UF Medicine faculty and staff honored with 2024 UF Superior Accomplishment Awards

Feb. 19, 2024 — Twenty-one faculty and staff members from the UF College of Medicine have been named divisional recipients of the 2024 UF Superior Accomplishment Awards.

The program annually recognizes faculty and staff who have contributed outstanding service, demonstrated efficiency or economy in their work or created an impact on quality of life for students and employees. Each winner was nominated by supervisors, peers or customers, with outstanding letters of support submitted on their behalf.

This year, the awards recognized individuals in the categories of employee performance, sustained excellence and as rookies of the year — employees who have successfully passed their probationary period and have excelled in their roles while at UF for less than two years. Additionally, teams who worked together to accomplish great things for the institution were recognized with team collaboration awards.

College of Medicine recipients belong to either Division 2, which includes UF Health Shands Hospital, or Division 5, which represents the UF Academic Health Center, and will be recognized during an awards ceremony Monday, Feb. 26, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Hilton University of Florida Conference Center. The ceremony will begin at 11:30 a.m. and the event will be streamed live and recorded.

Divisional winners will receive $200 in cash awards and will be considered for university-level cash awards of $1,000 or $2,000.

View a list of the UF Medicine award winners below:

Emil Kanji

Assistant director of finance, department of community health and family medicine

Sheila Malone

Human resources and office manager, department of community health and family medicine

Whitney Moss

Administrative specialist, department of pediatrics

Kathy Parrish, MBA

Manager of administrative services, department of anesthesiology

Kelly Wilder

Associate director of research administration, department of health outcomes and biomedical informatics

Jessica Beveridge, CPC, CDEO, CPPM, BHAS, LSS-GB

Coding and reimbursement supervisor, UF Health Family Medicine — Main

Jennifer St. Clair

Clinical case manager, Lillian S. Wells Department of Neurosurgery

Matt Shaw

Clinical research coordinator, department of emergency medicine

Cassandra Stich

Research administrator, department of emergency medicine

Blair Lawson

Academic program specialist, MD-PhD Training Program

Emily Mavrakis

Writer, College of Medicine communications

Jocelyn Gravlee, M.D., CAQSM

Associate professor and director of the UF Student Health Care Center, department of community health and family medicine

Dan Wesson, Ph.D.

Chair and associate professor, department of pharmacology and therapeutics

Abbey Doege

Administrative support assistant, department of anesthesiology

Jason Glover

Application developer analyst, department of health outcomes and biomedical informatics

Emilie Miley

Clinical research coordinator, department of orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine

Kat Rohlwing

Research coordinator, department of health outcomes and biomedical informatics

Jennifer Bizon, Ph.D.

Director, Evelyn F. and William F. McKnight Brain Institute and professor and chair, department of neuroscience

Winston “Charles” Poulton

Audio-visual specialist, College of Medicine

Jessica Sanders

Administrative specialist, department of psychiatry

Sonya White    

Assistant director of research administration, department of health outcomes and biomedical informatics

Nicole Heise

Clinical programs coordinator, department of pediatrics

Rachel Heselschwerdt

Clinical programs coordinator, department of pediatrics

Kitty Leung

Associate program director and clinical assistant professor, department of psychiatry

Jacqueline Sandefer-Gonsen

Assistant director of health care administration, department of pediatrics