May 22, 1997
1997 graduating medical students honor four teachers
The 1997 graduating medical school class at the University of Washington School of Medicine has selected four faculty members to honor. Dr. Mindy Cooper, Dr. Douglas Paauw and Dr. Nicholas Ward were named distinguished teachers. Dr. D. Daniel Hunt will receive the Margaret Anderson Award for exceptional concern for and support of medical students.
Mindy Cooper is a both a primary-care physician and a specialist in kidney diseases. After joining the faculty in 1994, she soon earned a reputation as an outstanding educator.
Cooper conducts the urinary systems course for medical students, which covers the basic science of this organ system, as well as clinical disorders. The course has moved quickly up the ranks in student evaluations.
Cooper practices at Harborview Medical Center on the Medical and Renal inpatient services as well in its Adult Medicine Clinic and Renal Clinic. She also gives lectures for residents and medical students at Providence Medical Center. This year she is a Teaching Scholar in the UW Department of Medical Education. Her interests include curriculum development and medical students’ perception of their education.
Because this is fourth time primary-care physician Douglas Paauw has been voted a distinguished teacher, the head of the internal medicine required clerkship will be named a Teacher Superior in Perpetuity. An associate professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Paauw has also received this year’s Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Washington, an honor conferred for excellent teaching across all academic fields.
He is recognized for the clarity of his classroom and clinical teaching, and is respected as an advisor and role model. He practices at UW Medical Center’s Adult Medicine Clinic and Virology Clinic.
Nicholas Ward was a 1983 recipient of the UW’s Distinguished Teaching Award. A professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Ward has chaired the neuro-psychopathology course for second-year medical students and has taught in the psychiatry clerkship. The American Psychiatric Association honored him in 1991 for “outstanding and sustained contributions in the area of medical student education.” A researcher on child abuse, depression and attempted suicide, Ward cares for hospitalized patients on the Behavioral Medicine Service at Harborview Medical Center.
D. Daniel Hunt has been the associate dean for academic affairs at the medical school since 1987. He oversees all aspects of medical student education, which include admissions, curriculum, student progress, student activities, advising and other student support services. He was chosen for the Margaret Anderson Award because he makes himself readily available to students, listens to their concerns, attends their special events and in countless other ways actively demonstrates his interest in the well-being of each student. This year, for example, 85 graduating students met with him individually to practice for their residency selection interviews. He is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.
Cooper, Hunt, Paauw and Ward will be honored June 7 during the 1997 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Physician’s Oath Ceremony.
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