AWARDS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2012rev

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DEPARTMENT OF ANESTHESIOLOGY

Rita Agarwal, MD – Promoted to Professor, continues to be on Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Board of
Directors, elected to Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Program Directors Board of Directors. Co-Founded
the Special Interest Group of Pediatric Pain Management, helped create and moderate the Pediatric Pain
Conference.

Mark H. Chandler – Director, Preanesthesia Clinic, DHMC, Colonel, US Army; Colorado Army National
Guard State Surgeon, two tours Operation Iraqi Freedom, one tour Operation Enduring Freedom
(Afghanistan) and invited Keynote Speaker CPAM (Canadian Perioperative Anesthesia & Medicine)
Meeting, May 2012.

Sara S. Cheng, MD, PhD – Student Mentored/Supported – Chloe Hughes, MS4 and Academic Editor,
PLoS One.

Uwe Christians, MD, PhD – Students Mentored/Supported – Rahul Bohra, Structural Biology and
Biophysics Program, PhD student, graduated May 2012 and Jacek Klepacki, Structural Biology and
Biophysics Program, PhD student. Board Membership – Editorial Boards: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring,
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Drug Metabolism and Disposition.

Randall M. Clark, MD – Journal reviewer: Anesthesia and Analgesia, Board membership: American
Society of Anesthesiologists, Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists, Pediatric Anesthesiology Leadership
Council, and Colorado Medical Society (now relinquished) Presentations: New York State Society of
Anesthesiologists Post-Graduate Assembly “Anesthesia Management for the Pediatric Patient with
Coexisting Cardiac Disease” and “Current Issues Forum: Strategies for Managing Scope of Practice
Challenges” December 2011, Society of Academic Anesthesiology Associations Annual Meeting “Ongoing
Professional Practice Evaluation: Best Practices” November 2011, and Colorado Society of
Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, “Anesthesia for Pediatric Trauma and Burns” September 2011.

Holger Eltzschig, MD, PhD – Elected to Director, Research Enterprise Committee, Department of
Anesthesiology, University of Colorado. Received the Heinrich-Dräger Research Award for Intensive Care
Medicine, Hamburg, Germany. Elected as Member to the American Society of Clinical Investigation
(ASCI). Invited Keynote Speaker to Simon Gelman Symposium, Harvard Medical School in Boston MA.
Invited Keynote Speaker to Annual Meeting of the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists in Seoul Korea.
Invited Keynote Speaker to Research Symposium, University of Tubingen, Germany.

Ana Fernandez-Bustamante, MD, PhD - received the Clinical-Translational Mentored Research Grant
from the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER).

Robert H. Friesen, MD – Presentations – “Repeatability and Accuracy of Carboxyhemoglobin
Measurement by Pulse CO-Oximetry in Children” American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting,
Chicago, October, 2011, “Noninvasive Carbon Monoxide Screening for Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Exposure in Children” American Society of Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, Chicago, October, 2011,
Round Table Discussion: Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia, Society for Pediatric Anesthesia Annual Meeting,
Chicago, October, 2011, and “Perioperative Management of Pulmonary Hypertension” Society of
Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Annual Meeting, Boston, April, 2012. National/International Activities
– Chair, Editorial Board for journal, Pediatric Anesthesia and Board of Directors, Congenital Cardiac
Anesthesia Society.

Jeffrey Galinkin, MD, FAAP – National Committees include the Pediatric Advisory Board and
appointed to the Research Subcommittee Member of the MDDS Foundation. Jan 2012. Invited lecturer
“Postoperative Infections, Can we prevent them?” and “Lightwand Intubation” February, 2012, Colorado
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Review of Anesthesia and Ski Holiday (CRASH) 2012. Vail, Colorado. Invited lecturer at Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA “Anesthesiology Research at Children’s Hospital Colorado: A
Case Study in the Development of a Translational Research Program.” and “Practical applications of -
omics technologies” June 2012.

Glenn Gravlee, MD – Distinguished Service Award, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists

Adrian Hendrickse, MD – Pask Certificate of Honour 2012 awarded by the Association of Anaesthetists
of Great Britain and Ireland for anaesthesia support to British Armed Forces in Afghanistan 2001-2012.

Thomas K. Henthorn, MD – President of the Morton Society and President-Elect of the Center for
Personalized Education for Physicians (CPEP) Board of Directors

Dirk Homann, MD – Journal Review: Diabetes, PLoS Pathogens, PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Microbial
Immunology and Clinical Immunology. Editorial Board member, Frontiers in Microbial Immunology,
Editorial Board member, PLoS ONE, Advisory Board member, DARPA Program on Modeling Immunity
for Biodefense, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology.

Leslie C. Jameson, MD – Editor-in-Chief of the Practice Performance Assessment and Improvement
(PPAI).

Daniel Janik, MD - Immediate Past President Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists; Member of the
American Society of Anesthesiologists House of Delegates; Invited Faculty for Workshop on
Intraoperative Neuromonitoring at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Society for Neurosciences in
Anesthesiology and Critical Care.

Susan Mandell, MD, PhD – Elected to USA Best Doctors 2011. Elected to Advisory Committee of Liver
and Intensive Care Group of Europe. Appointed Section Editor for International Liver Transplantation
Society Educational Web site.

Ferenc Puskas, MD, PhD – Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Fellowship Director – Fellows mentored were
Gregory Wolff, MD and Quinn Stevens, MD

Natalie Serkova, PhD – Invited to serve as an onsite reviewer for the U.S. Department of Energy Office
of Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE SCGF) Program, as well as for the California Breast Cancer
Research Program (“Treatment and Detection” Review Panel), as well as on the Special Emphasis NIH
Panel on “Technology Development for Metabolomics” (ZRG1 BST-P (50). Elected the Editor-in-Chief for
“Cancer Metabolomics” (a Versita Publisher journal). Invited on the Editorial Board for “Recent Patents
on Medical Imaging” and “ISRN Molecular Imaging”. Invited to participate on the NIH R25 GM103798
grant “University of Alabama at Birmingham Metabolomics Workshop: from Design to Decision” as
Metabolomics lecturer/ co-investigator (PI: S. Barnes, UAB). Invited to give a Grand Round lecture “1H-
NMR Based Metabolomics: Application in Translational and Clinical Medicine”, Department of
Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

Marina Shindell, DO - Promoted to Associate Professor. University of Colorado School of Medicine
Admission Committee. Continued on as a Foundations of Doctoring Preceptor. Joined Liver
Transplantation team. Became medical director of pre and post anesthesia care units.

Robin B. Slover, MD – Problem based learning discussion at the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia
Annual Meeting

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Breandan L. Sullivan, MD – Invited to present at Society for Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologists 2012
and 2013 annual meeting. Awarded Teacher of the Year Award (second year in a row) Department of
Anesthesiology University of Colorado Hospital. Awarded "Sunshine Award" University Hospital
Operating Room Staff for the "Most Self Sufficient Anesthesiologist"

Nathaen Weitzel, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology.

Cristina L. Wood, MD – Presentations – “Cesarean delivery of an anticoagulated parturient with high
pressure gradients across bi-leaflet St. Jude mitral and tricuspid mechanical valves: A Case Report”
Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, Monterey, CA, May 2012, “EXIT (Ex-utero intrapartum
treatment) Procedure: Anesthesia Considerations” Anesthesiology Grand Rounds, University of Colorado
Hospital, Aurora, CO, April 2012, “Neurosurgery and Pregnancy” Anesthesiology Grand Rounds,
University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, February 2012, “Neonatal Resuscitation” Resident Lecture,
University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, CO, October 2011, and “Postdural Puncture Headache: Who’s
headache is it anyway?” Colorado Society of Anesthesia Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, September 2011.
Epic Superuser and Implementation of Epic computer system.

BARBARA DAVIS CENTER FOR CHILDHOOD DIABETES

George Eisenbarth, MD, PhD - Professor, Executive Director of Barbara Davis Center, received the
American Diabetes Association 2012 Albert Renold award for his career achievements in mentorship and
diabetes research and the Pediatric Endocrine Society’s Robert M. Blizzard Award.

Georgeanna J. Klingensmith, MD - Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Barbara Davis Center,
received the 2012 American Diabetes Association Award for Physician Clinician in Diabetes for her
contributions to clinical care and education in the field of type 1 diabetes and the Children’s Diabetes
Foundation 2012 High Hopes Award for contributions to the care of children with diabetes.

John C. Hutton, PhD - Professor, Research Director of Barbara Davis Center received the 2012 Gerold
G. Grodsky Award from the Western Region Islet Study Group and the 2012 Paul Lacy Medal Lecturer
Award from the Midwest Islet Club.

DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR GENETICS

David Bentley, PhD - Graduate School Mentoring Award, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical
Campus, 2012; Awarded a second NIH R01 grant, “Mis-regulation of mRNA poly (A) site selection in
cancer cells (PQ11)”

Richard Davis, PhD - Invited Talk: Evolution of Caenorhabditis and Other Nematodes 2012 (CSHL)
“Elimination of Germline-expressed Genes by Chromatin Diminution Reveals Remarkable Gene
Regulation in the Nematode Ascaris”

James DeGregori, PhD - Awarded an NIH R01 grant, “Rationally designed targeted therapeutic
approaches for NSCLC”; Awarded two Leukemia Lymphoma Society grants, “Inhibiting ATM/ATR
pathways to potentiate AML elimination by targeting FLT3” and “Continued development of rational
combination therapies for Ph+ leukemias”; Invited Lecture: Plenary lecture, NASA 22nd Space
Radiation Investigators’ Workshop, League City, TX, Sept 2011; Seminar, CU Boulder, April 2012,
Keynote address for Biology of the Cancer Cell Symposium

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Elan Eisenmesser, PhD - Invited Lecture: International Exosome Conference, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, CO, “Cyclophilin-A and EMMPRIN: moonlighting outside of the cell”;
Invited Lecture: Denver University, “Cyclophilins and their receptor: Everybody’s moving”
Kirk Hansen, PhD - Started the Colorado Biological Mass Spectrometry Society with Dr. Reisdorph from
National Jewish Medical Center and Dr. Prenni from Colorado State University; Organized and
coordinated personalized tours of the Proteomics Facility to over 15 groups ranging from high school
students to department chair candidates and hiring committees; Reviewer for Health Research Council of
New Zealand; Reviewer for Children’s Hospital internal grant program

Jay Hesselberth, PhD - Awarded a Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award; Associate Editor, G3:
Genes | Genomes | Genetics

Robert Hodges, PhD - Member of the Scientific Committee of the 33rd International Symposium on the
Separation of Proteins, Peptides and Polynucleotides (ISPPP 2013) Westin Waterfront, Boston;
Invited Lecture: Second annual Colorado Vaccine Summit, Longmont, CO, “Engineering Novel α-helical
Peptides as Virus Vaccines”; Invited Lecture: World Vaccine Congress 2012, Washington, DC, “Universal
influenza vaccine – new design”

Mingxia Huang, PhD - Editorial board member of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Invited Talk:
Enzyme Ribonucleotide Reductase Symposium

Aaron Johnson, PhD - Appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Genetics; Awarded an NIH R00 grant, “Comprehensive characterization of Heterochromatin Domains”

Mark Johnston, PhD - Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Editor-in-Chief,
GENETICS; Invited Talk: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University,
Goteborg, Sweden; Invited Talk: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Louisiana State
University, Shreveport, LA; Invited Talk: Keynote speaker: Big Sky Mycology Meeting, Bozeman, MT;
Invited speaker: Yeast Genetics Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; Spotlighted in Spring 2012
CU Medicine Today “Lager Yeast and the power of curiosity”

Jeffrey Kieft, PhD - Awarded an NIH R01 grant, “Manipulation of cellular translation machinery by
viral RNAs”; Selected Speaker: EMBL Conference on Protein Synthesis and Translational Control,
Heidleberg, Germany; Speaker: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Science Meeting, Janelia Farm
Research Campus, VA; Speaker: Rocky Mountain Virology Club Annual Meeting, Pingree Park, CO;
Invited Speaker: FASEB meeting on Catalytic RNAs, Snowmass, CO

Changwei Liu, PhD - Invited Lecture: The 4th International Conference on Protein Degradation
proteasome and lysosome pathways”; Invited Lecture: Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern
Medical Center, “Regulating SMN stability via ubiquitination/deubiquitination”; Invited Lecture: The
ASBMB 2012 Annual Meeting, San Diego “Ubiquitin chain trimming recycles the substrate binding sites
of the 26S proteasome and promotes degradation of lysine 48-linked polyUb conjugates”

Paul Megee, PhD - Grant Review: National Institutes of Health, K99/R00 NIH grant review panel;
Invited Seminar: Front Range Microtubule Meeting, University of Colorado School of Medicine
David Pollock, PhD - Awarded a second NIH R01 grant, “Genome-wide mutation models to decipher
function”

Robert Sclafani, PhD - Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology; Editorial Boards: G3:
Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Annual Review of Genetics; Invited Lecture: 24th Annual Fanconi Anemia
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Research Fund Scientific Symposium Denver, CO, “Potential Therapeutic Use of Resveratrol for Head
and Neck Carcinogenesis in Fanconi Anemia”

James Sikela, PhD - Invited Speaker: Keystone Symposium on Functional Consequences of Structural
Variation in the Genome, Steamboat Springs CO, “1q21.1 Duplications, Disease and Evolution”; Invited
Speaker: American Society for Human Genetics Annual Meeting, San Francisco CA, "Human lineage-
specific CNVs: DUF1220 domain copy number linked to cognitive disease and brain evolution”; Invited
Speaker: Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand, “DUF1220 domains
and the search for the genes that made us human”; Invited Speaker: Ghent University, Ghent Belgium,
“DUF1220 domains, cognitive disease and human brain evolution” ; University of Colorado Anschutz
Medical Campus Press Release, from the online edition of The American Journal of Human Genetics,
“Evolutionary increase in size of human brain explained”; Awarded a Linda Crnic Institute grant, “The
goal of this grant is to identify genes on Chr21 that are involved in phenotypes related to Down
syndrome”; Awarded a Butcher Foundation Pilot Grant, “Structural Studies of DUF1220 Protein
Domains”

Rui Zhao, PhD - Awarded an NIH R03 grant, “Identify inhibitors of the transcriptional co-repressor
CtBP using HTS for cancer therapy”; Awarded a Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute
Pilot grant “Targeting a transcriptional co-repressor CtBP for cancer therapy”; Awarded a Cancer League
of Colorado Research grant “Inhibiting the transcriptional co-repressor CtBP for cancer therapy using cell
penetrating peptide”

DEPARTMENT OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Linda Barlow, PhD – Served as Director, Cell Biology, Stem Cells & Development (CSD) graduate
program, and Chair of the CSD Preliminary Exam Committee. Promoted to Professor.

Brad Bendiak, PhD – Nominated to Committee on Assessing the Importance and Impact of Glycomics
and Glycosciences, National Research Council.

Steven Britt, MD – Served as Clinical Co-Director, Human Body Block, SOM; Chair, Graduate Advising
Committee (CSD); Chair, Seminar Committee (Program in Neuroscience), Associate Editor, Fly.

Michael Carry, PhD – Served as Chair, Gross Anatomy Search Committee; Assistant Secretary (CSAB),
Essentials Core Block Directors Committee; 2012 Outstanding Basic Sciences Instructor.

Thomas Evans, PhD – Served as Chair, Molecular Biology Graduate Recruitment/Admissions
Committee; Chair, CSD Graduate Program Student Advisory Committee.

Thomas Finger, PhD – Served as President for Rocky Mountain Region Neuroscience Group (Regional
Chapter of Soc. Neuroscience).

Wendy Macklin, Ph.D. –Served as Chair, NIH study section Cell and Molecular Biology of Glia; served
on Research Programs Advisory Council for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; reviewed FAST
Forward grants for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society; served as a MAC poster judge and Women in
Cell Biology Career mentor at the annual meeting of the American Society of Cell Biology; served on
search committee for the Chair of the Department of Surgery.

Sandra Martin, PhD – Served as Chair, Preliminary Exam Committee.
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Robin Michaels, PhD – Received 5th Annual Faculty Professionalism Award; AAMC Mid-Career Women
Faculty Professional; Received President’s Teaching Award; Served as Faculty Marshall for the SOM
graduating Class of 2012; Served as Secretary Treasurer, Colorado State Anatomical Board; served as
Assistant Dean/Chair, Essentials Core Medical Curriculum; Chair, Task Force on Tracks; Chair, Task
Force on Gaps & Redundancy; Appointed Visiting Professor, University of Zimbabwe School of Medicine.
Chad Pearson, PhD – Selected as 2011 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, and 2012 Boettcher
Investigator.
Rytis Prekeris, PhD – Served as Chair and Organizer of 2012 Annual Front Range Cytoskeleton
Conference; Served as a Member of Special Emphasis Review Panel (ZGM1 MBRS-7) for NIH-GM;
Invited Speaker in EMBO Conference “Dynamic Endosomes: Mechanisms Controlling Endocytosis”;
Invited Speaker at the Annual American Society for Cell Biology Meeting.
Diego Restrepo, PhD – Served as Director of the Center for Neuroscience (CNS); Awarded MCESUP
from the government of Chile, an award to perform a one week advanced neuroscience course for PhD
students in Chile.
Ernesto Salcedo, PhD – Program Coordinator, BRAiN training program.

Victor Spitzer, PhD – Received Gordon and Marilyn Peters Gift to Center for Human Simulation;
Appointed Director, Master’s in Modern Human Anatomy Program.
Selected by the American Association of Clinical Anatomists as local host for the 30th Annual Meeting
(July 9-12, 2013) and Director of the post-graduate course on July 13, 2013.

Norma Wagoner, PhD – Appointed Co-Director, Master’s in Modern Human Anatomy Program.

DEPARTMENT OF DERMATOLOGY

Neil Box, PhD – Co-Chair, Mini-symposium on “Pigmentation and Melanoma”, Annual Meeting of the
Society for Investigative Dermatology, 2012; Invited speaker, Eastern Oncology Group Melanoma
Prevention Working Group meeting, VIII International Melanoma Congress. Invited Speaker, QIAGEN
Symposium Series, Houston, Raleigh, and San Diego.

Anna Bruckner, MD – Appointed Associated Professor (07/12). Listed in Best Doctors in America.

Robert Dellavalle, MD, PhD, MSPH – Graduate Program Outstanding Research Mentor Award,
Preventive Medicine Residency Program Award.

Peter Koch, PhD – Promoted to Professor; Co-Chair, Minisymposia on “Cell Adhesion and Matrix
Biology”, Annual Meeting of the Society for Investigative Dermatology, 2012

Christopher K. Law MD – Outstanding Journal Research Article published in Obesity (Awarded by the
Obesity Society in October 2011) "Fat Redistribution Following Suction Lipectomy: Defense of Body Fat
and Patterns of Restoration", et al.

Lela Lee, MD – Received 5280 Top Doctor Award. I am also listed in Best Doctors in America

David Norris, MD Professor and Chairman Department of Dermatology – Invited speaker: 70th
Annual American Academy of Dermatology Meeting 03/12, Society for Investigative Dermatology 05/12,
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University of Arkansas: “Melanoma Update” 05/12, 18th China National Annual Congress of Dermatology
& Venereology, Beijing, China 06/12

Lori Prok, MD – Appointed Assistant Section Editor, Off-Center Fold Dermatology Section, JAMA
Dermatology (Formerly Archives of Dermatology). Awarded Women’s Dermatologic Society Mentorship
Grant (2012). Mentor for Dr. Joshua Schulman, resident in Dermatology at University of California, San
Francisco. Awarded Society for Pediatric Dermatology Mentorship Grant (2012). Mentor for Dr. Adam
Rubin, attending dermatologist and dermatopathologist at University of Pennsylvania. Named 5280 “Top
Doc”: 2012, 2011. Awarded Golden Stethoscope Award for medical student precepting (“Best Specialty
Preceptor”), 2012. Elected Executive Board Member, Secretary, Colorado Dermatologic Society

Dennis Roop, PhD – Honored by FIRST Foundation for ground-breaking research to correct inherited
skin disease.

Yigun Shellman, PhD – Editorial Board member at PLoS ONE. Preceptor for University of Colorado
Cancer Center Fellows; The Institutional Biosafety Committee member of University of Colorado; Ad hoc
reviewer for Journal of Investigative Dermatology, PLoS One, Biochemical Pharmacology.

Qinghong Zhang, PhD – Recipient of Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute CO-Pilot
Award, University of Colorado Cancer Center Seed Grant Award, Colorado Skin Disease Research
Center, and Merit Award for Exemplary Efforts in Clinical, Educational, or Research Endeavors.
Appointed to the Dean’s Office Pilot Grant Committee. Scientific Reviewer for AICR fund, UK. Invited
speaker, Chinese Dermatology Congress, Beijing, China.

DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Jean Abbott, MD, MH – Received the 2012 Advancement of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine
Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Barbara Blok, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Kelly Bookman, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and received the
President’s Award from the University of Colorado Hospital

Michael Breyer, MD – Received the 2012 Peter Rosen Leadership Award from the Denver Health
Emergency Medicine Residents, nominated by the Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residents for the
2012 Associate/Assistant Program Director of the Year Award, received the 2012 Attending of the Year
Award from the Denver Health Emergency Department Staff, and nominated by the Foundations of
Doctoring students in 2012 for the Golden Stethoscope Award for Best Emergency Medicine Preceptor

Vaughn Browne, MD, PhD – Received the 2012 Outstanding Physician Award from the University of
Colorado Hospital Emergency Department nurses

Jennie Buchanan, MD – Received the 2012 Award for Best Attending Lecture from the Denver Health
Paramedic School, received the 2012 Award for Outstanding Teacher from the Denver Health Emergency
Medicine Residents, and nominated by the Foundations of Doctoring students in 2012 for the Golden
Stethoscope Award for Best Emergency Medicine Preceptor

Brett Burbridge, PA-C – Received the 2012 Physician Assistant of the Year Award from the University
of Colorado Hospital Emergency Department nurses, and appointed as Chief Physician Assistant

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Richard Byyny, MD, MSc – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Christopher Colwell, MD – Received the 2012 Positively Collaborative Award for outstanding
collaboration toward the improvement of Colorado’s trauma system, and promoted to Professor of
Emergency Medicine

Andrew French, MD – Received the 2012 Leadership Development Fellowship Program Award from the
Colorado Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians

Adit Ginde, MD, MPH – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, became a Fellow of the
American College of Emergency Physicians, received the Beeson Career Development Grant from the
National Institute of Aging, member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Chapter of the American
College of Emergency Physicians, finalist for the Junior Investigator Award from the American College of
Emergency Physicians Research Forum, received the Trailblazers in Emergency Medicine Award from
the Emergency Medicine Foundation, received the Young Investigators Award from the Society for
Academic Emergency Medicine, and nominated by the Foundations of Doctoring students in 2012 for the
Golden Stethoscope Award for Best Emergency Medicine Preceptor

Benjamin Honigman, MD – Appointed Associate Dean of Clinical Outreach for the University of
Colorado School of Medicine, appointed Medical Director of Clinical Outreach for the University of
Colorado Hospital, and named as one of 5280 Magazine’s Top Doctors in Denver in 2012

Renee King, MD, MPH – Member of the Joint US/Canadian Global Health Curriculum Committee

Debra Kreisberg, PhD – Received a training grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment to develop collaborative systems in disaster response and received a Hospital and Health
Preparedness grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

Eric Lavonas, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Charles Little, DO – Received a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
to develop research and training programs in disaster preparedness

Steven Lowenstein, MD, MPH – Member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Prevention Center

David Matero, MD – Member of the Board of Directors for the Council of Residency Directors

Andrew Monte, MD – Received a Research Training Grant from the Emergency Medicine Foundation,
awarded as a Hartford Scholar from the American Geriatric Society, and nominated by the Foundations
of Doctoring students in 2012 for the Golden Stethoscope Award for Best Emergency Medicine Preceptor

Kathryn Mueller, MD, MPH – Elected Vice-President of the American College of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine

Kristen Nordenholz, MD – Received the 2012 Pioneer Award from the University of Colorado Hospital

David Richards, MD – Nominated by the Foundations of Doctoring students in 2012 for the Golden
Stethoscope Award for Best Emergency Medicine Preceptor

Jeffrey Sankoff, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

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Comilla Sasson, MD – Received a Career Development Award from the Emergency Medicine
Foundation and received a Scientist Development Grant Award from the American Heart Association

Fred Severyn, MD – Chair of the Emergency Cardiac Care Committee for the American Heart
Association and received the 2012 Stephen V. Cantrill Master Teacher Award from the Denver Health
Residency in Emergency Medicine

Lee Shockley, MD – Received TEAMS Awards for a project to expedite emergency to inpatient transfers
and the establishment of the Clinical Transition Unit and received a STAR Award recognizing his work in
preparing the emergency medicine team for the successful Joint Commission Survey

Jacqueline Ward-Gaines, MD – Received the 2012 Clinical Excellence Award from the University of
Colorado Hospital Emergency Department nurses

Stephen Wolf, MD – Received the 2012 Distinguished Educator Award for Educational Leadership from
the Council of Residency Directors and received the 2012 Excellence in Educational Administration and
Leadership Award from the Academy of Medical Educators

Jennifer Wiler, MD – Member of the Board of Directors for the Colorado Medical Society, member of the
Board of Directors for the Colorado Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and
received a Service Recognition Award from the American Medical Association Women Physicians
Congress for holding the position of Chair for the last four years

Lynne Yancey, MD – Promoted to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine

Richard Zane, MD – Appointed inaugural Chair of the Department of Emergency and received the
Faculty Mentoring Award named in his honor from Brigham and Women’s Hospital

DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE

Grace Alfonsi, MD – Listed in 5280 magazine as Top Doctors of Denver and listed on the US News web
pages as US News Top Doctors. Inducted as Fellow of the AAFP at the annual meeting, and received
University of Colorado Faculty Development Initiative Program Award to attend the Harvard School of
Public Health Course of Management of community health centers.

Brian Bacak, MD, FAAFP – In July 2011 completed term as the Colorado Academy of Family
Physicians Board Chair and recognized as 2011 Colorado Academy of Family Physicians Teacher of the
Year. Promoted to Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, assumed role as Chair,
Department of Family Medicine, at Rose Medical Center. In 2012 re-joined the Board of Directors for the
Colorado Academy of Family Physicians as an Alternate-Delegate to the American Academy of Family
Physicians annual Congress of Delegates.

Elizabeth A. Bayliss, MD, MSPH - Associate Editor, Annals of Family Medicine. Promoted to Director
of Scientific Development, Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado 2010-2011. US
Department of Health and Human Services, Multiple Chronic Conditions Expert Steering Committee,
October 2011. National Institute on Aging and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Expert Panel
on Outcome Measures for Older Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions. September, 2011.

Michael Benavidez, MD – Recognized in 5280 magazine as best family and sports medicine doctors in
Denver.

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Terri Blevins, MA – Recipient of the Dr. Joseph W. St. Geme, Jr. Award for exceptional ability in
promoting the overall mission of the University of Colorado School of Medicine; appointed to the Associate
of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Careers in Medicine (CiM) Advisory Committee; presented a
poster on a model for Enrichment and Remediation at the AAMC 2011 Professional Development
Conference for Student Affairs and Careers in Medicine.

George Bock, MD – Listed in 5280 Magazine as ―Top Doctors of Denver as well as the US News
webpages as US News Top Doctors.

Michael Bross, MD – Appointed to Associate Professor in Family Medicine, recognized as the 2011
Teacher of the Year in Family Medicine.

Jeffrey Cain, MD – Member of the Board of Directors for the AAFP and the AAFP Foundation. Board of
Directors for the Amputee Coalition and Chair of the AC Advocacy Committee, introducing bipartisan
federal legislation in US House and Senate for prosthetic insurance coverage, Member of the Colorado
Medical Services Board working on the Colorado Health Care Policy and Finance, President Elect of the
American Academy of Family Physicians, Board of Directors of the Colorado Medical Services Board
overseeing Colorado Medicaid and CHP+.

B. Ned Calonge, MD – Named President and CEO of the Colorado Trust.

Stephanie M Chu, DO—received Richard Patt, M.D. Community Preceptor Award for Rose Family
Medicine Residency, June 2012.

Maribel Cifuentes, BSN, RN – Invited keynote, Addressing Health Behavior Change in the PCMH:
Lessons from Prescription for Health at the 32nd Forum for Behavioral Science in Family Medicine,
September 2011. Invited International Advisor ―PVS Learning Seminar III – Strengthening collaboration
in the community to promote healthy habits, Bilbao, Spain, October 2011. Invited keynote, Addressing
Health Behavior Change in the PCMH: Lessons from Prescription for Health at 2nd Annual Tri-Service
Medical Home Summit: Building an Integrated Medical Home Brick by Brick, October 2010. Invited
International advisor for Integrating Promotion of Health Behaviors in Primary Care from theory to
practice: A collaborative learning seminar at Basque Institute for Healthcare Innovation, Bilbao, Spain,
September 2010.

Colleen Conry, MD – Vice-chair of the Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine, ACGME;
member of the NCQA Programs Committee, member of the American Academy of Family Physicians
Commission on Quality and Practice, and faculty for the National Institute for Program Director
Development. Member Board of Directors, Center for Personalized Education for Physicians and received
Clinician of the Year Award from the Department of Family Medicine.

Lauren DeAlleaume, MD – One of 14 Denver Health Doctors listed on U.S. News Top Doctors. Inducted
as a Fellow of the AAFP at the annual meeting.

Frank deGruy, III, MD, MSFM – Elected Member of the Institute of Medicine. Member of the Council of
Academic Family Medicine Organizations. Chair, National Integration Academy Council, 2010-2012.
Board of Directors, 2040 Partners for Health, 2006-2012. Board of Directors, Colorado Institute of Family
Medicine, 2009-2012. 2011-2012 President of North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG).
Chair, Family Physicians Inquires Network Board of Directors (FPIN) 2003-2012; Treasurer, National
Network of Depression Center (NNDC), 2009-2012; 2011 Past President, Collaborative Family Healthcare
Association. Elected as a member to the Alabama Beta Chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Society.
Named one of the 2010 recipients of the University of South Alabama‘s (USA) Distinguished Alumni
Awards. This is the highest honor USA can bestow on an alumnus.
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