Medicine clinical excellence, Class of 1962 awardees announced

Three College of Medicine faculty members — the late Jud Gurney, M.D., Teresa Berg, M.D., and Jean Botha, M.D. — received the Dean’s Clinical Excellence Awards during the recent AOA/Faculty Honors Convocation.

College of Medicine Dean John Gollan, M.D., Ph.D., second from left, with, from left, Teresa Berg, M.D., Geoffrey Theile, Ph.D., and Jean Botha, M.D., at the recent AOA/College of Medicine Convocation. At the event, Drs. Botha and Berg received Dean’s Clinical Excellence Awards while Dr. Theile recently received the College of Medicine’s Class of 1962 Basic Science Outstanding Teacher Award. Jud Gurney, M.D., who died last month, also was named a Dean’s Clinical Excellence Award recipient.

Meanwhile, Geoffrey Theile, Ph.D., professor of rheumatology in the department of internal medicine, received the College of Medicine Class of 1962 Basic Science Outstanding Teacher award.

Dr. Gurney, a professor of radiology who died last month after a long battle with stomach cancer, received the Excellence in Clinical Education award.

Dr. Berg, associate professor and McGoogan Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, received the Excellence in Clinical Practice award.

Dr. Botha, associate professor of surgery, received the Innovation in Clinical Medicine award.

Read the program View a program from the AOA/College of Medicine Faculty Honors Convocations, which lists all those who were honored at the event.

Also at the convocation, the following medical students were inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national honor medical society by the Nebraska chapter:

• Alex Lesiak;
  
• Joseph Vavricek;
  
• Mark Smith;
  
• Steven Gogela;
  
• Kendra Lesiak;
  
• Kristin McGregor;
  
• Sara Brostrom West;
  
• Gina Leigh;
  
• Morgan Weir;
  
• Jason Patera;
  
• Jared Kvapil;
  
• Melissa Langdon;
  
• Benjamin Teply;
  
• Sarah Wunder;
  
• Melanie Ortleb;
  
• Lyndsay Schwab;
  
• Mark Stavas;
  
• Brian Kitamura; and
  
• Eric Reed.