2025 Southwest Regional Meeting Awards Winners

2025 Southwest Regional Meeting
Awards Winners

The 2025 Southwest Regional Meeting, held January 25, 2025 at UC Law in San Francisco, CA, brought together the GIM community to share research, clinical innovations, and educational advancements. SGIM is pleased to announce this year’s award winners, who were recognized for their contributions to the field and their communities.

Teaching Competition Winner

Facilitating Effective Code Status Discussions
George Nhat Tran, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Top Clinical Vignette Poster Winners

Insidious Onset of a Painful Non-Healing Wound: A Case of Dialysis Associated Steal Syndrome (DASS)
Christopher Babu; Stanford Medicine

An Atypical (HUS) Presentation of Kidney Failure
Tanner Slayden; University of California San Diego

Chickens, Donkeys, and Mosquitos, Oh My! Investigating a Mystery Rash
Sarah Lagan; University of California San Diego

Top Scientific Abstract Poster Winners

Use of AI to Deliver Low Literate Emergency Room Discharge Instructions in English and Spanish: A mixed methods study
Chris Pineda; University of California San Francisco

Hypertension and Diabetes Prevalence Among People Experiencing Sheltered and Unsheltered Homelessness in Los Angeles County
Christopher Huerta; University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine

(Tie ) Frameworks for depicting healthcare quality and disparities in healthcare quality: A scoping review
Diana Zang; University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine

(Tie) Uncontrolled Hypertension in Underrepresented Populations Aged 30-55 Years within a Large Integrated Healthcare System
Akhila Chilakala, MD; Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center

Top Innovation Poster Winners

Advocating for Change: Implementing a Social Justice and Advocacy Curriculum in the UCSD Internal Medicine Residency Program
Natalie Colaneri, MD; UCSD

Integrative Behavioral Health (IBH) in the Stanford Internal Medicine Resident Clinic
Christopher Babu, MD; Stanford Medicine

A multidisciplinary year-long QI & patient safety curriculum grounded in experiential learning at an academic VA
Diana Funk, MBA, MD; University of California San Francisco

Leader in General Internal Medicine Award

Saloni Kumar Maharaj, MD
Stanford University School of Medicine

Regional DEI Award

Miriam Robin, MD
Phoenix Healthcare System

Advocacy and Community Service Award

Shreya Kapoor, M.D.
VA San Francisco Healthcare System and University of California, San Francisco