Congratulations to This Year’s Evans Days Awardees!

Evans Days Poster & Presentation Winners

Clinical Poster Winners:

1st Place: Samantha Malatesta, PhD Candidate
2nd Place: Adriana Flores, MD
3rd Place: Alex Werekuu, MPH

Basic Science Poster Winners:

1st Place: Gwen Beacham, PhD
2nd Place: Burcu Erdogan, PhD
3rd Place: Lorraine Soares De Oliveira, PhD

Clinical Oral Presentation Winners:

1st Place: Lauren Kearney, MD
2nd Place: Victoria Overbeck, MPH
3rd Place: Breanne Biondi, MPH

Basic Oral Science Presentation Winners:

1st Place: Lucien Garo, PhD Candidate
2nd Place: Olivia Perry
3rd Place: Roxana Pfefferkorn, PhD

Faculty Award Winners

Outstanding Citizenship Award
Sarah Kimball, MD – General Internal Medicine

Clinical Quality Improvement Award
David Yuh, MD – General Internal Medicine

Clinical Innovation Award
Deepa Gopal, MD, MS – Cardiovascular Medicine
Nir Ayalon, MD – Cardiovascular Medicine

Junior Faculty Mentoring Award
Jessica Taylor, MD – General Internal Medicine

Research Mentoring Award
Alexander Walley, MD – General Internal Medicine  

Special Recognition Teaching Award
Mark Sloan, MD – Hematology & Oncology

Clinical Excellence Award
Praveen Govender, MB BCh – Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine

Faculty Diversity Award
Kaku So-Armah, PhD – General Internal Medicine

Evans Clinician
Lauren Stern, MD – General Internal Medicine

David Coleman, MD Junior Faculty Prize
Anica Law, MD, MS – Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleepy & Critical Care Medicine

Staff Awards Winners

Maria Antoinette Evans Award
Erin Kane – Computational Biomedicine
Daneiris Heredia-Perez, MSPM – General Internal Medicine

David “Aaron” Freed Award
Dennis Chow – Central Finance

Evans Center/IBRO

Evans Center/IBRO Outstanding Research Collaborator Award
Elise Morgan, PhD – Engineering Design & Innovation