Winners of the 2020 Herbert S. Waxman Chief Resident Teaching Scholarships, Annals Junior Investigator Recognition Awards announced
The scholarships recognize outstanding chief medical residents, while the junior investigator awards are presented annually to early-career first authors of outstanding articles in Annals of Internal Medicine.
ACP established the Herbert S. Waxman Chief Resident Teaching Scholarships in 2014 to recognize outstanding chief medical residents and to provide them an opportunity to assist teaching popular workshops under the guidance and mentorship of expert faculty in the Clinical Skills Center at ACP's annual scientific meeting. ACP congratulates the winners of the 2020 Herbert S. Waxman Chief Resident Teaching Scholarships:
- Jeffery Gray, MD, ACP Resident/Fellow Member, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
- Benjamin Hayes, MD, ACP Resident/Fellow Member, Northside Hospital Gwinnett in Lawrenceville, Ga.
- Vincent Kang, DO, ACP Resident/Fellow Member, OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus
- Henry Lew, MD, ACP Resident/Fellow Member, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii in Honolulu
- Sarah E. Schall, MD, ACP Member, Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio
- Sarah Steinkruger, MD, ACP Resident/Fellow Member, University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle
Annals' Junior Investigator Recognition Awards are presented annually to early-career physicians by Annals and ACP to the most outstanding article by a first author who is in an internal medicine residency program or a general medicine or internal medicine subspecialty fellowship program. Winners are selected based on the article's novelty, methodological rigor, clarity of presentation, and potential to influence practice, policy, or future research. Judges include Annals' editors and representatives from Annals' Editorial Board and the American College of Physicians' Education and Publication Committees.
The recipients of the 2020 Junior Investigator Recognition Awards are Anna Brand, MD, and David Levine, MD, MPH, MA.
Anna Brand, MD, is an interventional cardiologist and heart imager at the University Hospital Charité-Universitätsmedizin in Berlin, Germany. She is being recognized for the article “Medical Graphic Narratives to Improve Patient Comprehension and Periprocedural Anxiety Before Coronary Angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Randomized Trial,” which was published April 9, 2019.
David Levine, MD, MPH, MA, is a practicing general internist and clinician-investigator at Brigham Health and Harvard Medical School. He is being recognized for the article “Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial,” which was published Dec. 17, 2019.