Pandya receives Humanism in Medicine dermatology award

Dr. Amit Pandya, Professor of Dermatology, has been awarded the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award. The award is presented by the American Academy of Dermatology, and is given each year to a dermatologist who exemplifies compassionate, patient-centered care. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation was established more than 20 years ago with the goal of restoring a more effective balance between the cutting-edge science of medicine and compassionate patient care.

In addition to this honor, Dr. Pandya is the new co-editor of the first edition of the textbook Dermatology Atlas for Skin of Color. The book focuses on dermatologic conditions that are most common in ethnic skin, and offers explanations of each disease process, descriptions of clinical findings, as well as key information on diagnosis and treatment.

Quiceno named to AAMC’s Council of Faculty

Dr. Mary Quiceno, Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, has been named to the Council of Faculty and Academic Societies (CFAS) of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The CFAS provides a voice for academic faculty within the AAMC’s governance and leadership structures. CFAS identifies critical issues facing faculty members, advocates for AAMC programs, services, and policies to address those issues, and is a bi-directional communications conduit with the broader body of academic faculty on core missions of academic medicine.

UT Southwestern is also represented on the CFAS by Dr. Joseph Hill, Chief of Cardiology, Director of the Harry S. Moss Heart Center, Professor of Internal Medicine, Molecular Biology, Integrative Biology, and holder of the James T. Willerson, M.D., Distinguished Chair in Cardiovascular Diseases, and the Frank M. Ryburn Jr. Chair in Heart Research.

Pathologist Sarode named holder of Childers Professorship

Dr. Ravindra Sarode, Professor of Pathology at UT Southwestern Medical Center, has been named holder of the John H. Childers, M.D. Professorship in Pathology. His research and clinical activities are in transfusion medicine and hemostasis, which are interdependent subspecialties. Knowledge of hemostasis provides an advantage in the management of patients with complex coagulopathy requiring blood component therapy. His clinical research interests include hypercoagulability, platelet function disorders and reducing unnecessary transfusions.

Dr. Sarode, a faculty member at UT Southwestern since 2000, earned his medical degree at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College in 1981 before completing pathology and hematopathology residencies in India. In the mid-1990s, he also served a fellowship at the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin, and a pathology residency at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.

Turner to hold Bass Professorship in Education

Dr. William Turner, Professor of Surgery at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Master of UT Southwestern Medical School’s Sprague College, has been named new holder of the Carla and Paul Bass Professorship in Medical Education Honoring Charles C. Sprague, M.D.

Dr. Turner specializes in numerous clinical procedures and treatments that include abdominal wall reconstructions, colon or small bowel resections, hernias, gallstones/gallbladder removal, biopsies, and small tissue tumor procedures. His research interests include gastrointestinal as well as pancreatic diseases.

Dr. Turner, who also holds the Ernest Poulos, M.D., Distinguished Chair in Surgery, attended Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Tulane University School of Medicine. He finished his residency at UT Southwestern in general surgery in 1977, served on active duty in the Air Force, and returned to UT Southwestern as a faculty member from 1979 to 1992.  He was recruited back again in 2007.