Annabel Mancillas, M.D., MPH, adjunct prof of obstetrics and gynecology successful KU School of Medicine, accepted the 2023 Rainbow Award, the highest grant fixed during A Grand Affair. Photos by Kacy Meinecke Photography.
The University of Kansas School of Medicine celebrated the 25th day of A Grand Affair connected Jan. 14 astatine the Kansas City Convention Center.
The ceremonial lawsuit is simply a solemnisation of the enactment of aesculapian students, unit and module arsenic good arsenic an accidental for the aesculapian students to amusement their appreciation to their educators and mentors.
“Every year, we acceptable speech this nighttime to observe our aesculapian students’ committedness to and passionateness for their chosen profession,” said Akinlolu Ojo, M.D., Ph.D., MBA, dean of KU School of Medicine.
The lawsuit returned to its accepted clip of mid-January aft being moved to mid-March successful 2022. At that time, the alteration was owed to concerns astir the emergence successful the COVID-19 variant Omicron successful the Kansas City area. A Grand Affair was held arsenic a virtual event successful 2021 due to the fact that of the pandemic.
Rainbow Award
A Grand Affair’s pinnacle prize is the Rainbow Award, presented to the module subordinate who exemplifies professionalism successful medicine and the willingness and capableness to mentor others. The 2023 victor was Annabel Mancillas, M.D., MPH, adjunct prof of obstetrics and gynecology.
Mancillas practiced arsenic a registered caregiver for 3 years earlier entering KU School of Medicine and graduated successful 2011. She completed post-graduate grooming astatine Wesley Medical Center successful Wichita and past worked for 5 years arsenic an obstetrician/gynecologist successful the Kansas City area. She is fluent successful Spanish and has participated successful aggregate aesculapian trips to Latin America.
Ethan Kallenberger, a KU School of Medicine pupil from the Class of 2024 and co-president of the Medical Student
Assembly Executive Board, greeted guests astatine A Grand Affair.
The committee helps to admit module and different mentors via
student-selected awards.
She joined the University of Kansas Medical Center successful 2021. “I entered aesculapian acquisition due to the fact that I felt similar determination was much that I was meant to do,” Mancillas said. “Working with aesculapian students, particularly portion fulfilling my passionateness of providing attraction to underserved communities, gives maine anticipation that I tin proceed to foster that altruistic calling that brought truthful galore of america to the aesculapian profession.”
A pupil who nominated Mancillas for the Rainbow Award wrote, “I felt compelled to nominate Dr. Mancillas due to the fact that of her exemplary traits that marque her an unthinkable clinician and teacher. … With Dr. Mancillas, nary question is stupid. She makes students consciousness comfy and allows students to larn by action.”
Mancillas said the Rainbow Award was an honor. “To beryllium nominated by the aesculapian students, the radical who witnesser your nonstop patient/physician interactions and however you signifier medicine, is specified an grant due to the fact that the aesculapian students spot precisely who you are arsenic a doc connected a regular basis,” she said.
Additional nominees for the 2023 Rainbow Award included:
- German Berbel, D.O., subordinate prof of surgery
- Meredith Gray, M.D., subordinate prof of obstetrics and gynecology
- Lyndsey Kilgore, M.D., adjunct prof of surgery
- Mike Rouse, D.O., adjunct prof of interior medicine
More grant winners
Many much awards were presented astatine A Grand Affair. Yegor Pashchenko, M.D., a nonmigratory successful the Department of Surgery astatine KU School of Medicine-Wichita, was fixed the Excellence successful Residency Award. “His attraction for aesculapian students was evident not lone successful his idiosyncratic interactions with us, but successful his dedication to teaching,” his nominator wrote. “I've mislaid way of the magnitude of times I've seen Yegor sitting down with america students for a fewer hours to spell implicit oral committee cases and to reply each of our questions.”
The Ad Astra Award is fixed to the doc who donates clip to the acquisition of KU aesculapian students and exemplifies excellence and professionalism. The 2023 victor is David Grantham, M.D., objective adjunct prof successful the Department of Surgery astatine KU School of Medicine-Wichita.
Locke Uppendahl, M.D., objective adjunct prof successful the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology astatine KU School of Medicine-Wichita accepted the Sunflower Mentoring Award. This grant allows students to admit an outstanding part-time doc educator.
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