Baylor College of Medicine hosted the 2019 Alumni Reunion May 2-4, welcoming graduates back to campus for a full slate of continuing medical education sessions, campus tours and social events, including the annual Alumni Awards and Recognition Dinner.

The awards dinner kicked off the two-day Alumni Reunion. Held Thursday, May 2, at the St. Regis Hotel Houston, the event honored top alumni, faculty and students at the College. Read the full list of award recipients below, and learn more about them in this video profile.

Lehmann Outstanding Student Award

Marissa Scavuzzo, Ph.D.

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Ryan Trantham, M.D. ‘19

School of Medicine

Young Alumnus Award – School of Health Professions

Steven Wei, P.A.-C ‘99

Supervisor, Advanced Practice Providers, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Instructor, Physician Assistant Program, Baylor College of Medicine

Young Alumnus Award – School of Medicine

Ricardo Nuila, M.D. ’06, Res. ‘10

Association Professor of Medicine and Director, Program of Narrative Medicine, Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine

Distinguished Faculty Award

Malcolm Brenner, M.D., Ph.D.

Founding director, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital and the Fayez Sarofim Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine

Peter Hotez, M.D.

Dean, School of National Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine and director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development

Distinguished Alumni Award – Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Dane Chetkovich, M.D. ’94, Ph.D. ‘92

Professor and Chair of Neurology at Vanderbilt

Distinguished Alumnus Award – School of Medicine

A. Bennett Jenson, M.D. ’66, Res. ‘70

Co-inventor of the HPV vaccine

Senior Scientist and Professor of Pathology, James Graham Brown  Cancer Center at the University of Louisville School of Medicine

Martin Matzuk, M.D., Ph.D., Res. ‘93

Interim Chair of the Department of Pathology and Immunology and Director of the Center for Drug Discovery at Baylor College of Medicine

Distinguished Service Award

George P. Noon, M.D. ‘60

Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplant and Assist Devices at Baylor College of Medicine and the Meyer-DeBakey Chair in Investigative Surgery

Humanitarian Award

Amy Coburn, M.D. ‘85

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Baylor College of Medicine and Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medical College

Mark Hernandez, M.D. ‘03

Chief Medical Officer of Community Care Collaborative, a public-private that provides care to low-income residents in Travis County

Lifetime Achievement Award

Kenneth Mattox, M.D. ‘64

Professor of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of Staff at Ben Taub Hospital