Athalie Clarke Achievement Awards Program
2024 Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Sue Gross Auditorium
UCI Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences
856 Health Sciences Road
Irvine, CA 92697
Tickets: $75/per person
Cocktail/Business Attire
Complimentary Parking
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
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
2023 Awards
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 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
Dawn Therese Bounds, PhD, PMHNP-BC
Assistant Professor, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PHARMACUETICAL RESEARCH
John Chaput, PhD
Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
ATHALIE CLARKE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH
Susan M. O’Brien, MD
Associate Director for Clinical Science, Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Medical Director, Sue & Ralph Stern Center for Clinical Trials & Research
Chao Family Endowed Chair for Cancer Clinical Science
Professor, School of Medicine
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
Wen-Hwa Lee, PhD
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD, MPH
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Paolo Sassone-Corsi, PhD
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
Devin K. Binder, MD, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Sue Piper Duckles, Ph
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Pietro Galassetti, MD, PhD
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Bang Hoang, MD
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Krishnansu Tewari, MD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Steven Wechsler, MD
2006 Awards
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Frances Leslie, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Alan L. Goldin, MD, PhD
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Tiong Ong, MA, MB, BCh, MRCP
2005 Awards
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Rainer K. Brachmann, MD
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Steven Lipkin MD, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Ivan Soltesz, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Bruce Tromberg, PhD
2004 Awards
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Taosheng Huang, MD, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Gary Lynch, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
J. Stuart Nelson, MD, PhD
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Terry Shibuya, MD
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Ming Tan, MD
2003 Awards
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Roy Chuck, MD
Dean’s Junior Physician-Scientist Award
Ranjan Gupta, MD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Nick Vaziri, MD
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
Alan G. Barbour, MD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Carl W. Cotman, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Stephen H. White, PhD
1999 Awards
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Tallie Z. Baram, MD, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
G. Wesley Hatfield, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Ellis R. Levin, MD
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
Dennis Cunningham, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Edward Jones, MD, PhD
Athalie Clarke Achievement Award in Medicine
Frank Meyskens, Jr., MD
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