• Nataly Apollonsky, MD
• Brooke A. Burkey, MD
• Alison J. Carey, MD
• Janet S. Chen, MD
• Mario Cruz Jr., MD
• Nicole H. DeLarato, MD
• Stacy Ellen, DO
• Jeremiah Goldstein, MD
• Megan E. Gresh, MD
• Folasade Kehinde, MD
• Shareen F. Kelly, MD

• Hans B. Kersten, MD, FAAP
• Roberta Laguerre-Frederique, MD
• Bryon J. Lauer, MD
• Svetlana Lvovich, MD
• Frank X. McNesby Jr., MD
• Joseph J. Melvin, DO, JD
• Nadja G. Peter, MD
• Shannon Safier, MD
• Elizabeth Suarez, MD
• Renee M. Turchi, MD, MPH
• David A. Zwillenberg, MD

UMass Chan Medical School Alumni Distinguished Service Award

Nancy D. Spector, MD, professor of pediatrics, senior vice dean for faculty, Betty A. Cohen Chair in Women’s Health, and executive director of the Executive Leadership in Medicine program, the Executive Leadership in Health Care program, and the Lynn Yeakel Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership, is the recipient of the 2025 Alumni Distinguished Service Award from the UMass Chan Medical School. The award honors alumni UMass Chan alumni who have demonstrated outstanding career achievements and impact that embody the school’s mission of advancing the health and wellness of diverse communities by leading and innovating in education, research, health care delivery and public service.

2025 Golden Apple Award Winners Impact Medical Students’ Success

The annual Golden Apple Awards recognize outstanding service, teaching and mentoring by Drexel University College of Medicine faculty and professional staff. The honorees are nominated by each class of medical students, who vote to determine the award winners. Read more.

Best in Class Faculty Affairs & Faculty Development Research

Two of Nancy Spector's 2024 papers were selected as Best in Class by the AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs repository of Faculty Affairs & Faculty Development research and scholarship. “Analysis of Pediatric Clinical Practice Guideline Authors by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity”, was selected as “Best in Class” for the category “Advocacy” for the AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs repository of Faculty Affairs & Faculty Development research and scholarship. (Martin AA, Jacobs JW, Armijo PR, Allan JM, Booth GS, Spector ND, Overholser B, Silver JK. Analysis of Pediatric Clinical Practice Guideline Authors by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity. J Women's Health (Larchmt). 2024 Aug;33(8):1052-1062. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2023.1132. Epub 2024 Jun 6. PMID: 38842430.) "Gender Differences in the Path to Medical School Deanship” was selected amongst those “Best in Class” for the category “Developing the Next Generation of Leaders” for the AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs repository of Faculty Affairs & Faculty Development research and scholarship. (Iyer MS, Bradford C, Gottlieb AS, Kling DB Jr, Jagsi R, Mangurian C, Marks L, Meltzer CC, Overholser B, Silver JK, Way DP, Spector ND. Gender Differences in the Path to Medical School Deanship. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jul 1;7(7):e2420570. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.20570.)

Pediatrician of the Year Award, Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Chapter

The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (PA AAP) is thrilled to announce that Norrell Atkinson, MD, FAAP has been named “2025 Pediatrician of the Year,” an honor that reflects her outstanding dedication, compassion, and contributions to the field of Pediatrics. The Pediatrician of the Year Award was incepted in 1988, and is awarded annually to a Pennsylvania-based pediatric fellow who exemplifies the ideals of the pediatric profession and participates in activities that reflect the mission and values of the Chapter. Read more.

In the Media

March 26, 2025: Drexel's partnership with Tower Health to operate St. Christopher's Hospital for Children was mentioned in a WCAU-TV (NBC-10) story about the hospital's 150th anniversary celebration.

February 18 & 19, 2025: Asif M. Ilyas, MD, an academic vice chair in the College of Medicine, was quoted in two stories - Health Medicine Network and My ChesCo — story about recent research from Drexel, Cooper University and the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, examining the challenges of treating wounds related to the use of xylazine, also known as tranq.

January 28, 2025: Sarah Long, MD, a professor in the College of Medicine, was quoted in an episode of the Tradeoffs podcast about how Robert F. Kennedy Jr., if confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, could influence the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The committee is tasked with making vaccine recommendations to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

January 20, 2025: Daniel R. Taylor, DO, associate professor of pediatrics, shared the importance of racial concordance in medicine – when a doctor has the same racial or ethnic identity as their patient – and its positive impact on care, in an opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer. He touched on what steps can be taken to increase the number of underrepresented students going into medicine.

January 13, 2025: Nancy Spector, MD, executive director of the Executive Leadership and Academic Medicine and Executive Leadership in Health Care programs and executive director of the Lynn Yeakel Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership in the College of Medicine, was quoted in a Healio article about the steady expansion of women physicians in gastroenterology and medicine, while data have shown that marked disparities in pay policies, career advancement and leadership continue to widen the gap in representation and gender equity among active physicians.

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