Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors
Distinguished Faculty of the Month - March 2024 The Faculty Affairs Office of the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine selected Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Alexis Ramirez, MD, pictured below, as March 2024’s Distinguished Faculty of the Month. Each month, one diligent and deserving faculty member is granted this title for demonstrating a combination of strong teaching evaluations, service on school committees, advising of student organizations, mentoring leadership, and active promotion of diversity, equity, and belonging. Alongside his teaching duties as an assistant professor, Dr. Ramirez is also recognized for his performance as Director of Medical Student Clerkship for Anesthesiology. Dr. Ramirez’s nominators praised him as “an excellent teacher who emphasizes compassion, care and patient safety” and “a role model for professionalism”.
2024 Alpha Omega Alpha Inductions The Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Honor Medical Society Class of 2024 was inducted on May 17, 2024, recognizing Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology Amy Haber, MD as a resident and Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology Eduard Vaynberg, MD as a faculty member. Founded in 1902, Alpha Omega Alpha is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious medical honor society with a mission to recognize and enhance professionalism, academic excellence, leadership, and service in the medical profession. Dr. Haber and Dr. Vaynberg are pictured below with supportive members of our Department as they display their certificates of membership, representing a lifelong honor and a testament to their unwavering dedication to the highest ideals of the profession.
2024 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award The 2024 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award was presented to Clinical Associate Professor Robert Canelli, MD by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, who are dedicated to fostering humanism in healthcare. This prestigious award recognizes Dr. Canelli for demonstrating ideals of outstanding empathy and compassion in the delivery of care, respect for patients, their families and healthcare colleagues, and clinical excellence, all of which reflect the ideals and principles of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Dr. Canelli is described as a role model by his colleagues, “regularly going out of his way to teach trainees at the individual level” and creating an encouraging environment for teaching and expanding knowledge in our practice.
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