Athalie Clarke Achievement Awards Program

2025 Awards Ceremony

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering
100 Academy Wy, Irvine, CA 92617

Tickets: $75/per person
Business Attire
Complimentary Parking

Registration Information to come

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

Audrone Lapinaite, PhD

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering
Member, Center for Translational Vision Research
UCI School of Medicine

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR NURSING RESEARCH

Yuqing Guo, RN, PhD, FAAN

Director, UCI Infectious Disease Science Initiative
Associate Professor of Nursing
Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PHARMACUETICAL RESEARCH

Aya F. Ozaki, PharmD

Assistant Professor, Clinical Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH

Tetyana Vasylyeva, MSc, MPH, DPhil

Assistant Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention
Co-Director, PhD in Public Health Degree Program
Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH

Richard E. Harris, PhD

Susan Samueli Endowed Chair
Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care
Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute

About the Awards Program

Research Associates hosts an annual community event to recognize distinguished Athalie Clarke Achievement Award recipients. Community members, faculty and former honorees come together to celebrate these visionary Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences researchers whose investigations have made a lasting impact on human health. The prestigious awards are made possible by generous friends of Research Associates who are interested in advancing research that leads to improved health and wellness—mind, body and spirit. View a complete list of Athalie Clarke Award recipients below.

Award Recipients

2024 Awards

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

Rémi Buisson, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry
UCI School of Medicine

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR NURSING RESEARCH

Sanghyuk Shin, PhD

Director, UCI Infectious Disease Science Initiative
Associate Professor, Nursing
Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PHARMACUETICAL RESEARCH

Cheryl Wisseh, PharmD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy
School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH

Denise D. Payán, PhD, MPP

Principal Investigator, Community Health & Innovative Policy (CHIP) Lab
Faculty Director, California Initiative for Health Equity & Action (Cal-IHEA)
Associate Professor, Health, Society & Behavior
Program in Public Health

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH

Karen Lindsay, RD, PhD

Samueli Early Career Chair of Integrative Health, Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Population Health and Disease Prevention
School of Medicine

2023 Awards

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

Tallie Z. Baram, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Conte Center @ UCI
Danette Shepard Professor, Neurological Sciences
Bren and Distinguished Professor, Pediatrics, Anatomy/Neurobiology, Neurology
UCI School of Medicine

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR NURSING RESEARCH

Nakia Best, Ph.D., R.N.

Assistant Professor of Nursing
UCI Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PHARMACUETICAL RESEARCH

David Mobley, Ph.D.

Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences
UCI School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH

Jun Wu, Ph.D.

Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health
UCI Program in Public Health

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR INTEGRATIVE HEALTH

Geoffrey Abbott, Ph.D

Professor of Physiology & Biophysics
Vice Dean, Basic Science Research
Senior Associate Dean, Academic Personnel
UCI School of Medicine

2022 Awards

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH

Krzysztof Palczewski, Ph.D.

Irving H. Leopold Chair of Ophthalmology
Donald Bren Professor and Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology and Physiology & Biophysics,
UCI School of Medicine
Director, The Center for Translational Vision Research

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR NURSING RESEARCH

Michelle A. Fortier, Ph.D.

Co-Director, UCI Center on Stress & Health
Associate Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PHARMACUETICAL RESEARCH

Brian Paegel, Ph.D.

Professor, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH

Michael Kleinman, Ph.D.

Adjunct Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health,
Planned School of Population and Public Health

2021 Awards

ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR NURSING RESEARCH

2020 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award for Medical Research

Susan Huang, MD, MPH

Professor, Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine and Medical Director of Epidemiology and Infection Prevention for UCI Health.

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award for Nursing Research

Jung-Ah Lee, PhD, RN

Associate professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing

The 2020 Awards Program is available for viewing here along with the keynote address by Dr. Edwin Monu, “The Research Web of COVID-19 Testing at UCI.”

2019 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Bogi Andersen, MD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Nursing

E. Alison Holman, FNP, PhD, FAAN, FABMR

2018 Awards

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

Yama Akbari, MD, PhD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Emiliana Borrelli, PhD

2017 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Peter Kaiser, PhD

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

Connie Rhee, MD, MSc

2016 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Oswald Steward, PhD

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

Qin Yang, MD, PhD

2015 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Hamid M. Said, PhD

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

Dara Sorkin, PhD

2014 Awards

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

Daniela Bota, MD, PhD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Dana B. Mukamel, PhD

2013 Awards

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

Anand K Ganesan, MD, PhD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Anthony A. James, PhD

2012 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Marian Waterman, PhD

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

Jason Zell, DO, MPH

2011 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Paolo Casali, M

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

Henry Klassen, MD, PhD

2010 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

2009 Awards

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

Susan S. Huang, MD, MPH

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Claudia Kawas, MD

2008 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Eva Y-H. P. Lee, PhD

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

Edwin Monuki, MD, PhD

2007 Awards

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

2006 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

2005 Awards

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

2004 Awards

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

2003 Awards

Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award

2002 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

K. George Chandy, MD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Olivier Civelli, PhD

2001 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Andrzej S. Tarnawski, MD, PhD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Orhan Nalcioglu, PhD

2000 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

1999 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

1998 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Kenneth M. Baldwin, PhD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Rozanne Sandri-Goldin, PhD

1997 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Michael Cahalan, PhD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Bert Semler, PhD

1996 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Christine Gall, PhD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Masayasu Nomura, PhD

1995 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

1994 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Ralph A. Bradshaw, PhD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Janos K. Lanyi, PhD

1993 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Murray Korc, MD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Michael Selsted, MD, PhD

1992 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Suzanne Sandmeyer, PhD

1991 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

James Fallon, PhD

1990 Awards

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Moyra Smith, MD, PhD

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Eric Stanbridge, PhD

1989 Award

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Ellen Lewis, RN, MSN

1988 Award

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

John Wasmuch, PhD

1987 Award

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Gerald Weinstein, MD

1986 Award

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

Walter Henry, MD

1985 Award

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine

William E. Bunney, Jr., MD

1984 Award

Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine