The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award

The UF College of Medicine selects one graduating medical student and one faculty member for the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, sponsored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation.  Five- ten student nominees are selected based on student peer evaluation of humanism and community service, and the entire graduating class is polled to determine the recipient of the medical student award.  The faculty awardee is selected by the Faculty and Resident Selection Committee from among the two new faculty inductees.

Year Student Awardees Faculty Awardees
Class of 2006 Jennifer Rehm, M.D. Richard C. Christensen, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry
Class of 2007 Juliessa Pavon, M.D. I. Keith Stone, M.D., Professor Obstetrics and Gynecology
Class of 2008 Kurt Scherer, M.D. Allen Neims, M.D., Professor of Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Class of 2009 Kavita Rajasekhar, M.D. Maureen A. Novak, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Class of 2010 Ana Turner, M.D. Patricia Abbitt M.D., Professor and Chief – Department of Radiology
Class of 2011 Paul O’Rourke, M.D. David Feller, M.D., Associate Professor of Community Health and Family Medicine
Class of 2012 Ricardy Rimpel Philip Barkley, M.D., Associate Professor of Community Health and Family Medicine