2025 MD Program Faculty Awards
Our faculty members go above and beyond in their commitment to education, mentorship, and research, significantly impacting the academic and personal growth of our students. We are proud to honor these individuals who have demonstrated excellence, innovation, and support for the MD Class of 2025. Join us in celebrating their achievements and acknowledging the vital role they play in shaping our vibrant academic community.
Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Awards Presented by The Arnold P. Gold Foundation
This award is presented to the faculty member who best exemplify the Foundation’s ideals of outstanding compassion in the delivery of care, respect for patients, families, and healthcare colleagues, and who demonstrate clinical excellence.
- Marc Kimball, MD, clinical assistant professor of family medicine
D. Jack Mitus Special Faculty Recognition Award
This award was established in 1981 by the senior class of Tufts University School of Medicine. In 2008, in collaboration with the friends and family of Dr. Jack Mitus, Tufts renamed the endowed Special Faculty Recognition Award in honor of Dr. Mitus' legacy of outstanding teaching. This award commends one faulty member who has demonstrated an exceptional dedication to teaching, a commitment to academic scholarship, and a concern for the general well-being of medical students.
- Terrance Li, MD, neurology clerkship director
Outstanding Teaching in the Clerkship Years
- Eliza Bullis, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine
Outstanding Teaching in the Pre-Clerkship Years
- Rebecca Lufler, PhD, associate professor of medical education
A.O.A. Faculty
- Eliza Bullis, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine
- Sabrina Chaklos, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine
- Taimur Dad, MD, MS, assistant professor of medicine
Faculty Awards for Excellence in Teaching
- Paul Abourjaily, Pharm, associate professor of medicine
- Anita Mathews, MD, clinical assistant professor of family medicine
- Laurence Bailen, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine
- Jason Moran, MD, assistant professor of medicine
- Matthew Brown, MD, clinical instructor in surgery
- Varsha Radhakrishnan, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry
- Scott Gilbert, MD, MS, professor of medicine
- Neha Sharma, DO, associate professor of psychiatry
- Lee Hallagan, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery
- Aimee Shen, PhD, associate professor of molecular biology and microbiology
- Maurice Joyce, MD, associate professor of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine
- Daniel Spratt, MD, professor of medicine
- James Kubilus, PhD, associate professor of medical education
- Monica Thim, DO, assistant professor of medicine
- Claudia Lavin, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics
- Susana Wishnia, MD, clinical assistant professor of surgery
- Jeffrey Marchant, PhD, professor of medical education
- MaryAlice Wolfe, MD
House Staff/Fellow Awards for Excellence in Teaching
- Christian Bennett, MD
- Elliot Delgado, MD
- Ariel Francois, DO
- Laura Knapik, DO
- Beatrice Mbaluka, MD
- Isabella McNamara, MD
- Chandler Moore, MD
- Jordan Santiago, MD
- S. Spencer Scott, MD
- Michael Talanian, MD