Wednesday morning, June 1, Johns Hopkins’ pediatric residents celebrated the end of another academic year and honored those who excelled in teaching them.  

House Staff Appreciation Awards went to pharmacist Kim Conner, patient service coordinator supervisor in the Harriet Lane Clinic Sheron Pearson, the shift coordinators, and Megan Brown, Medical Training Program administrator. Instructor of Pediatrics Eric Balighian and third-year pediatric resident Matthew Merves received Frederick J. Heldrich Medical Student Teaching Awards.    

Director of Hopkins Children’s Harriet Lane Clinic, Barry Solomon received the Alexander J. "Buck" Schaffer Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Teaching of House Officers. The 2010 recipient, Associate Professor of Pediatrics Michael Barone, received the George J. Stewart Award for Outstanding Clinical Teaching from the 2011 graduating class of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. 

The David M. Kamsler Award for Outstanding Compassionate and Expert Care of Pediatric Patients went to third-year pediatric resident Marc Callender.   

Justin Lockman, a clinical fellow in pediatric anesthesiology and critical care medicine, was this year’s recipient of The Omolara Olaniyan Fellow Appreciation Award, named in honor of a former fellow in the Division of General Pediatrics.  

Senior pediatric residents, some of whom will remain at Hopkins Children’s as fellows, mark their official graduation at a June 24 ceremony. First- and second-year residents will move up and a new class of interns will join them July 1.  

The 2011-2012 chief residents are Thomas Krupica and Alison Tribble.