Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Physician is honored with Grant V. Rodkey Award
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Katharyn Meredith Atkins, M.D.,
Waltham -- March 7 -- Katharyn Meredith Atkins, M.D., Assistant Professor in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, has been honored by the Massachusetts Medical Society as the 2016 recipient of the Grant V. Rodkey Award, an honor recognizing a Massachusetts physician for outstanding contributions to medical education and medical students. She will receive the award, one of the Society’s most prestigious, at the organization’s annual meeting in Boston May 5.
Dr. Atkins was nominated for the award by nearly three dozen of her students. Among many attributes, they cited her love of education, “evident in how she facilitates student learning, balances individual student mentorship with thoughtful teaching, and cultivates engaging and meaningful learning opportunities in her clinic.”
Dr. Atkins is the Associate Director of the Shapiro Institute for Education and Research and Director of Undergraduate Medical Education and the Principal Clinical Experience at Beth Israel Deaconess, a position she was appointed to in 2014. She is also a member of the Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians.
She joined Beth Israel Deaconess in 1998 as a resident following graduation from medical school and served as a Clinical Fellow from 1998-2002 and Chief Resident from 2001-2002. From 2002-2007, she was Clinical Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Dimock Community Health Center, a health facility located in Roxbury, Mass. that delivers comprehensive health services to adults and children. She returned to Beth Israel Deaconess in 2007 as Associate Director of the OB/GYN Core Clerkship, and has since taken on a number of positions, culminating in her present posts.
An honors graduate of Yale University with a B.A. in psychology, Dr. Atkins earned her M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School. She is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a member of the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
The Grant V. Rodkey Award from the Massachusetts Medical Society is the latest of many honors accorded to Dr. Atkins. Among them are the Brigid Norton Award for Humanitarianism in Medicine, The Louis Burke Award for Excellence in Colposcopy, and the Medical Student Teaching Prize in Obstetrics and Gynecology, all from Beth Israel Deaconess; membership in the national medical honor society Alpha Omega Alpha; and appointment as a Morgan-Zinsser Academy Fellow from the Academy Fellowship for Medical Education at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Atkins resides in Sherborn.
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