Previous Awards

2021 JUDITH DREW INNOVATION AWARD RECIPIENTS
(bestowed February 2022)


First Place:
Robert Nathanson, MD, FACP; Minh-Phuong Le, MD; Kevin Proud, MD, FCCP 
UT Health San Antonio
Development of a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Track for Internal Medicine Residents.

Second Place:
Michelle Thompson, DDS;Gary Frey, DDS; Amity Gardner, DDS; Steve Laman, DDS; Maria Loza, DMD, MS; Shalizeh Patel, DDS, MEd; Ryan Quock, DDS; Kimberly Ruona, DDS.
UT Health Houston
Integrating Digital Dentistry into a Four-year Dental School Curriculum

Third Place:
Sara E. Noble, MD; Jessica F. Sandoval, MD; Charles W. Mathias, PhD.
UT Health San Antonio
Mental Health & Advocacy in Action: A Workshop Didactic Elective for Psychiatry Residents
 

2020 JUDITH DREW INNOVATION AWARD RECIPIENTS
(bestowed February 2021)

4 SUBMISSIONS: 2 - UTMB Health, 2 - UTHealth San Antonio

First Place:
Dawnelle Schatte, Premal Patel
UTMB Health
Title: META: An Innovative Course on Mindfully Evolving, Thriving, and Advocating for Beginning First-Year Medical Students

Second Place:
Heather Trepal, Jessica Lloyd-Hazlett, Stacy Ogbeide
UT San Antonio and UT Health San Antonio
Title: Program for the Integrated training for Counselors in Behavioral Health (PITCH).

Third Place:
Caroline Utsey, Tony Chao, Adrianna Ellis, Laurie Farroni, Steven Fisher, Michael Furtado, Rebecca Galloway, Lynne Hughes, Mansoo Ko, Janna McGaugh, Laura Oppermann, Crystalyn Richard, Helen Rogers, Jeanne Smith, Rodney Welsh, Dana Wild
UTMB Health
Title: Bridge PTA to DPT Program at UTMB/SHP/Department of Physical Therapy

Fourth Place:
Juanita Lozano-Pineda, Michael Geelhoed, Kimatha Oxford Grice, Ricky Joseph
UT Health San Antonio
Title: Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorder IPE

 

2019 AWARD RECIPIENTS

3 SUBMISSIONS: 1- UTHealth, 2 - UT Southwestern
2019 Awards are bestowed February 2020.

First Place:
Frederick Grinnell
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: Introduction to Biomedical Ethics

Second Place:
Tom Fadial, Benjamin Cooper, Jonathan Giordano, Catherine Reynolds
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Houston
Title: ECG Stampede: A gamified educational model for rapid electrocardiogram interpretation and triage

Third Place:
Kim Hoggart Krumwiede, James M. Wagner, Lynne M. Kirk, Tara Duval, Thomas Dalton, Kathryn M. Daniel,
Allison S. Huffman, Beverley Adams-Huet, Craig D. Rubin
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: An Educational Activity for the Interprofessional Team Disclosure of Error

 

2018 AWARD RECIPIENTS

7 SUBMISSIONS: 2 - UT Health San Antonio, 1- UTHealth, 1 - UTMB Health, 1 - UT Southwestern,
1 - Dell Medical School at UT Austin, 1 - deferred/not reviewed
2018 Awards are bestowed February 2019

First Place:
Michael Ainsworth, Karen Szauter
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: Cultivating a Professional Environment by Addressing Medical Student Unprofessional Behavior: The Early Concern Note Program

Second Place:
Moshtagh Farokhi, Adelita Cantu, Rebekah Salt, Juanita LozanoPineda
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Trifecta: When Social Determinants of Health, Interprofessional Education, and School Based Prevention Programs Meet

Third Place:
Joseph Connor
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: WikiClinic: An Innovative Use of Technology to Mitigate the Dental July Effect


 

2017 AWARD RESULTS

5 SUBMISSIONS: 2 - UT Health San Antonio, 2 - UTHealth, 1 - UTMB Health
2017 Awards are bestowed February 2018.

First Place:
Christopher J. Moreland
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Advancing education in an interdisciplinary collaborative care model: Learner insights from an education innovation

Second Place:
Michael Bungo
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Title: Integrating education in the business of healthcare into the medical school curriculum and residency training

Third Place:
Celia Chao
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: Integration of Leadership Training for Graduate and Medical Students Engaged in Translational Biomedical Research


 

2016 AWARD RESULTS

9 SUBMISSIONS: 2 - UT Health San Antonio, 4 - UTHealth, 3 - UTMB Health
2016 Awards are bestowed February 2017.

First Place:
Emma A. Omoruyi, MD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Title: "Cross-Talk": Design, Evaluation, and Dissemination of Curriculum to Teach Medical Students How to Use Interpreter Services.

Second Place:
Virginia Niebuhr, PhD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: Pedi.edtech Faculty Development Team

Third Place:
Dennis A. Bente, DVM, PhD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: Infectious Disease Outbreak Response Course


 

2015 AWARD RESULTS

8 SUBMISSIONS: 1 - UT Health San Antonio, 1- UTHealth, 1- UT Southwestern,
1 - UT MD Anderson, 4 - UTMB Health
2015 Awards are bestowed February 2016.

First Place:
Sandra G. Adams, MD, MS
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: The Interprofessional Web‐based Interactive Professional Education in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (WipeCOPD) Educational Program Facilitates Actual Behavioral Changes in Primary Care Clinics

Second Place:
Cara Geary,MD, PhD, Era Buck, PhD, and Julie McKee, MD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: UTMB Physician Healer Track (PTH) For the UT System

Third Place:
Christine Ford, MA, Premal Patel, MD, Judith Rowen, MD, Steve Lieberman, MD, Mark Walffarth, MD and Victor Sierpina, MD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: Student Continuity of Practice Experience (SCOPE)


 

2014 AWARD RESULTS

5 SUBMISSIONS: 1 - UT Health San Antonio, 2 - UTHealth, 2 - UT Southwestern,
2014 Awards are bestowed February 2015.

Awarded to:
Helen Yin, PhD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: Mechanism of Disease and Translational Science


 

2012 AWARD RESULTS

13 SUBMISSIONS: 5 - UT Health San Antonio, 2 - UT Southwestern,
2 - UT MD Anderson, 4 - UTMB Health

First Place:
John D. Rugh, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: The San Antonio 'CATs (Critically Appraised Topics) Initiative' Incorporating Evidence-based Practice into the Dental School Curriculum

Second Place:
Craig Rubin, MD, Amit Shah, MD, and Lynne Kirk, MD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: UT Southwestern Aging and Geriatrics Education Program

Third Place:
Virginia Niebuhr, PhD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: ADAPT (Any Day Any Place Teaching): An Online Instructional Technology Faculty Development Program


 

2011 AWARD RESULTS

6 SUBMISSIONS: 2 - UTHealth, 2 - UT Southwestern, 2 - UTMB Health

First Place:
Jeffrey Spike, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Title: Interdisciplinary and inter-professional Ethics

Second Place:
John H. Byrne, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Title: Neuroscience Online

Third Place:
Barbara Doucet, PhD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: Free Post-Stroke Clinic, a student-serviced teaching clinic


 

2010 AWARD RESULTS

9 SUBMISSIONS: 2 - UT Health San Antonio, 2 - UTHealth,
4 - UT Southwestern, 1 - UT MD Anderson,

First Place:
Sharon Ostwald, PhD, RN, FGSA, FAHA
Carmel B. Dyer, MD, AGSF, FACP
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Center on Aging, School of Nursing
Title: Geriatric Interdisciplinary Student Team Competition

Second Place:
Vineeta Mittal, MD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center School of Medicine
Title: Family Centered Care Special Interest Group of the Academic Pediatric Association Focusing on Family-centered Rounds

Third Place:
P. Eugene Jones, PhD, PA-C
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center School of Health Professions
Title: Dermatology Distance Learning Initiative


 

2009 AWARD RESULTS

4 SUBMISSIONS: 1 - UT Health San Antonio, 1 - UTHealth,
1 - UT Southwestern, 1 - UT MD Anderson,

First Place:
Nora Gimpel, MD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: Community Medicine Education and Research Training: An Innovative Pipeline for Future Primary Care Physicians

Second Place:
Joseph P. Connor, DDS, MA
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Dental School
Title: Development and Implementation of an On-Line Screening Application at the UTHSCSA Dental School

Third Place:
Marianne T. Marcus, EdD, RN, FAAN
Wendell C. Taylor, PhD, MPH
Mark D. Hormann, MD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Nursing, School of Public Health, Medical School
Title: Interprofessional Community-Based Service Learning Course


 

2008 AWARD RESULTS

7 SUBMISSIONS: 3 - UT Health San Antonio, 2 - UTHealth,
1 - UT MD Anderson, 1 - UTMB Health

First Place:
Kristy O. Murray, DVM, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at HoustonSchool of Public Health
Title: The Role of the Student Epidemic Intelligence Society in Strengthening Public Health Education and Epidemiologic Capacity

Second Place:
William W. Morgan, PhD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: Experimental Design and Data Analysis

Third Place:
K.L. Smith, MD, PhD
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: Fontera de Salud


 

2006 - 2007 AWARD RESULTS

14 SUBMISSIONS: 5 - UT Health San Antonio, 1 - UTHealth, 2 - UT Southwestern,
3 - UT MD Anderson, 1 - UT Tyler HSC, 2 - UTMB Health

First Place:
Thomas King, PhD and colleagues
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: "Virtual Microscopy for Health Professionals"

Second Place:
Manuel Angel Oscos-Sanchez, MD
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: "The Teen Medical Academy: Using Academic Enhancement and Instructional Enrichment to Address Ethnic Disparities in American Health Science Education"

Third Place:
Charles Patrick, Jr., PhD
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Title: "Multidisciplinary Summer Research Internship in a Comprehensive Cancer Center"


 

2005 - 2006 AWARD RESULTS

10 SUBMISSIONS: 2 - UT Health San Antonio, 2 - UTHealth, 2 - UT Southwestern,
3 - UT MD Anderson, 1 - UT Tyler HSC, 1 - UTMB Health

First Place:
Patricia A. Brewer, PhD and colleagues
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Title: GATEways: Gross Anatomy Teaching Enhancement

Second Place:
Patricia C. Bergen, MD and Rebekah A. Naylor, MD
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: The Virtual Patient: A Self-directed Study Guide in Surgery

Third Place:
John A. Valenza, DDS
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Dentistry
Title: Clinical Simulation: Combining Realism Technology and Learning