CTLA PURPOSE AND GOALS  
CTLA ADVISORY GROUP  
FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARDS »
FACULTY PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL  
FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARDS

2004 Faculty Excellence Award Winners

 

Clinical Excellence: Tao Gong, MCAOM

Dr. Gong is excellent in teaching clinic supervision.She has excellent acupuncture techniques and knowledge in traditional Chinese medicine, enabling her to treat complicated cases while explaining how to manipulate the treatments in detail to her interns, allowing them to get the desired therapeutic results . Dr. Gong is willing to help all interns, offering support to them. She is patient with them, making sure their questions are answered and their understanding complete. She actively seeks feedback from her interns and implements adjustment to improve her supervising.

Excellence in Research, Scholarship or Creative Activities: Dr. Lynne Hvidsten, Clinical Education

Dr. Hvidsten instigated research on the T7 Developmental Assessment. This research was designed to answer three questions 1) how reliable are the ratings for information gathering, clinical thinking and interpersonal skills? 2) were these variables substantially correlated? and 3) are the subscales themselves associated? This reserach has been peer reviewed and accepted for presentation on local, national and international levels. Dr. Hvidsten encourages the department in regards to research activities and continues to maintain statistics on numerous assessments for future research. Her creative accomplishments go beyond research to development of unique setting for students to obtain and meet their clinical requirements. One of these is an on-going support and encouragement of intern experiences in La Clinica Mariposa in Costa Rica. She also encourages creative approaches including a completely new form of intership experience, innovated and implemented under her direction.

Excellence in Teaching: Dr. Mei Wang, MCAOM

Dr. Wang is well-prepared for her classes, distributing professional, detailed notes that are well-thought out and easy to understand. She works with students individually to make sure they understand and that no student is left behind. She is approachable and encouraging in the classroom, the clinic and outside of that too, making her a well-liked and respected professor. Dr. Wang carries over knowledge from her Herb classes into the Herbal pharmacy, making a deeper connection with the students to learn. She makes individual cases in the clinic a teachable moments for all interns to learn from. She holds special training classes and review session to assist students in learning the herbs and how they interact with one another. She spends hours with a Chinese/English dictionary, translating her notes from Chinese into English so that students understand the Chinese names in an English context. Dr. Wang has worked effectively at bridging the cultural gap between the Chinese Approach to education and the Western approach.


Copyright © Northwestern Health Sciences University.