Awards
- Titled Professor - 2021
- Morris Green Professor of Pediatrics
About Mary R. Ciccarelli
Dr. Mary R. Ciccarelli earned her B.S. from St. John’s University in 1978 and her M.D. from Albany Medical College in 1932. She completed her residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) in 1986 and her fellowship at Michigan State University in 1994. Ciccarelli returned to IUSM in 1991 to begin her professional teaching career as a clinical assistant professor. She was promoted to associate professor in 1996 and full professor in 2015. She earned the additional title of Morris Green Professor of Pediatrics in 2021.
Ciccarelli’s research primarily focuses on medical education, the transition of youth to adult care, and care for people with disabilities. She has provided primary care to children and adults for the last 30 years as a primary care Med-Peds physician at the Eskenazi Health North Arlington Health Center. She is the founding Director of the Center for Youth and Adults with Conditions of Childhood and the Indiana Complex Care Coordination Collaborative. She also serves as the co-director of the Three Wishes Early Action for Autism project. As a devoted medical educator, she has served as both medicine-pediatric residency director and vice chair for education in the Department of Pediatrics. She is now focused on improving care for persons with complex health needs and disabilities across the life course, working on improved service delivery in comprehensive systems of care.
Throughout her professional career, Ciccarelli has received numerous awards and honors, including the IUSM Teaching Excellence Recognition Award in both 2000 and 2003, the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Alpha Omega Alpha award, the IUSM Alumni Glenn W Irwin Award for Distinguished Faculty Service, and the IUSM Excellence in Faculty Mentoring Award. She is also a member of several professional organizations, such as the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, the Association of Pediatric Program Directors, and more.