Eight honored with Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards

The University of Texas System Board of Regents honored eight Health Science Center faculty members this summer with Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards. The UT System offered the awards to faculty in the UT health-related institutions this year for the first time; overall, 40 professors representing all six institutions were recognized. Each winner received $25,000 in the highly competitive awards program. UT Health Science Center recipients are:

• Sandra Adams, M.D., Medicine, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care
• Linda Johnson, Ph.D., Cellular and Structural Biology
• Richard Ludueña, Ph.D., Biochemistry
• Susan Naylor, Ph.D., Cellular and Structural Biology
• William Rose, D.D.S., Comprehensive Dentistry
• Linda Smith, Ph.D., Clinical Laboratory Sciences
• Patricia Wathen, M.D., General Medicine
• Gail Williams, Ph.D., RN, Family and Community Health Systems