Hillsborough: Tampa General doctor finalist for national award

TAMPA -- Dr. John Sinnott, director of infectious and tropical diseases at Tampa General Hospital and the University of South Florida, was honored Tuesday as a top finisher for a national humanism award.

Though he didn't win, he was one of 56 finalists for the 2001 Humanism in Medicine Award, presented by the American Association of Medical Colleges.

Finalists and a winner are chosen annually by the AAMC Organization of Student Representatives to recognize medical school teachers who embody "the finest qualities in a healer who teaches healing," the group said.

The award is based on five characteristics of humanism in medicine: mentoring, collaboration, compassion, community service and ethics.

The winner this year was Dr. Colleen Kivlahan, associate dean and clinical professor of family and community medicine at the University of Missouri.

Sinnott long has been one of USF's most popular teachers, as well as a national expert in infectious diseases. USF medical students voted him Teacher of the Year so many times that in the early 1990s, the award was renamed the John Sinnott Clinical Teacher of the Year Award. He is no longer eligible to win it.

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