Faculty Awards and Recognition

Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) Awards

Purpose: Advance the academic/professional/scholarly abilities of faculty members in the HSC, IFAS and College of Law. The awards are intended to be more flexible in nature and duration than traditional sabbaticals.

Sponsor: President’s Office

Awards Amount: Award amount can vary widely, depending on the expenses required by the project; however, the recipient’s unit is required to provide some resources in support of FEOs granted to individuals in that unit.

Deadline: Applications will be accepted in the fall and spring semesters. Deadlines and awards will be announced by the Provost’s Office.

UF Research Foundation Term Professorships

Purpose: Recognize recent contributions and provide incentives for continued excellence in research.

Sponsor: The University of Florida Research Foundation

Award Amount:: Three-year term professorship which includes:

• A $5,000 annual salary supplement
• A $3,000 grant to support research, to be awarded in year one of the three-year tenure of this professorship

Deadline: Call for applications is usually in early spring. Awards made in May of each year, annually.

Previous Recipients

• 2019: Mark Hudak, MD - Pediatrics
• 2018: Phyllis Hendry, MD - Emergency Medicine
• 2017: Dominick Angiolillo, MD, PhD - Cardiology
• 2016: Arshag Mooradian, MD - Medicine
• 2015: K.V. Chalam - Ophthalmology
• 2014: Andrew Kaunitz, MD - Obstetrics and Gynecology
• 2013: Robert Wears, MD, PhD, MS - Emergency Medicine

University of Florida College of Medicine — Jacksonville Endowed Professorships

Purpose: Endowed professorships and chairs enable UF to support, sustain and strengthen UF’s culture of excellence in research and scholarship. Endowments provide incentives to facilitate hiring, assist in retaining outstanding faculty and provide resources for outstanding faculty. Many endowed faculty appointments are of indefinite duration while others are specifically limited to a set time period.

Sponsor: Private support; donated assets

Professorships

• Community Hospice of Northeast Florida/Neviaser Family Professorship in Pediatric Palliative Care Current Recipient: Mark L. Hudak, MD
• Glenn Chuck Professorship in Pediatric Cardiology Current Recipient: Mark L. Hudak, MD
• James E. and Thelma C. Garrison Research Professorship Current Recipient: Arshag D. Mooradian, MD
• Karl B. Hanson, Sr., MD, Professorship of Internal Medicine Current Recipient: Arshag D. Mooradian, MD
• Methodist Medical Center Professorship of Surgery in Transplantation Current Recipient: Leigh A. Neumayer, MD, MSFACS
• Robert J. Thompson, MD Professorship of Obstetrics and Gynecology Current Recipient: Guy I. Benrubi, MD, FACOG

Lectureships

• James Bradshaw, MD Memorial Lectureship Endowment Current Recipient: Mark L. Hudak, MD

University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville Termed Professorships

Purpose: The goal of the endowed UFCOMJ Term Professorships is to provide funding for more senior and experienced faculty who can further enhance their skills in Medical Education or Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Research and Scholarship, publish, and further share their expertise with trainees and other faculty. UFCOMJ Term Professorships are awarded every 3 years. More information can be found here.

Sponsor: Dean's Office graciously supported through endowed funds by Senior Vice President for Health Affairs at University of Florida and President of University of Florida Health, David Nelson, M.D. and University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville Dean, Linda Edwards, M.D.

• 2023: Medical Education Research and Scholarship Recipient Petra Duran-Gehring, MD - Emergency Medicine
• 2024: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Recipient Matthew Garber, MD - Pediatrics

University of Florida College of Medicine — Jacksonville Robert C. Nuss Researcher/Scholar Award

Purpose: This award is presented annually to a faculty member at the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor level based at UF College of Medicine — Jacksonville who has a distinguished current record of research.

Sponsor: Dean’s Office/Office of Research Affairs

Award Amount: $3,000

Deadline: Criteria for the award can be found here.

The award is presented annually as part of the Celebration of Education and Research Day ceremony. Previous Research/Scholar awardees can be found here:

• See attached list from the Office of Research Affairs .
• 2025 Awardee: Sophia Shiekh, MD - Department of Emergency Medicine

University of Florida College of Medicine — Jacksonville CREATORS Scholars

Purpose: The University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville Center for Medical Education Research and Scholarship (CREATORS) awards junior physician faculty on the Jacksonville campus who wish to develop their skill set in medical education or quality improvement patient safety research or scholarship. More information can be found here.

Sponsor: Dean's Office and Office of Graduate Medical Education.

Award Amount: Up to $60,000 over 2 1/2 years in partnership with the faculty's chair to match FTE funding.

• 2023 CREATORS Scholar in Medical Education Research and Scholarship: Shannon LaBoy, MD - Neurology
• 2024 CREATORS Scholars in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Research and Scholarship: Karin Vangura, MD, PhD - Anesthesiology and Cassandra White, MD - Surgery