{"id":415,"date":"2026-01-28T13:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/?p=415"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:15:18","slug":"celebrating-our-2025-distinguished-medical-alumni-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/2026\/01\/28\/celebrating-our-2025-distinguished-medical-alumni-award-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating our 2025 Distinguished Medical Alumni Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-17-49-53-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-17-49-53-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-17-49-53-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-17-49-53-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-17-49-53-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-17-49-53-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-17-49-53-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><strong>Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Distinguished Medical Alumni Awards!<\/strong> The awards are presented to alumni whose outstanding professional service and achievements bring esteem to the UNC School of Medicine. This year&#8217;s winners were celebrated at a awards celebration on December 10, which also honored UNC Health teammates who received awards this year in areas of research, clinical, and teaching excellence.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"entry-content\"><strong><u>Distinguished Medical Alumni Award<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/dmaa4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/dmaa4-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/dmaa4-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/dmaa4-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/dmaa4-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/dmaa4-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/dmaa4-600x337.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><strong>Brian H. Mullis, MD \u201899<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">Dr. Mullis completed his MD in 1999 and Residency in Orthopaedic Surgery in 2005, both at UNC. He also completed a fellowship in Orthopaedic Trauma. He is currently the vice chair for faculty development and is residency program director for the Department of Orthopaedics at Indiana University. He was active duty military for 14 years, including deployments to Afghanistan, where he cared for wounded servicemembers through the Wounded Warrior Project. He has been named a Top North American Traumatologist and has traveled the world teaching various techniques to other surgeons. He is the chair of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association Education Committee and was inducted as a fellow for the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association last year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"entry-content\"><strong><u>Early Career Achievement<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-06-11-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-06-11-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-06-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-06-11-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-06-11-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-06-11-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-06-11-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><strong>Joshua Berkowitz, MD \u201810<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">Dr. Berkowitz is an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at UNC Orthopaedics. He is triple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Sports Medicine, and currently serves as the division chief for Nonoperative Sport and Musculoskeletal Medicine. He also serves as the head UNC team physician for several sports, an honor that his nominators noted is extremely rare for someone his age.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><strong>Avik Chatterjee, MD \u201808<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">Dr. Chatterjee is assistant professor at Boston University Chobanian &amp; Avedisian School of Medicine and is an adjunct faculty member at Harvard Medical School. His nominators highlighted his service to Boston\u2019s most vulnerable citizens, as evidenced by his leadership of the Southampton Street Shelter Clinic and other addiction medicine services he provides through the Boston Health Care for the Homeless (BHCHP) Program. His research focuses on opioid use disorder and overdose prevention, and he\u2019s been published in prestigious journals and teaches social medicine and social determinants of health at Harvard Medical School.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"entry-content\"><strong><u>Distinguished Faculty Award<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-08-36-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-08-36-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-08-36-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-08-36-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-08-36-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-08-36-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/SOM-Awards-Celebration-2025-2025-12-12-18-08-36-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><strong>Jane H. Brice, MD \u201894<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">Dr. Brice is the chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. She has spent 30 years on faculty at the UNC School of Medicine, including 10 as department chair, and is credited with building UNC into a top emergency center in the country, with thriving residency and fellowship programs and significant research activity among the faculty.<br \/>\n<u><\/u><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/Isaacs-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/Isaacs-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/Isaacs-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/Isaacs-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/Isaacs-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/Isaacs-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/Isaacs-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1470\/2026\/01\/Isaacs-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><strong>Kim L. 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The American Gastroenterological <a href=\"https:\/\/gastro.org\/news\/in-memoriam-dr-kim-l-isaacs\/\">published a tribute article<\/a>, calling Dr. Isaacs a &#8220;treasured physician, teacher, mentor and researcher.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Distinguished Medical Alumni Awards! The awards are presented to alumni whose outstanding professional service and achievements bring esteem to the UNC School of Medicine. 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