Department news | June 30, 2019
The Outstanding Mentor Award, Clinician Teacher Pathway honors extraordinary and sustained dedication, commitment, and effectiveness in fostering the professional and personal development of faculty members in our Clinician Teacher pathway. This year the award goes to Anna Ratzliff, MD, PhD. Dr. Ratzliff has displayed a consistent and passionate commitment to mentoring clinician teachers, in both individual and group settings. She has led the UWMC clinician teacher peer mentoring group and over the past few years has mentored over 20 faculty members through a curriculum development project for the Integrated Care Training Program (ICTP). Mentees describe her as “an amazing mentor,” praise her for her “genuine desire to help others succeed coupled with her willingness to provide meaningful opportunities for growth for those that she works with” and state that her mentorship has been very valuable in their career development.