Faculty
Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative & Hospital Medicine
FACULTY RECRUITMENT, RECOGNITION & SERVICE
(l-r) General Medicine faculty John Schorling, MD; Natalie May, PhD; Beth Jaeger-Landis, ACNP; Peggy Plews-Ogan, MD. James Plews-Ogan, MD, far right, is in the UVA Department of Pediatrics.
Extraordinarily productive in the outpatient and inpatient clinical settings as well as in education and research, division faculty also hold leadership positions at many centers, institutes and programs associated with UVA Medical Center, including:
- Achieving Competency Today Online Resources (ACTOR)
- Brodie Medical Education fund
- Call to Health
- Center for Appreciative Practice
- Center for Biomedical Ethics & Humanities
- Center for Mindfulness
- Employee Health
- Institute for Quality & Patient Safety
- Physician Wellness & Peer Support
- Recent Advances in Internal Medicine
- Schwartz Rounds
- Wisdom & Well-Being Speaker Series
Division members are also actively engaged in scholarly pursuits; thirteen of the division’s 72 faculty members were published during the year, including articles, book chapters and complete manuscripts (Appendix A). Faculty members also presented at many national and international conferences, (Appendix B) including:
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine National Meeting
- American College of Cardiology Team Physician Society Meeting
- American Academy of Communication in Healthcare International Meeting
- American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting
- American Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
- American Geriatric Society Annual Scientific Meeting
- American Osler Society
- American Public Health Association
- American Society for Clinical Oncology/Palliative Care First Annual Meeting
- American Society of Nephrology
- American Medical Association Annual Meeting
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Award National Summit
- Interprofessional Conference on Compassionate Care at End of Life
- Geriatric Society National Meeting
- National American College of Physicians Meeting
- Patient-Reported Outcomes (Promis Health Organization) Inaugural Conference
- Professionalism in Healthcare Meeting
- Recent Advances in Clinical Medicine Conference
- Society of General Internal Medicine Meeting, Virginia Chapter
- American College of Surgeons Annual Meeting
Honored this year by the American Cancer Society, Leslie Blackhall, MD, received the prestigious Lane Adams Quality of Life Award, which recognizes individuals who provide what Lane Adams, a longtime American Cancer Society executive vice president, describes as the “warm hand of service.” Seven individuals nationwide are selected for this award, which honors the “unsung heroes” of cancer care.
Other faculty awards and honors include:
- American Cancer Society’s Lane Adams Quality of Life Award: Leslie Blackhall
- American College of Physicians Fellowship:
- John Leiner
- Evelyn Scott
- Ionut Mosteanu
- American Geriatrics Society Fellowship:
- Laurie Archbald-Pannone
- Seki Balogun
- Anne L. and Bernard B. Brodie Teaching Associate Professor of Medicine Education:
- Margaret Plews-Ogan
- Best Doctors in America by Best Doctors Inc.:
- Ken Ballew
- Matthew Goodman
- Evan Heald
- Ira Helenius
- John MacKnight
- Diane Snustad
- Andy Wolf
- Castle Connolly Top Doctors in America:
- Ken Ballew
- Matthew Goodman
- John MacKnight
- Mohan Nadkarni
- Margaret Plews-Ogan
- Diane Snustad
- Charles L. Brown Award for Patient Care Quality:
- John Cramer, director of Hospital Medicine at Transitional Care Hospital, and TCH quality team
- David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator Award:
- Mohan Nadkarni
- Department of Medicine Excellence Awards:
- Julia den Hartog – Department of Medicine Outstanding Educator
- Evan Heald – Department of Medicine Outpatient Attending of the Year
- Benjamin Sneed – Department of Medicine Outstanding Clinical Faculty
- Harry T. Peters Jr. Professor of Medicine:
- Mohan Nadkarni
- School of Medicine Inaugural Education Fellowship Awards:
- Huai Cheng
- Mohan Nadkarni
- School of Medicine Dean’s Award for Master Clinician:
- Daniel Becker
- Outpatient Internal Medicine Attending of the Year:
- Evan Heald
- Professional Nursing Staff Organization – Friend of Nursing Award:
- Clinton Merritt