Oct. 9, 2009

Radiology produces a winner

This year’s winner of the Dorris Douglas Budd award is Department of Radiology’s Kimberly A. Christman

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By Linda Williams
VCU Communications and Public Relations

Kimberly Christman, left, with VCU President Mike Rao, Ph.D., and Staff Senate President Susan Beavers. Photo by Tom Kojcsich, VCU Creative Services.
Kimberly Christman, left, with VCU President Mike Rao, Ph.D., and Staff Senate President Susan Beavers. Photo by Tom Kojcsich, VCU Creative Services.

Peers, past recipients and award finalists recognized Kimberly A. Christman as the 2009 winner of the Dorris Douglas Budd award at a ceremony on Oct. 6. Christman, executive assistant to Department of Radiology Chair Ann Fulcher, M.D., joined the radiology department in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in 1998.

With a noticeable shock at having won, Christman graciously noted that she could not perform her duties as skillfully without the support of her entire department.

Indeed, VCU President Michael Rao, Ph.D., who presented the awards to Christman and this year’s finalists, said it’s teamwork that makes the university what it is and something of which he’s thrilled to be a part.

Established in 1981, the award is named for a VCU secretary to the vice president of administration from 1951 to 1981. Budd, who died this year at the age of 90, inspired the award, which honors outstanding administrative and support staff who demonstrate exemplary performance and enhance the image and mission of the university and health system.

This year’s nominees were Curt B. Blankenship, Department of Music; Dorothy J. Booker, College of Humanities and Sciences; Karen L. Brown-Davis, School of Business; Laura S. Georgiadis, Department of Pharmaceutics; Suzanne Suttler, VCUHS Acute Neuroscience Unit; Chifawn A. Taylor, Student Health Services; and Deborah L. Weir, School of Medicine.