Clinical Distinctions
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 administration) 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.
Department of Medicine Timeline for 2024 Clinical Distinctions
Senior Physician deadline |
Distinguished Physician deadline |
Eminent Physician deadline |
Action |
---|---|---|---|
7/12/24 |
7/12/24 |
7/12/24 |
Division Director to send names for Clinical Distinction nominations to Office of Faculty Development (OFD) |
7/15/24 |
7/17/24 |
7/19/24 |
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 |
8/5/24 |
8/16/24 |
8/26/24 |
Candidates send documents to OFD, documents placed in OneDrive folders that Division Directors/Assistants can access |
8/6/24 |
8/19/24 |
8/28/24 |
OFD to notify divisions when candidate materials are all saved to OneDrive |
8/7/24 |
8/20/24 |
9/3/24 |
Division admins to request evaluator letters |
8/30/24 |
9/20/24 |
9/3/24 |
Evaluator letter deadline |
8/26/24 |
9/17/24 |
10/14/24 |
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 |
9/3/24 |
9/24/24 |
10/21/24 |
Final reminder from OFD to DDs re: LOS |
9/6/24 |
10/1/24 |
10/28/24 |
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)
- A suggested evaluator list that your division director will use to solicit letters of support
Clinical Distinction Committee
- Patrick Bowen, Chair, Endocrinology
- Jennifer Culley, VA Primary Care
- Rachel Friedman-Moraco, Infectious Diseases
- Charles Grodzin, Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
- Azizul Hoque, Cardiology
- Ketino Kobaidze, Hospital Medicine
- Sahebi Saiyed, Geriatrics
- Kavya Sebastian, Digestive Diseases
- Sudha Tata, Nephrology
- Athan Tiliakos, Rheumatology