15 Medical School Awardees Honored for Excellence

This highest State University of New York rank recognizes exceptional faculty merit and outstanding academic contributions.

Stelios Andreadis, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor of biomedical engineering

Christopher S. Cohan, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of pathology and anatomical sciences

Steven J. Fliesler, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Meyer H. Riwchun Endowed Chair Professor and vice chair of opthalmology

Zhen Yan, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of physiology and biophysics

This award honors faculty members who make extraordinary contributions to their fields.

Laurie K. Read, PhD
Professor of microbiology and immunology

Gil I. Wolfe, MD
UB Distinguished Professor and Irvin and Rosemary Smith Chair of neurology

This award recognizes faculty and staff who recently achieved an exceptional milestone: completing 50 years of service to UB.

Perry M. Hogan, PhD
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of physiology and biophysics

Leonard A. Katz, MD
Professor emeritus of medicine

Martin E. Plaut, MD
Professor emeritus of medicine

Vijay C. Swamy, PhD
Associate professor emeritus of pharmacology and toxicology

Shari A. Wilson
Office assistant, microbiology and immunology

Jerrold C. Winter, PhD
Professor of pharmacology and toxicology

This honor recognizes unprecedented accomplishment and a distinguishing body of work with enduring importance.

Robert Zivadinov, MD, PhD
Professor of neurology

This award celebrates a recent superior achievement of an up-and-coming scholar who has earned individual acclaim for his or her work.

Pinaki Sarder, PhD
Assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences

Jack Tseng, PhD
Assistant professor of pathology and anatomical sciences

The Celebration of Faculty and Staff Academic Excellence took place Nov. 1.