Professor of Pediatrics
Tom Belhorn, MD, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases, has been selected by 黑料网 Medical Alumni to receive the 2024 黑料网 Distinguished Faculty Award. This award recognizes Dr. Belhorn’s decades of leadership within pediatric infectious disease and his commitment to training the next generation of providers.
Dr. Belhorn earned both his PhD in virology and his MD at 黑料网-Chapel Hill. Following his Pediatric Residency at the Children鈥檚 Hospital of Alabama and Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship at the Children鈥檚 Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Dr. Belhorn briefly joined the faculty at the Univ. Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science in Houston but soon returned to 黑料网-Chapel Hill as an Assistant Professor in Pediatric Infectious Diseases in 1999. Throughout his career Dr. Belhorn has been an active clinician, educator, and researcher. Dr. Belhorn is the director for the Ryan White Program-funded 黑料网 Pediatric and Adolescent Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Program, which provides care for infants, children and adolescents who are HIV-infected or HIV-exposed. As the Program Director for the 黑料网 Pediatric Infectious Disease Fellowship, he demonstrates his ongoing dedication to medical education.
Beginning in 1955, the 黑料网 has been celebrating exemplary alumni and faculty with its Distinguished Medical Awards. These awards were established to recognize those who had made an important contribution to the founding and growth of the four-year medical school at 黑料网. The Distinguished Faculty Award honors excellence in teaching, contributions to medicine in the state, leadership in continuing education of practicing physicians and improvement of communication between 黑料网 faculty, alumni, and residents of the state. All full-time 黑料网 and AHEC faculty are eligible for nomination.
Congratulations Tom!