2025 Excellence in Mentoring Awards Ceremony and Recipients
2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the Excellence in Mentoring Awards. On June 3, the Office for Culture and Community Engagement hosted the Awards Ceremony held in the Waterhouse Room of Gordon Hall on the Harvard Medical School campus. The ceremony honored recipients of the Young Mentor Award, the A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award, and the William Silen Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award. The Office for Student Engagement also recognized this year’s HMS Scholar in Medicine Excellence in Student Mentoring Award recipients during the ceremony. In his recorded remarks, HMS Dean George Daley welcomed attendees and thanked the awardees for building a legacy through mentoring, which he noted benefits mentees, mentors, and the institution by preparing individuals for greater responsibility and community service. Over 100 members of the HMS community and awardee family members were on hand and on-screen to celebrate the honorees, listed below.
2025 Excellence in Mentoring Award Recipients
William Silen Lifetime Achievement In Mentoring Award
Gail Kurr Adler, MD, PhD
HMS Professor of Medicine
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension
Department of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Helen Christou, MD
HMS Mary Ellen Avery Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Newborn Medicine
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Newborn Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital
Thomas Michel, MD, PhD
HMS Professor of Medicine
Senior Physician
Mass General Brigham Heart and Vascular Institute
A. Clifford Barger Excellence In Mentoring Award
Karen Costenbader, MD, MPH
HMS Professor of Medicine
Department of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Eugene J. D'Angelo, PhD, ABPP
HMS Linda and Timothy O'Neill Chair in Psychology
Chief of Psychology
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Psychology
Boston Children's Hospital
Finnian R. Mc Causland, MBBCh, MMSc, FRCPI
HMS Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Renal Division
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Tamara D. Rozental, MD
HMS Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Chief, Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Tracy L. Young-Pearse, PhD
HMS Associate Professor of Neurology
Vice Chair of Basic Research, Neurology
Department of Neurology
Mass General Brigham
Young Mentor Award
Lisa M. Bebell, MD, MSc
HMS Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Margaret M. Chapman, MD
HMS Instructor in Medicine
Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Meghan E. Shea, MD
HMS Assistant Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Kyle D. Staller, MD
HMS Associate Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital
Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, MD
HMS Associate Professor of Surgery
Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
HMS Scholars in Medicine Excellence in Student Mentoring Award - 2025 Recipients
John S. Barbieri, MD, MBA
HMS Associate Professor of Dermatology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Bryan D. Choi, MD, PhD
HMS Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jennifer Potter, MD
HMS Professor of Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center