Nancy Kellogg, M.D., professor in the department of pediatrics, received the 2004 Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award for Faculty at the Medical Dean’s Convocation and White Coat Ceremony June 27.
The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award for Faculty recognizes a faculty member who has been nominated by his or her peers. The award was begun in 1999 by the Arnold Gold Foundation. The Gold Foundation wanted those individuals who showed the clearest example of humanism in their interaction with others to be recognized.
Dr. Kellogg gave the major address at the White Coat Ceremony, which symbolically introduces first-year medical students to their profession when they don a white coat. In her address she told students, “As a new medical student, I was energized with anticipation and at the same time stricken with self-doubt. I vacillated between determination and desperation as I confronted the insurmountable mountain of information I was expected to assimilate.”
Dr. Kellogg shared some of the lessons she has learned while working with abused children and encouraged the students to listen to their patients.
“Hearing a patient is not the same as listening to a patient,” she said. “We listen for the subtleties that signal the patient’s unvoiced concerns and fears…all these concerns and fears constitute the patient’s illness and must be treated if we are to be good doctors.”
Dr. Kellogg was named to the 2004 Best Doctors® in America Database and is a recipient of the 2004 Health Hero Award in the Outstanding Physician Category from the San Antonio Business Journal. She has also received the 2003 Presidential Award for Clinical Excellence at the Health Science Center.
She has been selected as a member, one of three in Texas, of the Ray Helfer Honorary Society, which consists of 100 physicians from around the world who have recognized expertise, knowledge and research experience in the field of child abuse.
She is a member of the advisory board for the Texas Lawyers for Children and the Texas Pediatric Society. She is also a member of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect and the American Academy of Pediatrics Fellow Section on Child Abuse and Neglect. Dr. Kellogg earned a bachelor of English from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., and her doctorate from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Previous winners of the Leonard Tow Humanism Award are: James Young, Ph.D.; Marvin Forland, M.D.; Javier Kane, M.D.; Herman Wigodsky, M.D., Ph.D.; and John Mangos, M.D.
