Stockton Kimball Award and Lecture

This annual award is the UB medical school’s highest honor, bestowed on faculty members who have achieved worldwide recognition as researchers and have been recognized as well for significant academic accomplishment and service to the university.

Stockton Kimball, MD ’29 1903-1958.

Stockton Kimball, MD ’29 1903-1958

Memorializing Stockton Kimball, MD

The award and lecture memorialize Stockton Kimball, MD ’29, a nationally known medical educator and community leader. He was a professor of medicine in the UB medical school for 13 years, and dean for 12 years, until his death in 1958.

Companion Lecture

A companion lecture allows the recipient to share research highlights with colleagues. The lecture is delivered the year after the award is granted, immediately preceding the medical school’s Faculty and Staff Recognition Awards celebration, held each June.

Nominations

The awardee is nominated by either a department chair or the selection committee.

Nominators must provide:

  • nominee’s name, department and contact information
  • nominee’s current curriculum vita
  • brief description of nominee’s qualifications, based on criteria below

Award Criteria and Selection

A selection committee of multidisciplinary faculty is appointed by the dean of the UB medical school and chaired by the senior associate dean for faculty affairs.

The award is granted to a faculty member who demonstrates:

  • consistent academic accomplishment
  • national and international recognition as an accomplished investigator
  • significant research contributions
  • identification with Buffalo for a substantial portion of his/her academic accomplishment
  • concern for and contributions to the progress of UB and its medical school
  • excellence in its broadest sense

Deadline

March 1

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Contact

For more information, contact:

Reynolds, Jessica

Jessica Reynolds, PhD

Associate Professor

6075 CTRC 875 Ellicott Street Buffalo, NY 14203

Phone: (716) 888-4777

Email: jlr8@buffalo.edu

Stockton Kimball Award News

  • Medical School Faculty, Staff Honored at 2025 Awards Event
    5/28/25

    Outstanding service, teaching, scientific achievements, and other efforts were celebrated at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences 2025 Faculty and Staff Recognition Awards event. 

  • Fliesler Wins 2025 Stockton Kimball Award
    5/23/25

    Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Meyer H. Riwchun Endowed Chair Professor of ophthalmology in the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, has received the 2025 Stockton Kimball Award in recognition of outstanding scientific achievement and service.

  • Feng Named 2024 Stockton Kimball Award Winner
    6/6/24

    Jian Feng, PhD, UB Distinguished Professor of physiology and biophysics, an internationally renowned scientist who has dedicated his life to studying Parkinson’s disease, has received the 2024 Stockton Kimball Award for outstanding scientific achievement and service.