Inclusive Excellence and Healthcare Access for All Award

Purpose

This award acknowledges and celebrates faculty actively engaged in efforts to provide healthcare access for all. It recognizes efforts to advance the understanding of healthcare delivery and access; outcomes, disparities, barriers and facilitators for the delivery of healthcare; and sensitivity in medicine while optimizing health and well-being in our urban and rural communities.

Description

Award recipients will demonstrate a track record of excellence in fostering leadership, service and a commitment to inclusive excellence by expanding opportunities for graduate and medical students, staff, residents, fellows, departments, organizations and the surrounding community. The award recognizes sustained contributions and an active commitment to promoting and enhancing the educational, clinical, leadership and research experiences at the UMKC School of Medicine. Consistent contributions in the areas of inclusive excellence, cultural humility or healthcare access for all include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. Training graduate and medical students, other trainees, staff members or faculty.
  2. Facilitating inclusive learning, clinical and research environments of success for all members and identities in the School of Medicine community.
  3. Working to promote healthcare access for all and the elimination of barriers to the delivery of healthcare.
  4. Strengthening efforts to develop or implement cultural humility and sensitivity strategies that improve healthcare delivery.
  5. Actively engaged in the greater Kansas City and Saint Joseph areas supporting advocacy, healthcare and inclusive excellence initiatives for the betterment of the community.

Eligibility

Nominees must be tenure track or non-tenure-track faculty members in the UMKC School of Medicine for a minimum of five years.

Nomination Guidelines and Required Materials

  • Nomination letter explaining the nominee’s qualifications for the award, which provides specific details and examples of sustained commitment to inclusive excellence as well as the impact of that commitment on medical education, clinical care, research and/or health care promotion (not to exceed two typed pages).
  • A one-page description of the inclusive excellence program, initiative, project or activity.
  • Current curriculum vitae of the nominee.
  • Up to three letters of support (not to exceed two typed pages) attesting to and documenting the scope of influence of the nominee’s contributions to inclusive excellence and healthcare access for all.

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

  • 2023 — Tyler Smith, M.D., MPH, FAAP
  • 2022 — Jannette Berkley-Patton, Ph.D.
  • 2021 — Liset Olarte Carhuaz, M.D., MsC
  • 2020 — Molly Uhlenhake, D.O.
  • 2019 — Kathy Ervie, MPAS, PA-C
  • 2017 — Briana Woods-Jaeger, M.D.
  • 2016 — Fariha Shafi, M.D.