December 16, 2019
Faculty/staff honors: Distinguished teaching honor, new editor for environmental health journal, overseeing education in Uganda, Allen School honors
Recent honors to University of Washington faculty and staff members include the new editorship of a major journal, a post with the Republic of Uganda and honors from the American College of Physicians, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Dr. Douglas Paauw honored for teaching by American College of Physicians
Dr. Douglas Paauw
Dr. Douglas Paauw, UW professor of general internal medicine in the School of Medicine and director of the UW Medical Student Program, has been awarded the Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teacher Award by the American College of Physicians, a national organization of internists.
The award, established in 1969 and renamed for its first woman recipient, is given annually to a fellow or master of the college “who has demonstrated the ennobling qualities of a great teacher.” Paauw was elected a master of the college in 2009.
He joined the School of Medicine faculty in 1988 and is a physician at the UW Medical Center’s general internal medicine and virology clinics. Paauw also received distinguished teaching awards from the UW in 1997 and from its School of Medicine four times. He is the UW’s Rathmann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Patient Centered Clinical Education.
Paauw will receive the award at the college’s annual convocation ceremony in April 2020 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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Dr. Joel Kaufman named new editor-in-chief of environmental health journal
Dr. Joel Kaufman
Dr. Joel Kaufman, UW professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, medicine and epidemiology, has been named the new editor-in-chief of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
The journal is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health and Sciences, which is part of the National Institutes of Health.
Kaufman is a practicing physician who has published more than 200 research papers and review articles on environmental science. Since joining the UW faculty more than two decades ago, he has maintained a research program that encompasses epidemiology, inhalation toxicology, clinical medicine and exposure sciences. He previously served as interim dean for the School of Public Health.
Day-to-day operations for the journal will be carried out by full-time staff under Kaufman’s direction. The journal now enables its editor-in-chief to continue conducting research and teaching at their home institution.
Kaufman has served on editorial boards and peer review panels for many of the leading clinical medicine and environmental health journals. He previously served on the editorial review board, then as an associate editor, of Environmental Health Perspectives before taking over as interim dean of the School of Public Health in 2016. Read more.
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Magdalena Balazinska
Paul Beame
Allen School faculty members honored by Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, has named professors Magdalena Balazinska and Paul Beame of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering as among 58 new ACM Fellows for 2019, honored for their “far-reaching accomplishments that define the digital age.”
Joshua Smith
Also, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE, has named Allen School professor Joshua Smith as among its newly elected IEEE Fellows for 2020. Smith also has an appointment with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
These announcements bring to 24 the number of current or former Allen School faculty members made an ACM Fellows, and 16 who have been named IEEE Fellows.
Read the full stories on the Allen School website.
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Sam Luboga of Department of Family Medicine to lead Ugandan education commission
Sam Luboga
Sam Luboga, a UW clinical associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine has been named to lead the Education Service Commission of The Republic of Uganda. Luboga is also an associate professor of health sciences at Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda. The appointment calls for Luboga to lead the nation’s civil service teacher’s personnel board, responsible for ensuring the high caliber of Uganda’s teaching workforce.
“I will make sure that the reputation of the Education Service Commission remains high and grows more,” Luboga said in an article about his appointment.
