Awards
OFDE offers a series of faculty awards throughout the year to support the advancement of our Stanford Medicine faculty community and to encourage health equity research.
Pilot Funding Awards
OFDE Community Support Initiative
To build community and encourage new networks that enact a sense of belonging among faculty in academic medicine at Stanford, the Office of Faculty Development and Engagement (OFDE) seeks to help faculty establish communities and networks for support. Awardees receive funding to organize networks with an impact on inclusive excellence and support. OFDE provides funds for a pilot year with the goal that groups also consider how they may secure other funds for the continuation of the network.
Health Equity Action Leadership (HEAL) Network Pilot Grants
The Office of Faculty Development and Engagement of the Stanford University School of Medicine offers grants to junior and mid-career faculty members that support health equity projects under the mentorship of a senior faculty member. These grants are intended to support the advancement of health equity and health outcomes of under-resourced populations in the United States. Funds may be used to undertake research, clinical, or educational projects.
McCormick Faculty Awards
The annual McCormick Faculty Awards provide research/project funding to junior faculty women for career advancement, or to junior faculty of all genders who support the advancement of women in medicine through research. Faculty from all lines are encouraged to apply and must be within the first 7 years of their first faculty appointments. Recipients are awarded $30,000 for up to two years. In addition, McCormick Faculty Award winners are provided the opportunity to participate in OFDE training opportunities that will advance their career development at Stanford. This award is endowed through the legacy of Katharine D. McCormick.
2025-2026 McCormick Fellows
Ananta Addala, MD
Chase Ludwig, MD, MS
Ivana Maric, PhD
Renu Dhanasekaran, MD
2024-2026 McCormick Fellows
Katie Kan, MD
Wendy W. Liu, MD, PhD
Anca Pasca, MD
Luyao Shen, MD
Recognition Awards
Dr. Augustus A. White and Family Faculty Award
The Dr. Augustus A. White III and Family Faculty Award serves to recognize faculty leadership through research, education, mentoring, or service that affects health equity directly or through activities that support early career faculty, students, or trainees. OFDE solicits nominations for this faculty award from all faculty, students, and staff at Stanford.
- Research or teaching that affects outcomes among historically marginalized communities or
- Developing programs that support historically marginalized early career faculty, students, or trainees
Past awardees include:
Felipe Perez (2025)
Baraka Floyd, MD (2024)
Lahia Yemane, MD (2023)
Tiffany Cheng, MD (2021)
Megan Mahoney, MD (2019)
Nancy Morioka-Douglas, MD, MPH (2017)
Fernando Mendoza, MD, MPH (2015)
Gabriel Garcia, MD (2013)
Dr. Laure Aurelian Biomedical Research Award
The Dr. Laure Aurelian Biomedical Research Award was established in 2022 to recognize an early-career faculty member who is either a woman scholar conducting innovative basic or translational biomedical research or an investigator of any gender conducting innovative basic or translational studies in women’s health.
Eligible early-career faculty will have received their final MD and/or PhD degree within the previous eight years OR will have been at the assistant professor level no more than four years. All eligible candidates must also exhibit intellectual independence. Effective mentorship of junior women biomedical researchers (e.g., graduate students or postdocs) is also a key criterion for this award.
To cement Dr. Aurelian’s legacy, the Aurelian Family selected two institutions that will be invited to submit nominations of early-career scholars for this annual award funded by the Dr. Laure Aurelian Biomedical Research Endowment: Stanford Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Two early-career faculty awardees will be selected for recognition annually from each institution. The Award is named in honor of Dr. Laure Aurelian, who was passionate about and committed to engaging in rigorous collaborative research and advancing the careers of early career faculty and women scientists.
Nominating faculty should be associate or full professors. Please click here to submit your nomination.
2025 Stanford Medicine Awardees