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ASH honors medical students, residents
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ASH selected 15 medical students and 15 residents to receive the 2016 ASH HONORS Award.
The award — the acronym for which stands for Hematology Opportunities for the Next Generation of Research Scientists — is intended to support the career development of North American medical students and residents who are interested in hematology.
Recipients receive a $5,000 stipend to conduct hematology research projects, as well as $1,000 per year for 2 years to support their attendance at a program orientation at the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition. Each recipient also has an ASH member research mentor to help with and oversee their work.
“By supporting hematologists-in-training early in their research careers, it is our goal to encourage talented medical students and residents to continue to pursue careers in hematology,” ASH President Charles S. Abrams, MD, chief of nonmalignant hematology, vice chair for research and chief scientific officer at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, said in a press release. “We look forward to watching their promising careers unfold.”
Medical school students who received this year’s ASH HONORS Award are: Arielle Abovich of University of Alabama Medical Center; Ana Luiza Altaffer of University of Pennsylvania; Rahul Bhansali of University of Illinois College of Medicine; Michelle Chen of Thomas Jefferson University; Sean Dougherty of Virginia Commonwealth University Health System; Richard Godby of University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Naomi Gunawardena of UPMC Medical Education; Parisa Khalighi of Case Western Reserve University; Jerry Lee of Duke University Hospital; Orly Leiva of Boston University School of Medicine; Vivian Liu of Harvard Medical School; Ariel Siegel of University of Maryland School of Medicine; Ishan Tatake of University of Connecticut; Elsa Treffeisen of Thomas Jefferson University; and Christopher Tricarico of Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine.
Residents who received the ASH HONORS Award are: Kathryn Bradford, MD, of UCLA Medical Center; Joseph Clara, MD, of Morsani College of Medicine at University of South Florida; Nicole Cruz, MD, of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; Kyle Davis, MD, of Ohio State University Hospital; Susan DeWolf, MD, of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; Harold Elias, MD, of St. Luke’s—Roosevelt Hospital Center; Karine Gauthier, MD, of University of Ottawa; Ashwin Kishtagari, MD, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Harry Lesmana, MD, of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center; Konstantinos Lontos, MD, of UPMC Medical Education; Luis Malpica Castillo, MD, of Jackson Memorial Hospital; Rushad Patell, MD, of Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Praful Ravi, MD, of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; Chris Reilly, MD, of University of Pennsylvania; and Sarah Rumler, MD, of University of Illinois College of Medicine.