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Developing
Scholar, Faculty Service awards announced
Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost John Raymond has
announced the recipients of the 2001 Developing Scholar awards and the
2001 Distinguished Faculty Service awards.
These awards, along with the previously announced Teaching Excellence
awards and the Outstanding Clinician awards, will be presented during the
annual Faculty Convocation on Aug. 27. Gov. Jim Hodges is scheduled to
deliver the keynote address.
Sergey Krupenko, Ph.D., Esther Forti, Ph.D., R.N. and Michael Wallace,
M.D., MPH., are the recipients of the Developing Scholars for 2001.
“These awards are important acknowledgments of the hard work, talent,
and promise of our developing faculty,” Raymond said. “The successes of
Drs. Krupenko, Forti, and Wallace hold great promise for our future, as
all three have developed nationally recognized programs of excellence in
clinically relevant research areas.”
John Manos, M.D., and William Stillway, Ph.D., are the recipients of
the Distinguished Faculty Service awards for 2001.
“We have all benefited greatly from the sustained contributions of
Drs. Manos and Stillway, who have given so much of their time, energies
and talents to making MUSC a state and regional resource,” Raymond said.
Developing Scholars
Krupenko, a native of Chistopol, Russia, joined MUSC’s faculty in 1999
as an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology. He earned his undergraduate degree from Byelorussian State University
in Minsk and his graduate degree in biochemistry from the Military Academy
of Medicine.
Prior to coming to MUSC, Krupenko was on the faculty at Vanderbilt
University’s School of Medicine. While there, he focused on protein chemistry
and biochemistry, specifically the enzyme 10-formyltetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase
(FDH). As part of his studies with this enzyme, Krupenko is investigating
its role in cancer.
Though still early in his career, Krupenko has published 20 papers
in major journals and has been successful in obtaining grant support from
the National Institutes of Health.
Forti, assistant professor in the Department of Health Professions,
earned her bachelor’s degree from the School of Nursing at Bloomsburg University,
her master’s in health education from East Stroudsburg University and her
Ph.D. in rural sociology from Pennsylvania State University.
She is an active scholar in the area of gerontology. In this capacity,
she serves as the director of the South Carolina Statewide Geriatric Education
Center and as associate director for Education at MUSC’s Center on Aging.
She has been extremely successful as a principal investigator on a number
of grant awards, including a five-year project for
the Geriatric Education Center for more than $1 million.
Her efforts in the area of health initiatives for the elderly have
earned her well-deserved recognition, including the Duke Endowment Award,
the 2000 South Carolina Governor’s Award for Health Promotion for Older
Adults and the South Carolina Rural Health Association’s Researcher of
the Year.
Wallace, who earned his bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, his
medical degree from Duke University and his M.P.H. from Harvard University,
joined MUSC in 1998.
Despite carrying a heavy clinical load, he is considered an excellent
teacher, and has been chosen as one of 10 faculty members for the national
training course in endosonography three consecutive years. He currently
is associate medical director of the Clinical Innovation Group and assistant
director of clinical research in the Digestive Disease Center.
Additionally, Wallace is regarded as a strong clinical researcher,
and received the highest grant award given to a member of the American
Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
He also has funding from NIH to work on the use of endoscopic ultrasound
to direct therapy of patients with esophageal cancer. Well-published, he
has gained a national and international reputation as an expert in the
field of endoscopic ultrasound.
Distinguished Faculty Service
Stillway has filled many roles during his 31 years as a faculty member—mentor,
preceptor, guide and counselor—but above all, he is considered by his peers
as the consummate educator. He joined the Department of Biochemistry in
1971 and four years later received his first Outstanding Teaching Award
from the College of Medicine. It is an honor conferred upon him 15 times
in the following 25 years.
Additionally, Stillway has received four Golden Apple awards and has
been named the Governor’s Distinguished Professor, further solidifying
his stature as one of MUSC’s best teachers.
During the summer months, when many teachers may be preparing for the
fall semester, Stillway teaches Biomedical Science to some of the state’s
top high school students in the Governor’s School, a practice he has continued
for the past 13 years. Currently, Stillway is the director of the Molecular
Basis of Medicine, the primary fall course for first-year medical students.
He founded the Apple Tree Society, an organization to improve teaching
and collegiality at MUSC, in 1986. He is well published, having recently
contributed to two textbook chapters in “Medical Biochemistry.”
Manos, a 1956 graduate of MUSC and a faculty member since 1959, likewise
has earned four Golden Apple Awards along with 14 Excellence in Teaching
awards. In addition, he has been extremely active in community education,
talking to various groups about AIDS and other diseases. As associate director
of clinical laboratories, he has created and maintained the “Reference
Values and Specimen Collection Handbook,” considered a monumental undertaking
for a publication deemed essential for all faculty members. In addition,
he played an integral part in the development of the Sabin polio vaccine.
An inspirational and capable leader, Manos has taken on many administrative
duties during his tenure, including a quarter of a century service as director
of the Diagnostic Microbiology laboratory, a period highlighted by constant
quality output. In addition to the many years he chaired the Infection
Control Committee, Manos also served 19 years as vice chairman of the Department
of Microbiology and two years as interim chairman.
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