Congratulations to CHIBE affiliates Drs. Raina Merchant, Michael Harhay, and Marilyn Schapira on winning Penn Medicine Awards of Excellence this year. Faculty are nominated by peers and colleagues and selected by a Perelman School of Medicine committee.
“These awardees reflect the highest ideals of our profession and embody the standards of excellence that we all seek to uphold,” wrote Dr. Jonathan Epstein, the interim executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and dean of the Perelman School of Medicine.
Dr. Merchant won the Arthur K. Asbury Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, given to a faculty member who has “fostered the professional development of other faculty by providing inspiring and effective counsel in a manner that enables professional growth and development.” Dr. Merchant, vice president and chief transformation officer for Penn Medicine and executive director of the Penn Center for Health Care Transformation and Innovation, has mentored over 100 people.
Dr. Harhay was honored with the Marjorie A. Bowman New Investigator Research Award, given to an individual with “achievements in the health evaluation sciences, with a particular emphasis on patient-oriented research that addresses fundamental clinical problems as well as the organization and delivery of health care.” Dr. Harhay was recognized for advancing patient-oriented outcomes research in critical care, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and organ transplantation.
Dr. Schapira received the Samuel Martin Health Evaluation Sciences Research Award, given to a School of Medicine faculty member whose work emphasized health services research. “Through her development of a validated measure of health numeracy and decision aids designed for use in the clinical setting, she has made substantial contributions to both health services research and the improvement of evidence-based and patient-centered care,” the Penn Medicine announcement noted.