant.

Named one of ColoradoBiz Magazine’s "Best Doctors for Executives." Listed in “Best Doctors in America

Database.” Listed as one of America's Top Doctors in Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.


Division of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research:

Kurt Stenmark. MD – Appointed as an Associate Editor: American Journal Physiology Lung, Cell, and

Molecular Physiology. Appointed as a Group Leader: New Drug Development Pulmonary Hypertension

Academic Res. Consortium. Appointed as a Chair, Respiratory Integrative Biology and Translational

Research Study Section, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).


Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Jeffrey Brent, MD, PhD - Promotion to Distinguished Clinical Professor of Medicine.

Daniel Linseman, PhD - Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine.

Wenbo Zhou, PhD - Promotion to Research Associate Professor of Medicine.



Division of Endocrinology

Marc Cornier, MD – Selected for membership of NIH Clinical and Integrative Diabetes and Obesity

Study Section, Center for Scientific Review from May1, 2012 – June 30, 2012.

Boris Draznin, MD – Received Celeste and Jack Grynberg Chair in Adult Diabetes.

James Falko, MD –Named Member of Board of Directors for National Lipid Foundation. Received the

Ohio State Alumni Achievement Award College of Medicine 2011.

Arthur Gutierrez- Hartmann, MD – Selected for membership by application for the Association of

American Physicians. Invited to give annual Lepow Lecture at Case Western Reserve.

Bryan Haugen, MD – Elected President of the American Thyroid Association. Honored by having

publication in July 2012 New England Journal of Medicine.

Joshua Klopper, MD – Named Subspecialty Associate Program Director, Department of Medicine.

Paul MacLean, PhD – Awarded NIH research award for The Effects of Maternal Obesity on Neonatal

Health project with Jim McManaman.

Michael McDermott, MD – Received Award of Tenure in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and

Diabetes from the University of Colorado. Received Endocrine Society 2013 Distinguished Physician

Award.

Jennifer Morrison, MD, PhD - Awarded Endocrine Fellows’ Foundation Grant.

Rocio Periera, MD – Awarded CCTSI Community Engagement Partnership Development Award.

Leigh Perreault, MD – Honored by having publication in June 2012 Lancet Journal.

Neda Rasouli, MD – Awarded NIH R21 grant for Role of Adiopose Tissue and Skeletal Muscle in

Obesity Induced Insulin Resistance project.

Tania Reis, PhD – Received NIH K Award, received American Heart Association, 2012 Beginning

Grant-In-Aid award.

Jane Reusch, MD – Received the American Diabetes Association Research Award with Judy

Regensteiner for Amylin ITT for CV Function in Rats.

E. Chester Ridgway, MD – Awarded Distinguished Professor. Received the first Lewis E. Braverman

Lectureship Award from American Thyroid Association.

Rebecca Schweppe, PhD – Awarded NIH R01 Research Award for Targeting Focal Adhesion Kinase in

Thyroid Cancer.

Elizabeth Thomas, MD – Awarded Endocrine Fellows’ Foundation grant, received Colorado NORC

grant award.

Cecilia Wang, MD – Promoted to Professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes.


Maggie Wierman, MD – Elected Endocrine Society Vice-President. Recognized for 25 years of service as

a CU faculty member. Received investigator-initiated grant from Pfizer for Histologic Subtypes of Growth

Hormone Tumors Predict Response to Medical Therapy project.


Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Dennis Ahnen, MD – Received Peak Performers Award for Excellence in Gastroenterology in 2011 from

the Rocky Mountain Hospital Medicine Symposium from a vote of Hospitalists in Rocky Mountain Region.

Invited speaker for AGA Presidential Plenary Session in 2012 “How will we prevent colorectal cancer in

the future?”

James Burton, MD - Received 5280 Magazine Top Docs Award 2012.

Sean Colgan, MD – Selected by peers to the Pluto Society, the top research honor society for the

American Society for University Pathologists, which is bestowed for outstanding contributions to the field

of disease pathogenesis. Elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society for outstanding

contributions to leadership, ethics and unselfishness within medical research.

Gregory T. Everson, MD – Received 5280 Magazine Top Docs Award 2012. Received Castle Connelly

America’s Top Doctors.


Division of General Internal Medicine

Eva Aagaard, MD - Named Director of Faculty Development for DGIM and Assistant Dean for Lifelong

Learning. Served as a Marshall for graduating class of 2011 and 2012, Was the Keynote Speaker for both

the Golden Stethoscope Awards and Gold Humanism Awards. Awarded the SGIM Mid-Career Education

Mentor Award and was named a Department of Medicine, Diversity Woman of Distinction. Nationally she

is a member of the ABIM/ ACGME Milestones in Internal Medicine Task Force, the Academies

Collaborative Steering Committee and is Chair of the SGIM Education Committee. Gave invited

presentations on educational skills development at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health

Sciences, University of Alberta School of Medicine, and University of Utah School of Medicine. Received

funding from the Arnold P Gold Foundation to develop a pilot resident chapter of the Gold Humanism

Honor Society as well as funding to develop the National SGIM TEACH Certificate.

Adam Abraham, MD -- FACP, Internal Medicine.

Gail Albertson, MD -- Led the initiatives to install UCH Epic in SOM free standing clinics, to select a

$6.5 million dollar revenue cycle platform replacement for UPI, and to secure financial support for EMR

maintenance to SOM free standing clinics.

Alicia Appel, MD - Received the Philip S. Mehler Award for Excellence in Quality, 2012. Best Doctors in

America 2012. Best Doctors for Executives 2012.

David Bekelman, MD, MPH - Promoted to Associate Professor. Received NIH grant (R01-NR013422) to

study whether a new program improves symptoms and quality of life in people with chronic heart failure.

Received Department of Veterans’ Affairs grant (VA HSR&D QUERI RRP 11-239) to study the imple-

mentation of a palliative care program in people with chronic heart failure.

Ingrid Binswanger, MD, MPH - Promoted to Associate Professor. Received the New Investigator/

Educator Award from the Association for Medical Education and Research in Substance Abuse


(AMERSA) and the Clinician Investigator Award from the Society for General Internal Medicine

Mountain West Region. Selected as a Visiting Fellow at the Bureau of Justice Statistics at the US

Department of Justice. Program Director of the NRSA Primary Care Research Fellowship (T32) program.

Fellow, American College of Physicians. Professional Leadership Award, Women in Medicine and

Science, University of Colorado Denver to attend the AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Development

Seminar.

Patricia Bolshoun, PA - Promoted to Senior Instructor.

Suzanne Brandenburg, MD - Promoted to Professor. Named Vice Chair for Education, Department of

Medicine, University of Colorado.

Marisha Burden, MD -- Appointed to Chief of Hospital Medicine, Denver Health. Hospitalist

rockyormer Award at Rocky Mountain Hospitalist Symposium. Received Mountains and Plains Education

Research Center Pilot Research Grant Award.

Richard Byyny, MD, FACP - Appointed Executive Director of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical

Society (AΩA).

Jessica Campbell, MD MA -- Denver Health “Outstanding Educator” Award. Golden Stethoscope “Best

Mentor” Award. Presidents Teaching and Learning Collaborative 2011-2012.

Karen Chacko, MD, FACP - Elected into the Academy of Medical Educators. Director for the 48th

Annual Updates in Internal Medicine Conference in Estes Park, CO. Chair for updates sessions for

National Society of General Internal Medicine meeting in Orlando, FL.

Brandon P. Combs, MD - SGIM National Conference Poster Presentation 2012: Utility of Repeat DXA

Scans in Average Risk Women. Co-initiated the Do No Harm Project for medicine housestaff, funding

received from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality for Development of Measure(s) of Receipt

of Appropriate Clinical Preventive Services by Older Adults.

Lisa Corbin, M, FACP - Appointed to a three year term on the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Advisory

Committee of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Erin Cornelius, PA – Coordinated the Weight Loss Group Visits in Lowry, a 6 week clinical session

offering nutrition, exercise, and meal planning advice. Invited to speak at Tuesday Morning Conference

in March 2011, "Preventing Melanoma in Primary Care." Invited to serve on the CHAPA admissions

interview panel for 2012-2013.

Ethan Cumbler, MD – Awarded the Society of Hospital Medicine National Excellence in Team-Based

Quality Improvement Award. Received the UCH President’s Award for Exceptional Partnership in

Leadership. Given the Colorado Top Inpatient Physician, Peak Performer Award. Presented the

University of Colorado Department of Medicine Outstanding Housestaff Teaching Award for Full Time

Faculty, Department of Medicine Rising Star Award, and the Humanitarian Award from University of

Colorado Hospitalist Training Program. Received the National Society of Hospital Medicine Innovation in

Medicine Award for poster/abstract “Purposeful Visits for Hospitalized Elderly Patients: Program Impact

on Orientation, Agitation, and Mood.” Invited Speaker at the International Stroke Conference, Society of

General Internal Medicine National Conference, National Society of Hospital Medicine Conference, UCLA

Multi-campus Program in Geriatrics and Gerontology, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative

Medicine Annual Assembly, American College of Physicians Colorado Chapter Meeting, Society of

Hospital Medicine Rocky Mountain Chapter Update in Hospital Medicine Conference, Rocky Mountain

Hospital Medicine Symposium, Exempla Good Samaritan Hospital CME Conference Series, and the


Multi-State Risk Management and Patient Safety Conference. Visiting Professorship to the University of

New Mexico in consultation for Faculty Mentorship, Resident and Medical Student Geriatric Education,

and Hospitalist Training, sponsored by the UNM Reynolds Foundation Grant. Served on the Board of

Directors for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society of Hospital Medicine and organized the 2012

annual conference. Served on the Medical Board for the University of Colorado Hospital, as Medical

Director for the Medicine Unit and Acute Care for the Elderly Services, as Chair of the Geriatric

Leadership Committee, and as Director of Scholarship for the UCH Hospital Medicine Group.

Amira del Pino-Jones, MD - Promoted to Assistant Professor. Director of CU Hospitalist Scholars

Program (CUHSP). Member of University of Colorado Organization for Racial and Ethnic Support

(UCOLORES). Member of the School of Medicine Admissions Committee, and the Scholarship

Committee. Presented abstract and poster “On the “CUHSP” of Greatness: Training Tomorrow’s

Hospitalists” at the Rocky Mountain Hospital Medicine Symposium. Invited to present at the Internal

Medicine Grand Rounds (Lowry) “Ice, Snow, and Wisdom Weed: Illicit Drug Use and Prescription Drug

Abuse in Hospitalized Patients.”

Anjali Dhurandhar, MD - Student Teaching Award for Adult Ambulatory Care Clerkship. Student

Teaching Award for Outstanding contribution to the Adult Ambulatory Care Clerkship as a Preceptor.

Choice Critics Award, Medical Education (Brighton, UK). Invited speaker for annual meeting of OSR,

AAMC “The Human Touch: The Artistic Side of Medicine.” Workshop Coordinator, 34rd Annual Meeting

of Society of General Internal Medicine, “Transforming Challenges into Healing: Reflective Writing to

Enhance Empathy and Prevent Burnout.” Art display in Dean’s Gallery (Spring 2012).

Brian Dwinnell, MD - Poster presented at the American Academy of Family Physicians Annual Meeting

“Patient safety education in residency training- a Colorado success story.”

Mark Earnest, MD - Promoted to Professor. Received 5280 Top Doc honor for Internal Medicine and

joined the board of the American Inter-professional Health Collaborative.

Lawrence Feinberg, MD – Received the School of Medicine Class of 2012 Award for Excellence in

Clinical Education. Received 5280 Top Doc honor for Internal Medicine.

Henry Fischer, MD - Promoted to Associate Professor.

Maria G Frank, MD - Received the Peak Performer Award 2011, DHHA Division of Hospital Medicine

Outstanding Service Award 2011, Rick Albert Prize Mentor Award 2012. Presented seven posters

(research x 4, vignettes x3) in National Conferences 2012 (ACP, HSM, SGIM). Appointed as Associate

Chief of Hospital Medicine DHHA. Member of ACP Council of Young Physicians. Abstract review

coordinator for regional SGIM.

Christine Gilroy, MD, MSPH - Received an appointment to the Department of Pediatrics as Associate

Professor. Served as Chair of the Board of Directors for CoverColorado, the Colorado state high-risk

insurance pool. Served on the Board at Colorado Department of Regulatory Affairs for Nurse Physician

Advisory Taskforce on Colorado Healthcare. Appointed as Co-director of the Medicine and Society

Curriculum Thread at UC-SOM. Received 5280 “Top Doctor” honor in Adolescent Health. Invited to

speak at the Association for Hospital Based Medical Education and the Department of the Army’s Joint

Services Medical Education meetings.

Jeffrey Glasheen, MD - Elected to the Society of Hospital Medicine Board of Directors. Council Member

of the Association of Specialty Professors. Senior Deputy Editor, Journal of Hospital Medicine. Invited to

give plenary session at the Spring 2013 Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine meeting.


Ravi Gopal, MD - Promoted to Associate Professor. Elected to Board of Regional Leaders of the Society

of General Internal Medicine.

Jennifer Guadiani, MD, CEDS - Promoted to Associate Professor. Received Certified Eating Disorder

Specialist accreditation by the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals.

Jeannette Guerrasio, MD - Promoted to Associate Professor. Kaiser Permanente Outstanding Clinical

Sciences Teacher of the Year 2011, given by the UCD Medical Student Class of 2011. Inducted into the

Academy of Medical Educators. Appointed Chief Remediation Consultant for GME. Speaker at SGIM,

FSPHP, AAMC, and AAHPM conferences. Invited speaker at Ohio State Grand Rounds, Baylor, and

Stanford.

Gretchen Guiton, PhD - Current member, AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate Program

Evaluation Committee.

Rebecca Hanratty, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor.

Amy Huebschmann, MD - Invited Speaker for the quadrennial Integrative Biology of Exercise meeting

Oct 10-13, 2012 to present "Exercise Attenuates the Premature Cardiovascular Aging Effects of Diabetes

Mellitus". Received the Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI) KL2 Research

Scholar career development award and a CCTSI Community Engagement pilot award in 2011. Invited

speaker to the Integrative Biology of Exercise conference in 2012.

Therese (Tess) Jones, PhD - Selected for membership in the Academy of Medical Educators. Member,

Advisory Board, International Health Humanities Network. Invited Presenter, Ethics Conference, Center

for Healthcare Ethics, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. Invited Presenter, Family Medicine

Review Course, CU School of Medicine. Faculty Co-Coordinator, Health and Humanities Minor,

University of Colorado Denver and AMC.

Steven Kick, MD, MSPH - Chair of the Student Promotions Committee for the School of Medicine.

Director of the Executive Health Program, recognized by CoBiz magazine.

Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH - Named 5280 "Top Doctor" for Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Elected

Secretary, Society of General Internal Medicine and Secretary, American Academy of Hospice and

Palliative Medicine.

Dimitriy Levin, MD - Named for outstanding service or education on the annual housestaff survey.

Chen-Tan Lin, MD - Promoted to Professor. University of Colorado Hospital Partners in Care Award,

for collaboration regarding Epic deployment housewide. Epic Classics: "APSO note for Improved EHR

readability" chosen as a top 50 of thousands of EHR talks for Epic physicians nationally.

Danielle Loeb, MD - Promoted to Assistant Professor. Elected to Meeting Organizer and President-

Elect for the Mountain West Region of the Society of General Internal Medicine (2011-2012).

Mary Maher, MD - Co-Medical Director of the Clinical Transition Unit, Denver Health Medical Center.

Received Team Award at Denver for Development of the Clinical Transition Unit. Received grant

through the Rhymer Endowment at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.

Jonathan Manheim, MD - University of Colorado Department of Medicine Faculty Teaching Award.


Dan Matlock, MD, MPH - Received a Paul B. Beeson Career Development Award from the National

Institutes on Aging as well as one of the first awards from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research

Institute. Invited to the American Heart Association Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Conference

to run a workshop and present on shared decision making.

Philip S. Mehler, MD, FACP, FAED - Received the President’s Award for Patient Safety from the

National Association of Public Hospitals (NAPH). Received the Outstanding Clinician, Lifetime

Achievement Award from the Academy of Eating Disorders. Recognized as a Top 1% tier doctor in US

News’ Top Doctor, as Physician of the Year by the Denver Health Foundation, as Best Doctor for

Executives-Internal Medicine by ColoradoBiz Magazine, and by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd list of

America’s Top Doctors, Internal Medicine. Served on the University of Colorado School of Medicine

Executive Committee. Chaired the Director of Surgery-Trauma Search Committee and the Alcohol

Treatment Clinical Task Force at Denver Health Medical Center. Also served on the Scientific Review

Committee for the National Association of Public Hospitals Annual Meeting and the Consensus

Standards Approval Committee (CSAC)-National Quality Forum (NQF).

Richard Miranda, MD - Promotion to Associate Professor.

Gregory Misky, MD - Promoted to Associate Professor. Peak Performer, Rocky Mountain Hospital

Medicine Symposium. Assessment of the Quality and Timeliness of Resident Discharge Summaries on

the Medical Wards (poster) was selected for the 2012 HTT Scholarship Award. UCH Pioneer Award

(selected for 2012 Medical Staff Awards). Recognized for outstanding service or education on the

Housestaff Association Annual Survey.

Nia S. Mitchell, MD, MPH - Hamolsky finalist, Society of General Internal Medicine National

Conference. International Life Sciences Institute 2012 Future Leaders Award Finalist. Awarded pilot

grant through Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Diabetes Translational Research.

Linda Overholser, MD, MPH - Invited to be Co-Director of the Colorado LIVESTRONG Survivorship

Center of Excellence. Awarded Cancer Control Career Development Award for Primary Care Physicians

from the American Cancer Society. Invited to develop and present a panel workshop at the 2012 Annual

Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Invited on behalf of NHLBI faculty to be reviewer

for the Hydroxyurea Chapter of the Expert Panel Report on the Management of Sickle Cell Disease, 2012.

Jonathan Pell, MD - Physicians Partners in Care Award from University of Colorado Hospital.

Jason Persoff, MD — Joined the University of Colorado as Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine.

Received the Medal of Honor for volunteer service to the people of Joplin, Missouri, for his clinical

response to the Mass Casualty Incident on May 22, 2011.

Karen Polsky, MD - Graduated from the year-long Advanced Physician Leadership Program sponsored

by CMS and the Colorado Trust.

Allan Prochazka, MD, MSc - Named “Best Doctors for Executives, 2012” by Colorado Biz Magazine.

Paul Redstone, MD - Promoted to Associate Professor. Appointed to the SGIM Ethics committee.

Judith Regensteiner, PhD - Received a Clinical Research Award from the American Diabetes

Association to study leg blood flow in people with type 2 diabetes. Re-awarded 2.5 million dollar NIH

Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health K-12 grant. Invited to participate in a

Scientific Advisory Panel, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School.


Victoria Seligman, MD - Developed and presented lecture series on Artists with Rheumatic Diseases

for the residents in the OBMT rotation at the VA. Invited speaker Medical Humanities Program at the

University of Colorado “Paul Klee and Auguste Renoir: Case studies of Artists with Rheumatic Diseases.”

Preceptor of residents, medical students and fellows in both rheumatology and internal medicine at the

VA. Preceptor physical exam for medical students for 2 sessions: musculoskeletal and abd exams.

Amber Sieja, MD - Promoted to Assistant Professor. Served as Medical Director for Internal Medicine -

Anschutz. Accepted role of Ambulatory Physician Champion for EPIC.

Rachel E. Swigris , DO - 2012 6th annual Faculty Professionalism Award Nominee. Creator Hergott

Heart of Medicine Award.

Darlene Tad-y, MD - Excellence in Education Award presented by the Hospitalist Training Program

Residents. Nominated by Foundations of Doctoring Student as Best Preceptor In Internal Medicine.

Recognized for Excellence in Curriculum Development by the Academy of Medical Educators.

David Tanaka, MD - Received 5280 “Top Doctor” honor for Internal Medicine.

Kelly White, MD - Received the Education Excellence Award.

Laurence Williams, MD - Promoted to Senior Instructor.

Brian Wolfe, MD - Named Director of the Hospital Medicine Service. Named Director of the Medicine

Consultative Service. Received Hospital Medicine Training Track Excellence in Faculty Teaching

Award. Received Hospital Training Track Award for Humanism.

Robin Yasui, MD - Received Teaching Award from Denver Health Department of General Internal

Medicine. Received 5280 “Top Doctor” honor. Advisory Board Member for the Asian Pacific Development

Center 2011-2012. Speaker bureau for The Colorado Older Adult Falls Prevention Coalition and The Tri-

County Health Department Fall Prevention Coalition.

Jeanie Youngwerth, MD - Completed the Teaching Scholars Program. Invited Plenary Speaker to the

Colorado Center for Hospice and Palliative Care in "Strategically Leaping Forward: The Future of

Hospice and Palliative Care." Invited Keynote Speaker to the University of Colorado Current

Perspectives on Palliative Care in the Acute Care Setting in "Prognostication." Received 5280 “Top

Doctor” honor for Hospice and Palliative Care.

Nichole Zehnder, MD - Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching given by MS Class 2012.


Division of Geriatric Medicine

Wendy M. Kohrt, PhD - J.B. Wolffe Memorial Lecture Keynote Address for the 2012 annual meeting of

the American College of Sports Medicine, San Francisco, CA; Herbert A deVries Research Award, Council

on Aging and Adult Development, American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation; Elected

member, American College of Sports Medicine Board of Trustees; Chair, Special Emphasis

Panel/Scientific Review Group for the competing renewal of Musculoskeletal Health in Aging Men

(MrOS); Chair, NIH Aging Systems and Geriatrics study section; Member, American College of Sports

Medicine, Science Integration & Leadership committee; Member, NIH Aging Systems and Geriatrics

study section; Member, American Bone Health, Medical and Scientific Advisory Board.


Jeffrey I. Wallace, MD – Received 5280 Top Doc Award. Received Best Doctors in America Award.

Invited to be Keynote Speaker for University of Minnesota AOA Society. Invited/serving on ACP Question

Writing Committee for the In-Training Medicine Examination.


Division of Health Care Policy and Research

David F Hittle, PhD – Promoted to Associate Research Professor.

Cari Levy, MD, PhD – Named to the American Medical Directors Association Board of Directors as a

Representative to the House of Delegates. Awarded a Merit Grant through the VA’s Collaborative

Research to Enhance and Advance Transformation (CREATE) in Long Term Care Initiative. President,

Colorado Center for Hospice and Palliative Care. Nominated to the American Medical Directors

Association Publication Committee. Nominated to participate in the Leadership, Education, Advocacy

Development Scholarship (LEADS) Program.

Sung-joon Min, PhD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine.

Heidi Wald, MD, MSPH – Promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine. Named Vice Chair for Quality in

the Department of Medicine. Awarded the University of Colorado Hospital President’s Award for

Leadership. Awarded the Women in Medicine and Science Professional Leadership Award.


Division of Hematology

Paul A. Seligman, MD- Elected to The American Society of Hematology and The American Society of

Clinical Investigation Society.

Sally P. Stabler, MD- Elected as the Chair for The Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board.


Division of Infectious Disease

Michelle Barron, MD - Board of Directors for Colorado IDSA. Received the Rocky Mountain Hospital

Medicine Symposium (RMHMS), “Peak Performer in Infectious Diseases.

Robert Belknap, MD - Elected as president of the National Society of TB Clinicians.

Elisabeth Connick, MD – Promoted to Professor.

Marla Corwin, LCSW CACIII -- Advisory Board for the Harm Reduction Action Center.

Charles Dinarello, MD - September 15, Keynote Talk at European IL-1 meeting, Dublin, Ireland.

November 3, 2011 Honorary Doctor of Medicine, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland,

November 10, 2011. Keynote Address at Annual meeting of Italian Society for Cancer Research, Rome,

Italy. February 7, 2012 Medical Grand Rounds, University of Munich, Munich, Germany. February 9,

2012 Keynote Address at Falk Foundation Symposium on Innate Immunity, Munich, Germany. March

28, 2012 Opening Talk at Targeted Therapies, Baveno, Italy. April 11, 2012 Visiting Professor, Bellinzona

Institute, Bellinzona, Switzerland.

Edward Gardner, MD - Promotion to Assistant Professor.


Gwen Huitt, MD – Elected President for the Colorado Infectious Disease Society.

Steven Johnson, MD - America’s Top Doctors List, U.S. News and World Report, 2011.

Denver’s Top Doctors in Infectious Diseases, 5280 Magazine, 2012. Appointed to CDC/HRSA Advisory

Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and STD Treatment and Prevention, 2011. Awarded AIDS Education

and Training Center Telehealth Training Centers Grant from HRSA, 2012-2014.

Marilyn Levi, MD - 5280 Top Doctor.

Nancy Madinger, MD - Best Doctors in America 2011-12.

Craig Nielsen, MS, NP - Re-elected to a second, two year term as the Treasurer of the National

Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) Executive Board of Directors. Received second UCH

Presidents Award for "Working Together" category.

Connie Price, MD - Best Doctors in America 2011-12. American Society for Microbiology, Chair-Elect for

Healthcare Epidemiology Section of ASM, January 2011-2012. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of

America Board Councilor (elected position), January 2009-2011. Lead Faculty for the Colorado Infection

Prevention Collaborative, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Colorado Hospital

Association, December 2009-2011. Invited speaker to Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e

Investigaciones Medicas (CIDEIM) III Symposium on Prevention of Nosocomial Infections. Cartagena,

Colombia February 29, 2012.

Mario Santiago, PhD - Outstanding Early Career Scholar Award, Department of Medicine

Invited Speaker, Workshop on Retroviral Pathogenesis, Montpellier, France.

Mark Thrun, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor.

Cara Wilson, MD – Promoted to Professor with tenure.



Division of Medical Oncology

Paul Bunn, MD - Received Best Doctors in America Award. Invited Keynote Speaker to Houston Lung

Cancer symposium in June, 2012 in Houston, TX.

D. Ross Camidge, MD PhD - Track Leader for Metastatic Lung Cancer, ASCO Scientific Program

Committee 2012. Program Committee Member for the ASCO Education Program 2012. Best of ASCO

2012. ASTRO Multidisciplinary Thoracic Symposium 2012. World Conference on Lung Cancer 2013.

ASCO Conquer Cancer Foundation 2012-2013. Commenced as NIH Study Section Member,

Developmental Therapeutics. Established Lung Cancer Colorado Fund – a novel combined philanthropy

fund addressing all aspects of need in Colorado University and University Hospital’s Lung Cancer related

research and care activities. Established Pilot Program for Remote Second Opinion Service in Medical

Oncology. Twenty-four publications within this time frame including the first description of a novel side

effect of the newly licensed drug crizotinib involving a collaboration with DOM Endocrinology

(Weickhardt AJ, Rothman MS, Salian-Mehta S, Kiseljak-Vassiliades K, Oton AB, Doebele RC, Wierman

ME, Camidge DR. Rapid-onset hypogonadism secondary to crizotinib use in men with metastatic

nonsmall cell lung cancer. Cancer 2012 Apr 4. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27450. [Epub ahead of print]); the first

analysis of the cost-effectiveness of paired biomarker screening-treatment paradigms in lung cancer in

collaboration with the CU Department of Health Systems (Atherly AJ, Camidge DR. The cost-

effectiveness of screening lung cancer patients for targeted drug sensitivity markers. British Journal of

Cancer 2012 Feb 28. doi: 10.1038/bjc.2012.60. [Epub ahead of print]); the first major post-progression

biopsy series looking at mechanisms of resistance to crizotinib in ALK positive lung cancer (Doebele RC,

Pilling AB, Aisner D, Kutateladze TG, Le AT, Weickhardt AJ, Kondo KL, Linderman DJ, Heasley LE,

Franklin WA, Varella-Garcia M, Camidge DR. Mechanisms of Resistance to Crizotinib in Patients with

ALK Gene Rearranged Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 2012 Jan 10. [Epub ahead

of print]); and the first description of oncogene status affecting patterns of metastatic spread in lung

cancer (Doebele RC, Lu X, Sumey C, Maxson DA, Weickhardt AJ, Oton AB, Bunn PA Jr, Barón AE,

Franklin WA, Aisner DL, Varella-Garcia M, Camidge DR. Oncogene status predicts patterns of

metastatic spread in treatment-naive nonsmall cell lung cancer. Cancer. 2012 Jan 26. doi:

10.1002/cncr.27409. [Epub ahead of print]). Awarded Ernest Bruell Annual Lung Cancer Lectureship

(Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH); Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation Lectureship Award

(BJALCF, Los Angeles, CA); Paul Anderson Oncology Lecture (Penrose Cancer Center, Colorado Springs,

CO); UCH President’s Award for World Class Care (Lung Cancer Clinical Program Director) and UCH

Grateful Patient Award (for establishing the Lung Cancer Colorado Fund).

Robert C. Doebele, MD, PhD - Invited to give the Mona Zavalkoff Annual Lecture Series on Innovations

and Advances in Lung Cancer at the Jewish General Hospital (Montreal, Quebec) and his research was

selected for presentation in the Oral Abstract Session - Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer at the

2012 Annual ASCO Meeting (Chicago, IL).

S. Gail Eckhardt, MD - Named a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and Received the

University of Colorado Technology Transfer Office Business Advisor of the Year Award.

Anthony Elias, MD - 2001-present, Selected for “Best Doctors in America” (Castle Connolly, etc).

2008-present, Who’s Who in America (Marquis). 2011-present, Top Doctor, US News & World Report.

2012 Best Doctors for Executives, Colorado Biz. Education talk at ASCO. 3 original articles, 2 reviews,

one invited editorial, 9 abstracts.

Thomas Flaig, MD - Clinical investigations shared resource medical director. UCH – outstanding full

time physician award – January, 2012.


L. Michael Glode, MD - Named a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Antonio Jimeno, MD - (HNC-head and neck cancer) - Initiated first-in-nation CSC-directed clinical

trials Program. Captured $500K in philanthropy. Generated largest patient derived xenograft model in

HNC in existence. Characterized HNC stem cells.

Wells Messersmith, MD - Promoted to Professor (Tenured) and Co-Division Head.


Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine

James Beck, MD – Appointed Chief of Medicine for the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System.

Appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. Completed term as

Chair of the Education Committee of the American Thoracic Society. Received Presidential

Commendation from the American Thoracic Society for improving educational quality. Listed in Best

Doctors in America for HIV-related lung disease and COPD. Served as Chair of the Sampling Committee

for the NHLBI’s Lung HIV Microbiome Project.

Alexander Benson, MD – Awarded K23 Career Development Award from the NHLBI. Promoted to

Assistant Professor. Selected to serve on the Critical Care Program Committee of the American Thoracic

Society.

Todd M Bull, MD – Named Director of the Pulmonary Vascular Disease Center. Awarded the Peak

Performer Award at the Rocky Mountain Society of Critical Medicine. Elected Top Doctors 5280 Magazine

Critical Care. Chair-elect, American Thoracic Society Program Committee.

Brendan Clark, MD – Promoted to Assistant Professor.

Ivor S Douglas, MD – Chief of Pulmonary Critical Care Section in the Department of Medicine at

Denver Health; Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Elected to the Board of Directors of the

Colorado Foundation for Medical Care (CFMC) and appointed Chair of the American Thoracic Society’s

Health Policy Committee for a two-year term. Served as Co-Chair of the International Surviving Sepsis

Campaign Guidelines committee. Recognized for 4th time in Best Doctors: 5280 Magazine and Best

Doctors in America and was awarded “Physician of the Year” 2012 by the Colorado Society for

Respiratory Care (CSRC). Awarded a new $2 million award from the Department of Defense –

Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs to study Rapid Microbiological Diagnostics for

resistant organisms to guide antibiotic selection in wounded warriors and veterans.

Gregory Downey, MD – Elected to the Association of American Physicians (AAP), and was elected as the

Chair of the ATS section on Allergy, Immunology, and Inflammation (AII).

Sonia Flores, PhD – Selected to Chair the Steering Committee for the Longitudinal Studies of Lung

Complications of HIV Infection. Recognized for service to peer review at NIH with the opportunity to

submit R-type applications continuously. Member of the Minority Affairs Committee of the American

Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. State-of-the-Art Speaker, Aspen Lung Conference, 2012.

Keynote Speaker, Experimental Biology Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Mark W Geraci, MD – Elected as a Permanent Member to the NHLBI Training Grant Review

Committee (NITM). Re-elected to the Association of Specialty Professors as a Councilor representing the

American Thoracic Society. Received new Collaborative R01 from the NCI (along with Dr. Rubin Tuder)

to examine the continuum of COPD and Lung Cancer.


Todd J Grazia, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor. Received Colorado State Bioscience

Development and Evaluation Grant (BDEG) for development of and safety trial of autologous CD117+

Stem Cells in Lung Transplant Patients. Re-elected to American Society of Transplantation Thoracic

Community of Care Committee. Invited Speaker to Colorado Center for Transplantation Research and

Education Lecture Series. Invited Speaker to Turin 2012 International Forum on Immunology. Invited

Speaker to International Conference on Clinical and Cellular Immunology, Chicago, IL 2012. Presenter

on “Combined Therapy with CTLA4-Ig and Autologous CD117+ Progenitor Cells Leads to Complete

Abrogation of Acute Cardiac Rejection” at American Transplant Congress, Boston 2012.

Nabeel Hamzeh, MD – Awarded the American Thoracic Society/Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

Sarcoidosis grant (10/2011) to investigate the effect of anti-oxidants on oxidative stress and inflammation

in pulmonary sarcoidosis.

Mark Kearns, MD – Promoted to Assistant Professor.

Jeffery Kerns, MD – Listed in Best Doctors in Pulmonary and Critical Care. Listed as a “Top Doctor” by

US News and World Report. Listed as one of America’s Top Doctors. Invited Speaker to present Grand

Rounds at Brown University School of Medicine.

Rebecca Keith, MD – Promoted to Assistant Professor. Awarded the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation

Young Investigator Award.

Howard Li, MD – Received VA Career Development Award, and a University of Colorado SPORE in

Lung Cancer Career Development Award. Received the University of Colorado Hospital’s President’s

Award for World Class Care.

Stephen Malkoski, MD, PhD – Received Cancer League of Colorado grant to study the role of TAK1 in

lung cancer. Numerous (5) peer-reviewed journal articles including an invited review in FEBS Letters.

Received UCH Presidents Award for World Class Care.

York Miller, MD – Awarded LUNGevity Foundation Early Detection Research Award to study

“Biomarkers to Improve Clinical Assessment of Indeterminate Lung Nodules. Invited Speaker to

International Congress of Thoracic Oncology, Dresdan, Germany: “What we have learned from clinical

trials of lung cancer chemoprevention.” Invited Speaker, NCI Translational Science Meeting, Lung, Head

and Neck Cancer Breakout Session; Washington, DC: “Oral Iloprost Improves Endobronchial Dysplasia in

Former Smokers” July 2011. Chairman, Early Detection of Lung Cancer Study Section, Tobacco Related

Disease Research Program, University of California, 2011. Member, Health Team Works Low Dose CT

Expert Committee, 2011.

Eric P Schmidt, MD – Listed as a “Rising Star” on NHLBI website as a Recovery Act Investigator

(link: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/recovery/index.htm). Honored by Vice President Joe Biden as a Recovery

Act Innovator (link: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/directorscorner/ messages/2010-messages/vice-

president-biden-lauds-nhlbi-investigators-for-recovery-act-funded-research/ ). Gave “highlighted” research

talk at the 2012 American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Marvin Schwarz, MD – Listed in Best Doctors in America and America’s Top Doctors.

Philip Simonian, MD – Received R01 Award from the NHLBI.

Laimute Taraseviciene-Stewart, PhD – Joined the Open Journal of Respiratory Diseases Editorial

Board. Joined the Frontiers in Physiology Editorial Board.

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Jennifer Taylor-Cousar, MD – Invited participant in the Respiratory Working Group of the

International Orangutan Health Workshop.

Katherine Vandervest, MD – Promoted to Assistant Professor.

Nicholas Walter, MD- Promoted to Assistant Professor.

Martin R Zamora, MD – Awarded the Faculty Gold Headed Cane Award from University of Colorado

Denver Department of Medicine. Named to The Top Doctors in America and Best Doctors in America.

Appointment a Member of the Board of Directors of the Alpha-1 Foundation and recently appointed Chair

of the Transplant Subcommittee of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee of the Alpha-1

Foundation.


Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension

Michel Chonchol, MD - Promoted to Professor of Medicine with Tenure July 2012 and serves as a

member of the Dialysis Advisory Group of the American Society of Nephrology. Has served as Director of

Clinical Research in the Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension since 2008. Invited to give the

update in Nephrology at the American College of Physician national meetings April 2012.

James Cooper, MD - Appointed member of AST National Trainee and Young Faculty Community of

Practice. Appointed member of AST National Kidney Pancreas Advisory Committee. Appointed member

of the Department of Medicine QI and Patient Safety Advisory Group. Appointed director of the Kidney

Transplant Fellow training program. Invited speaker for the Colorado Center for Transplantation Care,

Research and Education lecture series, “Antibody production before and after kidney transplant”. Invited

moderator at annual “Controversies in Transplantation” conference for session “New Challenges in Renal

Transplant”. Invited moderator ASN Kidney Week meeting: “Renal Transplant AKI for the General

Nephrologist.”

Charles Edelstein, MD - Gave the plenary lecture at the Korean Society of Nephrology Meeting in Seoul

in May 2012. The summer of 2012 Visiting Professor of New Technologies/Technology Core at Charles

Drew University/UCLA in Los Angeles, CA.

Sarah Faubel, MD - Reappointed to another 3 year term on the Acute Kidney Injury Advisory Group for

the American Society of Nephrology; reappointed to another 3 year term for the Postgraduate Education

Committee for the American Society of Nephrology. Early program committee Co-Chair for the American

Society of Nephrology annual meeting. Received a 3.2 percentile on a VA Merit Review which should

subsequently be funded.

Berenice Gitomer, PhD - Served on the Executive Committee of the Polycystic Kidney Disease outcomes

committee. Selected as guest editor for Current Hypertension Reviews hot topic issue on cardiovascular

complications of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

Richard Johnson, MD - Selected for Best Doctors (USA), Who’s Who in America (Marquis),Who’s who in

America (Madison), and the New Inventor Award for the University of Colorado, Anschutz Campus.

Listed as a highly cited investigator in the field of clinical medicine by Reuters ISI Web of Science. Served

on the Scientific Board of Nutrilite (Amway), on the Gatorade Museum Board, and on the Scientific Board

of the Gout and Hyperuricemia Education Society. He became a permanent member of the NIH NHLBI

Hypertension and Microcirculatory Study Section. He was selected as one of three candidates running for

ASN council. He helped raised the Mats Wahlstrom Lectureship. He is an inventor on three new patent

applications from the University of Colorado. He was guest editor for an issue of Seminars in Nephrology.


He gave many invited lectures from July 2011 to June 2012, including in France, Argentina, Sweden,

Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Portugal, South Africa, and England. Special lectures include the plenary

lecture for the European Dialysis Transplant Association, the Donald Fraley Lecture at the University of

Pittsburgh, and the Cade Symposia Lecture in Cordoba for the Argentinian Society of Nephrology. He

chaired the Basic Science Committee for the American Society of Hypertension. He also submitted

numerous grants and currently is helping to oversee two K awards (Jalal, Lanaspa) and is PI of an NIH

Directors Award (RC4 DK090859) and has an RO1 R01DK080764, and is part of a PO1 P01AI045897.

Since July 2011 he has also had 38 papers published or accepted, including papers in PNAS, Kidney Int,

Metabolism, CJASN, JASN, Hypertension, Am J Med, Ann Intern Med, Hepatology, Am J Physiol and

Obesity. Dr. Johnson also published a book, The Fat Switch, (Mercola.com, 352 pp, 2012).

Moshe Levi, MD - Selected to the American Heart Association National Council and Chair of the AHA

Kidney and Cardiovascular Disease Council. Selected to Chair the Epithelial Transport Group of the

American Society of Physiology and Experimental Biology Program Committee. Selected to be on the

AHA High Blood Pressure Research Council and Program Committee. Selected to the American Society of

Nephrology Young Investigator Award and Homer Smith Award Selection Committee. Selected to be

President of the Kern Lipid Conference. Selected to be on the Advisory Committee of U of Texas

Southwestern Medical Center NIH O'Brien Kidney Center. Selected to be on the Advisory Committee of U

of California Irvine NIH Laboratory of Fluorescence Dynamics, and selected to be on the Advisory

Committee of U of California Irvine NIH A Laser Microbeam Biotechnology Resource.

Stuart Linas, MD - Elected to Secretary/Treasurer of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Makoto Miyazaki, PhD - Received the Beginning Grant-In-Aid Award from the American Heart

Association. Invited speaker to the Steenbock Symposium in Madison, WI.

Robert Schrier, MD - Honors: Eugene Braunwald Academic Mentorship Award from the American

Heart Association and the National Academy of Medicine of Belarus Honorary Doctorate. Invited

Lecturer at International Meetings: to the Oxford University Lectureship in Oxford, Great Britain; ISN

Renal Sister Symposium, in Brest, Belarus; Independent Countries Symposium in Tblisi Georgia; ERA-

EDTA Congress in Paris, France; and St. Petersburg Nephrology Symposium in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Served on ISN KDIGO Executive Committee.

David Spiegel, MD - Serves as the Director of the Chronic Kidney Disease Program for the University

of Colorado. Selected to Best Doctors in Americas and America's Top Doctors. Nationally and

internationally known for his expertise in mineral and bone disorders in chronic kidney disease.

Isaac Teitelbaum, MD - Elected President of the North American Chapter of the International Society

for Peritoneal Dialysis. Received 5280 Top Doctor Award.



Division of Rheumatology

Susan A. Boackle, MD – Selected to receive a Professional Leadership Award to attend the Association

of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Mid-Career Seminar; Selected by NIH/NIAID to serve on a Special

Emphasis Panel for Disease Effector Mechanisms in SLE and Rheumatoid Arthritis; Selected by NIH to

serve on and then chair a Special Emphasis Panel for Member Conflict Immunology; Selected by the

American College of Rheumatology to serve on the Sub-committee on NIH Relations; Served as a

Moderator for the Innate Immunity and Rheumatic Disease Concurrent Abstract Session at the American

College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting; Served as Abstract Selection Category Co-Chair for the Innate

Immunity and Rheumatic Disease Category for the American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting.

Dennis J. Boyle, MD - Elected to the Academy of Medical Educators; Appointed Director of iTeach;

Started Mini Med School Part II “The Clinical Years; Awarded the DOM Foundations Teaching Award for

contributions to UME education.

Liron Caplan, MD, PhD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine. Awarded a VA Pilot Grant and

funded to train rheumatology fellows in the research track. Chaired an American College of

Rheumatology expert panel.

Kevin Deane, MD, PhD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Medicine. Completed PhD training in the

Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute’s Clinical Science program. Invited Speaker for the

American College of Rheumatology’s Annual Meeting. Director, 9Health Fair Rheumatoid Arthritis

Screening Program.

V. Michael Holers, MD – Named to American College of Rheumatology Board of Directors; Delivered the

Zvaifler Lectureship at the University of California San Diego; Chaired the NIH NIAMS Roundtable on

Arthritis Biology Research; Appointed as Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Lupus Research; Co-Chair

of American College of Rheumatology Blue Ribbon Task Force on Academic Rheumatology.

Richard Meehan, MD – Named as one of the 5280 Denver’s Top Doctors in Rheumatology; Named as one

of the Best Doctors in America in Rheumatology.

Sterling West, MD – Named as one of the 5280 Denver’s Top Doctors in Rheumatology; Named as one of

the Best Doctors in America in Rheumatology.

DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY

David J. Barton, PhD – Re-appointed to the Journal of Virology Editorial Board (2012-12014), served as

Vice-Chair and Chair of the American Cancer Society Microbial Pathogenesis and Cancer grant review

panel, co-author of a 2012 PNAS paper selected by the Faculty of 1000 (top 2% of published articles in

biology and medicine), ad hoc grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Wellcome

Trust (London, UK), ad hoc reviewer for RNA, Journal of General Virology, Virology, PLoS ONE and

PLoS Pathogens.

Randall K. Holmes, MD, PhD - 2011-2012 completed an 11-year term of service as representative from

the Association of Medical School Microbiology and Immunology Chairs to the Council of Academic

Societies of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Received a Distinguished Service Award from

the Association of American Medical Colleges. Served on the Maurice Hilleman/Merck Award

Nominations Committee for the American Academy of Microbiology.

Thomas Morrison, PhD - Elected to American Society for Virology Membership Committee


Dohun Pyeon, PhD - Invited speaker at the 2012 DNA Tumor Virus Conference in Montreal. Served as

an ad hoc reviewer for Journal of Biological Chemistry, Virus Research, Cells, and Journal of General

Virology, served as an External Reviewer, for the Korea National Science & Technology Commission

Serve as a session chair of “Virus Life Cycle” in the 28th International Papillomavirus Conference in San

Juan, Puerto Rico.

Jerome B. Schaack, PhD – Co-Chair Institutional Biosafety Committee, University of Colorado Denver

Michael J. Schurr, PhD – Funding Awards- November 2011-February 2012 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation,

NIH Bridge funding. March 2012-NIH NIAID R21 AI094487 titled “Control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Quorum Sensing and Alginate”. NIH Study Section and Review Panel Service – Sept 2011- NIH Special

Emphasis Panel, NIAID Targeting Resistance in Select Gram-negative Pathogens. June 2012- NIH

Special Emphasis Panel, Cardiovascular and Respiratory Science. October 2012- NIH Special Emphasis

Panel, Topics in Bacterial Pathogenesis. Associate Editor: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection

Microbiology. Editorial Board member: Infection and Immunity. Journal Reviewer: Journal of

Bacteriology, Applied & Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, International

Journal of Microbiology, Molecular Microbiology.

Linda van Dyk, PhD - Associate Editor, Microbial Immunity section, Frontiers in Immunology Journal.

Review/Selection Panel, American Society for Microbiology Watkins Graduate Fellowship. NIAID Special

Emphasis Panel Reviewer, AIDS and Related Research. NIAID Virology A Study Section, Ad hoc

reviewer. NIAID Special Emphasis Panel Reviewer, AIDS and Related Research

Andres Vazquez-Torres, PhD - INFB Merit Veterans Administration 2011 and 2012 Study Sections.

Editorial Board member:Infection and Immunity (since 2010), Frontiers in Cellular Microbiology (since

2010) and Scientific Reports (since 2011). VA-Merit Award, PI: Vazquez-Torres, A, Molecular Analysis of

Bacterial Adaptive Response to Host Reactive Species. The goal of this project is to elucidate the

molecular mechanisms underlying bacterial adaptive response that increase antioxidant and

antinitrosative defenses, antibiotic resistance and pathogenicity of Gram-negative bacteria2012 article by

Henard, C.A., & A. Vazquez-Torres “DksA-dependent resistance of Salmonella enterica Serovar

Typhimurium against the Antimicrobial Activity of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase” (Infect. Immun.

80:1373-1380) was selected by the Infect. Immun. Editorial Board to be presented as Spotlight in “The

DksA RNA Polymerase Regulatory Protein Protects Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium against

Nutritional Stress Imposed by Nitric Oxide in the Phagosomal Lumen of Macrophages.”

Martin I. Voskuil, PhD –2012 received tenure. Serve on NIH Microbiology F13 Fellowship Panel.

Serve on NIH Microbial Pathogenesis R21 Panel.

DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY

Alan Anderson, MD – Served as Vice Chair and named Chairman 2011-2014, Scientific Program

Committee, American Neuropsychiatric Association. Member of Pacific/Mountain Stroke Committee,

American Heart Association. Admitted to American Neurological Association and inducted as Fellow in

the American Neuropsychiatric Association. Received the Department of Neurology's Outstanding

Teacher Award.

Jeffrey Bennett, MD, PhD – Appointed to the Graduate Faculty of Neurosciences Program, University

of Colorado School of Medicine. Served as Ad Hoc Reviewer for MS Research Australia and served on

Scientific Peer Review Committee D of National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Member of Editorial

Board, Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology and Membership Committee of American Neurological


Association. Listed in Best Doctors of America and America’s Top Physicians. Invited speaker, North

American Neuro-ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting and Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers

Annual Meeting. Awarded US Patent 61477955 "Compositions and Methods for the Treatment of

Neuromyelitis Optica.”

Brian Berman, MD, MS – Recipient Dystonia Coalition Career Development Award and Center for

Neuroscience Innovation Award; travel stipend awardee to the 5th International Dystonia Symposium and

136th Annual American Neurological Association Meeting; invited speaker for Colorado Translational

Research Imaging Center Lecture Series and UCH-CHC Neuropsychology Seminar series; Ad Hoc

reviewer for Parkinsonism & Related Disorders.

Patrick Bosque, MD - Appointed to FDA Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory

Committee; serves on AAN Fragile X genetic testing clinical guidelines author panel.

Mark Burgoon, PhD – Serves on National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Fellowship Review Committee

and as external grant reviewer for Italian Multiple Sclerosis Society. Ad Hoc peer reviewer for Multiple

Sclerosis and Current Medicinal Chemistry. Member, International Society of Neurovirology,International

Society of Neuroimmunology, and New York Academy of Sciences.

Penny Clarke, PhD – Promoted to Professor of Neurology (Research Series). Ad Hoc reviewer, Journal of

Virology, Virology, Journal of General Virology, Molecular Cancer, Virus Research and Archives of

Virology. Presenter at 11th International Symposium on Neurovirology; Keystone Symposium, Canada;

and American Society for Microbiology, Rocky Mountain Branch.

Randall Cohrs, PhD - Invited speaker to graduate and honors biology and microbiology students,

Denver University and Colorado State University. Invited lecturer at University of Vienna, Austria.

Organized Rocky Mountain Branch of American Society for Microbiology (RM-ASM) meetings at

University of Colorado (Boulder) and Colorado College; 11th Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain

Virology Club (RMVC), Colorado State University; and 2nd annual international meeting of Colorado

Alpha-herpesvirus Latency Society (CALS) at Vail. Co-chaired RM-ASM (Boulder and Colorado College)

and RMVC (Ft. Collins); and Epigenetic session of CALS (Vail). Member of ASM, RMVC, ISNV and CALS

professional societies. Editor of Translational Biomedicine, Archives of Clinical Microbiology, and

Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics. Co-editor, special addition of J. NeuroVirology. Ad Hoc reviewer for

Antiviral Therapy, British J. Ophthalmology, Clinics, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Expert Review of

Molecular Diagnostics, J. Infectious Diseases, J. NeuroVirology, J. Virology, Mayo Clinic Proceedings,

Pain Management, and Zebrafish.

John Corboy, MD – Appointed Director of Faculty Affairs, Neurology. Serves as board member, Colorado

Chapter National MS Society and member, American Academy of Neurology Meeting Management

Committee. Founding Editor, Neurology Clinical Practice, a journal of the AAN. Served as Education

Program faculty, American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting. Listed in Best Doctors in America.

Invited speaker, 8th Annual Johns Hopkins Symposium on Multiple Sclerosis and statewide CME

research updates in MS.

Denise Damek, MD – Serves as Ad Hoc reviewer for Neurology. Chairs Neuro-Oncology Clinical Trials

Disease Committee and serves on University of Colorado Cancer Center Protocol Review and Monitoring

Committee.

Cornelia Drees, MD – Appointed Assistant Professor of Neurology and named Director of Interoperative

Monitoring Program, Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Christopher Filley, MD - Invited Speaker: 136th Annual Meeting of the American Neurological


Association; 64th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology; Neurology Grand Rounds,

University of California at San Francisco; and 4th Annual VISN 19/MIRECC TBI and Suicide Prevention

Conference. Listed in Best Doctors in America; Who's Who in America; and Who’s Who in Medicine and

Healthcare. Recipient of Department of Neurology's Outstanding Teacher Award. Published 2nd edition of

The Behavioral Neurology of White Matter, Oxford University Press, 2012.

Lauren Frey, MD – Graduate, University of Colorado School of Medicine Teaching Scholars’ Program.

Serves as Chair, Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado and Treatments

Committee, American Epilepsy Society. Editorial Board member, Journal of Neurology &

Neurophysiology. Invited Speaker, 29th Annual Conference of the Brain Injury Association of Colorado.

Don Gilden, MD – Serves as Senior Associate Editor of Journal of NeuroVirology. Serves on editorial

boards of In Vivo, Journal of Virology, Scientific American Medicine, Virus Genes and Neurology, and on

NIH CNBT Study Section.

Richard Hughes, MD - Serves on American Heart Association’s Comprehensive Stroke Center

Certification Committee and University Faculty Promotions Committee. Co-Director, Neurosurgery in the

Rockies Program, University of Colorado Hospital. Ad Hoc reviewer for International Stroke Journal and

The Neurologist.

Leila Jackson, PhD – Appointed Assistant Professor (Research Series). Presented at American

Association of Immunologists Annual Meeting.

William Jones, MD – Serves as Director, Neurology Inpatient Services and Neurohospitalist Program

and Co-Director, University of Colorado Hospital Stroke Program. Ad Hoc reviewer for Neurology; Stroke;

General Internal Medicine; Seminars in Cerebrovascular Disease and Stroke; and Mayo Clinic

Proceedings.

Olga Klepitskaya, MD - Serves as Co-Director, University of Colorado Hospital Deep Brain Stimulation

Center. Fellowship awardee, National Institute Neurological Disorders and Stroke‘s Clinical Trial

Methods Course. 2012 American Academy of Neurology Leadership Development Scholarship and

Physician Leadership Program recipient. Invited speaker: National VA Parkinson Disease Consortium;

Banner Sun Health Research Institute; Parkinson Association of the Rockies. Invited editorial board

member, Brain Disorders and Therapy.

Benzi Kluger, MD - Director and founder, Movement Disorders Center, University of Colorado. Awarded

the American Academy of Neurology Leadership Development Scholarship. Editorial board member,

Frontiers in Movement Disorders; grant reviewer, UK Parkinson’s Disease Society; and Program

Committee member, Parkinson Association of the Rockies. Invited speaker, Parkinson’s Advocates in

Research Learning Institute, and annual think tank on novel approaches for a cure for DYT-1 Dystonia.

Maureen Leehey, MD - Serves as Director of Movement Disorders Division and Fellowship Program.

Serves in NIH Fragile X Research Coordinating Group. Ad Hoc reviewer for Brain Disorders & Therapy;

Clinical Rheumatology; Gene; and Neurology. Listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering and Best

Doctors in America.

Teerin Liewluck, MD – Appointed Assistant Professor of Neurology.

Edward Maa, MD – Recipient of Neurology Medical Student Annual Teaching Award. Scholarship

recipient, NINDS Clinical Trial Methods Course in Neurology. Listed in Top 250

Denver Docs, 5280 Magazine.


Ravi Mahalingam, PhD - Serves on Editorial Board of Journal of Neurovirology and BioMed Central

Infectious Diseases.

Augusto Miravalle, MD – Recipient, ANA Academic Neurology Training Scholarship. Appointed

Associate Director, Neurology Residency Training Program. Invited speaker, Colorado Springs

Neurological Associates; volunteer physician, Metropolitan Community Provider Network. Serves on

Residency Program Annual Review Committee; Hospitalist Committee; GME Internal Review Committee

and School of Medicine Admissions Committee.

Maria Nagel, MD - Invited speaker on “Viral Vasculopathy” at the International Stroke Conference,

New Orleans. Invited editorial board member for the new journal Shingles and PHN. Selected member

for the American Neurological Association. Ad Hoc reviewer for Neurology and European Journal of

Neurology. Honorary member of the Golden Key International Honor Society. Medical School Admissions

Committee member. Received Mentor Recognition Award from Metropolitan State College of Denver.

Douglas Ney, MD - Serves on University of Colorado Cancer Center Protocol Review and Monitoring

Committee. Invited lecturer, University of Colorado Medical Oncology Fellows. Ad Hoc reviewer,

Neurology Research International and International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics.

Chantal O’Brien, MD – Serves as Director, Neurology Clerkship Block and Resident Selection

Committee member. Recipient of University of Colorado Hospital Patient’s Choice Award (fourth year)

and Doc’s Award. Coordinator, Student Interest Group in Neurology.

Gregory Owens, PhD – Awarded RO1 NIH grant for “The Role of Intrathecal Plasma Cell Clones in MS

Pathogenesis.” Reviewer for NINDS study section, Journal of Immunology and Annals of Neurology.

Victoria Pelak, MD - Serves as Director, Neurology Residency Program. Research mentor for Mentored

Scholarly Activity medical student research project following a selective application process. Elected

Editorial Board member for new journal, Brain Disorders & Therapy. Invited Ad Hoc reviewer for J.

Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinsonism and the journal Eye. Served on a Data Safety Monitoring Board for

The Colorado Prevention Center. Founded the Posterior Cortical Atrophy Patient Support Group. Co-

directing the North American Neuro-ophthalmology Society Education Subcommittee to develop an on-

line illustrated Neuro-ophthalmology curriculum. Received the Department of Neurology's Outstanding

Teacher Award.

Huntington Potter, PhD – Appointed Professor of Neurology and Director, Alzheimer’s Disease

Research.

Dianna Quan, MD - Elected Fellow, American Academy of Neurology and American Neurological

Association. Serves as Chair of the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic

Medicine Neuromuscular Update Course; serves on Meeting Coordination Committee. Serves as Co-Chair

for the Colorado Multiple Institutional Review Board (COMIRB Panel A). Director of Electromyography

Laboratory and ACGME Neuromuscular Medicine Fellowship Program Director. Member, Scientific and

Advisory Review Committee, University of Colorado Hospital Clinical Translational Research Center of

the Colorado Clinical Translational Sciences Institute.

Steven Ringel, MD - Serves as Vice Chair of Neurology and Vice President for Clinical Effectiveness and

Patient Safety, University of Colorado Hospital. Listed in Top 250 Denver Docs, 5280 Magazine (6th

year), and Top 1% Doctors, US News & World Report. Serves as Treasurer, American Neurological

Association and Editor-in-Chief of Neurology Today.


Archana Shrestha, MD - Serves on University of Colorado School of Medicine‘s Admissions Committee;

Professional Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado; and Mixed Professional Focus Group

of the American Epilepsy Society.

Jennifer Simpson, MD - Presented at International Stroke Conference. Ad Hoc reviewer for Journal of

Neurological Sciences and Neuroepidemiology. Received the Department of Neurology's Outstanding

Teacher Award.

John Sladek Jr., PhD - Serves as Section Editor for neuroscience and tissue engineering for Cell

Transplantation the Regenerative Medicine Journal, permanent member of an NIH study section (ZRG1

F01-L), Chair of the External Advisory Committee for the University of Wyoming NIH INBRE grant, and

Director for Outreach and Development for the Center for Neuroscience. Board of Trustees member,

Carthage College and Chair, Natural Sciences Advisory Committee of the Board. Served on the

President's Boettcher Scholars Award Committee for the University of Colorado and Captain of Team

AHEC for the Annual Children's Hospital Courage Classic cycling event. Received a resolution from the

State of California commending service as first Administrative Chair, Grants Review Group of the

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Elected President, Rocky Mountain Regional

Neuroscience Group, a local chapter of the Society for Neuroscience. Serves on 2013 American Association

of Anatomists 125th Anniversary Meeting Development Committee.

Mark Spitz, MD - Listed in Top 250 Denver Docs, 5280 Magazine, and Best Doctors in America (7th

consecutive year). Recipient of “Compassionate Doctor” award (2nd consecutive year). Invited speaker, 8th

Annual Rocky Mountain Hospital Symposium, Denver and the “Big Easy” Neuroscience Symposium, New

Orleans.

Laura Strom, MD - Serves as Medical Director of Neurology Outpatient Services. Past Chair, Physician

Advisory Board of the Epilepsy Foundation. Member, Task Force on Sudden Unexpected Death (SUDEP),

Arapahoe County Coroner‘s Office. Serves on two committees of American Epilepsy Society (AES). Named

in Best Doctors in America.

Kenneth Tyler, MD - Serves on editorial boards of Annals Neurology, Archives of Neurology,

Experimental Neurology, Journal of Infectious Disease, Journal of Virology, Virology, Microbial

Pathogenesis and Apoptosis and as a Senior Associate Editor of Journal of Neurovirology and an Associate

Editor of Neurology Today. Temporary Member NIH Virology A and Special Emphasis Panel Study

Sections and Department of Veterans Affairs Neuroscience C Study Section. Council Member, American

Neurological Association. Elected to Fellowship American Academy of Microbiology. Named to US News

World Report Top Doctors. Keynote Speaker, 7th Annual University of Alaska Biomedical Research

Conference. Keynote Speaker, Mini-symposium on Neurovirology, Hope Center for Neurological

Disorders, Washington University in St. Louis. 40th Aird Visiting Professor, Dept. Neurology, UCSF.

(invited).

Timothy Vollmer, MD – Appointed Director of Clinical Research, Department of Neurology. Serves as

Co-Director of Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Clinic-Anschutz Medical Campus and Medical Director

of Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center, Inducted as Fellow into the American Academy of

Neurology. Serves on Editorial Board of the European Journal of Neurology and Co-Editor of Multiple

Sclerosis Quarterly Report. Recipient, Department of Neurology Teaching Award. Cited as Top 1% in

Neurology, US News & World Report and listed in Best Doctors in America. Awarded patent related to

Nicotinic Attenuation of CNS Inflammation and Autoimmunity, U.S. Application No. 13/063,713. Serves

on University of Colorado School of Medicine Admissions Committee; NeuroScience Program Faculty; and

University of Colorado Graduate Program; voted in top quartile of attending physicians by medical

students. Recipient, Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis Physician of Distinction Award.


Invited presenter: University of California San Diego; SUNY-Buffalo; Johns Hopkins University; MS

Research Center of New York. National consensus conference organizer and presenter, Denver.

Matthew West, MD - Serves on University of Colorado School of Medicine Alumni Association Board,

Resident Promotions Committee, and Chairs Rocky Mountain MS Center’s Data Safety and Review

Board. Recipient of the Department of Neurology's Outstanding Teacher Award.

DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY

The Department of Neurosurgery provides outstanding tertiary care, in all neurosurgery

subspecialties, for patients from Colorado and the surrounding states. Neurosurgery became a

Department in 2001 and continues to grow under the leadership of Kevin O. Lillehei, MD. The

Department of Neurosurgery has 21 clinical faculty members and 4 full time research faculty. Web

site: www.cuneurosurgery.com

Judith Gault, PhD promoted to Associate Professor

Kevin O. Lillehei, MD, listed as a 5280 provider for the 12th year.

Robert T. Neumann, MD, PhD, promoted to Associate Professor and listed as a 5280 provider for Neuro-

Intensive care.

DEPARTMENT OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Ruben Alvero, MD- Section Head for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. Vice Chair for Medical

Education. Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Association of Professors of Gynecology and Infertility

Board of Directors. Primary Investigator, Reproductive Medicine Network. Center for Surgical Innovation

Board of Directors. Colonel, United States Army Reserve, Deputy Commander for Clinical Services,

5502nd US Army Hospital. Peer reviewer: Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Journal Obstetrics and

Gynecology, Human Reproduction, Fertility and Sterility, Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental

Therapeutics. Editorial Board: Reproductive Medicine Insights, Clinical Medicine: Case Reports.

Linda Barbour, MD, MSPH, FACP—is a Professor in Endocrinology with a joint appointment in OB-

GYN who is the Medical Director of the OB Diabetes and High Risk OB Clinics, listed in Best Doctors in

America since 2006, Past President of the North American Society of Obstetric Medicine, chair of the

Colorado Department of Health Guidelines for the Management of Gestational Diabetes, member of the

Endocrine Society guidelines committee on Thyroid Dysfunction during Pregnancy 2007-2012 and co-

editor of both textbook editions, Medical Care of the Pregnant Patient. She has a strong national

reputation in the field of maternal obesity, gestational diabetes and fetal metabolic programming of

childhood obesity with both NIH RO1 and R21 funding. She is the Co-Director of the Colorado Program in

Nutrition and Healthy, serves on the University of Colorado NIH Child & Maternal Health Clinical and

Translational Science Institute Advisory board, the American Diabetes Association Council on Pregnancy

and Reproductive Health, and serves as a peer reviewer for NIH grant applications and many medical

and obstetric journals.

Kian Behbakht, MD - Listed in 5280 Magazine’s ―Top Doctors of Denver.

Darleen Cioffi-Ragan, BS, RDMS - Reviewer at national meetings of Society of Diagnostic Medical

Sonography and a Reviewer for Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography monthly journal articles.

Kathleen A. Connell, MD - Joined the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology as Visiting Associate

Professor and Section Chief of Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery, January 2012.

Appointed as Chair for the Basic Science Interest Group, and served on the Membership Committee,

Scientific Abstract Review Committee and the Basic Science Grant Review Committee for the American

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Urogynecologic Society. Invited Symposium Speaker for the Society of Gynecologic Investigation. Invited

Debate Speaker for the regional meeting of the Colorado Section of the American Congress of Obstetrics

and Gynecology. Peer Reviewer for Reproductive Sciences, American Journal of Obstetrics and

Gynecology, Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery.

Susan A. Davidson, MD—Listed in 5280 Magazine’s ―Top Doctors of Denver.

Jill Davies, MD—recognized as one of America’s Top Obstetricians and Gynecologists; has

spoken locally, nationally, and internationally on perinatal transmission of HIV; Reviewer for peer review

publications: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2004-present; Journal of Re-productive

Medicine 2006-present; Obstetrics & Gynecology 2006-present; Visiting Obstetric Faculty, CHUK and

CHUB, Medical University of Rwanda, Butare and Kigali campuses. She is a member of the American

College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, the American

Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and

Gynecology, and the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology. She also serves as an

examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and as a reviewer for several peer-

reviewed journals.

Karlotta Davis, MD—Vice-Chair of Quality. 5280 best doc in Female Pelvic Medicine and

Reconstructive Surgery, first year this was a category (I had previously named in the general ob-gyn

category) Best Ob-Gyn doctor in Colorado in US news and world report Top Doc in Castle Conolly

Sonya Erickson, MD—Recipient of the Foundation for Excellence in Women’s Health Care. Grant

award: “Board Certification, MOC and Quality of Care: Testing the Relationship”, 2010-2012.

Henry Galan, MD—listed in 5280 Magazine’s Best Doctors in Denver 5 consecutive years. He serves on

the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Board, is Chair of Fellowship Committee for the SMFM

Board, and Chair of the SMFM Fellow Retreat Committee. He is an Editor for Obstetrics: Normal and

Problem Pregnancies (6th Ed). He is Director of the MFM Fellowship program at UCD. He is a peer

reviewer for American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, J

of Obstetrics and Gynecology, J of Ultrasound in Medicine, Prenatal and Neonatal Medicine,

Reproduction, and Fertility and Development.

Ronald Gibbs, MD— Serves on the Colorado Section of American College of Obstetricians and

Gynecologists Executive Committee, Education Committee and Legislative Committee; and American

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Advisory Board for Sub- specialties (Infectious Disease); He also

serves as Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development at University

of Colorado, School of Medicine, is the Interim PI of the Maternal Fetal Medicine Units Network, and

serves on the ACOG Clinical Document Review Committee/Obstetrics. Dr. Gibbs served as the OB-GYN

Department Chair (1989-2009) and was received the Career Achievement Award in 2010 from the

Infectious Disease Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Alli Gillan, BA, RDMS, RVT – Senior Instructor in the MFM Section and practice manager of the

Platte free-standing clinic since 2008. Member of SDMS and ARDMS since 1994

Maryam Guiahi MD, MSc- Assistant Professor for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr.

Guiahi joined the faculty in August 2011 after completing a Fellowship at Columbia University.

John Hobbins, MD—Practice Director for the Platte River Perinatal Center. He serves on the following

Editorial Boards: OB/GYN Clinical Alert, American Health Consultants®; American Journal of Obstetrics

and Gynecology; American Journal of Perinatology; European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and

Reproductive Biology; Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy; Gynecologic and Obstetric Investigation; Journal of


Assisted Reproduction and Genetics; Journal of Maternal Fetal & Neonatal Medicine; Journal of Perinatal

Medicine; Journal of Reproductive Medicine; Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine; New England Journal of

Medicine; Obstetrics and Gynecology; Prenatal Diagnosis and Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Laxmi A. Kondapalli MD MSCE --- Assistant Professor of OBGYN, Director of Oncofertility Services,

K12 Women’s Reproductive Health Research Career Development Award, 2011.

Anne M. Lynch, MD MSPH—Director of the Colorado Baby Blanket Research Program and the OB/GYN

perinatal database; Co-Director of Child Maternal Health Section of CCTSI; Principal Investigator of the

Denver Complement Study; Site Principal investigator of NICHD sponsored EAGeR study; Co-

investigator on National Children's Study. Associate Professor since July 2010. Invited speaker at the

Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs annual conference on

Protecting Vulnerable Participants.

James McManaman, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair for Research— Research Director, National

Institutes of Health Women’s Reproductive Health Research (WRHR) Program; Co-Director Adipose

Biology Program, Colorado Obesity Research Initiative; Founding Director, Frontiers In Pregnancy

Research Symposia; Founding Director, Integrated Physiology Graduate Program, University of

Colorado Denver; Associate Director, National Institutes of Health Mammary Gland Development

Program Project; Co-Organizer, International Conference on Lactation and Milk: Defining and refining

the critical questions; Scientific Advisory Board, United States Environmental Protection Agency;

Reviewer, National Institutes of Health

Michael V. Muench, MD—Associate Professor in OB/GYN; is the Director of Maternal- Fetal Medicine

at the St. Francis Medical Center in Colorado Springs. Dr. Muench is highly skilled in invasive procedures

including chorionic villus sampling (CVS) and percutaneous umbilical blood sampling (PUBS), and laser

therapy.

Alex J. Polotsky, MD, MS – Promoted to Associate Professor as of 7/1/2012. Appointed Program

Director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Fellowship. Received “Person of the Year

2011Community Service Award”, Gorizont Newspaper. Received a Travel Award to the AGOS Annual

Meeting from American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Foundation (AAOGF) and

American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society (AGOS). Invited Moderator for: Menopause Day and

Nutrition Special Interest Group Sessions at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for

Reproductive Medicine and the Reproductive Endocrinology Session at the Annual Meeting of Society for

Gynecological Investigation. External Advisory Board Member, Wake Forest University Primate Center,

Winston-Salem, NC. He is a grant review study section member for National Institutes of Health,

American Diabetes Association Research Grant Review Committee, an a peer reviewer for Maturitas,

Human Reproduction, Fertility and Sterility, International Archives of Medicine, Systems Biology in

Reproductive Medicine, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Sciences, Journal

of Reproductive Medicine, Menopause, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Reproductive Biomedicine Online,

Women’s Health.

Shane Reeves, MD—Assistant Professor of OB/GYN, Section of Maternal Fetal Medicine. Inpatient

Medical Director for the Colorado Institute for Maternal and Fetal Health Maternal Fetal Medicine at

Children’s Hospital Colorado; Associate MFM Fellowship Director, and Director of the Littleton Perinatal

clinic.

Stephen Rotholz, MD - joined the faculty in 2011 after 18 years in private practice. His area of

particular interest is in OB/GYN practice development for the University. He has a broad range of

experience in all aspects of general obstetric and gynecologic practice.


Nanette Santoro, MD, Professor and Chair – Vice President for Clinical Research, Endocrine Society;

Chair, Publications Committee, American Society for Reproductive Medicine; Member, Executive

Committee, American Society for Reproductive Medicine Chair, Reproductive Medicine Network Steering

Committee; Immediate Past President, Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility; Secretary-

Treasurer, American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists‟ Foundation; Member,

COREP Committee, American Board of Medical Specialties Member, Integrated Clinical Endocrinology

and Reproduction Study Section, Editorial Board member, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and

Metabolism; Fertility and Sterility; Menopause.

Julie Scott, MD—Assistant Professor of OB/GYN, Section of Maternal Fetal Medicine, is the medical

director for Labor and Delivery at the University of Colorado. Her clinical and research interests include

critical care obstetrics, medical complications of pregnancy, quality and patient safety in women’s care.

Stephen Scott, MD – Associate Professor, Chairman Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology. Director of

the Colorado Adolescent Maternity Program. Member of the ACOG Committee on Adolescent Health.

Reviewer for the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and The Journal of Pediatric and

Adolescent Gynecology. Member of UCD Scientific Advisory Research Committee

Jeanelle Sheeder, MSPH, PhD—Assistant Professor of OB/GYN and Pediatrics is the Associate

Director of Research for the Fellowships in Family Planning and Adolescent Medicine and for the

Colorado Adolescent Maternity Program. Dr. Sheeder is a recipient of the NIH’s Loan Repayment

Program in Infertility and Contraceptive Research and was selected for AAMC Early Career Faculty

Development Seminar in 2012. She is a reviewer for a number of peer-reviewed journals including

Contraception, Pediatrics, and the American Journal of Public Health. She serves as a grant reviewer for

the Department of Health and Human Services and the Society of Family Planning. Her research

interests include contraceptive decision-making, adolescence, and group-based care. She has recently

developed a group-based prenatal and postpartum/infant care program; Pregnancy and Parenting Partners

(P3) which is based on the Nurse Family Partnership curriculum and is currently under feasibility testing

at sites in the United Kingdom, New Jersey, and Colorado. This work is supported by funding from The

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Nicholson Foundation, The Campbell’s Soup Foundation, and the

March of Dimes.

Monique Spillman, MD, PhD - Recipient of the University of Colorado Women in Medicine and Science

Professional Leadership Award, 2011; Selected for AAMC Early Career Faculty Development Seminar,

2011; Attended National Cancer Institute Cancer Research Imaging Camp, 2011. Directs the

gynecological tissue and fluid bank and is the current Chair of the ACOGs Ethics Committee.

Kristina Tocce, MD—Clinical Clerkship Director for Ob/Gyn, Recipient of the Martin L. Stone, MD,

Advancement of Medical Education in Obstetrics & Gynecology Award, 2012.

Marsha Wheeler, MD— Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Boarded both in Obstetrics

and Gynecology and Medical Genetics. Part of the School of Medicine Faculty first at Denver Health

Medical Center and now at the University of Colorado Hospital. Director of Prenatal Diagnosis and

Genetics at University Of Colorado Hospital, Medical Genetics Consultant for the Colorado Genetic

Laboratory, Director of Prenatal Diagnosis Rotation for the Medical Genetic Residency, Serves on

University Of Colorado Hospital Medical Staff Credentialing Committee and the Mountain States

Regional Genetics Network Education committee.

Virginia Winn, MD, PhD—Board Certified in Maternal-Fetal Medicine. Principal Investigator of NIH

R01grant award: “functional significance of siglec-6, a novel leptin receptor, in human placenta‟.

Co-Director of the Child Maternal Health section of the CCTSI.


DEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Jon Braverman, MD – Co-Author, Lagophthalmos in Anorexia Nervosa Arch Ophthalmol.

Rebecca Braverman, MD - Invited speaker at the 50th anniversary of the University of Florida,

Department of Ophthalmology Scientific Meeting, March 23, 2012 on Treatment of Smith-Lemli-Opitz

Syndrome and Retina Function Determined By Electroretinography. Best in Show Award Poster,

American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, San Antonio, TX, March 26, 2012 on

Treatment of Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome and Retina Function Determined by Electroretin-

ography. Appointed the Director of Retinopathy of Prematurity services for University of Colorado

Department of Ophthalmology July, 2012. Selected to represent the Department of Ophthalmology on the

University of Colorado School of Medicine Faculty Senate effective September 2012. Appointed to the

American Academy of Ophthalmology On-line Education Committee effective November 2012

Vikram D. Durairaj, MD, FACS - Keynote Speaker – Valencia Ophthalmology Society, Valencia Spain.

Course Director American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fracture Course,

Tucson Arizona. Visiting Professorship at the University of Toronto, University of Iowa, and University of

California San Francisco. Named Councilor representing the American College of Surgeons Advisory

Council for Ophthalmic Surgery for the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Keynote Speaker Houston

Ophthalmology Society. Named Vice-Chair of the American Academy of Ophthalmology 2013 Knowledge

Base Panel for Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery.

Michael Erlanger, MD - Winner Best Paper of Session, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2012,

Orlando. Author selected to Innovators Session, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery

2012, Chicago

Stuart Fine, MD - Comparison of Age-related Macular Degeneration Treatment Trials (CATT) Research

Group: Writing Committee: Daniel F. Martin, Maureen G. Maguire, Stuart L. Fine, Gui-shuang Ying,

Glenn J. Jaffe, Juan E. Grunwald, Cynthia Toth, Maryann Redford, Frederick L. Ferris, 3rd.

Ranibizumab and Bevacizumab for Treatment of Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration. On line

publication May 1, 2012 printed version Volume 119, Number 7,1388-1398, July 2012

Christopher Gelston, MD - Invited Speaker, 59th Summer Family Medicine Review Conference,

University of Colorado, 2012

Malik Kahook, MD- Promoted to Full Professor. Published two textbooks "Chandler Grant Glaucoma"

and "Essentials of Glaucoma Surgery", Named to American Glaucoma Society 2013 Program Committee

Named to American Academy of Ophthalmology 2013 Glaucoma Committee, Received State Grant for

studying Non-Invasive Glaucoma Surgical Device, Optioned and/or Licensed 6 patents to industry

partners

Todd T. Kingdom, MD - Promoted to Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs in the Department of

Otolaryngology. Appointed Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology. President-elect of the

American Rhinologic Society. Guest of Honor, University of California at Davis Sinus Surgery Course

2011. Invited Speaker on Endoscopic Applications for the Orbit, European Rhinologic Society, Toulouse,

France, 2012. America's Top Doctors and 5280 Top Doctors for Otolaryngology.

Scott Oliver, MD – Chosen to serve on the Committee on Special Programs, Annual Meeting of the

American Academy of Ophthalmology 2012-2017

Jeffrey Olson, MD – Inventor of the Year, Anschutz Medical Campus, Co-Author, Best Paper of Session,

American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2012, Orlando, Co-Author selected to Innovators Session,


American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 2012, Chicago

Miguel Paciuc, MD - Member of the International Affairs Committee American Association Pediatric

Ophthalmology and Strabismus 2011-2012, active PEDIG MEMBER Pediatric Ophthalmology Research

Group for Denver Health 2011,2012

Victoria Pelak, MD - Serves as Director, Neurology Residency Program. Serving as a research mentor

for Mentored Scholarly Activity medical student research project following a selective application process.

Elected to the Editorial Board member for new journal, Brain Disorders & Therapy. Invited as Ad hoc

reviewer for J. Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinsonism and the journal Eye. Served on a Data Safety

Monitoring Board for The Colorado Prevention Center for expertise in Neuro-ophthalmology. Founded the

Posterior Cortical Atrophy Patient Support Group. Co-directing the North American Neuro-

ophthalmology Society Education Subcommittee to develop an on-line illustrated Neuro-ophthalmology

Curriculum

Hugo Quiroz-Mercado, MD - Keynote speaker for the Wayne Won Wong, MD. Lectureship at the 7th

Annual Resident and Alumni Research Day Symposium. June 10, 2011Rush University Medical Center.

Keynote speaker at Resident Research Day & Awards Ceremony. June 8, 2012. Department of Surgery

Ophthalmology & Visual Science, University of Chicago

DEPARTMENT OF ORTHOPAEDICS

Jonathan Bravman, MD - Selected for EFOST Traveling European Fellowship.

Evalina Burger, MD – Becker’s Orthopedics and Spine, Top Ten female Spine Surgeons in AMERICA,

Elam Fellow, 2011-2012.

Christopher Cain, MD – Promoted from Visiting Associate Professor to Associate Professor.

Frank Chang, MD – James E. Strain Award, February, 2012.

Rachel A. Coel, MD, PhD – PRC Patient Perception 5-Star Award, National Excellence in Healthcare

Award, June 2012, Golden Stethoscope Preceptor Award, Best Communication Nomine, April 2012.

Michael Dayton, MD – AOA Induction, Colorado Biz Best Doctor for Executives, Biltmore 2011 Edition

of Who’s Who Among Executive and Professionals.

Susan Graham, PA-C – MPAS Completed (Concentration in Pediatric Orthopaedics).

David Hak, MD – Promoted to Professor.

Bennie Lindeque, MD – 5280 “Top Doctor”, 2012.

Eric McCarty, MD - Kappa Delta Award, AAOS National Award for outstanding research in

Orthopaedics.

Vikas Patel, MD – University of Colorado Inspired Kindness Award, Becker’s Orthopedics and Spine,

Ten Spine Surgeon Leaders of Academic Medicine Award.

Aaron Provance, MD – Co-Director Children’s Hospital Concussion Program, Jackson Healthcare

Award for community service and writing of Senate Bill 40, November.


Frank Scott, MD – Kaiser Permanente Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Honors Convocation, School of

Medicine, May, Elected to the Academy of Medical Educators, May 2012.

Brian Shaw, MD – Robert Praner Resident Teaching Award University of VA School of Medicine.

Mindy Siegel, MD – “Top Doctor” Style Magazine, Peak Performance Award/PSL.

Armando Vidal, MD - 5280 “Top Doctor” in Orthopedic Sports Medicine, 2012. US News and World

Report “Top Doctor”, 2012, Aircast Clinical Science Awards _ AOSSM 2012.

DEPARTMENT OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY

Mona Abaza, MD – Inducted into membership of the American Laryngological Association at the annual

meeting in San Diego. The society founded in 1878, promotes scholarly activities of physicians and

scientists studying disorders of the larynx and upper aerodigestive tract. Active Fellows are limited to 150

members. Election into the society signifies recognized prominence in the field. Fellow, American

Laryngological Society, 2012

Gregory Allen, MD - Received 5280 Top Doctor Award.

Kenny Chan, MD – Received 5280 Top Doctor Award. Invited to lecture at the 9th Annual Middle East

Update in Otolaryngology Conference and Exhibition in Dubai, UAE. Presented instructional course on

Juvenile Angiofibrom. A panelist for a mini-seminar on Paediatric Sinusitis. Moderator for state of the

art Paediatric Otolaryngology in Neonatal Hearing loss and Facial Fractures in Children. Presented an

instructional course on the treatment of Paediatric Drooling. Panelist for mini-seminar on Avoidance and

Management complications in Sinus surgery.

Herman Jenkins, MD – President of the American Otological Society. Listed in Best Doctors in

America. Received Grant support for PI, Otologics LLC Clinical Trials for fully implantable middle ear

Prostheses. Wrote a scientific paper along with Koka JE Lupo, BJ Hyde and D. Tollin, on Physiologic

assessment of active middle ear implant coupling to the round window in Chinchilla Langigera mbrane.

An invited International guest to the 2nd Iranian Congress on Cochlear Implants and related sciences, in

Tehran, Iran. Panelist for Aural Rehabilitation at the Triological Society combined sections meeting.

Peggy Kelley, MD - Received UCSOM, Department of Otolaryngology Clayton K. Mammel, MD

Outstanding Teacher of the Year. Five year service award, Children’s Hospital Colorado. Received 5280

Top Doctor Award.

Todd Kingdom, MD – Appointed as Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology within the School of

Medicine. Scientific Program Chair for the Spring and Fall American Rhinologic Society meetings in

2012. Elected President of the American Rhinologic Society. Invited to lecture on “Endoscopic

Approaches to the Orbit” at the Congress of European Rhinologic Society and the 31st International

Symposium of Infection and Allergy of the Nose in Toulouse, France. Panel moderator on “Endoscopic

Orbital Surgery” at the ARS Summer Symposium educational program. Listed in Best Doctors in

America and received 5280 Top Award recognition. Publications have included co-author on 4 peer-

reviewed manuscripts and 3 book chapters in the field of Rhinology.

Vijay Ramakrishnan, MD - Established a new Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery Program along with

Allen Waziri, MD. Invited speaker at the American Rhinologic Society summer symposium and the

Aspen Allergy conference. Presented scientific work at the North American Society of Ophthalmic and

Plastic Reconstructive surgery spring symposium. Received the American Academy of Facial Plastic and


Reconstructive Surgery Leslie Bernstein Investigator Development grant and will serve as faculty mentor

for a grant received by Henry Barham from the American Rhinologic Society to study solitary

chemosensory cells in human sinonasal inflammatory conditions. The latter is a collaborative

translational project with Drs. Sue Kinnamon and Tom Finger from the Department of Cell Biology and

the Rocky Mountain Taste and Smell Center.

Kristin Uhler, MD - Principle Investigator for the American Academy of Audiology (AAA) New

Investigator Grant for her research. Recently received an AAA New Investigator Grant to focus on role

loudness level plays in assessing speech perception in infants with hearing loss. While advances have

been made in the treatment of children with hearing loss, a void continues to exist due to the lack of a

clinical tool to assess infants and toddlers speech discrimination. This is the gold standard for older

children and adults and provides audiologists with important information necessary to plan habilitation

and validate amplification settings. There is not a clinical assessment tool to assess speech perception

abilities in children until they reach the developmental age of 2 ½-3 years of age.

Patricia Yoon, MD - Invited to speak at the Czech-American Otolaryngology update in Prague, May 21-

25th, 2012.


DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY

Dara Aisner, MD, PhD – Received University of Colorado Hospital’s President’s Award for World Class

Clinical Care. Contributor, Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute Document Development Committee

on Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Nonhematological Cancer. Member, Association of Molecular

Pathology Task Force on Resident Curriculum in Molecular Pathology.

Steven M. Anderson, PhD - Vice Chair, Research. Member, Faculty Promotion and Tenure Criteria

Task Force & Chair of the Research Subcommittee. Member, Advocacy and Public Outreach Core

Committee, The Endocrine Society, Member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Mammary Gland

Biology and Neoplasia and Breast Cancer Research.

Mary Berg, MD – Board President, Colorado Association for Continuing Medical Laboratory Education.

Assessor & Chair, AABB Perioperative Accreditation Program Unit. Inspector, Laboratory Accreditation

Program, College of American Pathologists. Member, Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and

Scientists, Nominating and Awards Committee. Received Summit Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Geza Bodor, MD – Received Hungarian Society of Clinical Pathologists’ Jendrassik Lorand Memorial

Award to a Foreign Scientist. Received Summit Award for Excellence in Teaching. Member, CLSI Quality

Management Committee and Document Development Committee. Editor, Academy of Clinical Laboratory

Physicians and Scientists (ACLPS).

Philip Boyer, MD, PhD – Named University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Core Educator and

Content Steward for Pathology. Secretary-Treasurer, Association for Pathology Informatics. Editorial

Board, Journal of Pathology Informatics. Member, Global Fibrosis Foundation Medical Advisory Council.

Mark Brissette, MD – Section Chief, Hematopathology, Flow Cytometry, and Coagulation, DVAMC.

Consulting Pathologist for Hematology and Coagulation, Pueblo VA CBOC. Co-Chair, Lab Utilization

Committee and Member, Anticoagulation Committee, DVAMC. Member, Pathology Residency Review

Committee, and Pathology Milestones Group, ACGME.

Kelley E. Capocelli, MD – Medical Director of Transfusion Medicine Services, Children’s Hospital

Colorado. Member, Clinical Applications Committee, American Society for Apheresis and Pediatric

Apharesis Subgroup and Blood Utilization Review Team, CHC. Recognized for outstanding

service/education, Housestaff Association Annual Survey.

Carlyne Cool, MD – Senior Author,Viral infection and pulmonary hypertension: is there an association?

in Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine. Received Summit Award for Excellence in Teaching.

.Bette K DeMasters, MD – Recognized by US News & World Report as one of America’s Top Doctors and

by Denver’s 5280 magazine as one of Denver’s Top Doctors. Received Department’s Pathologist of the

Year and Summit Teaching Awards. Recognized by Neurology Housestaff Association for Outstanding

Education by a Faculty Member.

Megan Dishop, MD - Received 5280 Top Doctor Award. Chair of Society for Pediatric Pathology Slide

Survey Subcommittee. Member, Society for Pediatric Pathology Education Committee, Pathology Steering

Committee for Children's Oncology Group, and College of American Pathologists Surgical Pathology

Scientific Resource Committee. Associate Editor, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and

Editorial Board Member, Pediatric and Developmental Pathology.

Nicole Draper, MD – Senior Author for ASCP Course material Hemolysis After Red Cell Transfusion:

Non-immune Causes and for CACMLE Course material Resolving ABO Discrepancies. Received Summit


Award for Excellence in Teaching. Faculty Supervisor of Clinical Pathology Conference. CHAPA

Pathology Course Director.

Wilbur Franklin, MD - Received University of Colorado Hospital’s President’s Award for World Class

Clinical Care. Member, World Health Organization Committee for the Histological Classification of Lung

Cancer; International Academy of Pathology; International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.

Chairman, Pathology Panel, NCI Lung Cancer Biomarkers and Chemoprevention Consortium.

Loretta Gaido, MD – Received William S. Hammond Excellence in Teaching Award. Director of

Cytopathology, DHHA and member, Denver Health Medical Center, Cancer Committee, Breast Cancer

interdisciplinary Group.

Paul Jedlicka, MD, PhD – Received Summit Award for Excellence in Teaching. Member, Children’s

Oncology Group Ewing’s Sarcoma Biology Committee. Editorial Board member, International Journal of

Clinical and Experimental Pathology.

Jeffrey Kaplan, MD – Director of Liver Pathology. Received Summit Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Francisco La Rosa, MD - Vice-Secretary, Asociación Iberoamericana de Telesalud & Telemedicina.

Board Member, Salud y Vida, Invited medical consultant in health educational issues for the Hispanic

community on Los Secretos de Maya, Telemundo Colorado, KDEN-TV 25.

Ronald Lepoff, MD – Executive Vice Chair. Member, Clinical Leadership Council and UPI Sites of

Practice Committee. Chair, College of American Pathologists, Personalized Health Care Committee.

Member, College of American Pathologists, Curriculum & Accreditation Committees. Member, American

Medical Technologists Examinations, Qualifications & Standards Committee.

Xiayuan Liang, MD – Medical Director, Hematopathology, Flow Cytometry and Cytopathology, CHC.

Membership committee, Society of Pediatric Pathology. Member, Precursor B-lymphoblastic lymphoma

review committee, Children’s Oncology Group. Invited Reviewer for Hematology, Pediatric and

Developmental Pathology, and American Society for Clinical Pathology. Received Summit Award for

Excellence in Teaching.

Mark Lovell, MD – Promoted to Professor. Received 5280 Top Doctor Award. Membership Committee,

Society for Pediatric Pathology. Editorial Board, Diagnostic Molecular Pathology, The American Journal

of Surgical Pathology, Part B. Consultant, Hematology and Pathology Panel and Member, Clinical

Chemistry and Toxicology Panel, Center for Devices and Radiologic Health, Food and Drug

Administration, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services

Robert Low, MD, PhD – Vice Chair, Education. Director, Autopsy Service. Member, American

Association for Cancer Research, American Association of University Pathologists (Pluto Club),

American Association of Pathologists, Reviewer, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Member, Residency Program Director's Group of APC (PRODS)

M. Scott Lucia, MD – Vice Chair, Anatomic Pathology. Received both Excellence in Teaching and

Exemplary Performance in Teaching Awards, CHA/PA Program. Received Summit Award for Excellence

in Teaching. Chair, GU Pathology Subcommittee, Southwest Oncology Group. Listed in Best Doctors in

America.

Carrie Marshall, MD - Named to College of American Pathologist’s Cytopathology Committee.

Published Utility of endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration biopsy in the

diagnosis of mediastinal lymphoproliferative disorders, in Cancer.


Martine McManus, MD – Co-Director, Surgical Pathology. Pathology Representative to University of

Colorado Cancer Committee. Received Summit Award for Excellence in Teaching.

David Orlicky, MD – Co-Chair, SOM Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee. Senior Author, Chronic

Ethanol Consumption in Mice Alters Hepatocyte Lipid Droplet Properties, Alcoholism: Clinical and

Experimental Research.

Miriam Post, MD – Member, College of American Pathologists, Graduate Medical Education Committee,

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Milestone Working Group for Pathology, and

United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Residents' Portal Steering Committee. Inspector,

College of American Pathologists Laboratory Accreditation Program. Received Summit Award for

Excellence in Teaching and PBL Tutor Certification of Appreciation.

Jennifer Richer, MD – Director, University of Colorado Cancer Center’s Pathology Shared Resource

Facility-Laser Capture Microdissection Facility. Member, College of Science Advisory Board to the

President, University of Texas at El Paso. Member, External Advisory Board for the M. D. Anderson

Gynecologic Cancer SPORE. Patent 006810.00044 ; CU2745H issued and licensed for Treatment of breast

cancer with androgen receptor modulators.

Carol Sartorius, MD – Session Chair, Endocrine Society, Annual Meeting. Invited Speaker, University

of Illinois Chicago, Department of Physiology and Biophysics Seminar Series Hormone Receptor

Regulation of Heterogeneous Cell Populations in Breast Cancer Cell Lines and Patient Derived Xenografts.

External Reviewer, Dutch Cancer Society.

Jeffrey Schowinsky, MD – Co-Director, Surgical Pathology. Medical Director of UCH Clinical Flow

Cytometry Laboratory. Senior Author, Natalizumab-associated complication: First case of peripheral T

cell lymphoma. Acta Neuropathologica.

Ann Thor, MD - Todd Chair, Department of Pathology. Elected President, Association of Pathology

Chairs. Invited Speaker to International Congress of Pathology, Prague, Czech Republic. President of

International Society of Breast Pathologists. Issuance of U.S. Patent for: Perinucleolar Compartment as a

Cancer Marker, Reference Number: NU21022/26026 DIV I CIPI. Recognized by US News & World Report

as one of America’s Top Doctors.

Xiao-Jing Wang, MD, PhD – Co-Program Leader, UCH Cancer Center, Director, HNSCC Research

Program. Member, Strategic Infrastructure for Research Committee (SIRC), UCD, Dean’s Advisory

Committee, Search Committee for Vice Chair of Research, Radiation Oncology and Cancer League

Colorado Scientific Committee. Executive Editor, International Journal of Biological Sciences, Board

Member, Chinese Biological Investigator Society. Scientific Council Member, NIAMS.

Michael Wilson, MD – Vice Chair, Pathology. Chair, DHHA Pathology. Editor in Chief of the American

Journal of Clinical Pathology. Member, UCH School of Medicine Dean’s Committee and Department of

Surgery Chair Search Committee. Member, Board of Directors, Biomedical Research Foundation of

Colorado. Treasurer, International Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Initiative, Inc. (NGO).

Joshua Wisell, MD – Member, Skin Cancer Tissue Bank Advisory Committee & UC Cancer Center.

Senior Author Cutaneous Decidualized Endometriosis in a Non- Pregnant Female: A Potential Pseudo-

malignancy, American Journal of Dermatopathology. Contributing Editor to 2012 Year Book of Pathology

and Laboratory Medicine, Dermatopathology Section. Received Summit Award for excellence in teaching.


DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS

Steven H. Abman, MD - was an Invited Speaker for Resident Research Day at Children's Hospital

Colorado (2011).

Mark J. Abzug, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2005-2012); Guide to America’s Top Physicians

(2009-2012); Member, Complications Scientific Committee, International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent

AIDS Clinical Trials Group, NIH (2006-present); Co-Chair, Guidelines for Treatment and Prevention of

Opportunistic Infections Among HIV-Exposed and HIV-Infected Children Working Group, NIH-CDC-

IDSA/HIVMA-PIDS-AAP (2010-present); Co-Editor, Current Diagnosis and Treatment, 21st edition (2010-

present); Member, Subboard of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, ABP (2006-2011); Member, Complications

Scientific Committee, International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Group, NIH

(2006-present); Invited Speaker, Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children 2012: The Oxford

Course, Keble College, Oxford, England (2011).

Frank J. Accurso, MD - published an article “Effect of VX-770 in persons with cystic fibrosis and the

G551D-CFTR mutation," published in 2010 in the NEJM, that was selected as one of the ten best papers

in Clinical Translational Sciences Award Network of more than 70 academic centers around the country

(2011); Member, Board of Trustees, National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (2003-present); Ten Best Clinical

Investigation Award, Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) (2012); 2010-2011 Clinical

Research Award, Clinical Research Forum (2012).

Edythe Albano, MD - received the Excellence in Quality and Patient Safety award from the Children’s

Hospital Colorado Medical Staff (2011); Five Star Excellence Award, PRC (2011).

Mark E. Anderson, MD - is Director of the Rocky Mountain Region Pediatric Environmental Health

Specialty Unit (2002-present).

Marsha S. Anderson, MD - is listed in America's Top Pediatricians (2004-2012); Assistant Dean,

Longitudinal Curriculum, CU School of Medicine (2011-present).

Jennifer Armstrong-Wells, MD, MPH - is a CCTSI Clinical Faculty Scholar (2009-2011).

F. Dan Atkins, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012).

Edwin Asturias, MD - was named Vice Chair of the Global Advisory Committee for Vaccine Safety of the

World Health Organization (2011).

Lalit Bajaj, MD, MPH - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005-2012); Advocacy

Award, Children's Hospital Colorado (2011).

Christopher D. Baker, MD - was a recipient of the Extramural Pediatric Award - "The Role of Umbilical

Cord Blood- Derived Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia," NIH Loan Repayment

Program, NHLBI (2010-2012); Member, SPR (2011-present).

Katherine Bakes, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012);

Vivek Balasubramaniam, MD - has been selected as the Pulmonary Representative to the SPR Council

(2011-2014); Visiting Newborn Research Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital (2011).


Claudia L. Barberio Kunrath, MD - received Best Abstract in the area of Endocrine, Evaluation of

Adrenal Research with Low Dose Cosyntropin Stimulation in Critically Ill Children: A Pilot Study by the

Society of Critical Care Medicine (2011); Gary Way Teaching Award, Department of Pediatrics, CU School

of Medicine (2011); 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012).

Emily Barr, CPNP, CNM - received the Lagniappe Award for "Outstanding Service as a Study

Coordinator and the Generous Contribution of her Expertise to the Overall Success of the Pediatric

HIV/AIDS Cohort Study," at the PHACS Meeting (2011).

James S. Barry, MD - received the Extraordinary Service Award, in Recognition of Outstanding Service

and Dedication to Excellence in Patient Care, from the Medical Staff of the University of Colorado

Hospital (2011); Physician of the Year, Outstanding Contributions Toward the Advancement of

Respiratory Care, Colorado Society for Respiratory Care (2011); U.S. News & World Report Top Doctor

(2011).

Sergio Bartakian, MD - was a Fellow Poster Winner by the Department of Pediatrics, CU School of

Medicine (2011).

Timothy Benke, MD, PhD - is a Member of the American Neurological Association (2011-present).

Stephen Berman, MD - was honored by the Kempe Foundation for his lifetime contributions to all

children, including those vulnerable and maltreated (2011); Director, University of Colorado Center for

Global Health, Colorado School of Public Health (2011); Florence Rena Sabin Award, CU School of

Medicine (2011).

Timothy J. Bernard, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012); Member,

SPR (2010-present); Moderator, Gender Differences in Stroke, AHA International Stroke Conference. Los

Angeles, California (2011).

Laurie E. Bernstein, MS, RD, FADA - is a Member of the Culinary Nutrition Advisory Board, Johnson

and Wales University (2005-present).

William Betts, PhD - received a Senior Instructor with Distinction Award from the Department of

Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (2011).

Mark Boguniewicz, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2003-present); Outstanding Teacher of the

Year Award, Pediatric Allergy-Immunology Fellows, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health

and CU School of Medicine (2010-2012).

Joan P. Bothner, MD - is an Executive Committee Member for the Section on Emergency Medicine, AAP

(2009-2012).

Brian Branchford, MD - was a Fellow Poster Winner by the Department of Pediatrics, CU School of

Medicine (2011).

Patricia A. Braun, MD, MPH - received the Excellence in Curriculum Development Award from the

Academy of Medical Educators, CU School of Medicine (2011); Member, Oral Health Advocate Steering

Committee, AAP Chapter (2010-present); Member, Medical Student Admissions Committee, CU School of

Medicine (2010-present); Cavity Free at Three Technical Assistance Team, Caring for Colorado (2008-

2011); Oral Health Advocate, Region 8, AAP (2011-present); Member, Greater Denver Head Start Health

Advisory Board (2010-present); Subject Panel Expert, EQIPP Oral Health Curriculum Development

Team, AAP (2011-present); Advocate, AAP Chapter Oral Health (2010-present).


Robert Brayden, MD - was selected for Colorado Childhood Immunization Award by the CDC (2012).

Mark S. Brittan, MD, MPH - was awarded an MPH from the University of Colorado (2011).

Amy R. Brooks-Kayal, MD - is a Member of the American Neurological Association Executive

Committee (2010-2013); Vice Chair, Merritt-Putnam Symposium, American Epilepsy Society (2011);

Chair, Merritt-Putnam Symposium, American Epilepsy Society (2012-2014); U.S. News & World Report

Top Doctor (2011); Best Doctors in America (2009-present); Who’s Who in America (2009-present);

Executive Committee, American Neurological Association (2010-2012); Member, American Neurological

Association (2006-present); Member, SPR (2000-present); National Research Council, Epilepsy

Foundation (1999-present); Member, Clinical Neuroplasticity and Neurotransmitters Study Section,

NINDS (2010-2016); Councilor, Professors of Child Neurology (2011).

Donald C. Bross JD, PhD - received the Ronald C. Laney Distinguished Service Award from the Board

of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (2011); Director, Lea for

Justice (2004-present); Reviewer, Infant Mental Health Journal (2011); Member, National Juvenile

Justice Information Sharing Advisory Group (2011).

Laura D. Brown, MD - is a Member of the SPR (2008-present); Poster Award Winner, University of

Colorado Women's Health Research Day (2011). Selected for a K12 Building Interdisciplinary Research

Careers in Women’s Health Research (BIRCWH) Scholar Award. She also received a Gerber Foundation

Grant and a Center for Women’s Health Research Award. Received the Professional Leadership Award

from the Women in Medicine and Science Office to attend the AAMC Early Career Women Faculty

Professional Development Seminar.

David E. Brumbaugh, MD - received a Research Scholar Award from the Children's Hospital Colorado

Research Institute (2012).

Maya Bunik, MD, MSPH - is a Member of the SPR (2011-present).

Joanna M. Burch, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2007-2012).

Melissa A. Cadnapaphornchai, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2006-2012);

Best Doctors in America (2009-present); Member, Advisory Board, Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology

(2008-2011); American Society of Nephrology Fellow (2011).

Antonia Chiesa, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine's Top Doctors in Denver (2010-2012).

Mahua Choudhury, PhD - received the Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenge Award (2011).

Abigail E. Collins, MD - received the Paul Moe Teaching Award given by the Child Neurology

Residents, Department of Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (2011); Young Investigator Award, National

Ataxia Foundation (2011); 2011 Patient Perception Award, PRC (2012).

Colm B. Collins, PhD - received a Poster of Distinction Award at the NASPGHAN Annual Meeting

(2011).

Kathryn Collins, MD - is a Member of the SPR (2009-present).

David Conrad, MSW - received the Senior Instructor with Distinction Award from the Department of



Christopher L. Cousar, PA - received a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Emergency Medicine from

the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (2011).

Eduardo M. da Cruz, MD - is a Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Association for European

Paediatric Cardiology (AEPC) (2004-present); Founding Member, World Society for Pediatric and

Congenital Heart Surgery (2007-present); Member, Working Group on Interventional Catheterization,

AEPC (2005-present); Mentor and President, Recommendations and Guidelines Committee for Training

in Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care, APEC (2005-present); Member, Board of Directors, Congenital

Domain of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (2008-present); Member, SPR (2008-

present); Board President, Surgeons of Hope (2011); Jena Hausman Award of Excellency, Children's

Hospital Colorado (2011); Founder and Co-Chair, Section on Hemodynamics and Heart Disease, European

Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (2011-present).

Stephen R. Daniels, MD, PhD - is Associate Editor of the Journal of Pediatrics (1995-present);

Associate Editor, Congenital Heart Disease (2005-present); America’s Top Cardiologists (2008-2012);

Chairman’s Award, American Heart Association (2011); Distinguished Service Award, Council on

Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, American Heart Association (2011); Best Doctors in America (2011-

2012); Meritorious Achievement Award, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, American Heart

Associate, American Heart Association (2011); Lecturer, 31st Annual Edward L. Pratt, Cincinnati

Children's Hospital (2012).

Cassidy Delaney, MD - received the K12 Scholar Award from the Child Health Research Career

Development Award Program, NICHD-K12 (2012). Received Children's Hospital Research Scholar Award

add received Gilead Sciences Young investigator award in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Robin R. Deterding, MD - is a Member of the APS (2009-present); 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in

Denver (2005-2012); Best Doctors in America (1998-present); Butterflies for Maddie Pulmonology

Lectureship, University of Louisville, Kentucky (2011); Chair, Scientific Board for Children’s Interstitial

Lung Disease (ChILD) Foundation (2004-present); Board of Directors, ChILD Foundation (2004-present);

Chair, Pediatric Assembly Program Committee, American Thoracic Society (2011); Named Award, Robin

Deterding Award for Clinical Medicine, CU School of Medicine 2011); Chair-elect, Pediatric Assembly,

American Thoracic Society (2012).

Jorge DiPaola, MD - was elected President of the Hemophilia and Thrombosis Research Society (2011-

2012); Member, Promoting Diversity Committee, American Society of Hematology (2010-present); Chair,

Program Committee, American Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology (2011-2012); Postle Family

Chair, Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders (2008-present); Best Doctors in America (2011-2012); Dr.

DiPaola's lab found a new gene for a rare disease: “Mutations in NBEAL2, encoding a BEACH protein,

cause gray platelet syndrome,” Nature Genetics (2011); Member, American Society of Clinical

Investigation (ASCI) (2011-2012); Co-Chair, Von Willebrand Factor Subcommittee, International Society

of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (2011); External Advisor, University of Iowa Child Health Research Center

(2011); Member, Hemostasis and Thrombosis Study Section, NHLBI, NIH (2011); Member, Oversight

Committee, Clinical Research Training Institute, American Society of Hematology (2012).

Emily L. Dobyns, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2007-2012); Endocrine

Abstract Award, Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Diego, California (2011); 2nd Place Award, Clinical

Triggers for Donor Organization Notification, Health Data Management IT Innovation (2012); Annual

QPS Award, Children's Hospital Colorado (2012).

Samuel Dominguez, MD, PhD - is listed in the Princeton Global Directory of Who's Who (2010-2011).


Matthew P. Dorighi, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012).

Leonard L. Dragone, MD, PhD - received Special Recognition for Dedication & Service to Recruitment

from the Department of Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (2011); Member, SPR (2008-present); 5280

Magazine's Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012).

Debra S. Efrid, MD - was named Ambassador of Learn the Signs Act Early, CDC (2011).

George S. Eisenbarth, MD, PhD - was on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Diabetes

Association (2008-2011); Dean's Distinguished Committee, CU School of Medicine (2008-2011); Albert

Renold Award, American Diabetes Association (2012).

Ellen Roy Elias, MD - is a Member of the Autism Subcommittee, AAP (2010-2011); 5280 Magazine’s Top

Doctors in Denver (2011-2012); Clinical Teaching Award, Class of 2014, Department of Pediatrics, CU

School of Medicine (2011).

Judith L. Emery, MA - is a Member of the Denver Youth Council (2008-2011); Advisory Committee,

Statewide Energy Sector Partnership Grant, Colorado Workforce Development Council, U.S. Department

of Labor (2010-2013).

Kathryn D. Emery, MD - received the Physician of the Year Award from the Colorado Chapter of the

National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (2011).

Thomas Fagan, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2003-present); Co-Chair, Congenital Heart

Disease Program, Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention (SCAI) 2012 Scientific Sessions

(2011).

Leland L. Fan, MD - listed in America's Top Doctors (2011); Best Doctors in America (2011); U.S. News

& World Report Top Doctor (2011); William J. Martin II Distinguished Achievement Award, American

Thoracic Society Public Advisory Roundtable (2012).

Monica Jones Federico, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012); Member,

SPR (2009-present).

Steven G. Federico, MD - is President of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Chapter of the AAP

(2010-2012).

Monica Fitzgerald, PhD - was an Invited Faculty Member for the 2010 National Center for Child

Traumatic Stress (NCCTS) Trauma Focused - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trainer Learning

Collaborative (2010-2011); Technical Assistance Faculty, National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative Cross

Site Evaluation (2011).

Ana Flores, MD - received the Bruce Garber Award from the Department of Pediatrics, CU School of

Medicine (2011).

Douglas M. Ford, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005-2012); Best Doctors in

America (2006-present).

Nicholas K. Foreman, MB ChB - received a Four Star Excellence Award (2011).


Cynthia Freehauf, MS - was selected by the Society of Inherited Metabolic Diseases Board of Directors

to participate in an NIH-hosted workshop on Nutrition and Dietary Supplement Interventions for Inborn

Errors in Metabolism. (2011).

Jacob E. Friedman, PhD - was elected to the Board of Directors of the Kern Lipid Conference

Programming Committee (2012); Scientific Review Committee, 7th World Congress on Developmental

Origins of Health and Disease (2011); Mentor-Based Postdoctoral Fellowship, American Diabetes

Association (2008-2012); Editorial Board, The Journal of Biological Chemistry (2006-2011); Editorial

Board, Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry (2005-present), Editorial Board, Obesity Insights (2008-

present); External Review Panel, University of Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center P&F

Grants (2007-present); External Review Panel, Case Western Reserve Diabetes Research Institute of

Greater Cleveland (2007-present); Bill and Melinda Gates Grand Challenge Award (2011); President,

Council on Pregnancy and Reproductive Health, American Diabetes Association (2011).

Sandra L. Friedman, MD, MPH - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012);

William K. Frankenburg Professorship, Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Children's Hospital

Foundation (2011); Executive Committee, Council on Children with Disabilities (COCWD), AAP (2009-

present); Member, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Examination Committee, American Board of

Psychiatry and Neurology (2012-2018).

Glenn T. Furuta, MD - is a Member of the International Eosinophil Society (2003-present); Member,

SPR (2006-present); Chairman, The International Gastrointestinal Eosinophil Researchers (2006-

present); Editorial Board, World Journal of Gastroenterology (2008-present); Member, Crohn’s Colitis

Foundation of America Research Training Award Study Section (2009-2012); Member, Medical Advisory

Board, American Partnership for Eosinophilic Diseases (2002-present); Honorary Board of Directors,

Campaign for Urgent Research on Eosinophilic Diseases (2007-present); Best Doctors In America (2007-

present); Member, North American Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition,

Research Council (2008-2011); North American Representative, Planning Committee, 4th World Congress

of Pediatric GI, Hepatology, Nutrition, Taipei, Taiwan (2010-2012); Member, Medical Advisory Board,

Food and Allergy Anaphylaxis Network (2010-present); Patient Perception Five Star Award, PRC

National Excellence in Healthcare Awards (2010-2011) Keynote Speaker, Eosinophilic Esophagitis

Update, Asian Society of Pediatric Research/Pediatric Academic Society, Denver, Colorado (2011).

Renata Gallagher, MD, PhD - was an Invited Speaker for the Medical Genetics Grand Rounds at

Stanford University (2011); Invited Lecturer, North American Metabolic Academy, Society for Inherited

Metabolic Disorders (2011); Secretary, Faculty Senate, CU School of Medicine (2011); Best Doctors in

America (2009-present); Travel Award, 2012 Annual SIMD Meeting, National Urea Cycle Disorder Family

Foundation (2011).

Katheleen Gardiner, PhD - was an Invited Speaker for "The Genetics of Intellectual Disability"

Conference at the Foundation Jerome Lejeune, Paris, France (2011); Member, Science, Research and

Practice Advisory Board, Down Syndrome Educational Trust (2007-present); Chair, Molecular

Neurogenetics Study Section, NIH (2010-present).

Satish K. Garg, MD - is Editor-in-Chief of Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics (2006-present);

Keynote Address, International Symposia on Diabetes (2011); Oration Award, Annual Conference,

Research Society for the Study of Diabetes in India, Calcutta (2011).

Erwin Gelfand, MD - was elected as a Member of the AAP (2011).

Elizabeth Gibson, MS, PA-C - received Senior Instructor with Distinction from the Department of



Jason Gien MD, - Attained the Entelligence Young Investigator Award from Actelion Pharmaceuticals

and my K-08 award entitled Rho-kinase signaling during normal lung development and Persistent

Pulmonary Hypertension of the Newborn.

Ronald E. Gill, PhD - is President of the Faculty Senate, CU School of Medicine (2011).

Roger H. Giller, MD - is Executive Committee Member-at-Large for the Pediatric Bone Marrow

Transplant Consortium (2010-present); Best Doctors in America (1998-present); Board Member, Brent

Eley Foundation (2003-present).

Bird Gilmartin, MD - received the NICU Nurses' Award from the Department of Pediatrics, CU School

of Medicine (2011).

Anita D. Glicken, MSW - was on the Board of Directors for the National Commission on Certification of

Physician Assistants Foundation (2011); Research Achievement Award, Physician Assistant Education

Association (2011).

Mary P. Glodé, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005-2012); Red Book

Committee on Infectious Disease, AAP (2007-2011); Best Doctors in America (2008-present).

Jacqueline J. Glover, PhD - is a Member of the Task Force on Certification Program in Clinical Ethics

Consultation, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (2010-present); Member, Pediatric Working

Group, Pediatric Recommendations for Shared Decision Making, American Society of Nephrology (2009-

2011).

Neil A. Goldenberg, MD, PhD - was the Interim Director of the Clinical Trials Organization, Children's

Hospital Colorado; Pediatric Panelist, Antithrombotic Therapy Guidelines, 9th Edition, American College

of Chest Physicians (2010-2011).

Edward J. Goldson, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012).

Evelin Gomez, PhD - received the Chancellor's Diversity Recognition Award from the CU School of

Medicine (2011).

Mary Gonnella, MSW - received an Appointment to the Interagency Health Disparities Leadership

Council (2009-2011).

Stephen Goodman, MD - was appointed Distinguished Professor by the University of Colorado (2011).

Lia Gore, MD - is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Pediatric Experimental Therapeutics Investigators'

Consortium (2002-present); Member, Executive Committee on Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Children's

Oncology Group (2005-present); Best Doctors in America (2005-present); Distinguished Alumni Award,

Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota (2012); Member, Developmental Therapeutics Study Section,

Center for Scientific Review, NIH (2012).

Douglas K. Graham, MD, PhD - is a Member of the Molecular and Cellular Hematology Study Section,

Center for Scientific Review, NIH (2011).

D. Jane Gralla, PhD - received the Distinguished Early Investigator Award from the International

Pediatric Transplant Association Congress, Montreal, Canada (2011).


Carolyn L. Green, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2005-present).

Brian S. Greffe, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2002-2012).

Theresa R. Grover, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2007-present).

Joseph Grubenhoff, MD - received the Golden Stethoscope Best Patient/Physician Communication

Skills Award from the CU School of Medicine (2011).

Cameron Gunville, DO, received the Outstanding Fellow Award from the Department of Pediatrics, CU


Ann C. Halbower, MD - is a Member of the Subboard of Pediatric Pulmonology, ABP (2008-2012);

Editorial Board, CHEST (2006-2020); Member, American Thoracic Society (2004-present); Member, APS

(2011-present).

Michael Hambidge, MD, ScD - was awarded the "Kellogg International Prize in Nutrition" by the

American Society for Nutrition (2011).

Simon J. Hambidge, MD, PhD - is on the Editorial Board of Academic Pediatrics, Academic Pediatric

Association (2010-present).

Janice L. Hanson, PhD, EdS - received the Outstanding Service Medal, Uniformed Services University

of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland (2011).

J. Kirk Harris, PhD - is a Member of the SPR (2011-present); Member, European Cystic Fibrosis Society

Lung Microbiome Working Group (2011-present).

William W. Hay, Jr., MD - is President of the Western Society for Pediatric Research (2010-2011); L.

Joseph Butterfield Award, NICHD (2011); Member of the Pediatric Oversight Committee, NIH CTSA

Consortium Child Health Oversight Committee (2008-present); Chair, NIH CTSA Consortium Child

Health Oversight Committee Working Group on Pediatric-Adult Lifespan Research (2008-2011); Council

Member, Western Society for Pediatric Research (2007-2012); Secretary-Treasurer, International

Pediatric Research Foundation (2009-2014); Member, APS/SPR Student Research Program Steering

Committee (2008-present).

Taru Hays, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005-2012).

Joanne M. Hilden, MD - is listed in America's Top Doctors (2005-present); Vice President and President-

elect, American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (2012).

James O. Hill, PhD - received the David Kritchevsky Career Achievement Award from the American

Society for Nutrition (2011); Board Chairman, America On the Move Foundation (2005-present); Member,

Board of Directors, American Diabetes Association (2010-present); Chair, Prevention Committee,

American Diabetes Association (2010-present); Member, APS (2011- present).

Edward J. Hoffenberg, MD - is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Celiac Disease Initiative,

Children's Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation (2003-present).

J. Roger Hollister, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005-2012); Best Doctors in



Stephen P. Hunger, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2002-present); Guide to America's Top

Physicians (2004-present); Guide to America's Top Oncologists (2009-present); Visiting Professor,

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York (2011); Visiting Professor, Children's

Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2011); Editorial Board, PDQ, Pediatric Treatment (2010-present);

Visiting Professor, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (2011); Chairperson, Pediatric Cancer - Basic

Science Subcommittee, 2011 American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting Program

Committee (2011); Organizer, 13th Childhood ALL Ponte di Legno Childhood ALL Working Group

Meeting (2011); Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals (2011).

Kendall Hunter, PhD - received the Chang Faculty Research Award from the College of Engineering

and Applied Sciences, University of Colorado (2011).

John Hutton, PhD - received the Grodsky Award from the Western Region Islet Study Group (2012);

Lacy Medal Lecture, Midwest Islet Club (2012).

D. Dunbar Ivy, MD - is a Member of the Scientific Leadership Council, Pulmonary Hypertension

Association (2005-present); Board of Trustees, Pulmonary Hypertension Association (2011-present);

Editorial Board, Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary Hypertension Association (2011);

Pediatric Faculty Research Mentor, Shunichi Takatsuki, MD (2010-2012); 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in

Denver (2005-2012); Patient Perception Award, PRC National Excellence in Healthcare Awards (2011).

Bernadette K. Johnson, MD - was named Fellow of the Year by the Emergency Physician Foundation,

Children's Mercy Hospital (2011).

Susan L. Johnson, PhD - is Associate Editor of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (2008-

present).

Richard B. Johnston, Jr., MD - is Editor for Current Opinion in Pediatrics (1996-present); Richard B.

Johnston, Jr., MD, Medical Student Award, Vanderbilt School of Medicine (2009-present); Review

Coordinator, Institute of Medicine Report: "Climate Change, the Indoor Environment, and Health" (2011);

Chair, Expert Review Panel, Institute of Human Development, Child & Youth Health, Canadian Institute

of Health Research (2011); Joseph Addison Sewall Award, University of Colorado (2012); Member,

Medical Center Advisory Committee, Vanderbilt University Board of Trust (2011-present).

Ashley Jones Rogers, MD - was a Fellow Poster Winner by the Department of Pediatrics, CU School of

Medicine (2011).

M. Douglas Jones, Jr., MD - received an Excellence in Educational Scholarship Award from the

Academy of Medical Educators, CU School of Medicine (2011); Member, Subspecialties Committee, ABP

(2002-present); Member, Neonatal-Perinatal Self-Assessment Committee, ABP (2004-present); Member,

Task Force on Subspecialty Clinical Training and Certification, ABP (2010-present); Member, Search

Committee for President, ABP (2011-2012); Member, Pediatric Redesign Project, Association of American

Medical Colleges (2009-present).

David W. Kaplan, MD, MPH - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005-2012); Best

Doctors in America (1997-present); Reviewer, Institute of Medicine Report: The Science of Adolescent

Risk-Taking-Workshop Report (2011); Keynote Speaker, Pediatrics in China, Chinese Medical Doctor

Association Society of Pediatrics, Shanghai and Beijing, China (2011); Moderator, Pediatric Academic

Societies Meeting, Adolescent Health Risk and Protection, Denver, Colorado (2011); Career Teaching

Scholar Award, Department of Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (2011).


Michael S. Kappy, MD, PhD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (1998- present); Invited Lecturer,

Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, California (2011); Invited Lecturer, Children's Hospital of Los

Angeles, Los Angeles, California (2011); Invited Lecturer, Lewis Barness Lecture, Tampa, Florida (2012);

Service and Leadership Award, Section of Endocrinology, CU School of Medicine (2011); Presenter,

Pediatric Grand Rounds, All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida (2012).

Paritosh Kaul, MD - is a Member of the Academy of Medical Educators, CU School of Medicine (2011-

present).

Joseph Kay, MD - has been selected for the Chase Faculty Community Service Award by the University

of Colorado President, Bruce Benson (2011).

Amy Keating, MD - received Special Recognition for Outstanding Service and Education by the

Housestaff Association, Children's Hospital Colorado (2011); Young Investigator Award, American Society

of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (2011).

Sita Kedia, MD - received a Travel Award from the International Headache Society (2011).

Margaret M. Kelsey, MD - is a Member of the SPR (2011-present).

Allison Kempe, MD, MPH - received the Research Award from the APS (2011); Big Shot of the Year,

Colorado Children’s Immunization Coalition (2012).

Nancy King, PNP - received the Barbara Ann Quarantillo Senior Instructor with Distinction Award from

the Department of Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (2011).

John P. Kinsella, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2008- 2011).

Georgeanna Klingensmith, MD - received the High Hopes Award at the Denver Carousel Ball from the

Children Diabetes Foundation (2011); Outstanding Clinician Award, American Diabetes Association

(2012).

Rhonda Knapp-Clevenger, MSN - was awarded the Distinguished Dissertation from the College of

Nursing, PhD Program, University of Colorado (2011).

Mary Kohn, MD - received the Outstanding Preceptor Award from the Silver Society Event, Child Health

Associate/Physician Assistant (CHA/PA) Program, CU School of Medicine (2012).

Robert E. Kramer, MD - is listed as one of the Best Doctors in America (2005-present); Member, SPR

(2010-present); Member, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (2007-present).

Jan P. Kraus, PhD - was invited to Chair a Session at the Society of Inherited Metabolic Disease

Meeting (2011); Invited Lecturer, International Symposium on Cytochrom P450 Biochemistry,

Manchester, United Kingdom (2011).

Nancy F. Krebs, MD - is a Member of the American Society for Nutrition (1990-present); Member,

International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation (1986-present); Member, APS (2007-

present).


Richard D. Krugman, MD - is Chair of the National Advisory Committee, Robert Wood Johnson

Foundation Clinical Scholars Program (2009-present); Member, Board of Directors, University of Colorado

Hospital (2008-present); Member, Board of Directors, Children’s Hospital Colorado (2008-present); President,

University Physicians, Inc. (1990-present).

Amethyst C. Kurbegov, MD - is a Medical Advisory Board Member of the Rocky Mountain Crohn &

Colitis Foundation (2008-present); Colorado Springs Top Doc, Colorado Springs Style Magazine (2011);

Who's Who in Medicine (2011).

Sharon Lagendoerfer, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012); Career

Teaching Scholar Award, Department of Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (2011).

Pramote Laoprasert, MD - is listed as a U.S. News & World Report Top Doctor (2011).

Donald Y.M. Leung, MD, PhD - is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

(1998-present); Edelstein Chair, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (2004-present); Distinguished Service

Award, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (2012); Ad Hoc Member, National Allergy

and Infectious Disease Advisory Council, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

(2012).

Christina Little, PhD - received the National Science to Service Award from the SAMHSA (2011).

Andrew H. Liu, MD - is a Member of the Board of Scientific Counselors, National Institute of

Environmental Health Sciences, NIH (2008-2012); Best Doctors in America (2005-present).

Tai Mara Lockspeiser, MD - received Special Recognition for Outstanding Service and Education by the

Housestaff Association, University of Colorado (2011).

Gary M. Lum, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2002- 2012); Best Doctors in

America (1999- present); Who's Who in Medicine and Health Care (1999-present); Guide to Best Doctors

(1999-present); Guide to America’s Top Physicians (2004-present).

Cara L. Mack, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2009-present); Member, Digestive Diseases and

Nutrition C Subcommittee, Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases Initial Review Group (2011).

Paul S. MacLean, PhD - is a Board Member of the Organizing Committee for the Federation of

American Societies for Experimental Biology Summer Research Conference on Obesity (2010-2012).

Noah J. Makovsky, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012).

Rebecca Maldonado, MS, PA-C - received the Excellence in Direct Teaching Award from the Academy

of Medical Educators, CU School of Medicine (2011).

Marilyn J. Manco-Johnson, MD - received Excellence in Research and Treatment of Hemophilia from

the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC (2011); Foundations of

Doctoring Mentoring Award, CU School of Medicine (2011).

David K. Manchester, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2008-2012).

Jay A. Markson, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012).


Joanne C. Masterson, PhD - received the Young Investigator Development Award from the

NASPGHAN Foundation/Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (2011).

Edward R. McCabe, MD, PhD - gave the Keynote Address at the 15th Annual Department of Paeditraics

Laboratory Medicine Lectureship and 9th Lawrence E. Becker Symposium, The Hospital for Sick Children,

University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (2011); Theodore D. Tjossem Research Award, National Down

Syndrome Congress (2011).

Linda L. McCabe, PhD - received the Theodore D. Tjossem Research Award from the National Down

Syndrome Congress on behalf of the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (2011).

Carrie E. McCurdy, PhD - received a Junior Faculty Travel Award from the 7th International Congress

on Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD), Portland, Oregon (2011).

Elizabeth J. McFarland, MD - is listed in America's Top Physicians (2009-present); Best Doctors in

America (2003-present); Vice Chair, Vaccine/Immune-Based Therapy Scientific Committee for

International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials, NIH (2005-2018); Clinical Investigators

Group, Pediatric AIDS/HIV Cohort Study (2006-present).

Patricia L. McVay, MS - was named Exceptional Educator by the Global Down Syndrome Foundation

(2011).

Sophia G. Meharena, DO - received the Jules Amer Award from the Department of Pediatrics, CU


Paul Melinkovich, MD - received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Association for

School-Based Healthcare (2011).

Kevin Messacar, MD - received the Resident Teaching Award from Students from the Department of

Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (2011); NICU Nurses' Award, Department of Pediatrics, CU School of

Medicine (2011).

Aaron W. Michels, MD - received a Travel Award from the Federation of Clinical Immunology Society

Meeting (2011).

Martha C. Middlemist, MD - received the Outstanding Service Award from Children's Hospital

Colorado Medical Staff (2011).

Shelley Miyamoto, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012); Colorado Heart

Hero, The Children's Heart Foundation, Colorado Chapter (2011); Overall Top Performer Award, PRC

National Excellence in Healthcare Awards, PRC (2011); 5-Star Award, PRC National Excellence in

Healthcare Awards (2011).

Joseph G. Morelli, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2007-2012).

Elaine H. Morrato, MPH, DrPH - is a Member, of the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory

Committee, FDA (2009-2012).

Peter M. Mourani, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2008-2012); Best Doctors in



Kristen Nadeau, MD - was Invited Plenary Speaker and International Guest at the Canadian Exercise

Association Meeting (2011).

Michael R. Narkewicz, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005-2012); Best

Doctors in America (2005- present); Outstanding Service Award, Children's Hospital Colorado Medical

Staff (2011); Member, Committee on Training and Education, NASPGHAN (2007-2013); Chair,

Committee on Training and Education, NASPGHAN (2011-2013); Associate Editor, Journal of Pediatric

Gastroenterology and Nutrition (2001-2011).

Susan Niermeyer, MD, MPH - is a Member of the APS (2011-present); Joan Hodgman Memorial

Lecture, Helping Babies Breathe: Opportunities for Knowledge Translation and Research in Global

Health, Western Society for Pediatric Research, Carmel, California (2011); Honorary Member, Peruvian

Pediatric Society, XVas Jornadas de la Sociedad Peruana de Pediatría, Ayacucho, Peru (2011); Huesped

Ilustre de Huamanga (Illustrious Guest of the City of Huamanga), IVas Jornadas de la Sociedad Peruana

de Pediatría, Ayacucho, Peru (2011); Saving Lives at Birth Award: A Grand Challenge for Development,

Community of Innovators, AAP (2011).

Lee Niswander, PhD - was named Co-Director of the Embryology Course, Marine Biological Laboratory,

Woods Hole, Massachusetts (2006-2011); Associate Director, Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences,

University of Colorado (2007-2012); Editorial Board, Developmental Biology (2005-present); Editorial

Committee, Annual Review, Cell and Developmental Biology (2010-2015); Investigator, Howard Hughes

Medical Institute (1997-2014); Editorial Panel Reviewer, Director's New Innovator Award Program, NIH

(2010-2011); Scientific Review Committee, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (2009-

2014).

Julie M. Noffsinger, MD - was recognized for Outstanding Service or Education by the Housestaff,

Department of Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (2011).

Rachelle Nuss, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2009- present); Worldwide Leader in

Healthcare (2011).

Ann-Christine Nyquist, MD, MSPH - has been selected as a Fellow in the 2010-2011 Class of the

Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women (2010-

2011); Quality and Safety Pillar Award, Children's Hospital Colorado (2010-2011); Western Region

Representative, AAMC Group on Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee, Association of American

Medical Colleges (2011); Council Member, Department of Health and Human Services National

Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities Region VIII Health Equity Council (2011).

Sean T. O'Leary, MD - is a Member of the Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society (2011-present).

Sonja B. O'Leary, MD - is on the Board of the Denver Early Childhood Council (2010-present); Co-

Medical Director, Reach Out and Read Colorado (2010-present).

John W. Ogle, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2008-2012).

David L. Olds, PhD - received a Community Advocacy Award from the UCLA School of Nursing (2011);

Dr. Henrietta Leonard Grand Rounds Visiting Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior,

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (2011).

Thomas Parker, MD - was accepted into the Teaching Scholars Program, CU School of Medicine (2011-

2012).


Julie A. Parsons, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2008-2012); Commendation,

Parent to Parent Listserv (2011).

Bernice Pasut, PNP - received a 5-Star Excellence Award, PRC (2011).

Courtney Paterson, MD - received the C. Henry Kempe Award from the Department of Pediatrics, CU


Steven S. Perry, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012).

Peter Pike, BA - is a Tri-Chair Member of the Youth and Young Adult Transition Committee, Mental

Health Planning and Advisory Council (2011); Vice-Chair, Workforce Investment Board, Adams County

Youth Council (2011); Member, Workforce Investment Board, Jefferson County Workforce Center (2011).

Steven R. Poole, MD - received the Award for Excellence in the Health Care from El Pomar Foundation

(2012).

Christopher C. Porter, MD - received the Scholar Award from Hyundai Hope on Wheels (2011).

Brenda Pring, MD - was selected as an American Academy of Pediatrics Residency Scholarship

Recipient (2011).

Lori D. Prok, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012).

Jennifer Reese, MD - received the Reduction Codes Outside the ICU Medical Staff Safety Award from

the Children's Hospital Colorado Medical Staff (2011).

Daniel H. Reirden, MD - serves on the Board of Directors of the Colorado AIDS Project (2007-present).

Marian Rewers, MD, PhD, MPH - received the Kenny/Drash Award from the University of Pittsburgh,

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2011).

Ann Reynolds, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine's Top Doctors in Denver (2009-2012).

Christina M. Robohm, MS, CHA/PA-C - is a Member of the Physician Assistant Education Association

Governance Committee (2006-2012); Outstanding Master Student Society Award, Faculty Advisor

Student Academy, American Academy of Physician Assistants (2011).

Kristine Rodrigues, MD - received the John Moran MPH Scholarship from the Colorado School of Public

Health (2011).

Genie E. Roosevelt, MD, MPH - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012); Best

Research Poster Presentation, American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Emergency Medicine, Boston,

Massachusetts (2011).

Adam A. Rosenberg, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005-2012).

Kelley C. Roswell, MD - accepted into the University of Colorado Teaching Scholar Program (2011-2012).

Harley A. Rotbart, MD - book "No Regrets Parenting" was named to Parenting Magazine's Ten Best

Books for Thinking Parents (2012); Best Doctors in America (1996- present); Advisory Board, Parents

Magazine (2009-present); Advisory Board, Parents.com (2010-present).


Paul J. Rozance, MD - Member, Perinatal Research Society (2009-present); Promoted to Associate

Professor, Awarded an NIH R01 grant, invited to join the Editorial Board of the Journal of Endocrinology

and the Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, appointed as a Council Member of the Western Society for

Pediatric Research, Received the WSPR Abbott Nutrition Young Investigator Research Award.

Desmond K. Runyan, MD - was an Invited Lecturer at the 2012 David Chawick Endowed Lecture,

International Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, San Diego, California (2012); Best Doctors in

America (2011-2012).

Scott D. Sagel, MD, PhD - was recognized for Outstanding Education by the Housestaff Association

Annual Survey, CU School of Medicine (2011); Co-Chair, Biomarkers Consortium, Cystic Fibrosis

Foundation (2010-present); Member, SPR (2006-present); 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2007-

2012); Best Doctors in America (2009-present); Director, Cystic Fibrosis Center, Children's Hospital

Colorado (2011-present); U.S. News & World Report Top Doctor (2011); Member, Scientific Advisory and

Mentorship Committee (SAM) for Clinical Research, Children’s Hospital Colorado/University of Colorado

(2012-present).

Amy E. Sass, MD, MPH - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2007-2012); Board

Member, Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society for Adolescent Medicine (2004-present).

Michael S. Schaffer, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2001-2012).

Teri Schreiner, MD - received the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Award for Humanism and Excellence in

Teaching from the CU School of Medicine (2011).

Daniel A. Searing, MD - received an Award for Outstanding Research Published in the Journal of

Allergy and Clinical Immunology by a Developing Researcher from the American Academy of Asthma and

Immunology (2011).

Robin Shandas, PhD - is a T32 Study Section Permanent Member, NHLBI, NIH (2006-2012).

Kimberly Shipman, PhD - was selected as a Trauma Focused - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Trainer

by the California State Initiative (2011).

James E. Shira, MD - was honored as Big Shot of the Year by the Colorado Children’s Immunization

Coalition (2011).

Eric J. Sigel, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2003-2012).

Christopher C. Silliman, MD, PhD - is on the Editorial Board of Blood (2011); Review Board, Journal

of Leukocyte Biology (2011).

Andrew P. Sirotnak, MD - is President of the Medical Staff at Children's Hospital Colorado (2010-2012);

5280 Magazine's Top Doctors in Denver (2009-2012); Child Abuse Pediatrics Subboard, AAP (2010-2016);

Editorial Board, Pediatrics in Review, AAP (2010-2013); Board of Directors, Children's Hospital Colorado

(2008-2012); Spirit of Medicine Award, Colorado Physician Health Program (2011); Executive Committee

Member, Section on Child Abuse and Neglect, AAP (2011-2014); Leadership Appreciation Award, Kempe

Center and Department of Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (2011).


John R. Sladek, Jr., PhD - is a Section Editor for Neuroscience and Tissue Engineering, Cell

Transplantation: The Regenerative Medicine Journal (2008-present); Chair, California Institute for

Regenerative Medicine Grants Working Group (2010-2016); Member, President's Review Panel,

University of Colorado, Boettcher Foundation, Webb-Waring Biomedical Research Awards (2010-2012).

Robert Slover, MD - is the Wagner Family Chair in Childhood Diabetes at the University of Colorado

(2011).

Jason Soden, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2010-2012); Century Award,

Children's Hospital Colorado Medical Staff (2011).

Jennifer B. Soep, MD - received the Excellence in Educational Scholarship Award from the Academy of

Medical Educators, CU School of Medicine (2011); 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005-2012);

Poster Presentation Award, Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics, Research and

Scholarship Task Force (2011); Chancellor's Teaching Recognition Award, CU School of Medicine (2012).

Ronald J. Sokol, MD - is listed in America's Top Doctors (2011); Chair, Childhood Liver Diseases

Research and Education Network (ChiLDREN), NIDDK, NIH (2010-2011); Principal Investigator and

Director, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, NCRR, NIH (2008-2013); Editorial Board

Member, Hepatology (2005-present); Editorial Board Member, Liver Transplantation (1999-present); Liver

Action Plan Committee Member, NIDDK, NIH (2004-present); National Board of Directors, American

Liver Foundation (2007-present); Public Policy/Advocacy Task Force, American Association for the Study

of Liver Diseases/American Liver Foundation (2008-present); Publications Committee, NASPGHAN

(2006-present); Best Doctors in America (2003-present); Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare (2009-

present); Associate Editor, Seminars in Liver Disease (2004-present); Member, APS (2003-present); Who's

Who in Science and Engineering (2011); Who's Who in America (2011); U.S. News & World Report Top

Doctor (2011).

Elaine B. Spector, PhD - is Secretary of the American College of Medical Genetics (2007-2011).

Richard Spritz, MD - gave the Seiji Memorial Lectureship for the International Federation of Pigment

Cell Societies (2011).

Kurt R. Stenmark, MD - is listed three times as "Top Fifty Sponsored Program Awards," Anschutz

Medical Campus (2010-2011); PAH Novel Targets Advisory Board Meeting, Pfizer (2011); PVD Virtual

Lab Advisory Board: Impedance Properties, Pfizer (2011); Vascular Biology Center of Excellence, CU

School of Medicine (2010-2012); Best Doctors in America (2008-present); America's Top Pediatrician (2009-

present); Group Leader and Co-Chair, Section 4: New Drug Development Pulmonary Hypertension

Academic Research Consortium (2011-present); Associate Editor, American Journal of Physiology - Lung,

Cell and Molecular Physiology (2012-present); Organizer and Co-Chair, Aspen Lung Conference

Pulmonary Circulation (2011-2012).

Paul C. Stillwell, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2010).

Danute Strepman, MS, PNP - is a Member of Sigma Theta Tau (2003-present).

Amanda Sturgil, RN, MS, CPNP - is a Member of Sigma Theta Tau (2006-present).

Stanley J. Szefler, MD - is Co-Chair of the Scientific Vision Workshop on Diagnostics and Therapeutics,

NICHD (2010-2011); Co-Chair, Biomarkers Committee, Asthma Outcomes Task Force, NHLBI/NIAID,

NIH (2009-2012); Study Section Member, Clinical Trials Review Committee, NHLBI (2008-2013); Chair,

Clinical Trials Study Section, NHLBI (2012-2013); Member, Expert Panel-3, Revision of the Guidelines for


the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, NHLBI,

NIH (2005-present); Deputy Editor, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (1997-present); Denver

Public Schools Health Research Review Committee (2008-present); Chair, Advancing Pediatric

Therapeutics, Obstetric and Pediatric Pharmacology Branch NICHD (2012-present); Denver Public

Schools Health Agenda Council (2011-present).

Heather Taussig, PhD - received the Social Work Dean's Award from the University of Denver

Graduate School (2011).

Eric Tham, MD - is a Member of the Executive Committee, AAP Council on Clinical Information

Technology (2010-present); Certificate of Appreciation, Philippine Pediatric Society (2011); Director,

Research Informatics, Children's Hospital Colorado Research Institute (2012).

Elizabeth H. Thilo, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2003-present); Editorial Board Member,

NeoReviewsPlus, AAP (2011-present).

Stephanie R. Thorn, PhD - Appointed to assistant professor and awarded NIH-NIDDK K01 Career

Development Award. Received 2011 Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHAD) Society

Junior Faculty Travel Award. Co-investigator on NIH-R24 Award and Gates Challenge grant.

Kyle Tick, LCSW - received the Rosa Parks Cultural Diversity Award from the University of Colorado

(2011).

James K. Todd, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005-2012).

Sharon H. Travers, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2005- 2012).

Meghan D. Treitz, MD - was accepted into the Teaching Scholars Program by CU School of Medicine

(2011-2012); Young Investigator Award, Program for Primary Care Strategies for the Promotion of Early

Literacy and School Readiness, Reach Out and Read, AAP (2011); Golden Stethoscope Award, Excellence

in Clinical Education, CU School of Medicine, Foundation of Doctoring, and Colorado AHEC (2011);

Educational Scholars Program, Academic Pediatric Association (2011).

S. Andrew Tucker, MD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2011-2012).

Scott Turner, MSN, FNP - was on the Editorial Board of Pediatric NP/PA (2010-2011).

Johan L. Van Hove, MD, PhD - is on the Editorial Board, Journal of Inherited Metabolic Diseases

(2004-present); Board of Directors, Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders (2007-present); Member,

Advisory Board for Mountain States Genetics Regional Collaborative Center (2008-2011).

Livia A. Veress, MD, was a recipient of the Loan Repayment Program, NIH (2010-2012); Travel Award,

Countermeasures Against Chemical Threats (CounterACT), NIH (2011); First Place Poster Award, 5th

Annual CounterACT Network Research Symposium, NIH (2011).

Stephen D. Vogler, MD - is Co-Medical Director of Reach Out and Read Colorado (2004-present).

Tien Vu, MD - received the Ambassador Hope Award from the Bridging Hope Foundation (2011).


Jeffrey S. Wagener, MD - is a Board Member of the Colorado Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (1996-present);

Steering Committee Member, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation EPIC Trial (2007-present); Member, Tobacco

Control Committee, State of Colorado (2009-present); Member, Clinicians Advisory Committee, American

Thoracic Society (2012).

Carol S. Walton, MS, CGC - was elected Vice President of the Association of Genetic Counseling

Program Directors (2011-2012); Teaching Scholars Program, CU School of Medicine (2011-2012).

Michael Wang, MD - is a Member of the SPR (2010-present).

Melissa Webb, MD - received the Resident Teaching Award from Students from the Department of


Adriana Weinberg, MD - is a Member of the AIDS Immunology and Pathogenesis Study Section, Center

for Scientific Review (2010-2014); Member, IMPAACT Laboratory Committee (2006-present); Member,

ACTG Optimization of Co-Infection and Co-Morbidity Management (OpMAN) Committee (2007-2011);

Member, Co-Infections and Malignancy Subcommittee, ACTG (2011-present); Guest Editor, Seminars in

Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (2011).

Kathryn M. Wells, MD, FAAP - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2010-2012); Vice

President, Board of Directors, Colorado Chapter, AAP (2010-2012); Member, Colorado State Foster Parent

Association Board of Directors (2009-present); Governor's Appointment, Colorado Children's Trust Fund

Board (2010-present); James E. Strain Community Service Award, Colorado Chapter, AAP (2011); Best

Doctors in America (2011-2012); President, Board of Directors, Colorado Chapter, AAP (2012-present).

Janet M. Wenzlau, PhD - was awarded a Patent (#CU1673H) entitled "ZnT8 as a Diagnostic Tool and

Therapeutic Target for Autoimmune Diabetes," licensed to RSR Limited, FIRS Laboratories, Cardiff,

United Kingdom (2011).

Robyn Wertheimer-Hodas, MSW - received the Senior Instructor with Distinction Award from the

Department of Pediatrics, CU School of Medicine (2011).

Carl W. White, MD - is Director of the Denver-based NIH CounterACT (Countermeasures Against

Chemical Threats) Program (2006-present); America's Top Doctors (2011-2012); U.S. News & World

Report Top Doctor (2011).

Randall B. Wilkening, MD - is listed in Best Doctors in America (2007-present).

Amy Witte, MS, FNP - is an American Academy of HIV Medicine HIV Specialist (2011).

Shale L. Wong, MD - MSPH - received Personal recognition from the President of the United States for

service to the Administration and Office of the First Lady (2011).

Alan Woodruff, MD - received the Resident Teaching Award from Students from the Department of


Clyde J. Wright, MD - is a Member of the SPR (2011-present).

James R. Young, MD - received the Emergency Medicine Award from the Department of Pediatrics, CU

School of Medicine (2011); Arnold P. Gold Foundation Award for Humanism and Excellence in Teaching,

CU School of Medicine (2011).


Adel Younoszai, MD - is a Member of the SPR (2009-present).

Philip S. Zeitler, MD, PhD - is listed in 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver (2007-2012); Member,

APS (2010-present); Thomas Jefferson Award, University of Colorado (2011); Member, Organizing

Committee, 2013 Joint PES/ESPE Meeting, Milan, Italy (2011-2013).

Edith Zemanick, MD - was elected to the SPR (2012).

Department of Pediatrics Activities

The Department of Pediatrics placed fifth in the 2012 U.S. News & World Report rankings for the second

consecutive year.

U.S. News & World Report released its 2012-2013 rankings of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals –

Children's Hospital Colorado ranked 7th on the Best Children's Hospital's Honor Roll. Four of Children's

specialty areas were among the country's top 10, including:

4th for Diabetes and Endocrinology

7th for Pulmonology

8th for Cancer

10th for Gastroenterology

Children's Hospital Colorado has been ranked a top children's hospital by U.S. News & World Report

every year since the inception of its rankings edition in 1993.

U.S. News & World Report ranked the Department of Pediatrics Child Health Associate/ Physician

Assistant Program 11th in the country out of 164 programs. CHA/PA is the only physician assistant

program with a pediatric emphasis.

The Department of Pediatrics ranked second among all medical school-based Departments of Pediatrics in

NIH awards, securing more than $37 million in peer-reviewed awards from the NIH during 2011.

The 5280 Magazine released its annual list of Denver’s Top Doctors. Of the 337 mentioned, 103 Children’s

Hospital Colorado physicians made the list.

DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY

K-Ulrich Bayer, PhD - Invited lecturer: Gordon Research Conference: Excitatory Synapses & Brain

Function; MA, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Physiology & Biophysics Seminar

Mair E.A. Churchill, PhD - Appointed to Director of the Program in Structural Biology and

Biochemistry; Cover Photo and featured article recognition by Molecular Microbiology, Sept.2012;

Guest Editor of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Scott D. Cramer, PhD- Award of Tenure; Co-Director Hormone Related Malignancies Program,

Colorado Comprehensive Cancer Center; Invited lecturer: American Institute for Cancer Research, 2011,

Washington DC, Hamamatsu University Medical School, Hamamatsu Japan, Teikyo University Medical

School, Tokyo Japan, Takeda Genome Urology, Tokyo, Japan.

Mark L. Dell’Acqua, PhD - Promoted to Professor, Department of Pharmacology; 2011 Graduate School

Mentoring Award; Invited Speaker: 2011 University of California Davis, Training Program in Basic and

Translational Cardiovascular Science Distinguished Speakers Seminar Series; 2011 University of

Colorado Department of Pharmacology Vice-Chair Service Recognition Award.


Thomas A. French, PhD - Selected as Graduation Faculty Marshall - School of Medicine, Class of 2012;

Excellence in Teaching Award - School of Medicine, Class of 2013 Most Invested Faculty Member; Selected

for membership into the Academy of Medical Educators.

Kim A. Heidenreich, PhD - Chair, Neurobiology section, Scientific Advisory Board Meeting, Keystone

Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology; Invited Lecturer: Neurology Grand Rounds, UC Denver

“Targeting the 5-lipoxygenase pathway in TBI”.

Paula L. Hoffman, PhD - Member, University’s PCR (Responsible Conduct of Research) Course

Development; Member of the program committees for the 2012 meetings of the Research Society on

Alcoholism (RSA) and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ISBRA).

Lawrence E. Hunter, PhD - Member - University faculty promotion committee; Invited speaker: The Role

of Openness in Knowledge-based Systems for Biomedicine, Biomedical Open Source Conference / ISMB

SIG, 2011; Invited speaker: Sense-making in Molecular Biology, IEEE conference on Visualization in

Biology, 2011

David N.M. Jones, PhD - Chair, Molecular Biology Program Seminar Committee; BMST 7454

Structural Analysis of Biomolecules, Course Director; Director and Manager of the Cancer Center NMR

facility and as Associate Director of the 900 MHz NMR Facility.

Matthew J. Kennedy, PhD - Recipient of the 2012 Boettcher Foundation Investigator Award and the

2011 NARSAD Young Investigator Award.

Tatiana G. Kutateladze, PhD - Recipient of the 2011 NARSAD Independent Investigator Award; 2011

Excellence in Research Award, UCD Department of Pharmacology; Invited Speaker: ASBMB Symposium,

Snowbird, UT, FASEB Conference, Carefree, AZ, TSRC Conference, Telluride, CO, and St. Jude

Symposium, Memphis, TN.

Robert C. Murphy, PhD - Invited Lecturer: Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, University of

Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biophysics, Boston, MA, and

St. Louis University, Department of Chemistry, St. Louis, MO; Associate Editor, Journal of Lipid

Research.

William A. Sather, PhD - Invited lecturer: University of Wyoming, School of Pharmacy; Member,

College of CSR Reviewers, National Institutes of Health

Boris Tabakoff, PhD - Invited Lecturer: NIDA Extramural Program Seminar, Bethesda, MD,

RSA, Atlanta, GA, ESBRA, Vienna, Austria, NHLBI Seminar for Cardiovascular Division, Washington

DC and Lundbeck Expert Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Andrew M. Thorburn, DPhil - Invited Lecturer: University of Kansas, University of Pittsburgh,

Louisiana State University, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Gordon Conference: Autophagy in Stress,

development and disease, Ventura, CA, Fabisch Symposium on targeted tumor therapies, Berlin,

Germany; Associate Editor: Clinical Pharmacology: advances & applications; Autophagy; Editorial

Boards: Apoptosis; Cancer Research; Elected to Council, Association of Medical School Pharmacology

Chairs; External Advisory Board, Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor University

Richard J. Traystman, PhD - Distinguished University Professor, Departments of Pharmacology,

Anesthesiology, Neurology, Emergency Medicine; Associate Editor, Translational Research, Stroke

Journal.


Chandra L. Tucker, PhD - Invited Presenter: Yale Microscopy Workshop, New Haven, CT, American

Society of Photobiology, Montreal, Canada, INSERM Workshop, Bordeaux, France, 2012 Biophysical

Society 56th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2012 Rocky Mountain Yeast Meeting, University of Colorado

School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, 2011 Synthetic Biology Symposium, Duke University, Durham, NC.

Nancy R. Zahniser, PhD - Chair, University of Arizona College of Medicine Dean’s Office Academic

Program Review Committee for the Department of Pharmacology; Member, University of Buffalo School

of Medicine and Biomedical Science Comprehensive Program Review Committee for the Department of

Pharmacology and Toxicology; Lecturer for Addiction Psychiatry Fellows, Denver Health Medical.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

Venu Akuthota, MD – Awarded the 2011 Outstanding Paper in Interventional and Medical Spine, The

Spine Journal and the 2011 Scott Nadler Musculoskeletal Research Grant Award. 2012 Visiting

Professor, Harvard University Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Received 5280 Top Doctor Award for Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.

Susan Biffl, MD – Received 5280 Top Doctor Award for Pediatric Rehabilitation

Victor Chang, MD- Promoted to Associate Professor. Received Top Doctor Award for Physical Medicine

& Rehabilitation.

Jeanne Dise-Lewis, PhD – Promoted to Professor and invited to participate in CDC Workgroups on

Pediatric TBI, including co-authorship on CDC’s Report to Congress on TBI in the U.S. Invited Keynote

Speaker and Workshop Presenter to Annual Conference of Taiwan Association of Clinical Psychologists.

BrainSTARS Manual translated into Dutch and used as the national response to Pediatric Acquired

Brain Injury in The Netherlands. Invited symposium on BrainSTARS in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in

June 2012

Deborah Hayes, PhD Received Distinguished Achievement Award ~ American Academy of Audiology.

Scientific Co-Chair for NHS2012: Infant and Childhood Hearing in Science and Clinical Practice.

Patricia C. Heyn, PhD – Appointed as the Education Director of the University of Colorado Intellectual

and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (IDDRC). Nominated chair of the Faculty Council Ad-

Hoc Salary and Equity Committee. Elected co-chair of the Special Interest Group on Aging of the Society

of Behavioral Medicine. Awarded with the NIH/NIDDK NMRI 10th Annual Workshop Award. Awarded

with the BSM PRIDE Summer Institute to Increase Diversity in Behavioral Medicine and Sleep

Disorders Research. Invited Speaker to the Evidence-Based Screening for Mental Health Problems in

Primary Care Symposium at the Gerontological Society of America's 65th Annual Scientific Meeting.

Invited to peer-review a grant panel expert for the NIDRR TBI Systems Model. Invited to peer-review a

grant panel expert for the NIH/Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Publications:

Burne B Knalfec V, Melonis M, Heyn PC (2011). The Use and Application of Assistive Technology to

Promote Literacy in Early Childhood. Disabil Rehabil Assist Technology;6 (3):207-13, and Heyn PC

& Hall KA (2012). Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine: “Lifespan Essay”.

Dennis J. Matthews, MD – Received 5280 Top Doctor Award for Pediatric Rehabilitation.

Joyce Oleszek MD – Promoted to Associate Professor.


Kelly G. Waugh, PT, MAPT – Awarded $50,000 Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA) Education

Foundation Grant #690 “Promoting the adoption of uniform wheelchair seating terminology”; Appointed

U.S. Technical Expert to ISO TC 173/SC1/ Working Group 11 Wheelchair Seating

Pamela Wilson, MD – Received the Duncan Wyeth Award from the American Academy for Cerebral

Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM). Each year, the AACPDM Adapted Sports and Recreation

Committee recognize an individual who demonstrates outstanding participation in or promotion of sports

and recreation and serves as a role model for people with disabilities. Received 5280 Top Doctor Award

for Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine.

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOPHYSICS

Kurt Beam, PhD – Elected to the National Academy of Sciences! Keynote speaker to the 18th Annual

Muscle Biology Mini-Retreat, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Invited speaker to the Muscle

Excitation/Contraction Coupling seminar, Les Diablerets, Switzerland. Invited speaker to Molecular and

Cellular Biophysics Symposium, University of Denver. Invited speaker to IUPAB in Beijing, China.

Invited speaker to Tsinghua University School of Medicine in Beijing, China.

Bill Betz, PhD – Received a medical student Faculty Teaching Award for best acronym. Invited plenary

lecturer to the EU Synapse Alumni Meeting, Seville, Spain. Invited speaker to the Molecular and Cellular

Biophysics Symposium, Denver University.

Gidon Felsen, PhD – Invited speaker to Neuroscience Program, Regis College. Invited speaker to

Department of Neurology, UCAMC.

Achim Klug, PhD – Invited symposium chair for Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, 2012. Invited

speaker to Department of Otolaryngology, UCAMC. Invited speaker to Ultimate Ski Meeting, Vail,

Colorado. Grant reviewer for the Hearing Health Foundation.

Rock Levinson, PhD –2011 Silversides Visiting Professorship, University of Toronto. Invited speaker to

Integrated Neurosciences Program, University of Illinois-Chicago.

Abigail Person, PhD – Accepted position as Assistant Professor to the Department of Physiology and

Biophysics. Ad Hoc reviewer for the Journal of Neurophysiology, Nature. Invitee to the 2013 Cerebellum

Gordon Conference.

Cathy Proenza, PhD – Awarded Kaiser Permanente Outstanding Basic Science Teacher Award.

Awarded Society for General Physiologists’ Traveling Scholars award for Don Bers. Invited speaker to

Trends and Challenges in Ion Channel Research, Tenerife, Spain. Invited speaker to Department of

Pharmacology seminar series, UCAMC.

Angie Ribera, PhD – Serves as Director of Neuroscience Program. Serves as Associate Director of

Medical Scientist Training Program. Invited speaker to Department of Biological Sciences, State

University of New York – Albany. Invited speaker to Neuroscience Department, Regis University. Invited

speaker to Department of Developmental Biology, Washington University.

Nathan Schoppa, PhD – Invited speaker to the 88th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of

Japan, Yokohama, Japan. Invited speaker to Association for Chemoreception Sciences Annual Meeting,

St. Petersburg, Florida. Invited speaker to Center for Neuroscience, Tufts University.


Celia Sladek, PhD – Serves as Director of CCTSI PhD Program. Invited keynote speaker to World

Congress on Neurohypophyseal Hormones, Boston Massachusetts. Associate Editor of American Journal

of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative.

Daniel Tollin, PhD – Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Elected member of the Collegium

Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum. Graduate School Mentoring Award, University of Colorado

Anschutz Medical Campus. Standing member of NIH NIDCD Communications Disorders Review

Committee study section. Appointed to the International Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Publications Committee. Elected to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics Technical Committee,

Acoustical Society of America. Invited speaker to Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University

of Rochester, NY. Invited speaker to the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in

Otolaryngology, San Diego, CA. Invited speaker to Neuroscience Program, University of California -

Riverside. Invited speaker to Workshop on Computational Audition, Institute for Advanced Study,

Delmenhorst, Germany. Invited speaker to Department of Otolaryngology Grand Rounds, UCAMC.

Invited keynote symposium speaker to the 161st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle,

WA. Invited speaker to the Department of Physiology, University of Wisconsin.

Sukumar Vijayaraghavan, PhD – Serves as Director of Physiology and Biophysics PhD Program.

Invited speaker to Wellcome Trust Conference on Neuronal Nicotinic Receptors, Cambridge, England.

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY

Debbie Carter, MD – Received Kempe Center plaque in recognition of service in the Kempe Therapeutic

Preschool.

Christian Hopfer, MD – Elected as Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Mark Laudenslager, PhD – Received the Norman Cousins Award from the Psychoneuroimmunology

Research Society.

Abraham Nussbaum, MD – Selected as Faculty Scholar to the Inaugural Class of the University of

Chicago’s Program on Medicine and Religion.

Ayelet Talmi, PhD – Presented the Annual Robert J. Harmon Memorial Lecture for the Colorado

Association for Infant Mental Health.

Marianne Wamboldt, MD – Received the Leslie and William Vollbracht Family Chair in Stress and

Anxiety Disorders Endowed Chair.

Mitzi Wasserstein, MD – Elected as Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

Jeanette Waxmonsky, PhD – Elected to the journal editorial board of Depression and Anxiety.

Joel Yager, MD – Received a Special Presidential Commendation Award at the American Psychiatric

Association Annual Meeting for his work on behalf of several American Psychiatric Association activities.

DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY

Changhu Chen, MD – Continues to serve on the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

International Development and Education Award Program, American Society of Radiation Oncology

(ASTRO) Annual Meeting Education Committee, American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)


Annual Meeting Steering Committee, American Society of Radiation Oncology Government Relations

Committee FDA Subcommittee.

E. David Crawford, MD – Serves as an editor for Urology Grand Rounds, Oncology, Primary Care and

Cancer, Journal of Cellular Biochemistry (Chemoprevention Supplements), The Journal of Men’s Health

& Gender. He is the section editor for the Journal of Men’s Health and Urologic Oncology. Serves on the

Scientific and Advisory Board Committee for Medical Research Council of Canada and the American

Arbitration Association’s Panel of Arbitrators. Chairman of the Future Direction in Urology,

International Prostate Cancer Update and the Annual Perspectives in Urology Meetings. Dr. Crawford

donates his time to multiple charities including the US TOO Support Groups and Prostate Conditions

Education Council.

Christine Fisher, MD, MPH – Committees served: University of Colorado Cancer Committee, on the

Scientific Review Committee group, and the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer,

Denver Health Cancer Committee.

Laurie E. Gaspar, MD, MBA, FASTRO, FACR - Editorial boards for Frontier Oncology,

Practical Radiation Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology. Committees served on are American

Board of Radiology Testing Committee: Lung/Mediastinum/Sarcoma, Access to Treatment

for Lung Cancer Advisory Committee (Access TLC), Commission on Cancer/National Cancer

Data Base Lung Quality Measure Committee, American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC)

Executive Finance Committee, International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Committee

(IASLC), American Radium Society (ARS) member of the Janeway Lecture Committee, American

Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) representative of the American College of Radiology (ACR),

ACGME Residency Review Committee (RRC) representative for American College of Radiology (ACR),

American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Esophagus Task Force. Privilege and Tenure

Committee University of Colorado, American College of Radiology (ACR) Panel on Appropriateness

Criteria for Brain Metastases - Chair, Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) Data Monitoring

Committee, North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) Data Monitoring Committee.

Honors: Best Doctor in America 2011.

Patricia H. Hardenbergh, MD – Continues to serve on the ASTRO Health Services Research

Guidelines Committee and the ASTRO Guidelines Committee for Hypofractionation of the Breast.

She is also a current reviewer for the International Journal of the Radiation Oncology Biology

Physics, Cancer Journal, Cancer Research Journal, and the Journal of Breast Diseases. Brian D. Kavanagh, MD, MPH – Editorial boards for Editor, Radiation Therapy Section,

UpToDate online medical reference service, Senior Editor, Journal of Radiosurgery and SBRT. Vice-

chair, Regulatory Committee 2010, Chair, Regulatory Committee, 2011, Member, Code Development

and Valuation Committee, CPT code 77427 special task force, ASTRO AMA RUC Advisory Panel,

Scientific Expert Consultant Presenter for CPT code valuation of SBRT, ASTRO Clinical Affairs

and Quality Committee, SBRT Q/A White Paper Committee, ASTRO IMRT IGRT SBRT Symposium

Organizing Committee, ASTRO Board of Directors, Health Policy Council, American Association of

Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Task Group, Centers for

Medicare and Medicaid Services Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) Advisory Panel. Chuan-Yuan Li, PhD – Reviewer for Academic Journals: Molecular Cell, Cancer Research,

Clinical Cancer Research, Gene Therapy, J. of National Cancer Institute, Molecular Therapy,

International Journal of Cancer, J. of Investigative Dermatology, Int. J. of Hyperthermia, Int. J.

of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, Leukemia, Lancet Oncology.


Arthur K. Liu, MD, MPH – Continues to serve on the LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance

Cancer Center Working Group, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) task group

TG-203: Management of radiotherapy patients with implanted cardiac pacemakers and

defibrillators, Scientific advisor for Medical Students for Lymphoma Research, Center for

Computational and Mathematical Biology (CCMB) Executive Board, Medical Advisory Committee

for the Round Up River Ranch, Radiation Oncology PI for COG AALL1131. Moyed Miften, PhD – Continues to serve on the Board of Chancellors, American College of Medical

Physics (ACMP), Chair, American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group for

Tolerance Levels and Methodologies for IMRT Verification QA, Chair AAPM working group on new

research initiatives, Co-Chair AAPM Task Group for Management of radiotherapy patients with

implanted cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators. He serves on the follow editorial boards; Associate

Editor for the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Guest Associate Editor for the Journal of

Medical Physics.

David Raben, MD - Continues to serve on the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) Head

and Neck Steering Committee, American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology

Translational Research Committee, The Scientific Advisory Board of the Cancer League of Colorado

(CLC), American Society of Clinical Oncology Program Committee, Southwest Oncology Group

Radiation Oncology Committee, American Society of Clinical Oncology Publications Committee,

American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Steering Committee on Promoting Research,

American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Education Committee, SWOG GU Radiation

Oncology Sub- Committee Chair. Rachel Rabinovitch, MD – continues to serve on the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG)

Quality Control Committee, Chair, NCI Breast Cancer Steering Committee, Breast Oncology Local

Disease (BOLD) Task Force, American Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology‘s (ASTRO) Breast

Resource Panel of the Clinical Affairs and Quality Committee, Radiation Therapy Oncology Group

(RTOG), Breast Working Group, steering committee, American College of Radiology (ACR)

Committee on Breast Imaging for Appropriateness Criteria & Guidelines, American College of

Radiology Expert Panel on Radiation Oncology, Breast Work Group, International Working Group

on Breast MRI, Local Breast Cancer Staging. Tracey E. Schefter, MD – Continues to serve on the ACOSOG Radiation Oncology Committee,

Gynecologic Cancer Scientific Steering Committee, National Cancer Institute Cervical Cancer Task

Force, RTOG gynecologic oncology committee, American College of Radiology (ACR) ASTRO- Society of

Interventional Radiology (SIR) 3 society collaboration SIRT guideline development committee.

DEPARTMENT OF RADIOLOGY

James P. Borgstede, MD – Elected President of the American Board of Radiology. President- Elect for

the International Society of Radiology. Chairman-Elect for the Radiological Society of America Research

and Education Foundation. Received Gold Medal Award from the Colorado Radiological Society.

Kavita Garg, MD – Best Doctors in America 2011-2012

Lara A. Hardesty, MD – Served as reviewer for the American College of Radiology’s Breast MRI

Accreditation Program. Member of Radiology Society of North America’s Content Advisory Panel for Self

Assessment Module. Development-Breast Imaging Representative.


Kimi L Kondo, DO – Received the President’s Award for World Class Care, University of Colorado

Hospital Anschutz Medical Campus. Received Professional Leadership Award to attend the AAMC Mid-

Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar. Received Outstanding Service/Education

Citation, University of Colorado School of Medicine Housestaff Association. Elected Member At Large,

Executive Committee, Alliance of Medical Student Educators in Radiology (AMSER).

Charles E. Ray, MD – Re-elected Treasurer for the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). Served as

Immediate Past President, Colorado Radiological Society. Named Editor in Chief, Seminars in

Interventional Radiology. Received Award of High Commendation for Textbook in Radiology by the

British Medical Association for “Transcatheter Embolization and Therapy”.

DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY

Joyce Aycock, MD – Assistant Professor. Initiated application and successfully obtained accreditation

for Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Residency Program. Obtained board approval for ACAPS

membership. Attended AAMC’s 2012 Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar

Ashok N. Babu, MD – Hired as Assistant Professor for the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

John Bealer, MD— Organized the 2012 Partners in Pediatric Surgical Care Conference at Children’s

Hospital Colorado Invited speaker at the Surgical Population Pathway Education at Children’s Hospital

Colorado. 2 invited lectures at Neonatal Noon Grand Rounds at Children’s Hospital Colorado. 1 senior-

author publication. 1 co-author publication. ATLS teacher 2011 & 2012.

Marian Brinkman, PA-C, MPAS—Instructor in the division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Jennifer Bruny, MD—Chair of Peri-Operative Quality Committee. Steering Committee Member of The

American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Associate Program

Director, Pediatric Surgical Residency Program, University of Colorado/Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Invited speaker for the Tropical Medicine Course at the Center for Global Health. Co-authored

publications for the Journal of Pediatric Surgery. Mission trip to Haiti. Received 5280 Top Doctor Award.

Received Patient’s Choice Award.

David Campbell, MD – “Best Doctors in America”. 5280 Magazine’s “Top Doctors”.

Jeffrey Campbell, MD – Faculty Teaching Award

Joseph C. Cleveland, Jr., MD – Promoted to Professor. “America’s Top Doctors”, Castle Connolly.

Selected Treasurer of the Western Thoracic Surgical Association. Listed in 5280 Magazine’s “Top

Doctors”.

Timothy M. Crombleholme, MD – The Ponzio Family Chair for the Surgeon-in-Chief. Director,

Colorado Fetal Care Center. Director, Colorado Fetal Care Center Director, Colorado Institute for

Maternal and Fetal Health Children’s Hospital Colorado. Vice Chair of Pediatric Surgical Programs.

Director of the Center for Children’s Surgery. Promoted to Professor with Tenure. Invited speaker at

Grand Rounds at Children’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO on January 11 and 12, 2012. Invited speaker at

NEO: The Conference for Neonatology in Orlando, FL. Invited speaker at Grand Rounds at NYU School of

Medicine/Tisch Hospital in New York, NY on February 28, 2012. Invited speaker at IFMSS (International

Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society) in New Zealand, March 2012. Invited speaker at Grand Rounds in

Devon, United Kingdom – April 17, 2012. Invited speaker at British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society

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Glasgow, United Kingdom – April 2012. Invited speaker at APSA Annual Meeting on May 22, 2012 on

Fetal/Neonatal and Trauma. 5 senior-author publications. 7 co-authored publications.

Frederic W.-B. Deleyiannis MD, MPhil, MPH –Selected for inclusion in US News Top Doctors in

Plastic Surgery. Received 5280 Top Doctors (Plastic Surgery, Head and Neck). Invited AO Visiting

Professor to Stanford University Facial Plastic Surgery Course.

Christina A. Finlayson, MD – Professor of Surgery; Director Dianne O’Connor Thompson Breast

Center and Associate Medical Director/Associate Dean Clinical Affairs for University Physicians, Inc.

Ongoing research involving Breast cancer.

Brian Flynn, MD- Program Director Urodynamics. Program Director Reconstructive Urology Fellowship

Brooke French, MD – Assistant professor in Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Co-Director

of Congenital Craniofacial Surgery Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado.

David A. Fullerton, MD – “Best Doctors in America”. “Top Doctors in America”. Elected Second Vice-

President of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Vice President, Thoracic Surgery Program Directors

Association. Chair, Society of Thoracic Surgery Workforce on Critical Care. Principal Investigator,

American Heart Association Grant entitled: “The Role of ox-LDL in Aortic Valve Calcification”.

Ronald G. Gill, PhD – Promoted from Visiting Professor to Professor. American Society of

Transplantation (AST) 2012 Basic Science Established Investigator Award. Chair, Biomedical

Evaluation Review group for national Swedish Linnaeus Center award program, Swedish Research

Council. 2011 - Present External Advisory Board, JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)

Canadian Clinical Trial Network. 2012 General Expert Panel, Linnaeus award review, Swedish Research

Council. 2011-2012 Organizing Committee; 2012 Transplant Society Congress, Berlin, Germany. 2010-

2013 Member, American Society of Transplantation, ATC program planning committee. Invited External

Evaluation Panel, NIH/NIDDK Type 1 Diabetes Special Statutory Funding Program (2011). 2011 Ad Hoc

Reviewer, NHLBI-PPG Review (October 2011). Scientific Advisory Board Reviewer, Barbara Davis

Center for Childhood Diabetes (2011-2012). 2012 Invited Speaker to following: FOCIS (Federation of

Clinical Immunology Society) 2012 NK cells; IDS (Immunology of Diabetes Society) 2012; ATC (American

Transplantation Congress) Controversies: Depleting Therapies; ATC Grant Workshop; ‘Inhibiting the

immune response after transplant’. NIDDK/Beta Cell Biology Consortium Satellite Workshop: ‘Immunity

and Beta Cell’, May 2012; and Update on JDRF funded research, JDRF Research Day, March 2012.

Frederick L. Grover, MD – “Best Doctors in America”. “America’s Top Doctors”, Castle Connolly.

Recipient of the American Heart Association’s Outstanding Achievement in Quality of Care and

Outcomes Research Award. Awarded the University of Colorado Faculty Professionalism Award.

Appointed to the STS ACC FDA CMS National Steering Committee on Transcatheter Aortic Valve

Replacement.

Ty Higuchi, MD – Newly appointed Assistant Professor

James Jaggers, MD – Promoted to Professor of Surgery with Tenure. Children’s Hospital Colorado,

Leadership Development Group. Society of Thoracic Surgeons: Standards and Ethics Committee;

Program Planning Committee. Congenital Heart Surgery Workforce. Children’s Hospital Colorado:

Finance Committee and Clinical Task Force. 5280 Magazine’s “Top Doctors”.

Igal Kam, MD – Invited speaker for “Issues in Organ Donation and Transplantation” – HADASSAH

Organ Donor/Transplant conference, Panelist for the ASTS 12th Winter Symposium. Surgical Techniques

Case Presentation – Liver Cases. Miami, FL, “Transplant – The Colorado Experience” Rocky Vista


University, Denver, CO, “Transplant – The Colorado Experience” Grand Rounds at Methodist Center for

Liver Disease and Transplantation.

Frederick Karrer, MD—Dr. David R. Kuku Akers Chair in Pediatric Surgery. Chairman of the

Promotion and Tenure Committee for the Department of Surgery, UCDHSC. Pediatric Surgery Residency

Training Program Director. Invited speaker at the Neonatal Noon Grand Rounds at Children’s Hospital

Colorado. Invited speaker at the Multidisciplinary Trauma Conference. Invited speaker at the Eagle

County EMS Trauma Conference. 5 co-author publications. 1 senior-author publication. 3 published book

chapters. Top Doctors Award.

Hari Koul, PhD – Awarded National Cancer Institute NIH Grant. Two renewed NIH grants. VA IPA

Grant.

Gordon K. Lindberg, MD – Associate Professor of Surgery and Medical Director of University of

Colorado Hospital Burn Unit. Instrumental in the hospital’s Burn Unit earning its fifth consecutive

American burn Association (ABA) verifications. Ongoing research involving Burn issues.

Paul Maroni, MD- Appointed Coordinator UCH Informatics Epic. Medical Director Robotics Surgery.

Martin D. McCarter, MD – Promoted to Professor of Surgery 2012. Received 5280 Top Doctor Award

2012 in Complex General Surgical Oncology. 16 recent publications in Surgical Innovations, Surgery,

The Journal of Immunology, The Annals of Surgery, The Journal of Oncology, Annals of Surgical

Oncology, Journal of Surgical Research and Intensive Care Medicine. Ongoing research and clinical trials

involving surgical oncology. Numerous professional society memberships. Membership Committee of

Association of Academic Surgery. Moderator at the 2012 Society of Surgical Oncology Scientific Program.

Site team member of SSO to conduct site visits. Abstract presentation at Western Surgical Association

2011.

Robert C. McIntyre, Jr., MD – Professor of Surgery with Tenure; Medical Director, SICU and President

of University of Colorado Hospital Medical Staff. Committee Member of numerous high profile University

of Colorado Hospital committees. Director of Endocrine Surgery. Director of Trauma Surgery Service for

University of Colorado Hospital. Associate Director, Fellowship Surgical Critical Care. Numerous

professional society memberships. Earned DaVinci Robotic Surgeon certification. Ongoing Endocrine

research. Recent publications in the Journal of Trauma, the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Thyroid and

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology. Received 5280 Top Doctor Award 2012 in Surgery for

University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital Colorado. President Southwestern Surgical

Congress (2011-2012) and keynote speaker at 2012 Annual Meeting. Committee member of several

National Professional Committees. Core Faculty member of the American College of Surgeons

Comprehensive General Surgery Review Course.

Randall Meacham, MD- Clinical Task Force. President of the South Central Section of the American

Urological Association. Practice Director Urology Services. Chair, Credentials Committee.

Robert A. Meguid, MD – Recruited to Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery as Assistant Professor.

John D. Mitchell, MD – Promoted to Professor. Treasurer of the Western Thoracic Surgical Association.

Executive Committee, General Thoracic Surgical Club. Society of Thoracic Surgeons: Chair, Workforce on

Evidence Based Surgery; Workforce on Annual Meeting (Program Task Force); Council on Quality,

Research and Patient Safety Operating Board; Access and Publications Taskforce on the STS Database;

Representative, Advisory Council for Cardiothoracic Surgery. American College of Surgeons. Recognized

by 5280 Magazine’s “Top Doctors”, 2005-2012. “Best Doctors in America”. University of Colorado Hospital

President’s Award for World Class Care.


Max Mitchell – 5280 Magazine’s “Top Doctors”.

Steven Moulton, MD— Chair of Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute Advisory board at Children’s

Hospital Colorado. Chair of the Trauma Steering Committee at Children’s Hospital Colorado Organized

the 2011 Pediatric Trauma Conference at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Invited speaker to the 2012

Colorado Review of Anesthesiology for Surgicenters and Hospitals. 14 lectures at local/regional meetings.

4 poster presentations at national meetings.. 2 grants over $100k. 1 grant under $100k. 4 grants pending.

Reviewer for Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. 2 co-authored publications.

Mark R. Nehler, MD –Promoted to Professor. Appointed as Vice Chair of Education in the Department

of Surgery. Named the Michael W Dunaway Chair in Vascular Surgery. Surgery Residency Program

given 5 year accreditation with commendation for the Program Director by the ACGME. Named one of top

physicians in 5280.

Trevor Nydam. MD- Dr. Nydam completed his two-year Transplant Surgery Fellowship accredited

through the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. Dr. Nydam was promoted to an Assistant

Professor, Division of Transplant Surgery, on July 1, 2012.

David Partrick, MD—Visiting Professor at the Mayo Clinic in November 2011. Invited discussant at the

64th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress. Presentation at the 45th Annual Meeting of

the Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons. Presentation at the 59th Congress of the British Association

of Pediatric Surgeons. Invited speaker at the Surgical Population Pathway Education at Children’s

Hospital Colorado. 4 senior-author publications.. 4 co-author publications. Received 5280 Top Doctor

Award.

Marvin Pomerantz, MD – Awarded rank of Emeritus Professor of Surgery.

Christopher D. Raeburn, MD – Associate Professor of Surgery and Medical Director Surgical Ward for

University of Colorado Hospital. Physician Champion for University of Colorado Hospital

implementation of Epic Electronic Medical Records and Computerized Order Entry System. DaVinci

robotic certified surgeon. Recent publications in the American Journal of Surgery, The Journal of Clinical

Endocrinology and Metabolism, Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, The Journal of Surgical

Research, Cytokine and the Archives of Surgery. Ongoing research involving Endocrine.

T. Brett Reece, MD – American Heart Association, Membership and Communications Committee for the

Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia. Invited Reviewer, Seminars in Cardiovascular and

Thoracic Anesthesia. Nominated for the Excellence in Direct Teaching Award.

Thomas N. Robinson, MD – Associate Professor of Surgery; Director Minimally Invasive Surgery

Center and Associate Program Director General Surgery Residency Program. Ongoing research and

clinical trials involving Geriatrics and Endocrine. Presented at the 2012 SAGES Annual Meeting

Scientific Session. Recent publications in Surgical Endoscopy, American Journal of Surgery, Surgical

Laparoscopy Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques, Archives of Surgery, and The Journal of American

College of Surgery.

Kyle Rove, MD – First Place Resident Essay Competition, South Central Section of the American

Urological Association.

Jonathan Schoen, MD – Associate Professor of Surgery and Medical Director of University of Colorado

Hospital Surgical Weight Loss Center. Instrumental in the hospital’s Surgical Weight Loss Center

accreditation as a Bariatric Center of Excellence. Ongoing research involving Bariatric and Endocrine.


Richard D. Schulick, MD MBA FACS – Professor of Surgery; The new Aragón/Gonzalez-Gíustí Chair

for the Department of Surgery. Recognized leader in the fields of pancreatic, hepatic and biliary surgery.

Scientific interests are in the area of tumor immunology. Deputy editor of the Archives of Surgery.

Member of numerous professional organizations

Michael J. Schurr, MD – Professor of Surgery. Ongoing research with Burn. Recent publications in the

Annals of Surgery, Biomaterials, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, and Burns. Received NIH funding

to study the use of artificial skin to promote wound and burn healing.

Stig Somme, MD—Presentation at the British Association of Pediaetric Surgeons Annual Congress in

Belfast 2011. Invited speaker to “Langer Day” 2012 at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada.

Invited speaker at Neonatal Grand Rounds at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Invited speaker at the 33rd

Annual Perinatal Update at Children’s Hospital Colorado. First author publication for European Journal

of Pediatric Surgery.

Joshua Stephan, PhD – Awarded American Urological Association Research Scholars Grant.

Gregory V. Stiegmann, MD – Professor of Surgery with Tenure; Division Head of GI, Tumor and

Endocrine Surgery and Vice President, Clinical Affairs for University of Colorado Hospital. Inaugural

John H. and Cynthia H. Schultz Endowed Chair in Surgery. Founding Board Member and President of

Foundation for Surgical Fellowships. Featured in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy June 2112. Committee

Member of numerous high profile University of Colorado Hospital committees. National committee

member of SAGES Flexible Endoscopy Committee and Advisor to SAGES Board. Numerous professional

society memberships. Two abstracts presented at the SAGES 2012 Scientific Session in San Diego,

California. Abstract published in Annals of Surgery 2012. Chapter published in Current Surgical

Therapy Tenth Edition 2011. Original publication in Surgical Endoscopy 2011. Original publication in

American Journal of Surgery 2011.

Talla Talyai, PA – Newly appointed Instructor

Erin Teravest, PA- Newly appointed Instructor

Dan Theodorescu, MD – Medical Director Cancer Center. Part of team awarded National Cancer

Institute PO1 Grant. Named to American Surgical Association. Appointed to the inaugural National

Clinical Trials Network Working Group of the National Cancer Institute. Two renewed National Cancer

Institute NIH Grants

Vijaya Vemulakonda, MD-University of Colorado Denver Clinical Faculty Scholars Program, Accepted

to the American Urological Association Leadership Program

Ellen Vorbeck, DNP, APRN-BC, CWOCN, CWS. Assistant Professor, Faculty and Program Director

for the Wound/Ostomy Practice. Professional Member Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Society. Member

American Academy of Wound Healing and American College of Nurse Practitioners. Member Sigma

Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society.

Michael J. Weyant, MD – Selected Chair, Membership Committee, Western Thoracic Surgical

Association. Named to the Core Program Committee (Surgery Track), International Association for the

Study of Lung Cancer. University of Colorado Hospital President’s Award for World Class Care. Recipient

of collaborative SPORE Pilot grant for research in lung cancer. Supervised resident Jessica Yu in guiding

her research to win the C. Walt Lillehei resident research award at the 2012 American Association for


Thoracic Surgery. Became a co-investigator in the NOVEL lung trial, a groundbreaking trial to increase

the number of donor lungs available for transplant.

Duncan Wilcox, MD – Named one of 5280 Magazines Top Doctors.

Shandra Wilson, MD- Urologic Oncology Program Coordinator. Myriad Clinical Trial Grant

Michael Zimmerman, MD – Dr. Zimmerman is on the Journal of Surgical Research Editorial Board and

the PloSone Academic Editor. Grant Funding - Prospective evaluation of the efficacy and safety of

Zortress (everolimus)/Myfortic (enteric coated mycophenolate sodium) conversion in high MELD liver

transplantation, CRAD001H US63T (RADUS63T), Sponsored by Novartis. $947,000 (7/12-7/14) Principle

Investigator. Invited Speaker for the following talks- Update in Liver Disease Management for 2012:

Including Highlights from AASLD 2011. Outcomes following living donor liver transplant. Controversies

in Transplantation 2012. Biliary complications following living donor liver transplant. American

Transplant Congress 2012. Aggregate morbidity and resolution of biliary complications after living donor

and deceased donor liver transplantation: A report from the adult-to-adult living donor liver

transplantation cohort study (A2ALL).

GME PROGRAM AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Rose Family Medicine Residency

2011 Family Practice Management and Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Award for Practice

Improvement (National Award given to one residency for efforts around quality improvement)

NCQA Level II certification as a patient-centered medical home

ACGME Residency Review Committee Members

Randall B. Meacham, MD, Urology

Mark Brissette, MD, Pathology

Colleen Conry, MD, Family Medicine

Brian Waldschmidt, MD, Resident – Anesthesiology

ABIM/ACGME Milestones Task Force

Eva Aagaard, MD, Member

Resident Awards & Recognition

University of Colorado School of Medicine 2011-12 Arnold P. Gold Humanism and Excellence

in Teaching Award

Internal Medicine – Scott Davis, MD; Jonathan Schwartz, MD; Joshua Vasquez, MD; David Williams,

MD

Surgery - Gregg Marshall, MD

OB/GYN - Caroline Hedges, MD

Dermatology Program Resident Awards


Lixia Ellis, MD, PhD

o American Society for Dermatologic Surgery Review Article Incentive Program (November 2011),

1st prize winner

o Resident Presentation at the Colorado Dermatologic Society (September 2011)

o Sulzberger Foundation Grant, $5,000, Impact of a Dermatology Education Wiki Website on

Dermatology Education and Trainee Satisfaction, 2011

Gina Knapschaefer, MD

o AAD Resident International Grant to participate in an elective in Gaborone, Botswana in

(January- February 2012)

o Resident Presentation at the Colorado Dermatologic Society (September 2011), 2nd prize winner

Jessica Moennich, MD, Resident Presentation at the Colorado Dermatologic Society (September 2011),

3rd prize winner

Neurology Program Resident Awards

Drew Kern (PGY 4) – awarded research funding by the UC Denver Skin Disease Research Core

Center. “Alpha-synuclein Deposition in Skin of Patients with Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Systems

Atrophy, and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy”.

Mario Cerdan-Trevino (PGY 3) – New England Journal of Medicine’s (NEJM) Scholars essay award.

“iMedicine: creating the Facebook concept into Medicine”.

Cliff Hampton (PGY 2) - "SGIM Clinical Vignette Oral Presentation Award. “Difficulty Getting Up in

the Morning” (Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis)."

OB/GYN Program Resident Awards

Elaine Stickrath, MD, E. Stewart Taylor Outstanding Teaching Chief Resident Award

Heidi Pomfret, MD, UCH OB Nursing Chief Resident Award

Heather Mattick, MD, Outstanding Resident Research Award

Johanne Python, MD, Outstanding Resident Research Award

Kelsey Webster, MD, Gynecologic Oncology “Suitcase” Award

Elaine Stickrath, MD, AAGL Special Resident in Minimally Invasive Gynecology Award

OB/GYN Medical Student Resident Teaching Awards –

Kathleen Rustici, MD, PGY 4; Kara Alexandrovic, MD, PGY 3;

Sarah Connell, MD, PGY 2; Jessica Sedevie, MD, PGY 1

Pediatric Endocrinology Program Resident Award

Melanie Green, MD : 1st place poster for First year fellow - CHCO annual research symposia

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