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Presidential Awards

Presidential Excellence Awards

Distinguished Research Scholar

A distinction that recognizes the best of our research colleagues at UT Health San Antonio.

Clinical Excellence

Celebrates the outstanding practitioners whose skillful and compassionate care makes better the lives of our patients and their families.

Teaching Excellence

  • The Presidential Award for Emerging Excellence in Teaching recognizes faculty with less than 10 years’ teaching experience who have demonstrated emerging excellence and innovation.
  • The Presidential Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching recognizes the best of our academic colleagues. Nominees have a depth of pedagogical excellence that has been sustained for 10 or more years and have been nationally recognized for innovative approaches.

Staff Excellence in Service

  • The Presidential Staff Excellence in Service Award for Individuals recognizes staff members who have made noteworthy and distinctive contributions by serving our missions of education, research, patient care and community engagement and by demonstrating agility, collaboration and innovation.
  • The Presidential Staff Excellence in Service Award for Teams recognizes teams that have made noteworthy and distinctive contributions by serving our missions of education, research, patient care and community engagement and by demonstrating agility, collaboration and innovation.