Pooja Loftus receives the July 2013 Department of Medicine Employee of the Month Award
Pooja Loftus holds award with DOM EOM Committee and GMD Staff
The second floor conference room in MSOB was flooded with members of the Employee of the Month (EOM) committee and General Medical Disciplines’ faculty and staff who were excited to present the July EOM Award to Pooja Dagli Loftus.
Pooja is known to always go above and beyond in her role as a Statistician where she successfully runs analyses and “even goes further and checks the underlying assumptions for plausibility, proposes additional analyses and thinks of creative alternatives.” Pooja does all of this with an “incredibly positive demeanor and enthusiastic attitude” which we all witnessed as she entered the crowded conference room for what she may have thought was a routine meeting. Pooja was calm and collected as she listened to Dr. Harrington, Chair of the Department of Medicine, who quoted the colleagues who had nominated her for the award. She took a seat and listened with a warm smile as Dr. Harrington told the group how Pooja explains the concepts of data set analysis and programming to medical students and how hardworking she is, “as she is currently working with over 20 on projects ranging from CE QI projects to complex long-term funded research.”
Some of us may be unfamiliar with the statistical lingo, but we all know what it means to be a “breath of fresh air” or “a remarkable addition to our Division” which is how colleagues refer to Pooja’s contributions and presence at GMD.
For all these reasons and many more the EOM committee was happy to present Pooja with the EOM award for July. Pooja accepted the EOM award with a big smile.
For more information on the nomination process Visit the Employee of the Month webpage