Annual Department of Medicine Evans Days

2024 Evans Days Recap

Thursday, October 10

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

1:00p

m – 2:00pm Wilkins Visiting Professor Lecture | Keefer Auditorium

2:00pm – 3:00pm ARC & D. Coleman Prize Presentations | Keefer Auditorium

6:00pm – 9:00pm Reception & Awards Ceremony | Hiebert Lounge

Wilkins Professor

“The expanding translational relevance of L cell derived therapeutics”

Daniel J. Drucker, MD
Senior Scientist,
Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Professor of Medicine,
University of Toronto

Friday, October 11

12:00pm – 1:00pm Ingelfinger Visiting Professor Lecture | Keefer Auditorium

Ingelfinger Professor

“Humanizing Academic Medicine with Authenticity: A Transformative Staged Approach Leveraging our Missions to Achieve Progress for All”

Michelle A. Albert, MD MPH FACC FAHA
Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology
Professor of Medicine,
Director, CeNter for the StUdy of AdveRsiTy and CardiovascUlaR DiseasE (NURTURE Center)
Associate Dean of Admissions, UCSF School of Medicine
Immediate Past-President, American Heart Association

About our Visiting Professors

Dr. Daniel J. Drucker is a Canadian endocrinologist. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he is a professor of medicine at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto. He is known for his research into intestinal hormones and their use in the treatment of diabetes, obesity, and other metabolic diseases, as well as intestinal failure.

Talk Title: “The expanding translational relevance of L cell derived therapeutics”

Dr. Michelle A. Albert is the Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor in Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), Admissions Dean for UCSF Medical School and Director of the CeNter for the StUdy of AdveRsiTy and CardiovascUlaR DiseasE (NURTURE Center). Dr. Albert’s clinical expertise involves both taking care of the most critically ill heart disease patients and preventive cardiology at UCSF.

Talk Title: “Humanizing Academic Medicine with Authenticity: A Transformative Staged Approach Leveraging our Missions to Achieve Progress for All”

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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

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”

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

Clinical Poster Winners 1^st Place: Samantha Malatesta, PhD Candidate 2^nd Place: Adriana Flores, MD 3^rd Place: Alex Werekuu, MPH	Basic Science Poster Winners 1^st Place: Gwen Beacham, PhD 2^nd Place: Burcu Erdogan, PhD 3^rd Place: Lorraine Soares De Oliveira, PhD
Clinical Oral Presentation Winners 1^st Place: Lauren Kearney, MD 2^nd Place: Victoria Overbeck, MPH 3^rd Place: Breanne Biondi, MPH	Basic Oral Presentation Winners 1^st Place: Lucien Garo, PhD Candidate 2^nd Place: Olivia Perry 3^rd Place: Roxana Pfefferkorn, PhD

2022 Evans Days Recap

2022 Evans Days Schedule

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

Clinical Poster Winners 1^st Place: Dylan Steiner 2^nd Place: Najia Idrees, MD 3^rd Place: Divya Shankar, MD	Basic Poster Winners 1^st Place: Liang (Martin) Ma, MD, PhD Candidate 2^nd Place: Anna McGregor 3^rd Place: Mehmed Taha Dinc, MD
Clinical Oral Presentation Winners 1^st Place: Ioanna Yiannakou, RDN, MS, PhD Candidate 2^nd Place: Samantha Siskind, MD 3^rd Place: Ross Okazaki, MD	Basic Oral Presentation Winners 1^st Place: Kiloni Quiles 2^nd Place: David Bean 3^rd 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

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?”

Award Winners – View Criteria

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

Clinical Poster Winners 1^st Place: Hamza Hassan, MD 1^st Place: Kate Bloch, PhD 3^rd Place: Mengjie Yuan, PhD	Basic Poster Winners 1^st Place: Neelou Etesami, MD, PhD Candidate 2^nd Place: Liang (Martin) Ma, MD, PhD Candidate 3^rd Place: Megan Snyder, PhD Candidate
Clinical Oral Presentation Winners 1^st Place: Eduardo Núñez, MD 2^nd Place: Yusuke Koga, BS, MS 3^rd Place: Brooke Rice, MD	Basic Oral Presentation Winners 1^st Place: Anukul T. Shenoy, PhD 2^nd Place: Khaliun Enkhbayar 3^rd 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!

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
1^st Place: Michael Garcia, MD
2^nd Place: Kathryn Fantasia, MD
2^nd Place: Meena Zareh, MD

Basic Research Poster Winners
1^st Place: Jessie Huang, PhD
2^nd Place: Wenqing Yin, MD, PhD
2^nd Place: Anukul T. Shenoy, MS, PhD
2^nd 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 Elain Fuchs headshot
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 Headshot of Dr. Nakela Cook
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

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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!

Award Winners – View Criteria

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 1^st Place: Maura Walker 2^nd Place: Magdalena Buczek 3^rd Place: Simeon Kimmel	Basic Research Oral Presentation 1^st Place: Fatima Rizvi 2^nd Place: Jason Nasse 3^rd Place: Elissa Everton
Clinical Poster Winners 1^st Place: Mengjie Yuan 2^nd Place: Feven Ataklte 3^rd Place: Erika Crable	Basic Research Poster Winners 1^st Place: Kristine Abo 2^nd Place: Anukul Shenoy 3^rd 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