Please help us congratulate one of our own: Caroline Wellbery, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine who received the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine

The Gold Foundation sponsors the annual Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Awards for a faculty member at over 85 of the nation's medical schools. This award is presented to the faculty member who best demonstrate the Foundation's ideals of outstanding compassion in the delivery of care, respect for patients, their families, and healthcare colleagues, as well as demonstrated clinical excellence.

Dr. Caroline Wellbery is a graduate of the University of California School of Medicine and Stanford University, where she earned a PhD in Comparative Literature. She is currently serving as Associate Deputy Editor of American Family Physician and Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. Her interests include writing, language, literature in medicine, and using the arts to teach the many aspects of patients' experiences with pain, depression, sexuality, domestic violence, grief, obesity, aging and death. Her website, Interacting with the Medical Humanities, is a reflection of this last interest. The website offers a wealth of stories from the perspective of both patients and doctors, as well as artistic representations of illness and suffering. Her other interests include medical education, medical uncertainty, chronic care management and motivational interviewing. She has presented her work both nationally and internationally.

Please visit the website at: http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/familymedicine/imh/.

The 2010 John Eisenberg Career Development Award winners were: Nady Golestaneh, Ph.D. and Ranit Mishori, M.D. for Early Career and Shawna Willey, M.D. and Robin Gross, M.D. for Mid Career. 

GWIM strives to recognize faculty who are devoted to the ideals of academic medicine. To this end, we hold the annual GWIM Fall Awards Reception, which honors recently appointed, promoted and tenured women faculty, as well as two named awards. The Estelle Ramey Mentorship Award was established in 2000 to honor faculty who have provided outstanding encouragement, support, and mentorship for GUMC women faculty to reach their maximum professional potential. GUMC women faculty nominate and vote for the Ramey Mentorship Award candidates. Both male and female faculty are eligible to win this award. The 2009 Estelle Ramey Mentorship Award winner was Kenneth Dretchen, Ph.D. Ramey.Awardees.2010-1.pdf

In the Fall of 2008, GWIM established a new award, the GWIM Outstanding Achievement Award. This award will be given to a female faculty member within GUMC/GUH who has demonstrated outstanding achievement through her research, education or service, who is recognized at a national or international level, and who has also contributed to the Georgetown community. Each year, this award will serve to highlight the accomplishments of GUMC/GUH women faculty. The 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award winner was Jean Wrathall, Ph.D.