Award and Honors
Our faculty, staff, and learners receive numerous awards and honors each year for their outstanding contributions to scholarly research, clinical care, education, community involvement, and professional leadership.
Below you will find awards and honors that members of the department have received.
Using the links in the box to the right,
please visit the sections below to see the awardees in each category.
Chairman's Awards
The Annual Chairman's Award program honors faculty nominated by their colleagues in our department for their professionalism and exceptional work in one or more of the Department's five mission areas:
- Advancing Science
- Clinical Innovation and Service
- Educational Excellence
- Community Commitment and Engagement
- Leadership and Professionalism
In addition, Adjunct/Affiliated Faculty Award recognizes exceptional contributions of an Adjunct, Adjunct Clinical, or Affiliated faculty member. The “Unsung Hero” award recognizes individuals who give tirelessly and selflessly to the members and/or missions of the Department. The "Polymath Award" recognizes those who demonstrate outstanding effort across multiple mission areas.
Advancing Science Award
Clinical Innovation and Service Award
Educational Excellence Award
Community Commitment and Engagement Award
Leadership and Professionalism Award
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award
Adjunct/Affiliated Faculty Award
Unsung Hero Award
Polymath Award
Emerita/Emeritus Award
Professional Honors and Awards
by year
Rania Awaad
Stanford Impact Lab Design Fellow
Stanford Impact Lab
Omer Revah, Felicity Gore, and Kevin Kelley, in the Pasca Lab
Sammy Kuo Awards
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Jonathan Updike
Rural Health Fellows Program of 2023
National Rural Health Association
Integrated Behavioral Health team
2021 SHC Malinda S. Mitchell Quality and Service Award
Stanford Health Care
Makoto Kawai
2022 Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award
National Academy of Medicine
Emmanuel Mignot (shared with Masashi Yanagisawa at the University of Tsukuba)
2023 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation
Keith Humphreys
named Honorary Officer
Order of the British Empire
Karl Deisseroth (shared with Peter Hegemann at Humboldt University of Berlin and Gero Miesenböck at the University of Oxford)
2022 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
Columbia University