Gaviser-Hayes Award for Compassion

This award honors the University of Minnesota medical student rotating through surgery who best exemplified, during the past academic year, a deep level of compassion toward patients and their families. It is named in memory of Dr. David Gaviser and Dr. William Hays, whose careers were devoted to empathetic surgical care and inspirational mentoring and teaching. Gaviser (1913-1982) was a longtime clinical professor in the Department of Surgery and the highly praised director of surgical education at Mount Sinai Hospital, Minneapolis. Hays (1964-2002) was an intensely respected fourth-year Department of Surgery resident when he died of cancer, just a few months after receiving the Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award from the nationally renowned Arnold P. Gold Foundation.

2005 - Dr. Natasha M. Rueth

2006 - Dr. Katherine G. Esse

2007 - Kara L. Sellung (4th year medical student)

2008 - Carter C. Lebares (4th year medical student)