Family Medicine Honors Students and Faculty at Annual Dinner

The Department of Family and Community Medicine held an annual awards dinner on May 11 to honor fourth-year medical students, faculty, preceptors and the community site of the year. Doctors Foundation Student Awards were presented to fourth-year UC medical students, who are now graduates, who matched in family medicine at programs in the Tristate. Honorees were Danielle Blazewick, MD, Stephen Coppel, MD, Codie-Anne Crew, MD, and Anna Schweikert, MD.

The Hunnicutt Award was given to Rebecca Currier Curran, MD, PhD, and Anna Schweikert, MD, two fourth-year family medicine students who exemplified the qualities needed to be excellent family physicians. Schweikert, also received the Stagaman Award, along with Josie Maione, MD. The honor is given to a fourth-year family medicine student for his or her enthusiasm for the field of family medicine and for demonstrating compassion in the care of patients.

Sarah Pickle, MD, assistant professor of family and community medicine, received the Faculty of the Year Award. The honor is given to a family medicine core faculty member who is dedicated to teaching and mentoring students, has high student evaluations and advocated for improved medical student education.

Six faculty members received the Outstanding Student Mentor Award presented to family physicians for building and nurturing student interest in family medicine.  This year’s winners were Michael Binder, MD, assistant professor of Internal Medicine; Phil Diller, MD, PhD, Fred Lazarus Jr. Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine; Lisbeth Lazaron, MD, associate professor of family and community medicine; Chris Lewis, MD, assistant director of the College of Medicine Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Ron Reynolds, MD, volunteer professor of family and community medicine; and Barbara Tobias, MD, Robert and Myfanwy Smith Professor, and vice chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

The Community Preceptor of the Year award was given to Rebecca Koehl, MD, Mercy Health Physicians in Fairfield, while the Community Site of the Year honor went to UC Health Primary Care—Wyoming.