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.

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.

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

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

Nominations are now closed! Please check back in 2027.

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