Mentoring & Professionalism Awards of Excellence

This award recognizes any individual with a faculty appointment (affiliated or full time) who has fostered the professional development of other faculty members by providing inspiring and effective mentoring and sponsorship. The outstanding mentor establishes a supportive and nurturing relationship with other faculty members and helps them to negotiate the complex demands of academic life, improve their skills and opportunities, and reconcile the competing demands of work and home life.

• Individuals in senior leadership positions and division/section chiefs are ineligible.
• Candidates must be nominated as self-nominations are precluded. Nominations may be from any track or rank, or a departmental awards committee. 

This award, named in honor of Mr. Duncan Van Dusen in recognition of his outstanding service to the University community, recognizes the tremendous positive impact that an individual can have on the whole of Penn’s professional environment. The award is given annually to a Penn Medicine physician whose respectful approach, integrity, self-awareness, and personal accountability related to patient care are exemplary of our ongoing efforts to elevate the culture at Penn and  promote exceptional patient care experiences.  

• Individuals in senior leadership positions and division/section chiefs are ineligible. 
• Candidates must be nominated as self-nominations are precluded.
• Nominees must have an active clinical practice.

Each nomination packet should include the following in the order below:

• Nomination letter including a statement that the Chair approves and endorses the nomination.  
• No more than 3 additional letters of support of which only 1 may be from outside of Penn Medicine.
• Current CV. 

Materials must be submitted in single pdf file in the following order: Nomination letter, letters of support, CV.