David Z. Morgan Mentor Award

Sponsored by the WVU School of Medicine Alumni Association

This award was established in honor of graduate and former Associate Dean for Student and Curricular Affairs, David Z. Morgan, MD, class of 1950. It was established in 1986 by the Alumni Association Executive Council with the selection made by a committee of WVU graduates who are currently completing their residency programs at West Virginia University Hospitals and Charleston Area Medical Center.

The recipient should be "a teacher with the ability to understand, inspire and develop in students the qualities needed to be competent and compassionate physicians."

Recent Award Recipients

2024

Justin Kupec

2023

Benjamin Frye, MD, Orthopaedics

2022

Kelly Gannon, MD, Medicine

2021

Rawan El-Amin, DO, Obstetrics & Gynecology

2020

Lauren Swager, MD, Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry

2019

Kathy Moffett, MD, Pediatrics

2018

Joel B. Yednock, MD, Medicine

2017

James Griffith, MD, Behavioral Medicine

2016

Jeff Neely, MD, Medicine

2015

Renee Saggio, MD, Pediatrics

2014

Linda Nield, MD, Pediatrics

2013

Robert Tallaksen, MD, Radiology

2012

Arif Sawari, MD, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases

2011

Gary D. Marano, M.D., Radiology

2010

C. Rollynn Sullivan III, M.D., Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry

2009

Bruce Freeman, MD, PhD, Surgery

2008

Norman D. Ferrari, III, MD, Pediatrics

2007

Bradford Mitchell, MD, Surgery

2006

H. James Williams, MD, Pathology

2005

John Parker, MD, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary/Critical Care

2004

Andrew Mace, MD, Radiology

2003

David Mc Fadden, MD, Surgery

2002

Franklin Schiebel, MD, Critical Care, Surgery

2001

Kathleen Bors, MD, Family Medicine, Charleston

2000

W. Michael Johnson, MD, Family Medicine, Charleston

1999

Daniel J. Dickman, MD, Family Medicine, Charleston

1998

Karen MacKay, MD, Internal Medicine, Nephrology

1997

Richard K. Dattola, MD, Family Medicine

1996

Anne C. Cutlip, MD, Family Medicine

1995

Melanie A. Fisher, MD, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases

1994

Luis Teba, MD, Internal Medicine, Critical Care

1993

Norman D. Ferrari III, MD, Pediatrics

1992

Shawn C. Chillag, MD Internal Medicine, Charleston

1991

Gale Rafter, PhD A.,  Biochemistry

Kim Ritchey, MD, Pediatrics

1990

Frank D. Reilly, PhD, Anatomy

James M. Stevenson, MD, Psychiatry

1989

Irvin S. Synder, PhD, Microbiology

Anthony G. DiBartolomeo, MD, Internal Medicine, Rheumatology

1988

Sydney S. Schochet, MD, Pathology Internal Medicine

Rashida A. Khakoo, MD, Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease

1987

George A. Hedge, PhD, Physiology

G. Robert Nugent, MD, Neurosurgery