2020, 2021 Dascomb Award Winners
July 23, 2021
Each year, WakeMed recognizes a physician who demonstrates excellence in teaching and patient care with the Harry E. Dascomb, MD, Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching and Care. The award is WakeMed’s highest teaching honor and was established in honor of Harry Dascomb, MD, an infectious disease physician at WakeMed who was recognized for his bedside, clinical and teaching skills. Recipients are nominated by their peers and selected by the Dascomb Award committee, which includes doctors from WakeMed and the community.
The Dascomb Award was postponed in 2020 due to the prodigious efforts made by all to address the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the committee recognizes that teaching efforts and compassionate care did not take a hiatus during COVID-19 and that there should be awards for 2020 as well as 2021.
2020 Dascomb Award: Christopher Ingram, MD
Dr. Ingram serves as the medical director of WakeMed Infection Prevention and provides compassionate care for the underserved, immigrants and imprisoned patients through his work with WakeMed, Open Door Clinic and international mission trips. Dr. Ingram continues to lead infectious disease conferences for students and residents training in internal medicine at WakeMed and is an integral contributor to our teaching program across specialties. As stated in a nomination letter, “Chris Ingram is someone I am confident Dr. Dascomb would have been proud to call a colleague.”
Dr. Ingram has held numerous leadership roles within WakeMed as well as at the state and international levels of the Infectious Diseases Society.
2021 Dascomb Award: Rasheeda Monroe, MD
Dr. Monroe is a clinician-educator and leader with WakeMed Physician Practices – Pediatrics and the campus director for the UNC Medical School program based at Raleigh Campus, providing oversight and direction of students’ educational activities and assignments while at WakeMed and the surrounding community. Dr. Monroe has led a huge effort in establishing the UNC-Raleigh campus, where she is responsible for organizing clinical rotations, didactics, and community experiences for students to engage in while they are at WakeMed. As a peer noted in a nomination, Dr. Monroe “inspires all of us to strive to be better in our roles as physicians, teachers and colleagues.”
We congratulate Dr. Ingram as recipient of the 2020 Dascomb Award and Dr. Monroe as recipient of the 2021 Dascomb Award. Never has teaching and compassionate care been more valued than over the last two years.