Outstanding Researcher Awards
The Outstanding Senior Faculty Researcher Award recognizes the faculty member who demonstrates outstanding productivity as a researcher as evidenced by any or all of the following: consistently securing internal and / or external funding, consistently publishing research findings in the appropriate peer-reviewed journals that have impact on the field, consistently presenting research findings at national / international meetings of note, and other measures of outstanding research productivity.
Outstanding Senior Faculty Researcher: Robert Tomko Jr., Ph. D., Department of Biomedical Sciences, associate professor and director of the Tomko Lab.
Institute; Marie-Helene Kabbaj, Biomedical Sciences; Cara North, Autism Institute; Marc Nottke, Autism Institute; Linda Roske, Daytona Beach Regional Campus; Anthony Speights, Interdisciplinary Medical Sciences; Tana Welch, Family Medicine and Rural Health.
15 years
Georgia Arnold, Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine; Joshua Barber, Biomedical Sciences; Jason Gibson, Research Admin-pre-award; Jessee Graham, GME; Ling-Rong Kao, Biomedical Sciences; Charles Maitland, Clinical Sciences; Twila Marquer, Pensacola Regional Campus; Robert Watson, Clinical Sciences; Martin Wood, Library; Jian Wu, IT.
20 years
Lisa Granville, Geriatrics; Michelle Martin, Geriatrics; Stephen Quintero, Family Medicine and Rural Health.
Robert Tomko
The Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher Award recognizes the faculty member who demonstrates promise to become an outstanding researcher evidenced by any or all of the following: securing initial external funding for research, publishing research findings in the appropriate peer-reviewed literature, presenting research findings at national / international meetings of note, and other measures of outstanding promise as a researcher.
Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher: Yang Hou, Ph. D., assistant professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences & Social Medicine.
Yang Hou
Longevity Awards:
Thank you to the following for their years of service to the College of Medicine!
10 years
Peggy Bernardo, Daytona Beach Regional Campus; Michael Collier, Sarasota Regional Campus; Florian Duclot, Biomedical Sciences; Diana Jones, Autism
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