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Please join EMRA in congratulating the 2016 Spring Awards recipients. These outstanding medical students, residents, program directors, and program coordinators will be honored at the EMRA Spring Awards Ceremony, Thursday, May 12, in conjunction with the SAEM Annual Meeting.
Special thanks to our EMRA Awards Committee for doing the work to make this recognition possible.
2016 EMRA Spring Award Winners
| AWARD | RECIPIENT |
|---|---|
| Academic Excellence Award | Carl Berdahl, MD | LAC+USC Department of Emergency Medicine |
| AEM Consensus Conference Travel Scholarship | Jake Valentine | Baylor College of Medicine Katherine Hunold | University of Virginia |
| Alexandra Greene Medical Student Award | Shehni Nadeem | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Assistant Residency Director of the Year | Elise Lovell, MD | Advocate Christ Medical Center |
| Chief Resident(s) of the Year | Sara Andrabi, MD | Baylor College of Medicine Elijah Jamie Bell, MD | Baylor College of Medicine Richina Bicette, MD | Baylor College of Medicine Michael Jaung, MD | Baylor College of Medicine |
| CORD Faculty Development Scholarship | Rebecca Tuttle, MD | Oregon Health & Science University Shana Elisha Nelson, DO | University Of Illinois at Chicago Shannon Findlay, MD | University of Iowa |
| EDDA Scholarship | Dennis Hsieh, MD, JD | Highland General Hospital, Alameda Health System Greg Wallingford, MD | Stanford University Medical Center Jason Woo, MD, MBA | Johns Hopkins Hospital Keith DellaGrotta, MD, MBA | New York Medical College Sushil Jain, MD, MBA | Northwestern Memorial Hospital |
| EMBRS Scholarship | Daniel McCabe, MD | Cook County Hospital |
| Jean Hollister EMS Award | B. Woods Curry, MD | University of Cincinnati Med. Ctr. |
| LAC Travel Scholarship | Nicole Hodgson, MD | Maricopa Medical Center Shehni Nadeem | Baylor College of Medicine Vidya Eswaran | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Local Action Grant | University of Maryland EM Interest Group Project: Creation of a Fundamentals of Disaster Medicinecurriculum for medical students, residents, and other EMS professionals Carleigh Benton, EMIG President |
| Research Grant | Aleef Rahman | St. George's University SOM Safer Streets Queens NYC: An Analysis of Environmental Factors versus Trauma Outcomes in Pedestrian Struck Accidents between 2012-2014 |
| Research Grant | Emily Chien, MPH, MBA | David Geffen SOM at UCLA Characterization of Pediatric Sepsis and HIV in the Emergency Medicine Department of Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| Resident of the Year | Justin Fuehrer, DO | Long Island Jewish Medical Center |
| Residency Coordinator of the Year | Bonnie Cheung | UCLA Medical Center/Olive View-UCLA Medical Center |
| Residency Director of the Year | Linda Regan, MD | Johns Hopkins University SOM |
| Robert Doherty, MD Teaching Fellowship Scholarship | Abra Fant, MD | Northwestern University Feinberg SOM |
| SAEM Scholarship | Christopher Evans | University of California, San Diego SOM Erica Lash | University of Rochester SOM Joshua Kaine | University of Kentucky Marion-Vincent "Marvin" Mempin, MD | New York Presbyterian Queens Melody J. Glenn, MD | Maricopa Medical Center |