Department of Pathology Professor Selected as Teacher of the Year

Once again, the Teacher of the Year is from the ranks of our Department. The NYU School of Medicine Class of 2011 selected Assistant Professor of Pathology Amy Rapkiewicz as Teacher of the Year. Dr. Rapkiewicz taught the modules Host Defense and Mechanisms of Disease both in lectures and in small-group sessions. She also set up a number of online learning modules that proved very successful for students. In the nomination as Teacher of the Year by the class, Dr. Rapkiewicz was commended for her extraordinary ability to provide insightful, interesting, and exciting lectures and for her dedication as an outstanding mentor to medical students. The Class of 2011 also praised her as one of the few professors who take the perspective of medical students into account by focusing on the truly important aspects of relevance to medical students rather than a survey of the facts in their lectures. In past years, medical students recognized Drs. David Roth and David Zagzag with this great honor.

By coincidence, Dr. Rapkiewicz was also recently featured in the New York Times multi-media series "One in 8 Million" in her capacity as director of pathology and autopsies at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan.