Annual Department of Medicine Evans Days
2020 Evans Day Recap
The 35th Annual Evans Department of Medicine Research Days celebrated and showcased the research activities of the department’s faculty, trainees and researchers. This year’s event featured 120 5-minute pre-recorded presentations each followed by a 4-minute live Q&A between the author and judges.
The poster session features 120 presentations, a record high for the event and included virtual poster displays not eh CTI platform.
The Virtual Awards Ceremony celebrated trainee winners of both the Basic and Clinical Research Poster Sessions, and honored faculty recipients of the department’s annual awards. This year’s event saw the inaugural Faculty Diversity Award and the Marie Antoinette Award.
Thank you to all who helped make this year’s event so special!
Award Winners – View Criteria
| Evans Center IBR Research Collaborator of the Year Award Jessica Fetterman, MD – Vascular Biology Vijaya Kolachalama, PhD – Computational Biomedicine |
Clinical Excellence Award Alice Jacobs, MD – Cardiology |
| Clinical Innovation Award Influenza-like Clinic Jason Worcester, MD – Team Lead – General Internal Medicine Sarah Kimball, MD – Co-Lead – General Internal Medicine |
Research Mentoring Award Katya Ravid, DSc – Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Junior Faculty Mentoring Award Michelle Long, MD – Gastroenterology Omar Siddiqi, MD – Cardiology |
Clinical Quality Improvement Team Award Reducing No Shows in the Multidisciplinary Lupus Clinic Michael York, MD – Co-Lead – Rheumatology Hanni-Menn Josephy, MD – Co-Lead – Nephrology Christina Lam, MD – Co-Lead -Dermatology |
| Citizenship Award Mike Kirber, PhD – Research Implementation Michael Ieong, MD – Pulmonary Cassandra Pierre, MD, MPH, MSc – Infectious Disease Miriam Komaromy, MD – General Internal Medicine |
David Aaron Freed Award Nicole Nguyen – Internal Medicine Residency Program |
| Special Recognition Teaching Award Asher Tulsky, MD – General Internal Medicine Matthew Jones, PhD – Pulmonary |
Marie Antoinette Award Rania Omar Burke, PhD – Department of Medicine |
| Faculty Diversity Award Sheila Chapman, MD – General Internal Medicine |
Most Abstract Submissions Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) – 22 Computational Biomedicine – 22 |
| Clinical Poster Winners 1st Place: Michael Garcia, MD 2nd Place: Kathryn Fantasia, MD 2nd Place: Meena Zareh, MD |
Basic Research Poster Winners 1st Place: Jessie Huang, PhD 2nd Place: Wenqing Yin, MD, PhD 2nd Place: Anukul T. Shenoy, MS, PhD 2nd Place: Michael Herriges, PhD |
2020 Schedule
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Research Poster Session
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | CTI Virtual Platform
View Poster Session Schedule Here!
View Abstracts Here
Shining Light on BU Affinity Research Collaboratives (ARCs): “BU Covid-19 pre-clinical ARC research”
12:30 p.m. – 01:30 p.m. | CTI Virtual Platform
Dr. Coleman Interview with Dr. Cook
1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | CTI Virtual Platform
Wilkins Visiting Professor Lecture
2:30 p.m. | CTI Virtual Platform
“Skin StemCells: Coping with Stress“
Elaine Fuchs, PhD
HHMI Investigator, Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor
Rockefeller University
Friday, November 6, 2020
Clinical Poster Session
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | CTI Virtual Platform
View Poster Session Schedule Here!
View Abstracts Here
Ingelfinger Visiting Professor Grand Rounds
Noon | CTI Virtual Platform
“Driving Toward Health Impact: Our Journey and the Path Forward“
Nakela L. Cook, MD, MPH
Executive Director, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institution (PCORI)
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
DOM Awards Ceremony
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Wilkins Visiting Professor Lecture