2019 Superior Accomplishment Award winners named

Recipients of this year’s Superior Accomplishment Awards are shown with their certificates and representatives of the college’s personnel office and Dr. Tom Vickroy, far left, back row.

Eleven employees of the UF College of Veterinary Medicine have received 2019 Superior Accomplishment Awards in the UF Health Science Center’s Division 5 category, which includes all six health-related colleges. Each winner will receive a cash award of $200, a framed certificate and a commemorative coffee mug, and will be considered as nominees for university-level awards, which offer eight $1,000 and six $2,000 cash prizes.

An awards banquet was held March 27 to honor the winners and to recognize their nominators, supervisors and college deans. And the winners are:

EMPLOYEE CATEGORY 1 – CLERICAL/OFFICE SUPPORT:

Katherine Devine: UF Veterinary Hospitals, Small Animal Hospital client services
Kia Hendrix: Department of infectious diseases and immunology

EMPLOYEE CATEGORY 2 – SUPPORT SERVICES:

Patricia Davidson: Business office

EMPLOYEE CATEGORY 3 – SCIENTIFIC/TECHNICAL:

Alek Arayos: Department of Infectious diseases and Immunology
Tyler Hale: UF Veterinary Hospitals: Large Animal Hospital
Aaron Huggins, UF Veterinary Hospitals: Small Animal Hospital
Nina Thompson: Department of Comparative, Diagnostic and Population Medicine

EMPLOYEE CATEGORY 4 – ADMINISTRATIVE/SUPERVISORY:

Rebecca Richardson: UF Veterinary Hospitals/Labs
Jenna Saxton: Department of Comparative, Diagnostic and Population Medicine

EMPLOYEE CATEGORY 6 – ACADEMIC PERSONNEL:

Dr. Michael Bowie: Department of Comparative, Diagnostic and Population Medicine faculty
Dr. Keijiro Shiomitsu: Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences Faculty