{"id":46795,"date":"2014-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/18\/dr-torres-russotto-wins-mentoring-award-3\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T19:43:50","slug":"dr-torres-russotto-wins-mentoring-award-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/18\/dr-torres-russotto-wins-mentoring-award-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Torres-Russotto wins mentoring award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>\n<em>Initial recipient of Student Senate award<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\nDiego Torres-Russotto, M.D., enjoys watching his students present their work.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;It&#39;s an amazing feeling,&quot; he said. &quot;Seeing my students presenting their work, in international meetings, through posters and abstracts and platform presentations. You see how they are fielding these amazingly complex questions from the audience &#8212; questions that, before we started, they would not have been able to answer.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\nHis commitment to his students is one reason Dr. Torres-Russotto was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Student Senate&#39;s Distinguished Mentor Award.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe award, the first of its kind given by the Student Senate, was &quot;student-nominated and student-selected, 100 percent independent of any one given college and\/or department on our campus,&quot; said Krupa Savalia, Student Senate president.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt was presented at an award reception and banquet on March 31, with UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn one nomination letter, a student wrote: &quot;Dr. Torres never became frustrated with my lack of knowledge or my lack of time. 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