David Gordon, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Division of Emergency Medicine
Awarded the 2022 Duke School of Medicine Master Clinician/Teacher Award, which recognizes clinical practitioners who exemplify. the highest standards of clinical care, pedagogy, and professionalism or to basic scientists who achieve distinction in pedagogy and professionalism.
Stuart Knechtle, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery
Awarded the 2022 Duke School of Medicine Excellence in Professionalism Award. The Excellence in Professionalism Award is presented to those who exemplify professionalism and personifies Duke's guiding principles of respect, trustworthiness, diversity, teamwork, and learning.
Dr. Knecthle will also lead a $16.5 million, 7-year NIH-funded trial to assess new therapies targeting antibody-mediated rejection (AMR) in patients who have undergone kidney transplant. (Read more in Clinical Practice Today).
Carmelo Milano, MD
Professor of Surgery
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
Awarded the Leonard Palumbo Jr., MD Faculty Achievement Award by the Duke School of Medicine. The award recognizes a member of the School of Medicine faculty who displays dedication to compassionate patient care and excellence in the teaching and mentoring of young physicians.
Wilton B. Williams, PhD
Associate Professor in Surgery
Division of Surgical Sciences
Selected to the Whitehead Scholars Program, which helps attract and nurture the most promising biomedical researchers to the faculty at the Duke School of Medicine.