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ASH presents honors awards to 28 medical students, residents
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ASH recently announced the 18 medical students and 10 residents selected to receive 2015 ASH Honors Awards.
The ASH Honors Award aims to support hematology research projects for North American medical students and residents who are interested in hematology but have not yet entered a hematology training program.
Awardees receive a $5,000 stipend to conduct a research project alongside a mentor from their institution on either a short-term or long-term project. Recipients also will receive a $1,000 travel stipend each year for two years to support their attendance at the ASH Annual Meeting.
Awardees were selected based on the quality and relevance of their research projects to hematology, the mentoring environment at their institution, and their interest in the field.
“Medical school and residency are exciting times for trainees, but they often have difficulty finding the time or identifying resources to conduct independent research and may not be aware of opportunities within hematology,” said ASH President David A. Williams, MD, of Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center and Harvard Medical School. “Through research funding and mentor support, the ASH HONORS Award aims to bring exciting opportunities in hematology research to the best trainees and encourage them to pursue a career in the field.”
The following medical students received the award: Annabelle Anandappa of Harvard Medical School; Omri Arbiv of University of Toronto; Abha Athale of Midwestern University; Jennifer Bai of University of Maryland School of Medicine; Christina Cahill of University of Vermont College of Medicine; Melanie Donahue of University of Massachusetts Medical School; Tara Gavcovich of George Washington University School of Medicine; Yan Leyfman of Penn State College of Medicine; Gregory Metzger of The Ohio State University; John-Jose Nunez of University of British Columbia; Olubusola Oluwole of University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Shreya Podder of Virginia Commonwealth University; Joshua Pritchett of University of Minnesota Medical School; Katarzyna Rojek of University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine; Robert Schwab of University of Pennsylvania; Andrew Scott of The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Joshua Siner of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University; and Emily Stern of Tufts University School of Medicine.
The following residents received the award: Moritz Binder, MD, MPH, of Mayo Clinic in Minnesota; Erica Braverman, MD, of University of Rochester; Jad Chahoud, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Roberto Fratamico, MD, of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital; Sanghee Hong, MD, of Cleveland Clinic; Miriam Kimpton, MD, of University of Ottawa; Weijuan Li, MD, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Arun Singavi, MD, of Medical College of Wisconsin; Abi Vijenthria, MD, of University of Toronto; and Julia Xu, MD, of Duke University Medical Center.