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Faculty Honors and Awards
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Johanna Lampe, PhD |
Outstanding Mentor Award
Johanna Lampe has a unique ability to capture the goals of her students and suggest paths for professional development that align with those objectives. She finds opportunities for their professional growth, such as active involvement in research ad teaching, additional opportunities for manuscript preparation and submission, grant writing, and attendance and presentation at scientific conference. An accomplished and inspiring research, Johanna has high expectations of her students and demands their best effort. Yet she is available and encouraging, evoking the best from her team. She manages to find the right balance between proving guidance and holding back, offering needed support while allowing students the space to figure things out and succeed on their own.
2008
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2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Is among 100 researchers to receive the prestigious 2008 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This award honors the most promising young researchers in the United States whose early accomplishments show the greatest promise for strengthening America’s leadership in science. A nutritional and genetic epidemiologist, Riki studies the link between nutrition and cancer prevention, particularly how the interplay of genetics and nutrition can impact cancer risk. She is an associate member of the Cancer Prevention Program within the Hutchinson Center’s Public Health Sciences Division and a Research Associate Professor of Epidemiology in our School.
Outstanding Mentor Award
The students who nominated Laura call her an exceptional role model and mentor: "Quite simply, Laura is interested in seeing her students succeed".
American Sexually Transmitted Disease Association Young Investigator of the Year Award
2007
Recipient of the 2007 Lilienfeld Award. The American College of Epidemiology's most prestigious award is given in honor of Abraham Lilienfeld, outstanding teacher, scholar, and founder of the American College of Epidemiology. This is one of the college's highest honor and give for lifetime achievement.
The Brotman Award Instructional Excellence Program on the Environment was awarded to the Multidisciplinary International Research Training Program (MIRT)
2006
Seattle Girls’ School is honored to award Dr. Michelle Williams with the Exemplary Leadership Award at the Fourth
Annual Grace Hopper Awards Luncheon.
Has been selected to receive one of AFSP's annual Pfizer Travel Awards for 2006, based on her recently completed AFSP-funded study, Risk Factors for Postpartum Suicide and Parasuicide.
Appointed to membership on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute on Aging.
2005
Appointed a member of the National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), Subcommittee 1 – Clinical Sciences and Epidemiology.
Recipient of the Science Trophy, a French Food Spirit Award. The award is made in recognition of Dr. Drewnowski's contributions to nutrition research in France, his work with French scientists, and his studies on health disparities, diet quality and diet cost. The award ceremony and reception took place on December 7, 2005, at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Quai d'Orsay, Paris, in the presence of the Minister M. Philippe Douste-Blazy and representatives of the French government, science, and industry."
James L. Gale, MD
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer for Spring Quarter
Bruce Psaty MD, PhD
Outstanding Public Service Award
2004
Scott Davis, PhD
The Russian Academy of Science has elected Scott Davis, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology, to its membership, making him the first foreign-born epidemiologist so honored by the organization. Dr. Davis is being recognized for his research into the effects of radiation on children's health following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
2003
Harvey Checkoway PhD
Appointed to the Board of Scientific Counselors of the NIEHS National Toxicology Program
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer for Winter Quarter
Ann Marie Kimball MD
Elected to the Rotary Service Foundation Board of Rotary Seattle
Laura Koutsky
Published research (NEJM 2002, 347:1645- 1651) on a vaccine that prevents a virus linked to cervical cancer; her work has received national attention.
Janet Daling
Named the 2003 Wade Hampton Frost Lecturer for the Epidemiology Section of the American Public
Health Association at its annual meeting in November.
2002
Noel Weiss, MD
Distinguished Faculty Lecturer
Ann Marie Kimball
Was one of 12 people selected nationally as a Fulbright New Century Scholar—a new Fulbright program to foster interdisciplinary collaboration.
2001
John Potter
Recipient of the Donovan J. Thompson Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.