Professorships, Awards, and Endowments
Professorships
Named professorships allow Carle Illinois College of Medicine to recruit and retain promising medical education facilitators and health innovation professors and encourage them to expand their careers here. The income from named professorships may be used to supplement a professor’s salary or support his or her research needs.
| Faculty | Professorship |
|---|---|
| Wawrzyniec Dobrucki | Neil and Carol Ruzic Faculty Scholar |
Awards
Graduation Awards
- James C. Leonard, MD, Gold-Headed Cane Award
- King Li, MD, MBA, Physician Innovator Award
- Carle Illinois Academic Honors
- Carle Illinois Humanism in Medicine Award
- Excellence in Internal Medicine
- Excellence in Family Medicine
- Excellence in Neurology
- Excellence in Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Excellence in Pediatrics
- Excellence in Psychiatry
- Excellence in Surgery
- American College of Physicians (ACP) Illinois Downstate Outstanding Medical Student Award
- Outstanding Commitment to the Student Body
- Outstanding Commitment to Community Engagement
Foundational Sciences Awards
- Shig Yasunaga MD Student Award
- Leadership in Inclusive Excellence Award
- Humanism Excellence Award
- Peer Leader Award
- Women in Medicine Leadership Award
- Excellence in Patient-Centered Care
- Excellence in Anatomy Award
- Academic Excellence Award
- Emerging Physician Innovator
Faculty and Staff Awards
Endowments & Scholarships
- Daniel K. and Frances A. Bloomfield Medical Scholars Endowment Fund
- Bloomfield/Arnold Medical Scholars Program
- Diane Gottheil Scholarship Fund
- Dr. Senen R. Dalisay Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund
- King Li, MD, MBA Physician Innovator Award Fund
- James C. Leonard, MD Gold-Headed Cane Award Fund
- Physician Innovator Caregiver Scholarship Fund
- David and Nancy Morse Fund
- Patricia J and Charles C.C. O'Morchoe Fellowship in Leadership Skills Award Fund
- Swartz/Flood Medical Scholars Fund
- George Panagakis Memorial Ophthalmology Scholarship Fund
- Rada Scholarship in AI and Healthcare Fund