Faculty Researcher Award

Purpose

This award acknowledges and celebrates a faculty member who is recognized for their clinical and/or bench research, which contributes to the advancement of medicine, demonstrates collaboration and mentoring of learners (medical student, resident/fellow and/or graduate learners) and faculty, and enhances the research reputation of the UMKC School of Medicine.

Description

The faculty recipient should be an individual who has made significant contributions to medical literature through research, including peer-reviewed publications and presentations, and who has obtained grant funding. The faculty member should have a sustained record of collaborating and mentoring learners and faculty in research.

Eligibility

The nominee must be a tenure track or nontenure track faculty member in the UMKC School of Medicine for a minimum of five years. The faculty member must have received grant funding as a principal investigator or co-principal investigator, or a faculty member who has consistently contributed as co-investigator on funded research.

Nomination Guidelines and Required Materials

Nominees may be nominated by UMKC staff, faculty, students, residents/fellows, administrators, clinical affiliates or community members. Self-nominations are also acceptable.

To be considered, the following information must be submitted:

  • Nomination letters, which must include a narrative of how the individual’s clinical or bench research has impacted UMKC. Include specific outcome measures from the last five years, such as: 
    • Number of peer-reviewed PMID publications and journal name(s)
    • Number of presentations (invited and peer reviewed) at regional, national and international academic meetings
    • Number and type of grants (note if grants are UMKC SoM), amount of funding, and role in each project
    • Number of learners and faculty members the nominee has collaborated and mentored in research, including the number of learners and faculty that have obtained peer-reviewed PMID publications and presentations (academic meetings at regional, national and international meetings) in the past five years.
    • Research innovations, patents or other contributions to research
  • A nominator may only nominate one nominee.
  • Materials to submit with nomination letter, include:
    • Letter(s) of support from learners and faculty (three total letters) describing the nominee’s mentorship and collaboration with them in clinical or bench research
    • Most recent CV from the nominee.

Please download and complete this checklist, which should be submitted as the first page of a single PDF nomination.

Download checklist (Word doc)

Prior Winners

  • 2024 – Jennifer Schuster, M.D.
  • 2023 – Stephen D. Simon, Ph. D.
  • 2022 – Peter Koulen, Ph.D., FARVO
  • 2021 – John Spertus, M.D., M.P.H.
  • 2020 – John Q. Wang, Ph.D.