2024 Academic Council Award and 2024 Sandra and Arnold Gold Award for Humanistic Teaching recipients honored: The Center for Professional and Academic Development and the Academic Council hosted the 12th annual CHA Academic Council Award Ceremony earlier this month! It was wonderful to be back in person in the Healy Building atrium honoring our 2024 awardees and recent recipients of academic promotions. The event was well-attended by the CHA community, including colleagues, senior leaders, award nominators, and families of the awardees — all brimming with smiles and joy. Award nominators gave moving tributes about their honorees; Bill Lahey, Chairman, Board of Trustees spoke of the central role of academics to CHA’s identity and mission.

The CHA Academic Council Award was established in 2013 to highlight the value placed on academic excellence and achievement by our institution. The award is meant to recognize members of our community who have made significant contributions to excellence in academic spheres including education, research, scholarship or mentorship. One or more individuals may be honored in any given year. This award for academic excellence is broadly construed to encompass any number of areas of distinction including:

  • Teaching of students, trainees or colleagues

  • Design and/or implementation of innovative curricula and/or assessment methodologies

  • Design and/or administration of excellent training programs

  • Supervision or mentorship

  • Research impact in any domain including clinical, basic science, healthcare systems or policy

  • Scholarly impact (i.e. publications/presentations)

 

Congratulations 2024 CHA Academic
Council Award Recipients!

  • Arundhati Ghosh, MD, FACS - Department of Surgery

  • Jessica Santos, PhD - Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research

  • Bonni Stahl, MD - Department of Medicine

Previous recipients (listed below) may not be nominated:

  • 2022: Nicholas Carson, Ellie Grossman, Sharmila Mehta

  • 2021: Amber Frank, Adam Gaffney, Rachel Hathaway, Brittany Pierce, Margaret Weiss

  • 2020: Jessica Early, Hsiang Huang, Ranjani Paradise, David Porell, Bianca Shagrin, Linda Shipton

  • 2019: Gaurab Basu, Judy Fleishman, Yamini Saravanan, Tara Singh

  • 2018: Benjamin Cook, Abigail Love, Randi Sokol, Leah Zallman

  • 2017: Wes Boyd, Honor McNaughton, Priyank Jain

  • 2016: Zev Schuman-Olivier, Jamie Barrett, Rob Marlin, Andrea Gordon

  • 2015: Rebecca Drill, Mark McGovern, Sandra DeJong, Kathe Miller

  • 2014: Monica Demasi, Allen Shaughnessy, Danny McCormick, Diya Kallivayalil

  • 2013: David Hirsh, Lior Givon, Rachel Stark, Karen Hacker

The Academic Council Award Ceremony honoring our 2022 Awardees was held last June at the Cambridge Hospital Healy Building Atrium.

Click here to view the 2022 Academic Council Award Ceremony honoring our 2021 and 2020 awardees. The ceremony was held virtually on June 2, 2022.

Click here to view the 2020 Academic Council Award Ceremony which was held virtually on November 18, 2020.