Awards and Honors
InFocus • Winter 2025 Issue • March 24, 2025
Below are some of the recent awards and honors received by our Penn Pathology and Laboratory Medicine community.
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The High-Throughput Center for Autoimmune Therapeutic Discovery (HIT-AI), led by Sara Cherry, PhD, received the 2024 Robert Dunning Dripps Memorial Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education as part of the Penn Medicine Awards of Excellence. The Dunning Dripps Award recognizes excellence in educators of residents and fellows in clinical care, research, teaching, or administration. | |
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Jorge Henao-Mejia, MD, PhD was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), one of the nation's oldest and most respected medical honor societies. As a 2025 inductee, Dr. Henao-Mejia is one of 99 physician-scientists from 46 institutions recognized for excellence across academic medicine. | |
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Tanashree Kalghatgi, Genomic Development Specialist in the Division of Precision and Computational Diagnostics, received two Honorable Mentions for her posters at the 2025 Association of Molecular Pathology annual conference.
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Wageedah Millner, Laboratory Assistant at PPMC, was recently named one of February's "Presby Stars," a program that recognizes employee performance above and beyond Penn Medicine's Experience Standards for Professionalism. Wageedah recently went above and beyond to organize transportation for the PPMC Path & Lab team to safely travel to the department holiday party. "On a daily basis, Ms. Millner brings a positive attitude to her work and is exceptional at her job while thinking of our group. This is just one example of her taking care of everyone.” |
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Xiao Zhou, MD, PhD, a PGY-2 at Pennsylvania Hospital, recently received a 2025 Chinese American Pathologists Association (CAPA) GoPath Best Abstract Award. |
