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Sustainability Award Winners

The 2019 Sustainability Award winners with the Chancellor. From left to right: Claire Skach, Jerry Liu, JoAnn Lopez, Katherine Gundling, Laria Pippen, Naomi Beyeler, and Chancellor Sam Hawgood. Photo credit: Marco Sanchez

As a thank you, we’d like to commemorate all our past Sustainability Award Winners. Please check out the categories down below and explore the links to read more on each winner!

Team Category

2020 - Ali Keshavarz, Owner of Peasant Pies
2019 - Dental Students and UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellows, Jerry Liu and Claire Skach
2018 - Telehealth Resource Center and Parnassus Medical Center Facilities Management
2017 - Matthew State Lab in Rock Hall
2016 - The EARTHEALTH1 Team from the School of Medicine
2015 - The Mt. Zion Cancer Research Engineering Team
2014 - Mission Bay Conference Center
2013 - Remedy at UCSF, a student-run organization
2012 - Operating Room Reprocessing Team
2011 - Jack Henderson, Nutrition and Food Services Department

Student Category

2020 - Colin Baylen, a third year Medical Student
2019 - Naomi Beyeler, Co-Director of the Global Health Group’s Evidence to Policy Initiative
2018 - Carbon Neutrality Initiative fellows, Yaser Khosal and Hugo Aguilar
2017 - Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, BCPS, Pharmacy Resident
2016 - Dr. Corinna Zygourakis, Resident Physician in the Neurosurgery Program
2015 - Anya Desai, a third year Medical Student
2013 - Rebekah McLaughlin, PhD, Bio-engineering
2012 - Eddie Book Residents, Pediatrics Department, led by Catherine Ratti, UCSF Pediatric Residency Program Manager, and three second year residents, Suratha Elango, Adam Schickedanz, and Maura Madou

Staff Category

Campus Staff

2020 - Danny De Leon, Housing Facilities Project Manager
2019 - JoAnn Lopez, Student Life Coordinator
2018 - Sean McClelland, Lead Learning Tech Specialist and Gabe Sandoval, Business System Analyst
2017 - Liana Crosby, Dean’s Executive Assistant, UCSF School of Pharmacy and Sylvia DeCourcey, Manager of Space, UCSF Orthopedic Surgery Department
2016 - Dr. Hyunil Jo, Specialist, UCSF School of Pharmacy
2015 - Todd McGregory, Assistant Director of Housing Administration for Campus Life Services
2014 - Kim Klausner, UCSF Industry Documents Digital Library Manager
2013 - Adele Dow, Facility Manager at Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building and Mount Zion Cancer Research Building
2012 - Kristen Fitzhenry, Undergraduate Medical Education, School of Medicine Dean’s Office
2011 - Maric Munn, Director of Facilities Management

Medical Center Staff

2020 - Bruce Mace, Executive Director, UCSF Health Facilities & Support Services
2019 - Laria Pippen, RN, Pediatric Nurse and Sustainability Officer
2018 - Barbara Bevan-Abel, RN
2017 - Lori Justice, Administrative Assistant, UCSF’s Orthopedic Surgery Department
2016 - Sarah Berger, RN, Medical Surgery ICU
2015 - Yelena Libova, RN, Neurological ICU
2014 - Deborah Don, Furniture Repair/Reuse Program for the Parnassus Medical Center Campus
2013 - Jack Henderson, Associate Director of Nutrition and Food Services
2012 - Lisa Hartmayer, RN, UCSF Orthopedic Institute
2011- Steve Dalton, Ob. Gyn, R.S

Faculty Category

2020 - Dr. Sheri Weiser, Professor of Medicine and internist at UC San Francisco’s Division of HIV, Infectious Disease and Global Medicine at ZSFGH
2019 - Katherine Gundling, MD, Professor Emeritus of Allergy and Immunology
2018 - Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD
2017- Dr. Seema Gandhi, MD, UCSF Associate Professor in Anesthesia
2016 - Arianne Teherani, PhD Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine
2015 - Dr. Gina Solomon, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Specialist
2014 - Dan Ciccarone, MD, MPH, Professor in Family and Community Medicine
2013 - Tracey Woodruff, Associate Professor and Director of UCSF’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment
2012 - Sandrijn Van Schaik, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics
2011 - Tom Newman, MD, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology