Clinical Distinctions

Senior Physician, Distinguished Physician, and Eminent Physician Clinical Distinctions are designed to recognize faculty who have made significant clinical contributions.

The Clinical Distinctions designation program is an annual School of Medicine program designed to recognize faculty who have devoted a majority of their time and careers to providing excellence in clinical care. Regular faculty who have a minimum of 0.5 FTE and devote at least half their time to clinical efforts (patient care and clinical administraton) are eligible for these distinctions. Distinctions are awarded at three levels: Senior Physician, Distinguished Physician, and Eminent Physician. If you are interested in being nominated, please contact your Division Director. Learn more about the School of Medicine Clinical Distinctions program here.

For questions regarding the Department of Medicine Clinical Distinction program, please contact Bevin Pascual.

Timeline of the 2023 Clinical Distinctions Process

Senior Physician deadline	Distinguished Physician deadline	Eminent Physician deadline	Action
7/14/23	7/14/23	7/14/23	Division Director to send names for Clinical Distinction nominations to Office of Faculty Development(OFD)
7/17/23	7/19/23	7/21/23	OFD to send an email to the faculty member detailing the process and asking him/her to complete nomination documents (CV, Service Statement, and Evaluator List) and cc: the Division Director/Division Administrator
8/7/23	8/18/23	8/28/23	Candidates send documents to OFD, Documents placed in OneDrive folders that Division Directors/Assistants can access
8/8/23	8/21/23	9/5/23	OFD to notify Divisions when candidate materials are all saved to OneDrive
8/9/23	8/22/23	9/6/23	Division admins to request evaluator letters
9/1/23	9/22/23	10/11/23	Evaluator letter deadline
8/28/23	9/18/23	10/16/23	OFD email Division Director and Service Chief reminding them when their letter of support is due. Will send along the candidate docs if the faculty member hasn’t
9/5/23	9/25/23	10/23/23	Final reminder from OFD to DDs re: LOS
9/8/23	10/2/23	10/30/23	Divisional letter of support due/Full packet due

Documentation Required for Clinical Distinction

Download the full Clinical Distinction guidelines.

CV in SOM format
Clinical service statement - document to address the four categories of achievement as applicable (quality of care and patient satisfaction, innovation, administration, citizenship)
- Clinical service statement template
- Clinical service statement sample
A suggested evaluator list that your division director will use to solicit letters of support

Clinical Distinction Committee

Patrick Bowen, Chair, Endocrinology
Sahebi Saiyed, Geriatrics
Sudha Tata, Nephrology
Rachel Friedman-Moraco, Infectious Disease
Jennifer Culley, VA Primary Care
Laurence Busse, Pulmonary
Amy Miller, Hospital Medicine
Modele Ogunniyi, Cardiology
Preeti Reshamwala, Digestive Disease
Arezou Khosroshahi, Rheumatology