2023 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 presentations. The winners are: 

Eden Bernstein, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
"Treatment Gaps and Disparities among Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized with Alcohol Use Disorder"

Emily Lupez, MD
Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA
"Physical and Mental Health Conditions, Access to Care, and Financial Barriers to Care among People Incarcerated in US Prisons"

Carlos Irwin Oronce, MD, MPH
University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
"Association Between Governmental Spending on Social Services and Health Care Use Among Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries"

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:

Richard Leuchter, MD
UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Identifying Unnecessary Hospitalizations Using the Covid-19 Pandemic as a Natural Experiment: An Instrumental Variable Analysis"

Evan Shannon, MD, MPH
UCLA Healthcare, Los Angeles, CA
"Effect of Patient-Physician Racial Concordance on Outcomes of Patients Treated by Hospitalists"

Serena Michelle Ogunwole, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
"Applying Critical Race Feminism to Explore Barriers and Facilitators to Postpartum Primary Care Utilization among Black Women with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Qualitative Study"

SGIM Clinical Vignette Oral Presentation Awards

Recognizes the best presented clinical cases by a medical student, internal medicine residents or GIM fellows (not faculty) at the SGIM National Meeting. This year’s recipients are:

Matt Slief, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
"Listen to Your Heart: A Rare Case of Non-neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension"

Vijay Shimoga, MD
University of Colorado Health, Aurora, CO
"Something to Chew On: Denture Adhesive-Induced Copper Deficiency Myeloneuropathy in a Patient with Suspected MS"

Zachary Meili, DO
Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
"Trading Blindness for Dyspnea, A Case of Medication Induced Metabolic Acidosis or How I Learned to Love the ABG"

David E. Rogers Junior Faculty Education Awards

Three David E. Rogers Junior Faculty awards are given to junior faculty for workshops judged the most outstanding among those presented at the SGIM Annual Meeting. To be eligible, the workshop coordinator must be an SGIM member and faculty at the instructor or assistant professor level at the time of the SGIM Annual Meeting. Attendance (≥ 20) and participant evaluations (≥ 60%) are considered in determining the recipients. The Zlinkoff Fund for Medical Education endows these awards. This year's recipients are:

Allison Wolfe, MD
University of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, CO
"AllyTalk: An Interactive Training to Increase Ability to Interrupt Microaggressions"

Meagan Williams, MD
University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, TX
"Trauma-Informed Care: a hands-on how-to for clinical practice"

Holly N. Thomas, MD
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
"HOT off the press: Employing the latest guideline on menopausal hormone therapy in clinical practice"

Distinguished Professor Presentation Awards

Distinguished Professor of Health Equity Best Poster Presentation Award - Jennifer Oshita (University of Vermont Medical Center) for the poster titled “Communication Disability Accommodation Programs in US Healthcare Organizations”

Distinguished Professor of Health Equity Best Oral Abstract Presentation Award - Somnath Saha, MD, MPH (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) for the abstract titled “Racial Bias in Documentation of Patient Adherence in Medical Records”

Distinguished Professor of Geriatrics Best Poster Presentation Award - Rashmi Sharma, MD, MHSc (University of Washington Medical Center) for the poster titled “Challenges Experienced by Family Members of Hospitalized Older Adults with Dementia When Making “in-the-Moment” Decisions Regarding Intensity of Care”

Distinguished Professor of Geriatrics Best Oral Abstract Presentation Award - Halima Amjad, MD, PhD, MPH (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) for the abstract titled “Overwhelmed: Dementia Care in Primary Care”

Distinguished Professor of Hospital Medicine Best Poster Presentation Award - Stephanie Cardenas (University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine) for the poster titled “The Effect of Restrictive Red Blood Cell Transfusion on Cognitive Function in Hospitalized Patients”

Distinguished Professor of Hospital Medicine Best Oral Abstract Presentation Award - Alexander James Beagle, MD (University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine) for the abstract titled “Associations Between Volume of Intravenous Fluid and Mortality in Septic Patients With and Without Heart Failure”

Distinguished Professor of Women’s Health Best Poster Presentation Award - Amy Farkas, MD, MS (Medical College of Wisconsin) for the poster titled “VA Women’s Health Training Advances Primary Care Providers Women’s Health Knowledge and Clinical Skills”

Distinguished Professor of Women’s Health Best Oral Abstract Presentation Award - Elisheva Danan, MD, MPH (Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center) for the abstract titled “VA patient and staff perspectives on self-collected testing for Human Papillomavirus (HPV)”