This is the highest teaching award at the University of Missouri Medical School. Dr. Hall is exceptionally knowledgeable about the field, possesses a wonderful, upbeat, outgoing personality, enjoys people, and is, in spite of all this, very humble. NAIP wishes to acknowledge an educational grant from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in support of this award. The NAIP Award for Excellence in Teaching is being presented in recognition of outstanding teaching in Hospital Medicine. In selecting the award winner, consideration is given to nominees who have demonstrated outstanding teaching prowess and who have served as a role model and a mentor.
Individuals are eligible from academic, institutional, and community teaching settings.
Steven Z. Pantilat, MD Dr. Steven Z. Pantilat of San Francisco is the recipient of the first NAIP Award for Excellence in Teaching. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UCLA, Dr. Pantilat was an AOA graduate of the University of California, San Francisco Medical School in 1989. He was Medical Chief Resident at San Francisco General Hospital and then completed a health services research fellowship in the Robert Woods Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. He is Faculty Scholar of the Soros Foundation Project on Death in America. He is a recipient of a K23 Mentored Patient Oriented Research Career Development Award from the National Institute on Aging.