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The Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine honours faculty and staff for their service, research, teaching and creativity.

For a rundown of awards by type, please follow the links below. Or, for the latest accolades earned by our faculty, alumni, students and programmes, please visit Significant Accomplishments.

Research Excellence
This award recognises staff members for their continued excellence and leadership in research over their years of service in SoM
Clinical Excellence
Teaching Excellence
This award is given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.

International Honours and Awards

Our faculty is not only well-known among their campus colleagues and students for the quality of their research and teaching, they also have received national recognition from many organisations.

Associate Professor Dale Fisher awarded by RACP
On 7 May 2006, The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) awarded Assoc Prof Dale Fisher with a John Sands Medal for 2006 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to RACP. There are four recipients across all Fellows, all specialties, both divisions (adult and paediatric medicine) and all chapters (public health, occupational health, rehabilitation medicine, palliative care and addiction medicine). Prof Fisher was selected over 7,000 Fellows.

Professor K Shanmugaratnam had been awarded the RCPA Distinguished Fellow Award
Emeritus Professor K Shanmugaratnam had been awarded the RCPA Distinguished Fellow Award by the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia in Sydney, Australia, 10-13 March 2006.

Dr. Sudhakar Venkatesh's poster won one of the six Magna Cum Laude Award
Dr. Sudhakar Venkatesh's poster won one of the six Magna Cum Laude award given to the best electronic posters at the European Congress of Radiology, 3-7 March 2006 in Vienna, Austria. He has bagged the top prize at this conference for two years in a row. In 2005, he won the best (oral) scientific paper award for his research study on Pulmonary Embolism.