NKF announces winner of Seldin Award
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Key takeaways:
- Melanie Hoenig, MD, receives Donald W. Seldin award.
- Hoenig is a nephrologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
The National Kidney Foundation announced Melanie Hoenig, MD, as the 2023 winner of the Donald W. Seldin Award in recognition of her excellence and dedication in nephrology research and education.
“Dr. Hoenig has not only dedicated her career to educating the next generation of nephrologists but has worked to inspire undergraduate and medical students to come into the field,” Sylvia E. Rosas, MD, MSCE, NKF president said in a press release. “She has been the course director for Renal pathophysiology at Harvard Medical School for more than a decade. Her commitment to education will only help the patients in the future, with more experts, research, and treatments, and ultimately, cures.”
Hoenig is a nephrologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. She is particularly excited to receive this award because her mentor, Jerry Yee, MD, the 2019 recipient, died in 2022.
The award is named after Donald W. Seldin, widely renown as the intellectual father of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
“As a young trainee, I once heard Dr. Seldin speak and knew that I was in the presence of a remarkable physiologist and educator,” Hoenig said in the press release. “I could never imagine that I would someday win an award with his name. This is a true honor.”
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