Instructional Faculty Awards

Excellence in Education Award

This award is in recognition of outstanding contributions to the educational mission and development of future physician assistants during the didactic phase of the program.

Meg Beal, MMS, PA-C

Atlantic Reproductive Medicine

2023

Preceptor of the Year

The Preceptor of the Year recognizes a UNC-CH MHSPAS Program instructional faculty who made outstanding contributions to the educational developments of future physician assistants by demonstrating high standards of professionalism, ethics, and clinical practice. Nominations for the award are submitted annually by the programs graduating class and voted on by the UNC-CH MHSPAS Program Clinical Affairs Committee.

Jennie Woody, NP-C

Orthopedics
UNC Health

2023

Prior Recipients: Excellence in Education

2022: Kunal Jakharia, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine

2021: Winston Li, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry

2020: Dorey Glenn, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension

2019: James Fiordalisi, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology

2018: Ed Kernick, DPM, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology

2017: Jonathan Gerkin, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry

Prior Recipients: Preceptor of the Year

2022: Aaron Peterson, PA-C, Family Medicine

2021: Jessica Curcio, MPAS, PA-C, Division of Vascular Surgery

2020: Benjamin Linthicum, DNP, FNP, Department of Emergency Medicine

2019: D. Wayne Overby, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery

2018: William Mills, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Pediatrics

2017: Jonathon Heath, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine