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Surgery Resident Dr. Kleppe Awarded for Teaching

Kyle Kleppe, MD, third-year Surgery resident, was selected by the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine Class of 2016 to receive an Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award. Medical students selected residents they recognized as role models and whose characteristics as young physicians best represent the definition of humanism as defined by the Gold Foundation. Other recipients are

Samantha Houston, MD, Internal Medicine, Memphis
Jacqueline Majors, MD, Surgery, Memphis
Fernand Samson, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Memphis
Daniel Wells, MD, Medicine/Pediatrics, Memphis
Julie Worthington, MD, Surgery, Chattanooga

Award recipients were honored at the Student Clinician's Ceremony May 1 in Memphis and will be inducted as members to the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society.

Posted June 2, 2015