Faculty Honors and Awards

2012

SPHA Outstanding Teaching Award: Recognizes a teacher who is accessible to students, is interested in students as individuals, and uses innovative teaching methods, and relevant assignments while inspiring independent and original thinking.

Beth Mueller, DPH, MPH

SPHA Outstanding Faculty Mentor: Honors a mentor who respects students’ goals and helps students work toward them while providing a good model of professionalism, demonstrating awareness and respect for differences.

Scott McClelland, MD, MPH

2011

Evans Award - Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring

Noel S. Weiss, MD, DrPH

Recipient of the The Alfred S. Evans Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring in Epidemiology.

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SPHA Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award: Honors a mentor who respects students’ goals and helps students work toward them while providing a good model of professionalism, demonstrating awareness and respect for differences.

Gayle E. Reiber, PhD, MPH

President Honors Outstanding Science, Math, Engineering Mentors

Michelle A. Williams, ScD, SM, MS, AB

President Obama has named Dr. Michelle Williams, University of Washington (UW) professor of epidemiology and global health in the School of Public Health, as one of the nation’s outstanding mentors in science, math and engineering.

UW research group wins AACR Team Science Award

An internationally renowned team of Hutchinson Center and University of Washington molecular biologists, epidemiologists, biostatisticians and clinicians who have worked together on human papillomavirus (HPV) for more than 20 years have won the American Association for Cancer Research’s Team Science Award

Pictured from left: Dr. Denise Galloway and Hutchinson Center and University of Washington team members Drs. Laura Koutsky, Margaret Madeline, James Hughes, Peggy Porter, Steve Schwartz, Nancy Kiviat, Barbara McKnight, Hisham Tamimi, Longfu Xi. Not shown: Drs. Janet Daling and Constance Mao.

2010

SPHA Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award: Honors a mentor who respects students’ goals and helps students work toward them while providing a good model of professionalism, demonstrating awareness and respect for differences.

Polly Newcomb, PhD, MPH

Faculty Community Service Award: Presented to a faculty or staff member who has made special efforts to put public health principles into practice in the community, especially if such efforts were above and beyond usual job responsibilities.

Andy Stergachis, PhD

2009

Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award: Honors a mentor who respects students’ goals and helps students work toward them while providing a good model of professionalism, demonstrating awareness and respect for differences.

Johanna Lampe, PhD

Recovery Act Award: Genome-wide association study of nonsynonymous SNPs in colon cancer

Ulrike (Riki) Peters, Ph.D., M.P.H.

2008

Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Ulrike (Riki) Peters, PhD, MPH

Awardees

Presentation with President Obama

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 Faculty Mentor Award: Honors a mentor who respects students’ goals and helps students work toward them while providing a good model of professionalism, demonstrating awareness and respect for differences.

Laura Koutsky, PhD

American Sexually Transmitted Disease Association Young Investigator of the Year Award

Rachel Winer, PhD

2007

Noel Weiss, MD, DrPH

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.

Michelle Willilams, ScD

The Brotman Award Instructional Excellence Program on the Environment was awarded to the Multidisciplinary International Research Training Program (MIRT)

2006

Michelle Willilams, ScD

Seattle Girls’ School is honored to award Dr. Michelle Williams with the Exemplary Leadership Award at the Fourth
Annual Grace Hopper Awards Luncheon.

Melissa Schiff , MPH, MD

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.

David Siscovick, MD, MPH

Appointed to membership on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute on Aging.

2005

Scott Davis, PhD

Appointed a member of the National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC), Subcommittee 1 – Clinical Sciences and Epidemiology.

Adam Drewnowski, PhD

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.