In 2012, Yale’s Department of Internal Medicine established an yearly Physician-Scientist Trainee Award successful representation of Iva Dostanic, MD, PhD, whose intelligence, creativity, enactment ethic, accomplishments, and passionateness for the subject of medicine exemplified the highest ideals of the physician-scientist.
The information play is present unfastened for the 2023 award. The recipient volition contiguous the Iva Dostanic Award Lecture astatine Medical Grand Rounds connected June 22, 2023.
Nomination Deadline
Friday, January 27, 2023
Eligibility and Selection Criteria
Nominees should conscionable the pursuing eligibility and enactment criteria:
- Physician-scientist with MD oregon MD-PhD.
- Completion of residency grooming successful interior medicine either astatine Yale oregon different institution.
- Current presumption arsenic a mentored probe trainee with assignment arsenic postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral associate, subordinate probe scientist, oregon teacher successful 1 of the sections of the Department of Internal Medicine.
- Accomplishments successful archetypal probe evidenced by peer-reviewed papers published oregon successful press.
- Commitment to probe reflected by applications for fellowship grants and/or vocation improvement awards.
- Availability to contiguous the Iva Dostanic, MD, PhD, Award Lecture connected June 22, 2023.
Nomination Process
Nominations of mentored trainees with outstanding imaginable for careers arsenic physician-scientists are encouraged. The pursuing information materials should beryllium sent by email to Dostanic Award Committee Chair Peter Aronson with a copy to Nancy Kravitz:
- Single one-page information missive jointly signed by the nominee’s conception main and superior mentor.
- Annotated program vitae of the nominee. For cardinal publications, supply little descriptions of the relation of the nominee and the value of the work.
Past Dostanic Awardees with Titles of Award Lectures
2012: Iva Dostanic, MD, PhD, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, “Emerging Roles for Innate Immunity successful Lung and Endothelium” (presented by Patty Lee)
2013: Isaac Hall, MD, MS, Nephrology, “Donor Kidney Quality and Acute Kidney Injury with Transplantation”
2014: Daniel Jane-Wit, MD/PhD, Cardiovascular Medicine, "Translational Approaches for Studying Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy"
2015: Jose Herazo-Maya, MD, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, “Predicting Outcome successful IPF: The Dawn of Genomic Biomarkers”
2016: Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, “Improving Post-ICU Outcomes: A Call to Action”
2017: Sarah Huen, MD, PhD, Nephrology, “Acute Kidney Injury: Not All That is Inflammatory is Pathologic"
2018: Stephen Baldassarri, MD, MHS, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, “Electronic Cigarettes: The End of Smoking oregon a Deadly New Addiction?”
2019: Shelli Farhadian, MD, PhD, Infectious Diseases, “Neuroinflammation During Chronic HIV Infection”
2020: Rupak Datta, MD/PhD, MPH, Infectious Diseases, “Antibiotic Stewardship to Promote Palliative Care successful Older Adults Near the End of Life”
2021: Ana Luisa Perdigoto, MD, PhD, Endocrinology & Metabolism, “Clinical and Preclinical Insights into the Mechanisms of Checkpoint Inhibitor-induced Diabetes”
2022: Benjamin Goldman-Israelow, MD, PhD, Infectious Diseases, “Prime and Spike: A Novel Vaccination Strategy for Inducing Mucosal SARS-CoV-2 Immunity”
2022: Dennis Shung, MD, PhD, MHS, Digestive Diseases, “Human+AI successful Medicine”
Contact for Additional Information
Chair, Iva Dostanic Award Committee
Department of Internal Medicine
PO Box 208029
New Haven, CT 06520-8029
Submitted by Julie Parry connected November 28, 2022