“A rare combination of humility, brilliance and warmth” is how HMS student Vanessa Redditt described Arundhati Ghosh, one of 15 honored June 7 during the 15th annual Mentoring Awards ceremonies at HMS.
Ghosh, an instructor in surgery at Cambridge Health Alliance, is “an inspiring role model for me and countless other students,” Redditt said. “She doctors with compassion and great expertise, she teaches with enthusiasm, and she is dedicated to fostering student’s development.”
Redditt was among the many mentees who paid warm tribute to faculty who have helped shape their lives and careers. Nearly 150 guests honored the mentors who are widely esteemed for guiding, nurturing and supporting rising junior faculty in the basic sciences and clinical medicine.
The very best accolade any mentor can receive “is the recognition of the role he or she has played in the academic and career development of their trainees and peers,” said HMS Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Joan Reede, whose office has hosted the awards since 1995.
Nominations were invited from the faculty, officers, fellows and students. A committee with representation from HMS and its affiliates reviewed 275 nominations and chose the 15 for recognition in one of three categories.
- Nabeel Bardeesy, assistant professor of medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Charles Dimitroff, assistant professor of dermatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Arundhati Ghosh, instructor in surgery, Cambridge Health Alliance
- Elena Losina, associate professor of orthopedic surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Emily Oken, associate professor of ambulatory care and prevention, HMS.
- Carlos Camargo, Jr., associate professor of medicine, Mass General
- Catherine Gordon, associate professor of pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston
- Douglas Kiel, professor of medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Karen Kuhlthau, associate professor of pediatrics, Mass General
- Valerie Pronio-Stelluto, assistant professor of medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital
- Brian Snyder, associate professor of orthopedic surgery, Children’s.
- Thomas Brady, Laurence Lamson Robbins Professor of Radiology, Mass General
- Richard Grand, professor of pediatrics, Children’s
- Stephen Harrison, Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Professor of Basic Biomedical Science, HMS
- Dennis Selkoe, Vincent and Stella Coates Professor of Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women’s.
