Physicians Receive Teaching Awards

From New York Medical College

DANBURY — Two physicians at Danbury Hospital — Michael J. Walker, MD, of Newtown and Jan H. Mashman, MD, of Ridgefield — have received awards for excellence in teaching from New York Medical College. They were selected by the student body and honored at a ceremony for the Senior Honors Program held at the college in Valhalla, N.Y., in May.

Certified and specializing in thoracic surgery, Dr Walker joined the Danbury Hospital medical staff in 1995. He practices at Danbury Office of Physician Services, PC, and currently serves as chief of thoracic surgery at the hospital, as well as medical director of the Lung Cancer Program and chairman of the Lung Cancer Tumor Board at the hospital’s Praxair Cancer Center.

 He is an assistant adjunct professor of surgery at New York Medical College. After graduating from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1988, Dr Walker completed his general surgery residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, in 1993, and a surgical fellowship at the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, in 1995.

Affiliated with Danbury Hospital since 1969, Dr Mashman serves as the hospital’s medical director of neuro-rehabiliation and co-chairman of the ethics committee. Dr Mashman practices at Associated Neurologists, while serving as an adjunct associate professor of neurology at New York Medical College and as an adjunct professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. A fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, he is certified in neurology by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with special qualifications in neurology and neuro-rehabilitation.

 After he earned his undergraduate degree with honors in zoology and medical degree from the University of Vermont, College of Medicine, Dr Mashman completed an internship at Montefiore Medical Center and a neurology residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y., between 1966–69. He is the current president of the Connecticut Neurological Society.