Faculty

FACULTY RECRUITMENT, RECOGNITION & SERVICE: General Medicine, Geriatrics and Palliative Care

In FY 2013, the division welcomed six new full-time hospitalists and one new part-time general medicine practitioner, bringing the total number of faculty to 48. Nine faculty members were featured in the 2013 Best Doctors in America list: Drs. Ballew, Becker, Goodman, Heald, Helenius, MacKnight, Nadkarni, Snustad, and Wolf.

Special awards in the last year include:

Natalie May, Margaret Plews-Ogan, John Schorling: 2012 American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation’s Professionalism Article Prize (commentary/perspective category) for “Perspective: The Negativity Bias, Medical Education, and the Culture of Academic Medicine: Why Culture Change is Hard” (published in the journal Academic Medicine)
Matthew Goodman, Evan Head, Mohan Nadkarni: 2013 Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Fellows for Humanism in Medicine
Laurie Archbald-Pannone: 2012 Department of Medicine Award for Outstanding Young Investigator
Huai Cheng: 2012 Young Investigator Award from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Annual Assembly
George Hoke: 2012 Inaugural Friend of Nursing Award, UVA Professional Nursing Staff Organization
John MacKnight: Inducted as fellow to the American College of Sports Medicine, 2012
Mohan Nadkarni: Charlottesville Free Clinic Inaugural Mohan Nadkarni Award, 2012
Benjamin Sneed: 2012 Department of Medicine Award for Outstanding Educator
Andrew Wolf: 2012 Department of Medicine Award for Outpatient Attending of the Year
Diane Snustad: 2012 Daily Progress Distinguished Dozen for Service to Community; 2012 Department of Medicine Award for Outstanding Clinical Faculty

The following faculty served on national committees:

Laurie Archbald-Pannone: Vice-President, National Medical Association
Mohan Nadkarni, MD: ACP National Committee on Volunteerism; ACP National Annual Meeting Program Planning Committee; SGIM National Task Force on Patient Centered Medical Home; Chair, SGIM National Medical Residency Director Interest Group
Margaret Plews-Ogan, MD: SGIM Health Policy Committee; Invited expert: National Consensus meeting on Compassion in Health Care; Invited author: Templeton Foundation “Big Ideas” national conversation
Joel Schectman, MD: Southern Health Clinical Advisory Committee
Preston Reynolds, MD: International Advisory Board, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal; Chair, SGIM Global Health and Human Rights Interest Group: Genetics in Primary
Andy Wolf, MD: American Cancer Society, Cancer Screening Guideline Committee; American Cancer Society, Primary Care National Advisory Committee; Administrative Editor, Medical Clinics in North America.