UCSF School of Medicine - Staff Appreciation

The Holly Smith Award was established in 2000 to recognize exceptional career service that has resulted in broad and long-lasting benefit to the School of Medicine. The award is named for Lloyd H. (Holly) Smith, Jr., whose 35-year career as chair of medicine and associate dean exemplified such an outstanding career effort.

Congratulations to this year's award recipients:

Sally Mead

Sally Mead, chief administrative officer for the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), is an exceptional colleague and leader who continuously and systematically improves processes across the school and campus. Sally’s impressive accounting and technology skills create a legacy that permeates many UCSF administrative systems, and the guidelines and best practices she is setting will influence the work of analysts and managers for years to come. She defines selfless leadership and is recognized by her colleagues for improving employee life in her department. Sally demonstrates excellence, collaboration, compassion and a single-minded focus on building and improving our institution with a light yet relentless touch.

Samuel Barondes, MD

Samuel Barondes, MD, professor in the department of psychiatry, was recruited to UCSF in 1986 with the explicit goal of building bridges between neuroscience and psychiatry. Through enormous challenges, he was able to bring the department into a modern, forward-looking era, and to develop a world-class psychiatry science program. He has left an enduring legacy first as chair of the department, then as director of the UCSF Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry. Sam has championed the scholarly pursuits of succeeding generations of physician-scientists. He is a trusted and committed mentor, and his advice is always constructive, clear and offered with gentle, gracious wit. His intellect is far-sighted, and he thinks in a big picture way about the direction science is heading and how new discoveries can be made in service to public health.

About the Award

Nominations are sought for three categories -- faculty member, exempt staff and non-exempt staff. The winners are deemed to exhibit those qualities best exemplified by Holly Smith: dedication to the School of Medicine, diversity in roles played, commitment to sustaining UCSF's position as a world-class institution, and accomplishing all of the above with humor and grace.

For more detailed information about the awards, see the Policy and Procedure and the online Nomination Application. The deadline for nominations was March 27.

Awards will be presented at the annual Salute to Excellence reception on May 29, 2013.  Recipients of the awards will receive a prize of $5,000, and their names will be added to the Holly Smith Award plaque in the Dean's Office.

Please contact Stephanie Belger at (415) 476-1279 with any questions.

Previous Winners

FACULTY
Neal Cohen (2000)
Keith Yamamoto (2001)
Ira Herskowitz (2002)
Diane Colby (2003)
Kanu Chatterjee (2004)
Lawrence Tierney (2005)
Dan Lowenstein (2006)
Helen Loeser (2007)
Robert Wachter (2008)
George Rutherford (2009)
Donna Ferriero (2010)
Diana Farmer (2011)
Molly Cooke (2012)

STAFF
Jaclyne Boyden (2003)
Chuck Smuckler (2004)
Georgina Lopez (2005)
Vickie Lewis (2006)
Cathy Garzio (2007)
Kathy Healy (2008)
Marge O’Halloran (2009)
Isaac Sato (2010)
Cathryn Thurow (2011)
Vivian Robinson (2011)
Laurae Pearson (2012)
Alicia Velasquez (2012)