Department of Medicine Award Winners

Outstanding Citizenship Award 
Craig Noronha – General Internal Medicine

Clinical Quality Improvement Award
Antonieta Camara, MSN, NP – General Internal Medicine

Clinical Innovations Award
Jessica Taylor, MD – General Internal Medicine

Junior Faculty Mentoring Award
Gene Kwan, MD, MPH – Cardiovascular Medicine

Research Mentoring Award
Lindsay Farrer, PhD – Biomedical Genetics

Special Recognition Teaching Award
Warren Hershman, MD – General Internal Medicine

Faculty Diversity Award
Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD – Biomedical Genetics

Excellence in Education Scholarship Mentoring Award
Hollis Day, MD, MS, MHPE – Geriatrics

Evans Center/IBRO Outstanding Research Collaborator Award
Shelley Russek, PhD – Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics

Clinical Excellence Award
Susan Phillips, MD – General Internal Medicine

Marie Antoinette Evans Award
Rachelle Joseph – Research Administration

David “Aaron” Freed Award
Linda Neville – Academic Primary Care, Preventive Medicine & Addiction Medicine Fellowships

Evans Clinician Designation
Lisa Caruso, MD, MPH – Geriatrics
Robert Eberhardt, MD – Cardiovascular Medicine
Amy Fitzpatrick, MD – General Internal Medicine
Janice Quan, MD – General Internal Medicine

Robert Dawson Evans Distinguished Professors of Medicine
Emelia Benjamin, MD – Cardiovascular Medicine
David Felson, MD – Rheumatology
Michael Paasche-Orlow, MD – General Internal Medicine
Thomas Perls, MD – Geriatrics
David Salant, MD – Nephrology

Clinical Poster Winners
Hamza Hassan, MD – 1st Place(Tied)
Kate Bloch, PhD – 1st Place(Tied)
Mengjie Yuan, PhD – 3rd Place

Basic Poster Winners
Neelou Etesami, MD, PhD Candidate – 1st Place
Liang (Martin) Ma, MD, PhD Candidate – 2nd Place
Megan Snyder, PhD Candidate – 3rd Place

Clinical Oral Presentation Winners
Eduardo Núñez, MD – 1st Place
Yusuke Koga, BS, MS – 2nd Place
Brooke Rice, MD – 3rd Place

Basic Oral Presentation Winners
Anukul T. Shenoy, PhD – 1st Place
Khaliun Enkhbayar – 2nd Place
Rhiannon Werder – 3rd Place

Outstanding Research Collaborator: Junior Faculty
Vijaya Kolachalama, PhD —Computational Biomedicine

Clinical Innovation Award
Influenza-like Clinic

Team Leads
Jason Worcester, MD —General Internal Medicine
Sarah Kimball, MD —General Internal Medicine

Clinical Excellence Award
Alice Jacobs, MD — Cardiovascular Medicine

Junior Faculty Mentoring Award
Michelle Long, MD —Gastroenterology
Omar Siddiqi, MD —Cardiovascular Medicine

Research Mentoring Award
Katya Ravid, DSc —Cardiovascular Medicine

Outstanding Citizenship Award
Mike Kirber, PhD — Research Implementation
Michael Ieong, MD— Pulmonary
Cassandra Pierre, MD, MPH, MSc — Infectious Disease
Miriam Komaromy, MD — General Internal Medicine

Clinical Quality Improvement Team Award
Reducing No-Shows in the Multidisciplinary Lupus Clinic

Team Leads
Michael York, MD — Rheumatology
Christina Lam, MD —Dermatology
Hanni-Menn Josephy, MD — Nephrology

Special Recognition Teaching Award
Asher Tulksy, MD — Gneral Internal Medicine
Matthew Jones, PhD —Pulmonary

David Aaron Freed Award
Nicole Nguyen —Education Office

Inaugural Faculty Diversity Award
Sheila Chapman, MD —General Internal Medicine

Inaugural Marie Antoinette Evans Award
Rania Omar Burke, PhD — Vice Chair of Finance & Administration

Clinical Poster Winners
Michael Garcia, MD —1st Place
Kathryn Fantasia, MD —2nd Place tie
Meenah Zareh, MD —2nd Place tie

Basic Poster Winners
Jessie Huang, PhD — 1st Place
Wenqing Yin, MD, PhD —2nd Place tie
Anukul T. Shenoy, MS, PhD —2nd Place tie
Michael Herriges, PhD —2nd Place tie

Most Abstract Submissions
Computational Biomedicine & Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)

Evans Clinician Designation
Heidi Auerbach, MD —Geriatrics
Sheilah Bernard, MD — Cardiology
Maura Fagan, MD —Infectious Disease
Melissa DiPetrillo, MS —General Internal Medicine
Kevin Monahan, MD —Cardiology

Evans Center IBR Research Collaborator of the Year Award
Rhoda Au, PhD – Anatomy & Neurobiology

Inaugural ARC Leadership Award
Lindsay Farrer, PhD – Biomedical Genetics

Clinical Innovation Award
Palliative Medicine Unit

Sandhya D. Rao, MD -Team Lead
Henri Lee, MD
Perla Macip-Rodriguez, MD
Alexandra Dobie, LICSW
Jessica Knight, FNP-C, ACHPN
Amy L Cann, BS

Clinical Excellence Award
Won M. Lee, MD —Geriatrics

Junior Faculty Mentoring Award
Shayna Sarosiek MD —Hematology and Medical Oncology
Jessica L Fetterman, PhD —Vascular Biology

Research Mentoring Award
Vipul C. Chitalia, MD, PhD –Nephrology

Citizenship Award
Thomas Ostrander, MD — General Internal Medicine
Gustavo Mostoslavsky, MD, PhD— Gastroenterology 

 Clinical Quality Improvement Team Award
Antibiotic Stewardship Team

Tamar F. Barlam MD – Team Lead
Karrine Brade PharmD – Co-Lead

Excellence in Educational Scholarship Mentoring
Catherine A. Rich, MD — General Internal Medicine

Special Recognition Teaching Award
Gopal Yadavalli, MD — Infectious Diseases

Inaugural David Aaron Freed Award
John Farrell

Most Abstract Submissions
Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)