Employees Recognized for Excellence

Date

March 5, 2019

Several faculty and staff received recognition for their outstanding contributions to MGH Institute of Health Professions, ranging from improving a curriculum to expanding community volunteer experiences for students to creating programs to assist student learning.

A total of 14 awards, eight to individuals and four to teams, were distributed in March at the MGH Institute’s Partners in Excellence (PIE) award ceremony, the annual event where employees from each of Partners HealthCare’s affiliates are commended for their extraordinary efforts.

Linda Rice, Kim Schmid (Partners) and Louisa Bong-Rybarski

Individual awards

Sherlene Austin, a staff assistant in the Office of Campus Services, received a Quality, Treatment, and Service award for her exemplary service in supporting Center for Interprofessional Studies and Innovation (CIPSI) events.

Anna Cottrell, the associate registrar in the Office of Enrollment Services, received a Quality, Treatment, and Service award for her work coordinating the various schedules of the Institute’s academic programs to ensure students always have complete and current information as the Institute becomes more complex.

Mary Ellen Ferolito, the executive assistant to the Dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, received a Leadership and Innovation award for her work assisting in the hiring of several academic program chairs while coordinating other SHRS efforts and conducting immunization compliance for the entire IHP.

Dianne Gould, a project coordinator in the Office of the Provost, received an Outstanding Community Contributions award for her work in helping the IHP develop 10 new student activities and integrate students from nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, and speech-language pathology at the Harvard-Kent Elementary School in Charlestown.

Patricia Lussier-Duynstee, assistant dean for student support and clinical facilitation and an assistant professor in the School of Nursing, received a Quality, Treatment, and Service award for her work supporting students in the prelicensure nursing program who have academic challenges and her continued commitment to the SON, its faculty, and its students.

Patrice Nicholas, a professor in the School of Nursing, received a Leadership and Innovation award for developing Onramps, a program for seasoned faculty to mentor early-career faculty in developing their scholarly efforts to publish articles and produce posters.

Keshrie Naidoo, an instructor in the Department of Physical Therapy, received< a Leadership and Innovation award for creating an innovative curricular design to enhance the quality of instruction for the Doctor of Physical Therapy’s Orthopedic Clinical residency, of which she is the director.

Lauren Putnam, director of admissions in the Office of Enrollment Services, received a Quality Treatment and Service award for providing personalized, one-on-one service to healthcare practitioners who applied to post-professional programs, resulting in more students being admitted.

Team Awards

The School of Nursing’s Academic Support team, led by Steve Ciesielski and which included Eliza Hanly and Leah Gordon, received a Quality, Treatment, and Service award for identifying incoming BSN students who were at risk and developing a boot camp to better prepare them prior to beginning class. The results were that students who participated in the program received better grades than those students who did not.

The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders’ administrative staff team, Katie Mulcahy and Rachel Harshaw received a Teamwork award for keeping the department running smoothly during a leadership change while successfully managing its 10-year reaccreditation process.

The Office of Finance and Administration’s Change in Year End and PeopleSoft Implementation team, led by Linda Rice and which included Louisa Bong-Rybarski of the IHP and Linda Bramante and Kim Schmid, of the Partners Finance team, received a Partners 2.0 award for coordinating the MGH Institute’s change in fiscal year reporting that will produce large cost savings as faster time generating reports.

The members of the Community Impact Day team, led by Jane Baldwin and which included, Mike Boutin, Peter Cahn, Anna Cottrell, Andrew Criscione, Heather Easter, Jack Gormley, Alexis Guay, Damary Gutierrez, Mary Hildebrand, Kerry Kearns, Mary Knab, Natalie Lewis, Yolanda Mendez Rainey, Katherine Metzger, Raquel Reynolds, Kathryn Sabo, Susan Smith, and Jessica Upton, received a Teamwork award for organizing the annual event in which more than 600 first-year students during their first week of school volunteer at more than 50 non-profits throughout Greater Boston.