Mentor of the Year Award

The Mentor of the Year Award is presented each year to faculty on the Columbia University Irving Medical Center campus in recognition of their outstanding guidance and support provided to students, fellows, and colleagues.

Billy A. Caceres, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
- 2024 Junior Mentor of the Year
Assistant Professor of Nursing
Jordan Gabriela Nestor, MD, MS, FASN
- 2024 Junior Mentor of the Year
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Chunhua Weng, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI
- 2024 Senior Mentor of the Year
Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD
- 2024 Senior Mentor of the Year
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (in Psychiatry)
Kiran T. Thakur, MD
- 2023 Junior Mentor of the Year
Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Neurology
Ana Navas Acien, MD, PHD, MPH
- 2023 Senior Mentor of the Year
Leon Hess Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences
Susan L. Rosenthal, PhD, ABPP
- 2023 Senior Mentor of the Year
Professor of Medical Psychology (in Pediatrics and Psychiatry)
Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk, MD, MPH
- 2023 Senior Mentor of the Year
Harold Neu Professor of Infectious Diseases (in Medicine)
Timothy C. Wang, MD
- 2023 Senior Mentor of the Year
Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Medicine
Delivette Castor, PhD
- 2022 Junior Mentor of the Year
- Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in Medicine) and of Epidemiology
Jennifer J. Manly, PhD
- 2022 Senior Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Neuropsychology in the Department of Neurology
Cristiane S. Duarte, PhD, MPH
- 2022 Senior Mentor of the Year
- Professor for the Implementation of Science for Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Rebecca Schnall, PhD, MPH, RN
- 2022 Senior Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (in Nursing) and Professor of Population and Family Health
Donald Edmondson, PhD., MPH
- 2021 Mentor of the Year
- Associate Professor of Behavioral Medicine
Dawn Hershman, MD, MS, FASCO
- 2021 Mentor of the Year
- American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Silvia S. Martins, MD, PhD
- 2021 Mentor of the Year
- Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD, PNP-BC, RN, FAHA, FAAN
- 2021 Mentor of the Year
- Helen F. Pettit Professor of Nursing
Dustin T. Duncan, ScD
- 2020 Mentor of the Year
- Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, PhD
- 2020 Mentor of the Year
- Associate Professor of Medicine
José A. Luchsinger, MD, MPH
- 2020 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Steven L. Spitalnik, MD
- 2020 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology
Henry Ginsberg, MD
- 2019 Mentor of the Year
- Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Medicine
Harold Pincus, MD
- 2019 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Psychiatry
Donna Farber, PhD
- 2019 Mentor of the Year
- George H. Humphreys, II Professor of Surgical Sciences
Ali G. Gharavi, MD
- 2018 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Medicine
Lori J. Mosca, MD, MPH, PhD
- 2018 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Medicine
Rudolph L. Leibel, MD
- 2017 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine
Mathew Maurer, MD
- 2017 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Medicine
Lisa A. Mellman, MD
- 2017 Mentor of the Year
- Samuel Rudin Professor of Psychiatry
Karina Davidson, PhD
- 2016 Mentor of the Year
Professor of Behavioral Medicine (in Medicine and Psychiatry)
Vice Dean for Organizational Effectiveness
Director of the Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Steven Marx, MD
- 2016 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Medicine
Alfred Neugut, MD, PhD
- 2015 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Epidemiology
Franklin Lowy, MD
- 2015 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Medicine and Pathology and Cell Biology
Rita Charon, MD, PhD
- 2015 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Medicine
Larry Abbott, PhD
- 2013 Mentor of the Year
- William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience
Elizabeth Shane, MD
- 2012 Mentor of the Year
- Professor of Medicine

Mentor of the Year Award

Billy A. Caceres, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN

Jordan Gabriela Nestor, MD, MS, FASN

Chunhua Weng, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI

Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD

Kiran T. Thakur, MD

Ana Navas Acien, MD, PHD, MPH

Susan L. Rosenthal, PhD, ABPP

Magdalena E. Sobieszczyk, MD, MPH

Timothy C. Wang, MD

Delivette Castor, PhD

Jennifer J. Manly, PhD

Cristiane S. Duarte, PhD, MPH

Rebecca Schnall, PhD, MPH, RN

Donald Edmondson, PhD., MPH

Dawn Hershman, MD, MS, FASCO

Silvia S. Martins, MD, PhD

Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD, PNP-BC, RN, FAHA, FAAN

Dustin T. Duncan, ScD

Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, PhD

José A. Luchsinger, MD, MPH

Steven L. Spitalnik, MD

Henry Ginsberg, MD

Harold Pincus, MD

Donna Farber, PhD

Ali G. Gharavi, MD

Lori J. Mosca, MD, MPH, PhD

Rudolph L. Leibel, MD

Mathew Maurer, MD

Lisa A. Mellman, MD

Karina Davidson, PhD

Steven Marx, MD

Alfred Neugut, MD, PhD

Franklin Lowy, MD

Rita Charon, MD, PhD

Larry Abbott, PhD

Elizabeth Shane, MD