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GME Residency Program Awards Each year, MUSC residents in the College of Medicine are praised and recognized for their talents, knowledge and experience in providing the highest quality of patient care.  Some programs have chosen to recognize these physician-residents with special departmental awards. Following is a list of exceptional residents who were presented with awards in 2002.  Department of Surgery Dabney R. Yarbrough III, M.D. Research Award: Christophe Nguyen, M.D. Max S. Rittenbury, M.D. Intern of the Year Award: Basker Periyasamy, M.D., and H. Mallory Reeves, M.D. Student Award for Excellence in Resident Teaching: Ajai Srinivasan, M.D., and Craig Murray, M.D. 2001 Golden Apple House Staff Award: Megan Baker, M.D. Department of Ophthalmology Program Director’s Award as the resident who displays behaviors and attitudes that we  would most like to see in our own personal physician: Brad Daines, M.D. Best Research Project Award: Warren Thompson, M.D. Vallotton Award for Academic Excellence: Gene Moss, M.D. Pierre Gautier Jenkins Award (Selected by the Residents for Unsurpassed Devotion to Resident Education): Gene Howard, M.D. Department of Anesthesiology Robert D. Dripps Memorial Award as Distinguished Resident: Patrick Williams, M.D. Department of Family Medicine Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Resident Teacher of the Year Award: Brian J. Wells, M.D. Outstanding Resident of the Year/S.C. Academy of Family Physicians: Keith D. Lobel, M.D. Chief Resident Award for Outstanding Leadership: Brian J. Wells, M.D., and Tara N. Vandegrift, M.D. Department for OB/GYN Best Resident Teacher, Third Rotation 2000-01; Best Resident Teacher, Second Rotation 2000-01; Golden Apple Award 2001; Best overall Student Teacher 2001-2002: Amy Cooper, M.D. Department of Pediatrics Mitchell Rubin Award for Research (Asthma Hospitalization Trends in Charleston, 1956-1997): Dana Crater, M.D. 2001-02 Student Teaching Award (Voted on by third-year medical students): Lyne Scott, M.D. Department of General Internal Medicine Resident of the Year: Dwight Blair, M.D. Intern of the Year: Michael Craig, M.D. Fellow of the Year: Stephen Tann, M.D. Division of the Year/Overall Excellence in Promotion of the Education of Resident Physicians: Pulmonary Division Michael E. Assey, M.D. Teaching Award (Formerly the Attending of the Year Award): Julius Sagel, M.D. Attendance Award: Dirk Bonnema, M.D. National Winner, Resident Research Competition at the American College of Physicians 2002 National Meeting: Craig McCotter, M.D. Academic Generalist Fellowship in General Pediatrics and General Internal Medicine–Fellows Pediatric Academic Society’s Regional Meeting–Poster Presentations: Matthew Davis, M.D., Patricia McBurney, M.D., and Andrea Summer, M.D. National Research Service Award Trainees Research Conference Awardee and presenter: Michael Smith M.D. 2002 Ambulatory Pediatric Association Fellows Award: Matthew Davis, M.D. Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.