Dr. Chitra Pai Receives Professional Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Innovation

Dr. Chitra Pai
Professor, Basic Sciences
Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine
Vallejo, California

Congratulations to Dr. Chitra Pai (GSMC 2009), who, in the past year, received the following awards recognizing her innovative instructional methods, new methods of assessing learning, and the redesign of courses using technology:

• The First Annual Touro University California Outstanding Teaching Award, a university-wide award from the Office of the Provost and Center for Innovative Learning and Teaching (CILT).
• The Basic Sciences Teacher of the Year Award, received from the Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine Student Executive Council, for outstanding service and dedication as an educator.
• Two Touro University Faculty Innovation Grants awarded by the Office of the Provost and CILT for Case Based Flipped E-Classrooms to S.P.I.C.E up the E-Learning of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and the Bedside to Community Virtual Global Health project.

In addition to these awards, Dr. Pai had the following two papers accepted for presentation at upcoming conferences:

• Case Based Flipped E-Classrooms to S.P.I.C.E Up the E-Learning of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, to be presented at the International Association of Medical Science Educators conference in June 2021.
• Emergency Remote Learning of Medical Microbiology during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Real impact of Virtual Team Based E-Learning, to be presented at the World Microbe Forum in June 2021.