Mohini Lutchman, lecturer on neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
HMS teachers, staff, including an HST faculty member, were lauded by the 2021 Federman Awards Recognizing Excellence
Fourteen dedicated faculty and three staff members at Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals were honored for teaching and service excellence recently during the 2021 Daniel D. Federman Teaching Awards ceremony.
Mohini Lutchman, a lecturer in neurobiology at HMS and a member of the HST faculty, was one of two recipients of the Donald O’Hara Faculty Prizes for Excellence in Teaching. Lutchman, who has a PhD, in neuroscience, McGill University, is also a member of the research team at the Tearney Lab at MGH.
The awards recognize outstanding educators, who through their excellence in teaching, influence the professional lives of their students long after graduation. The awards are HMS' most visible recognition of the teaching accomplishments of a highly select group of the School's leading medical educators, reflecting in a tangible way how much teachers are valued by their students and by the HMS community.
In his welcoming remarks, HMS Dean George Q. Daley (who is also an HST alum) acknowledged the recipients’ stellar efforts, innovation, and dedication.
“In these challenging times, these extraordinary teachers were able to find the time, energy, and mental space to truly focus on innovating the delivery of medical education with new approaches that made a tremendous difference in their students’ lives,” Daley said.
“The pandemic has brought with it unprecedented trials for our faculty as clinicians, researchers, and teachers,” he added. “But they have adapted and even pushed their teaching to the next level to make learning here at Harvard Medical School truly life-changing for their students. Many times, it can seem as if our teaching efforts stay under the radar, so we gather today to acknowledge how critical and important our medical educators are here at HMS.”
Read on for more on these awards at HMS, here.