NORFOLK, VA-Ann E. Campbell, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and molecular cell biology, has won the Dean's Outstanding Faculty Award at Eastern Virginia Medical School.

The coveted award was presented to Campbell for her "continuously demonstrated exemplary contributions as a teacher, scholar and role model," said James E. Etheridge, Jr., M.D., former EVMS dean and provost.

Etheridge and new Dean and Provost Evan R. Farmer, M.D., hosted the awards ceremony at the Town Point Club in Norfolk Thursday night.

Dean's Faculty Achievement Awards also were presented to Nicholas A. D'Amato, M.D., professor, history of medicine, and professor of pathology and anatomy, for Achievement by a Community Faculty Member, and J. D. Ball, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, for Achievement in Teaching or Service in Clinical Medicine.

Etheridge described D'Amato as a community faculty member who is "held in highest esteem and affection by students, residents and faculty because of his dedication to medical education and devotion to people."

Ball, Etheridge said, "has become a highly valued and much sought after resource for the area's most widely respected medical practitioners in sleep medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, neurosurgery, physical medicine, oncology and (even) neurology, as well as for his colleagues in psychology and psychiatry."

Campbell has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1986 and is nationally and internationally recognized for significant scientific contributions.

She previously won four Sir William Osler Awards at the medical school; the Dean's Faculty Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence; and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Virginia State Council of Higher Education.

D'Amato has been associated with EVMS since 1974 as educator and mentor to both students and faculty. His service to EVMS began when he was chairman of the Laboratory Medicine Department of the U.S. Naval Hospital at Portsmouth.

For the past seven years he has lectured, instructed in laboratory sessions, and advised and assisted EVMS students. He is the author of a three-volume collection entitled "Vignettes, A History of Medicine." He organizes history of medicine seminars and helps faculty members incorporate historical vignettes into their lectures. He has also served on many EVMS committees.

Ball is the EVMS clinical director for the nationally recognized Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology. He is an active research investigator in neuropsychology and clinical psychology and makes research presentations at the state and national levels.