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2022 SGIM Annual Meeting Presentation Awards

Annual meeting presentation awards are voted on and awarded at the SGIM Annual Meeting. Recipients for these awards are chosen based on their eligibility at the time of annual meeting submission, or based on their oral and poster presentation at the annual meeting. 

Mack Lipkin Senior Associate Member Scientific Presentation Awards

Three Mack Lipkin Senior Associate Member Awards are presented annually to the Associate Members whose abstracts are judged highest at the SGIM annual meeting. Eligible candidates must be an SGIM Associate Member (Student, Resident, or Fellow), Lipkin award candidates are identified previous to the meeting and were chosen this year from appropriate virtual presentations. The winners are: 

Katherine L. Chen, MD
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
"Cost-Related Residential Moves are Associated with Adverse Health Outcomes and Behaviors Among California’s Renters"

Rebekah E. Scott
University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX
"Equitable implementation of a mailed stool test-based colorectalcancer screening program in a safety net health system"

Rohan Chalasani
 Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, IL
"Examining the Health-Wealth Gap: The Association of Family Income with Outpatient Quality,Utilization, Cost, and Patient Experience"

Milton W. Hamolsky Junior Faculty Scientific Presentation Awards

Three Milton W. Hamolsky Awards are presented annually to junior faculty whose abstracts are judged to be the most outstanding among those submitted to the national meeting by junior faculty members of SGIM (faculty who are in their first 2 years of a faculty appointment). The winners are:

Aaron L. Schwartz
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
"Variation in Low-Value Service Use Across Verans Affairs Facilities"

Margaret Lowenstein, MD, MPhil
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
"Exploring patient perspectives on low-threshold treatment for opiod use disorder"

Sebastian Linde, MPhil, MS, MSc, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin, Miluwakee, WI
"Association of Federal and State Level Minimum Wage Legislations and Food Security"

Distinguished Professor Presentation Awards

Distinguished Professor of Health Equity Best Poster Presentation Award - Milda R. Saunders, MD, MPH (University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine) for the poster titled “Association between Maternal Diabetes, Race and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status”

Distinguished Professor of Health Equity Best Oral Abstract Presentation Award - Utibe Essien, MD, MPH (University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine) for the abstract titled “Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Oral Anticoagulant Use in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A National Study”

Distinguished Professor of Geriatrics Best Poster Presentation Award - Christine Jones, MD, MS (University of Colorado School of Medicine) for the poster titled “Risk Factors for 6-month Mortality in Medicare Beneficiaries with Heart Failure Discharged with Home Health Services”

Distinguished Professor of Geriatrics Best Oral Abstract Presentation Award - Aaron Troy, MD, MPH (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) for the abstract titled “Oral Anticoagulant Prescribing in Older Adults Newly Diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation During Hospitalization”

Distinguished Professor of Hospital Medicine Best Poster Presentation Award - Kira L. Ryskina, MD, MSHP (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) for the poster titled “Disparities in Access to Specialty Care Follow-Up and Subsequent Emergency Department Uses after Hospital Discharge to Skilled Nursing Facilities”

Distinguished Professor of Hospital Medicine Best Oral Abstract Presentation Award - Snehal Patel, MD (University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School) for the abstract titled “It’s Been Traumatic’: The Impact of COVID-19 on Hospital-Based Healthcare Workers in Austin”

Distinguished Professor of Women’s Health Best Poster Presentation Award - Nia S. Mitchell, MD, MPH (Duke University School of Medicine) for the poster titled “Weight Management for African American Breast Cancer Survivors in a Community-Based Program”

Distinguished Professor of Women’s Health Best Oral Abstract Presentation Award - Ilana Richman, MD, MHS (Yale School of Medicine) for the abstract titled “Estimating Breast Cancer Overdiagnosis among Older Women in the US”