Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Awards

Dr. Rechell Rodriguez is an internist at the VA San Diego and Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSD.  She received her M.D. from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), School of Medicine, and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, TX.  She completed faculty development training at Stanford University. She has extensive medical education experience as a prior Clerkship Director for 11 years, core faculty member of three different Internal Medicine residency programs over 16 years, and Associate Dean for the School of Medicine, USUHS for three years before retiring as a Colonel in the U. S. Air Force in 2019. Dr. Rodriguez has received numerous teaching awards and honors and is a Master of the American College of Physicians. Currently, she is inaugural faculty for the Master Clinician Program for the UCSD Internal Medicine Clerkship, a member of the MED 401 Clerkship Committee, a VA representative on the UCSD Academic Excellence subcommittee for Faculty Development, and a member of the VA Women’s Health Committee. She is passionate about the education & development of physicians and has been involved in diversity efforts as well as the recruitment and retention of women physicians.

Dr. Malhotra is Research Chief of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, and Physiology at UCSD. In addition to being very active clinically in the ICU and in the outpatient clinics, he runs a large NIH-funded laboratory focused on the applied physiology of respiratory disease.  He has >400 original plus >290 reviews/chapters since his first faculty appointment in 2000.  He has received teaching awards from the UCSD Pulmonary and Critical Care fellows as well as international teaching recognition as a distinguished Chest educator. He recently received the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumnus Award and the William C. Dement lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is PI on 6 NIH grants including a T32 training grant and mentors numerous K23/K08/F32 awardees. In 2015, he served as President of the American Thoracic Society.