{"id":6466,"date":"2024-03-08T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T15:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/?page_id=6466"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:57:56","slug":"instructional-faculty-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/about\/clinical-educators\/instructional-faculty-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructional Faculty Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Excellence in Education Award<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u00a0Allison Phillips, MPAP, MHPE, PA-C<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Director of Clinical Education<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>2024<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Preceptor of the Year<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">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.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Jonathon Heath, MD<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Division of Hospital Medicine<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Associate Professor of Medicine<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>2024<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Prior Recipients: Excellence in Education<\/h4>\n<p>2023: Jennifer Woody, NP-C, UNC Orthopedics<\/p>\n<p>2022: Kunal Jakharia, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine<\/p>\n<p>2021: Winston Li, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry<\/p>\n<p>2020: Dorey Glenn, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension<\/p>\n<p>2019: James Fiordalisi, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology<\/p>\n<p>2018: Ed Kernick, DPM, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology &amp; Physiology<\/p>\n<p>2017: Jonathan Gerkin, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">Prior Recipients: Preceptor of the Year<\/h4>\n<p>2022: Aaron Peterson, PA-C, Family Medicine<\/p>\n<p>2021: Jessica Curcio, MPAS, PA-C, Division of Vascular Surgery<\/p>\n<p>2020: Benjamin Linthicum, DNP, FNP, Department of Emergency Medicine<\/p>\n<p>2019: D. Wayne Overby, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery<\/p>\n<p>2018: William Mills, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Pediatrics<\/p>\n<p>2017: Jonathon Heath, MD, Associate Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0Allison Phillips, MPAP, MHPE, PA-C Director of Clinical Education 2024 &nbsp; Preceptor of the Year The Preceptor of the Year recognizes a UNC-CH MHSPAS Program instructional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/about\/clinical-educators\/instructional-faculty-awards\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Instructional Faculty Awards\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87348,"featured_media":0,"parent":3687,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6466","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6844,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6466\/revisions\/6844"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/unc-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}