Seven faculty members in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science received the 2019 Distinguished Educator Award. The award recognizes faculty who have significantly contributed to excellence in education at Mayo Clinic or Mayo Clinic Health System throughout their career; demonstrated leadership and professionalism in education, education research or administration; recognition or honor by students or faculty; commitment to diversity; creation of new ways of teaching or applied innovative techniques that foster the educational process; contribution to the body of knowledge and methodology in medical education; and active mentorship of junior faculty in education.
Charles Burger, M.D. (THD '91)
Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor of medicine
Mayo Clinic in Arizona
Donn Dexter, M.D. (MED '86, N '90),
Neurology, Mayo Clinic Health System
Assistant professor of neurology
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Liselotte Dyrbye, M.D. (CIM '01): Faculty Development
Division of Community Internal Medicine
Amy Oxentenko, M.D. (I '01, CMR '02, GI '05)
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine
Professor of medicine
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Larry Pease, Ph.D. (IMM '84), Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Zelalem Temesgen, M.D. (INFD '95)
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Professor of medicine
Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Holenarasipur Vikram, M.D. (INFD '05)
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor of medicine
Mayo Clinic in Arizona