2009 Distinguished Clinical Teacher Award Goes to Dr. Tara Palmore

Episode # 29
Uploaded: Sept. 29, 2009
Running Time: 3:12

SCHMALFELDT: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is CLINICAL CENTER RADIO. Dr. Tara Palmore, staff clinician and Deputy Hospital Epidemiologist at the NIH Clinical Center and associate director of the Infectious Diseases Training Program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has been presented the NIH Distinguished Clinical Teacher Award for 2009.  The award has been presented each year since 1985 to an NIH faculty member who exemplifies the ideal qualities of a mentor, teacher, clinician and researcher.  Dr. Palmore received the award at the September 9 Clinical Center Grand Rounds presentation in the Lipsett Ampitheater at the NIH Clinical Center.

PALMORE:  I was very pleased and surprised to be nominated and I knew I had been nominated because I was asked to show up for the Grand Rounds talk.  I was totally shocked when I won the award because in my opinion there were a number of other seasoned, experienced and superb teachers among those who were nominated.  If I had a vote, I would have voted for one of them.

SCHMALFELDT: Also nominated were Dr. Maria Turner, senior clinician in the Dermatology Branch of the National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research; Dr. Juan Gea-Banacloche, staff clinician at the NCI's Experimental Translation and Immunology Branch; Dr. Theo Heller, a researcher with the Liver Diseases Branch of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Dr. Jose Apud, Clinical Director of the Schizophrenia Research Program, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch of the Intramural Research Program, National Institute of Mental Health; and Dr. John Tisdale, Senior Investigator, Molecular and Clinical Hematology Branch at the NIDDK.

This year's awardee received her MD at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, completed her residency training in internal medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, and came to the NIH in 2001 as an infectious disease fellow.  She joined the NIH staff in 2005 and became deputy hospital epidemiologist at the Clinical Center in 2007.  She currently directs the development, organization and implementation of the hospital infection control program at the Clinical Center.  To learn more about the NIH Distinguished Clinical Teacher Award or to receive updates from the Clinical Center, including news about the medical research going on here every day,

log on to http://clinicalcenter.nih.gov.  From America’s Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL CENTER RADIO.  In Bethesda, Maryland, I’m Bill Schmalfeldt at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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