This award provides financial and mentoring resources for one to two years to junior physician scientists working to have a productive career while also facing significant extra-professional care-giving demands.
2023 Awardees
Jennifer Dantzer, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins, Department of Pediatrics
Mentor: Robert A. Wood, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Elisa Ignatius, MD, MSc.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mentor: Kelly Dooley, MD, PhD, MPH, Addison B. Scoville Jr. Professor of Medicine
Anum Minhas, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Mentors: Allison Hays, MD, FACC and Josef Coresh, MD, PhD
Sarath Raju, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Mentor: Meredith McCormack, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine
Karisa Schreck, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Oncology
Mentor: Christine Pratilas, M.D., Associate Professor of Oncology
2022
Lydia Pecker, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology
Mentor: Sophie Lanzkron, MD, MHS
Catherine Simpson, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Mentor: Paul M. Hassoun, MD
Ann Parker, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Mentor: Dale M. Needham, FCPA, MD, PhD
Joanna Melia, MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Mentor: Cynthia L. Sears M.D.
2021
Christopher Hammond, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Mentor: Elliot A. Stein, PhD
Christy Sadreameli, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Pulmonary, School of Medicine
Mentor: Sharon McGrath-Morrow, MD, MBA
Rheanna Platt MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Mentor: Tamar Mendelson, Ph.D
2019
Nakiya Showell, MD, MPH, MHS
Assistant Professor, General Pediatrics Adolescent Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Mentor: Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
Tina Doshi, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Whiting School of Engineering
Mentors: Srinivasa Raja, MD; Michael Lim, MD; Claudia Campbell, PhD; Seena Ajit, PhD
Samantha Pitts, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, General Internal Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Mentors: Nisa Maruthur, MD, MHS; Jeanne Clark, MD, MPH
2018
Julius Birnbaum, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor, Rheumatology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Mentor: Ahmet Hoke
Oluwaseun O. Falade-Nwulia, MBBS, MPH
Assistant Professor, Infectious Disease
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Whiting School of Engineering
Mentors: Mark Sulkowski; Carl Latkin; Shruti Mehta; Stuart Ray
Michael H. Johnson, MD
Assistant Professor, Urology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Mentor: Charles Drake
Lauren M. Osborne, MD
Assistant Professor, Urology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Gynecology & Obstetrics
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Mentors: Jennifer Payne; Sabra Klein; Janet DiPietro; Gayane Yenokyan
2017
Jennifer Coughlin, MD
Assistant Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Radiology and Radiological Science
Mentors: Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH (Duke University) and Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH
Raquel Greer, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor General Internal Medicine
Mentors: Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH (Duke University) and Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH
Jin Hui Joo, MD, MA
Assistant Professor Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Mental Health
Mentors: Joseph Gallo, MD, MPH and Debra Roter, DrPH, MPH
Julie Paik, MD
Assistant Professor Rheumatology
Mentors: Laura Hummers, MD, ScM, Fredrick Wigley, MD, and Andrew Mammen, MD, PhD