The PEAR, Professional Educator Appreciation and Recognition, Awards are a student-led initiative to recognize those individuals who have had a significant impact on students during their medical training. The award seeks to highlight and reinforce positive examples of professionalism and teaching; it focuses on collecting the positive stories from the student experience.
Any Baylor College of Medicine student can nominate preclinical faculty, attending physicians, residents, physician assistants, nurses and others on the medical team who have challenged them, expanded their knowledge or imparted a significant lesson. Submissions are shared with the award recipient and his or her department chair. Students can submit nominations online.
PEAR Awards are supported by the Center for Professionalism, led by Dr. Ellen Friedman.
2025 Recipients
- Adil Ahmed
- Jeffrey Wang
- Adriana Cordova
- Alberto de Jesus Lopez Juarez
- Anees Fatima
- Bernard Danna
- Vrunda Vithalani
- Yi-Chun Liu
- Jessica Gaines
- Roy Lin
- Corbyn Cravero
- Gabriel Loor
- Leo Kleyman
- Jennifer Vu
- Fernando Padilla
- Samuel Creden
- Jodie Mogensen
- Jenna Dovydaitis
- Priscilla Liem
- Mostafa Belghasem
- Kristy Rialon
- Cary Hsu
- Idine Mousavi
- Ann Nduati
- Nandan Kumar Mondal
- Mark Zobeck
- Musa Bilal
- Anna Catinis
- Natalie Garcia
- Ryan Dumas
- Hyun-Sung Lee
- Gaspar Pina
- Srey Ram Kuy
- Jenny Nguyen
- Paul Bui
- Madeline Bos
- Reginald Severe
- Punam Amin
- Anjali Aggarwal
- Ujval Pathak
- Majd Jwied
- Courtney Wang
- Mariana Carretero Murillo
- Raphael Yang
- Elizabeth Bosquez
- Natasha Hansraj
- Ava Mokhtari
- Carmen Traseira Pedraz
- Ali Khalifa
- Cedrick Lubin
- Zeena Nawas
- Travis Miles
- Christopher Strader
