2008 GIM Housestaff Research Awards Announced

GIM is proud to announce the winners of its third annual Hopkins GIM Housestaff Research Awards. The winners receive a prize of $500 each and a trip to Baltimore to present their winning research at a special session of GIM Grand Rounds.  This year applicants competed for five distinct prizes, each named for a GIM faculty member whose work exemplifies the theme of the award.

The 2008 L. Randol Barker Award for achievement in innovations or research in medical education was granted to Rosette Chakkalakal, MD,  for her abstract “Listen to Your Heart: Deficiencies in Cardiac Examination of Female Patients During an Objective Structured Clinical Examination.” Dr. Chakkalakal received her MD from the Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami and is now in her third year of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.

The Daniel E. Ford Award for achievement in health services research and prevention was awarded to  Zachary Berger, MD, PhD, for his abstract “Predictors of First Fill Compliance with New Asthma Prescriptions: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using Linked Electronic Medical Record and Claims Data.” Dr. Berger earned his MD as well as his PhD in Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences) at New York University. He is now a resident in the Bellevue Hospital Primary Care Residency Teaching Program, in New York.

The David M. Levine Award for achievement in behavioral medicine and health disparities research goes this year to Nitin Kapur, MD, MPH, for his abstract “Intimate Partner Violence is Associated with Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Married Women in India.” Dr. Kapur earned his MD at the University of Texas – Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and his MPH degree at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Kapur also spent a year as an Applied Epidemiology Fellow at the Centers for Disease Control. He is now in the second year of the Internal Medicine Primary Care Program at Yale University School of Medicine.

The Neil R. Powe Award for achievement in clinical epidemiology and outcomes research was awarded to Lee Jennings, MD, for her abstract on rates of in-hospital initiation of treatment for osteoporosis. Dr. Jennings earned her MD at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA.  At present, she is a third-year Internal Medicine resident at the University of California, San Francisco.

The new Jeremy Sugarman Award for achievement in bioethics research has been granted to Matthew DeCamp, MD, PhD, for his abstract “Bringing Together What Man Put Asunder: Innovation Policy and Distributive Justice.”  Dr. DeCamp earned both his MD and his PhD in philosophy at Duke University, Durham, NC. He is now in the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Michigan.

The award winners will attend a dinner in their honor on the evening of Thursday, November 13^th, and will present their winning abstracts and receive their awards at GIM Grand Rounds on Friday, November 14^th. Additional activities that have been planned for the award winners following Grand Rounds include a campus tour, a luncheon with current GIM Fellows, and opportunities to meet with individual faculty members.

GIM congratulates all five of the 2008 Housestaff Research Award Winners.  We look forward to meeting each of them in November!