Sponsor: Dean’s Office
Presentation includes: Plaque and $250
The award recognizes a graduating medical student who has demonstrated superior scholastic performance, outstanding potential as a physician, and sincere understanding of and compassion for patients under their care.
Nomination and Selection Process:
Third-year clerkship directors nominate and select the award’s recipient based on the students’ academic and professional performance, and humanistic care of patients.
History:
The Florence M. Strong Award/Scholarship is named for a woman who was an administrative assistant to six deans of the medical school over a span of 25 years. Florence retired in 1968, but many individuals in the local medical community—dating from the School of Medicine’s first four-year graduating Class of 1944—remember her fondly. This award was established by alumni to honor her contributions to the school. The Florence M. Strong Award is presented annually to a student who has demonstrated superior scholastic performance, outstanding potential as a physician, and sincere understanding of and compassion for patients under his or her care.
Past Recipients:
2022 | Nicholas Flint |
2021 | Adelheid Ute Brandenberger |
2020 | John J. Ward |
2019 | Michele Louise Bamgartner |
2018 | Grace Collins Brummer |
2017 | Susan Michelle Folsom |
2016 | John William Morgan |
2015 | Kristen Hansord Lilja |
2014 | Stephen L. Jenkins |
2013 | Megan Marie Wilde |
2012 | Sara Catherine Wilson |
2011 | Melody Rose Anderson |
2010 | Tricia Hauschild |
2010 | Nathan Holman |
2009 | Ashley Ellsworth |
2008 | Cory Carlston |
2008 | Eric Glissmeyer |
2007 | Kathryn Gibson |
2006 | Gabriela M. Vargas |
2005 | Christopher Wicher |
2004 | Catherine Sant |
2003 | Kevin J. Wilson |
2003 | Niloufar Tabatabaei |
2002 | Casey Lee Cotant |
2001 | Katherine Mary Gesteland |
2000 | Nathalie Kapp |
1999 | Rene C. Hunter |
1998 | Gina Bottino Cox |
1997 | Gregory Larry Staker |
1997 | Shannon Rachelle Staker |
1996 | Michael D. Catten |
1995 | Kelly Douglas Foote |
1994 | Kimberly Hansen |
1993 | William Thomas Caine |
1992 | Richard Allan Chase |
1991 | Marco Antonio Mejia |
1990 | Tracy Watson Winward |
1989 | Richard Lee Liston |