Annual Department of Medicine Evans Days
View all 2023 posters here
2023 Evans Days Recap
Evans Days Booklet
Evans Days Photos
Thursday, October 19
8:15am – 9:15am Oral Presentations | L110
9:30am– 11:00am Basic Science poster presentations | Hiebert Lounge
11:15am – 12:45pm Basic Science & Clinical Research poster presentations | Hiebert Lounge
1:00pm – 1:30pm Dr. Anthony Hollenberg Interviews Dr. Barbara Kahn | Keefer Auditorium
1:30pm – 2:30pm ARC & Dr. D. Coleman Prize Presentations | Keefer Auditorium
3:00pm – 4:00pm Wilkins Visiting Professor Lecture | Keefer Auditorium
6:00pm – 9:00pm Reception & Awards Ceremony | Hiebert Lounge
Wilkins Visiting Professor

A Novel Class of Signaling Lipids With Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Diabetic Effects
Barbara Kahn, MD
George R. Minot Professor of Medicine – Harvard Medical School
Vice-Chair for Research Strategy,
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Friday, October 20
12:00pm – 1:00pm Ingelfinger Visiting Professor Lecture | Keefer Auditorium
Ingelfinger Visiting Professor

Addressing Health Inequities in Hypertension: Having Impact through Research
Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH
Dr. Adolph & Margaret Berger Professor of Population Health,
Grossman School of Medicine,
New York University
About our Visiting Professors
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Dr. Barbara Kahn, an internationally recognized scientist in the area of obesity and type 2 diabetes, and her lab investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying these conditions, including the regulation of insulin action, food intake, and energy balance.
Talk Title: “A Novel Class of Signaling Lipids With Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Diabetic Effects”
Dr. Gbenga Ogedegbe is a leading expert on health disparities research; his work focuses on the implementation of evidence-based interventions for cardiovascular risk reduction in minority populations. He is Principal Investigator on numerous NIH projects, and has expanded his work globally to Sub-Saharan Africa where he is funded by the NIH to strengthen research capacity and reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases.
Talk Title: “Addressing Health Inequities in Hypertension: Having Impact through Research” |
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Evans Center / IBRO Outstanding Research
Collaborator Award
Elise Morgan, PhD – Engineering Design & Innovation |
Clinical Excellence Award
Praveen Govender, MB BCh – Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine |
Clinical Innovation Award
Deepa Gopal, MD, MS – Cardiovascular Medicine
Nir Ayalon, MD – Cardiovascular Medicine |
Research Mentoring Award
Alexander Walley, MD – General Internal Medicine |
Junior Faculty Mentoring Award
Jessica Taylor, MD – General Internal Medicine |
Clinical Quality Improvement Award
David Yuh, MD – General Internal Medicine |
Outstanding Citizenship Award
Sarah Kimball, MD – General Internal Medicine |
David “Aaron” Freed Award
Dennis Chow – Central Finance |
Special Recognition Teaching Award
Mark Sloan, MD – Hematology & Oncology |
Marie Antoinette Evans Award
Erin Kane – Computational Biomedicine
Daneiris Heredia-Perez, MSPM – General Internal 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
Lauren Stern, MD – General Internal Medicine |
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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 Presentation Winners
1st Place: Lucien Garo, PhD Candidate
2nd Place: Olivia Perry
3rd Place: Roxana Pfefferkorn, PhD |
2022 Evans Days Recap
2022 Evans Days Schedule
Evans Days 2022 Photos
Thursday, October 13
*Please note – Evans Days is planned to be held in person with video capabilities for people who are unable to attend
8:30am – 9:30am Oral Presentations | L110
9:30am– 11:00am Basic Science poster presentations | Hiebert Lounge
11:15am – 12:45pm Basic Science & Clinical Research poster presentations | Hiebert Lounge
1:00pm – 1:30pm Dr. Coleman interviews Dr. Cooney / Dr. Salant interviews Dr. Kaelin | Keefer Auditorium
1:30pm – 2:30pm ARC Presentations | Keefer Auditorium
3:00pm – 4:00pm Wilkins Visiting Professor Lecture | Keefer Auditorium
“The von Hippel-Lindau Tumor Suppressor Gene: Insights into Oxygen Sensing, Protein Degradation, and Cancer”
Dr. William Kaelin – 2019 Nobel Prize Winner, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
6:00pm – 9:00pm Reception & Awards Ceremony | Hiebert Lounge
Friday, October 14
12:00pm – 1:00pm Ingelfinger Visiting Professor Lecture | Keefer Auditorium
“Prostate Cancer Susceptibility: Translating Genetic Discoveries to the Clinic”
Dr. Kathleen Cooney – Professor of Medicine, George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Chair – Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine
Evans Center / IBRO Outstanding Research
Collaborator Award
David Sherr, MD – Environmental Health |
Clinical Excellence Award
Ramon Bonegio, MD – Nephrology |
Clinical Innovation Award
Pablo Buitron de la Vega, MD, MSc – General Internal Medicine |
Research Mentoring Award
Renda Wiener, MD, MPH- Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine |
Junior Faculty Mentoring Award
Deepa Gopal, MD, MS – Cardiovascular Medicine |
Clinical Quality Improvement Award
Nicholas Bosch, MD, MSc – Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine |
Outstanding Citizenship Award
Frederick Ruberg, MD – Cardiovascular Medicine |
David Aaron Freed Award
Jennifer Fosbroke – General Internal Medicine |
Special Recognition Teaching Award
Ashish Upadhyay, MD – Nephrology |
Marie Antoinette Award
Inel Ferrara – Hematology/Oncology
Amanda Tran, MPH – Geriatrics |
Faculty Diversity Award
Elizabeth Klings, MD – Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine |
Excellence in Education Scholarship Mentoring Award
Lindsay Demers, MS, PhD – Geriatrics |
Evans Clinician
Ashvin Pande, MD – Cardiovascular Medicine
Christine Reardon, MD – Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine
Michael York, MD – Pheumatology
Sandhya Rao, MD – General Internal Medicine |
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Clinical Poster Winners
1st Place: Dylan Steiner
2nd Place: Najia Idrees, MD
3rd Place: Divya Shankar, MD |
Basic Poster Winners
1st Place: Liang (Martin) Ma, MD, PhD Candidate
2nd Place: Anna McGregor
3rd Place: Mehmed Taha Dinc, MD |
Clinical Oral Presentation Winners
1st Place: Ioanna Yiannakou, RDN, MS, PhD Candidate
2nd Place: Samantha Siskind, MD
3rd Place: Ross Okazaki, MD |
Basic Oral Presentation Winners
1st Place: Kiloni Quiles
2nd Place: David Bean
3rd Place: Fatima Rizvi, Phd |
2021 Evans Days Recap
2021 Virtual Evans Days Schedule
Thursday, October 7, 2021
8:30 a.m. -9:30 a.m. – Oral Presentations
9:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. – Poster Sessions – Looking for a specific poster? View poster directory here!
List of Abstracts & Posters
12:30 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Dr. Coleman Interviews Ingelfinger Visiting Professor, Dr. Dale Abel
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. ARC Presentations
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Wilkins Visiting Professor Lecture
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Fireside Chats with Visiting Professors
- Graduate students and postdocs meet with Dr. Weissman.
- URG faculty and trainees meet with Dr. Abel.

Wilkins Visiting Professor
Nucleoside-modified mRNA-LNP Therapeutics
Drew Weissman, MD, PhD
Roberts Family Professor of Vaccine Research
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
Friday October 8, 2021
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Ingelfinger Visiting Professor Lecture

Ingelfinger Visiting Professor
(Glucose Metabolism) a Common Soil Linking Diabetes Mellitus, Heart Failure and Cancer?
Dale Abel, MD, PhD
Chair & Professor of Internal Medicine – Endocrinology and Metabolism
University of Iowa
Roy J. & Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
View this lecture here
About our Visiting Professors
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Dr. Drew Weissman, an award-winning MD/PhD alumnus of BUSM, pioneered mRNA vaccine technology by demonstrating that modified nucleosides in RNA can suppress the activation of innate immune sensors and enable the translation of the mRNA leading to the synthesis of the encoded protein.
Talk Title: “Nucleoside-modified mRNA-LNP Therapeutics.”
Dr. Dale Abel is an esteemed clinician-scientist and educator. He has published extensively on the role of altered glucose metabolism in heart failure and cancer. He is also a thought leader on the power of collaborative science and the role of physician-scientists.
Talk Title: “(Glucose Metabolism) a Common Soil Linking Diabetes Mellitus, Heart Failure and Cancer?” |
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Evans Center / IBRO Outstanding Research
Collaborator Award
Shelley Russek, PhD – Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics |
Clinical Excellence Award
Susan Phillips, MD – General Internal Medicine |
Clinical Innovation Award
Jessica Taylor, MD – General Internal Medicine |
Research Mentoring Award
Lindsay Farrer, PhD – Biomedical Genetics |
Junior Faculty Mentoring Award
Gene Kwan, MD, MPH – Cardiovascular Medicine |
Clinical Quality Improvement Award
Antonieta Camara, MSN, NP – General Internal Medicine |
Outstanding Citizenship Award
Craig Noronha, MD – General Internal Medicine |
David Aaron Freed Award
Linda Neville – Academic Primary Care, Preventive Medicine & Addiction Medicine Fellowships |
Special Recognition Teaching Award
Warren Hershman, MD – General Internal Medicine |
Marie Antoinette Award
Rachelle Joseph – Director – Department of Medicine |
Faculty Diversity Award
Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD – Biomedical Genetics |
Excellence in Education Scholarship Mentoring Award
Hollis Day, MD, MS, MHPE – Geriatrics |
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 |
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Clinical Poster Winners
1st Place: Hamza Hassan, MD
1st Place: Kate Bloch, PhD
3rd Place: Mengjie Yuan, PhD |
Basic Poster Winners
1st Place: Neelou Etesami, MD, PhD Candidate
2nd Place: Liang (Martin) Ma, MD, PhD Candidate
3rd Place: Megan Snyder, PhD Candidate |
Clinical Oral Presentation Winners
1st Place: Eduardo Núñez, MD
2nd Place: Yusuke Koga, BS, MS
3rd Place: Brooke Rice, MD |
Basic Oral Presentation Winners
1st Place: Anukul T. Shenoy, PhD
2nd Place: Khaliun Enkhbayar
3rd Place: Rhiannon Werder |
2020 Evans Days 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!
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 |
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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.
2019 Evans Days Recap

The 34th 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 the 2nd year of the Poster Blitz, 24 3-minute oral presentations of some of this year’s most exciting submissions. The poster session featured 97 presentations, a record high for the event, and included digital poster displays in the newly remodeled entry lounge to the Hiebert Ball Room.
The Gala reception celebrated trainee winners of the Oral Presentations and Poster Session, and honored faculty recipients of the department’s annual awards. This year’s event saw the inaugural ARC Leadership Award presented by the Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical research and the inaugural David Aaron Freed award in memory of Aaron’s legacy of compassion and excellence.
Thank you to all who helped make this year’s event so special!
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 — Biomedical Genetics |
Most Abstract Submissions
Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) |
Clinical Oral Presentation
1st Place: Maura Walker
2nd Place: Magdalena Buczek
3rd Place: Simeon Kimmel |
Basic Research Oral Presentation
1st Place: Fatima Rizvi
2nd Place: Jason Nasse
3rd Place: Elissa Everton |
Clinical Poster Winners
1st Place: Mengjie Yuan
2nd Place: Feven Ataklte
3rd Place: Erika Crable |
Basic Research Poster Winners
1st Place: Kristine Abo
2nd Place: Anukul Shenoy
3rd Place: Ayumu Osaki |
2019 Schedule
Thursday, October 03, 2019
Continental Breakfast
7:00-8:00 a.m. | L110
Poster Blitz Presentations
8:30-9:30 a.m. | L110
Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. | L1403
Research Poster Session
9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Hiebert Lounge
Shining Lights-State of the ARCs
12:00 p.m. – 02:00 p.m. | L112
Wilkins Visiting Professor Lecture
3:00 p.m. | Keefer Auditorium
“Cell atlases as roadmaps to understand and treat disease”
Aviv Regev, PhD
Director, Klarman Cell Observatory and Cell Circuits Program
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University
Reception and Dinner
6:00 p.m. | Colonnade Hotel, Boston
Friday, October 04, 2019

Ingelfinger Visiting Professor Grand Rounds
Noon | Keefer Auditorium
“Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in T2DM through Better Pharmacology”
Nancy Brown, MD
Hugh Jackson Morgan Chair and Physician-in-Chief, Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Vanderbilt University