The PEAR, Professional Educator Appreciation and Recognition, Awards are a student-led initiative to recognize those individuals who have had a significant impact on students during their medical training. The award seeks to highlight and reinforce positive examples of professionalism and teaching; it focuses on collecting the positive stories from the student experience.
Any Baylor College of Medicine student can nominate preclinical faculty, attending physicians, residents, physician assistants, nurses and others on the medical team who have challenged them, expanded their knowledge or imparted a significant lesson. Submissions are shared with the award recipient and his or her department chair. Students can submit nominations online.
PEAR Awards are supported by the Center for Professionalism, led by Dr. Ellen Friedman.
2024 Recipients
- Dalia Bashir
- Mike Ren
- Phillip Connell
- Livia Eberlin
- Octavio Pajaro
- Jared Mortus
- Steven Hopkins
- Alexandra Maloof
- Joan Fernandez
- Eleanor Workman
- Amer Alsoudi
- Roma Patel
- Sandra Haudek
- Kevin Chen
- Joslyn Fisher
- Kevin Tzan
- Kyle Gashler
- Christina Kao
- Lorenzo Deveza
- Hannah Smati
- Ana Rivera
- Philip Angelides
- Lyndsey Prather
- Omar Barakat
- Nandan Mondal
- Sebastian Winocour
- Mariya Fatakdawala
- Hania Zafar
- Victoria Brehm
- Louis Hinkle
- Stacey Carter
- Rachel Davis
- Joey Fisher
- Samantha Tippen
- Malvika Juneja
- Sunjay Devarajan
- Roberto Mario Vera
- Neeraj Agrawal
- Matthew McMillin
- Mostafa Belghasem
- Alfredo Vazquez
- Jocelyn Wilson
- Erika Abel
- Mariana Carretero
- Steven Mehl
- David Holmes
- Prathit Kulkarni
- Alec Rezigh
- Stephanie Sherman
- Irene S Lee
- Doris Lin
- Vladislav Jdanov
- Jose Ribas Roca
- Tzu-Hao Lee
- Brittney Williams
- Patrick Lynch
- Michelle Butts
- Vivek Rajani
- Mollie Gordon
- Madeline Bos
- Moez Aziz
- Dominique Bruncko
- Sam Creden
- Samuel Anthony Sara
- Roy Lin
- Laiba Asif
- Stefan Kostelyna
- Zaara Qasim
- Katherine Williams
- Christy Chai
- Howard Lee
- Navdeep Sekhon
- Anees Fatima
- Rosa Magana
