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 were identified previous to the meeting and were chosen this year from appropriate presentations. The winners are:

Abigail Arons, MD, MPAff
How Does The Risk of Developing Diabetes Progress From Young Adulthood and Beyond? Glycemic Trajectories in the CARDIA Study

Christopher Cai, MD
Potential Savings for Medicare Part D Beneficiaries from a $2 Monthly Generic Drug Copayment Cap

Alexander Chaitoff, MD, MPH
Assessing the Risk of Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Older Adults Initiating Gabapentin Versus Duloxetine

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 in their first two years of a faculty appointment). The winners are:

Cory P Coffey, PharmD, MS
Description of Changes over Time in an Academic Primary Care Network Following the Recognition of Pharmacists as Providers

Ravi Gupta, MD, MS
Comparing Prior Authorization Across Insurers: Evidence from Medicare Advantage

Fabiola Molina, MD
Health System Efforts to Address Race in Clinical Algorithms: A Qualitative Study of Hospital Leaders’ Perspectives

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

Son Quyen Dinh, MD
CVF1-1-A Clot and A Hard Place

Distinguished Professor of Women’s Health Best Oral Abstract Award – Karen Goldstein, MD, MSPH (Duke University School of Medicine; Division of General Internal Medicine) for the abstract titled "Examining the impact of virtual care for women on the clinician-patient relationship: A qualitative evidence synthesis"

Distinguished Professor of Women’s Health Best Poster Award – Morgan Baudoin, MD (University of Utah School of Medicine) for the poster titled "A Hairy Conundrum: The Case of High Testosterone"

Distinguished Professor of Geriatrics Best Oral Abstract Award – Alexandra M. Hajduk, PhD, MPH (Yale School of Medicine) for the abstract titled “Association between home health care, home days, and health status after hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction in older adults”

Distinguished Professor of Geriatrics Best Poster Award – Liana Honda (Queens Medical Center) – for the poster titled “Qualitative Formative Research to Develop an Advance Care Planning Intervention for Native Hawaiian Elders"

Distinguished Professor of Health Equity Best Oral Abstract Award – Danielle Fine, MD (Massachusetts General Hospital) – for the abstract titled "Engagement and retention in outpatient-based opioid treatment in homeless-experienced adults: A prospective cohort study"

Distinguished Professor of Health Equity Best Oral Abstract Award – David Sterken, MD (University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health) – for the abstract titled "Destigmatizing clinical documentation by repurposing spell check in the electronic health record"

Distinguished Professor of Health Equity Best Poster Award – Hirotaka Kato, MD (University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital) – for the poster titled "Beyond individual attributes: Uncovering hidden vulnerabilities in lung cancer screening via Multiple-Group Latent Class Analysis"

Distinguished Professor of Hospital Medicine Best Oral Abstract Award – Joel Boggan, BA, MD, MPH (Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center) – for the abstract titled "Post-Discharge Patient Contact and Subsequent Emergency Department Presentations and Hospital Readmissions: A Systematic Review"

Distinguished Professor of Hospital Medicine Best Poster Award – Niloofar Latifi, MD (Johns Hopkins Hospital) – for the poster titled "Prevalence of Low-Value Inpatient Point of Care Glucose Monitoring "

Three David E. Rogers Junior Faculty awards will be given to junior faculty for workshops judged the most outstanding among those presented at the 2024 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 2024 Annual Meeting. Attendance (≥ 20) and participant evaluations are considered in determining the recipients. Please note eligibility at the time of your online submission. The Zlinkoff Fund for Medical Education endows these awards. The winners are:

Stephen Fuest, MD

Launching Patient Portal Visits in the Primary Care Clinic (and Getting Reimbursed for the Work)

Lauren Navitsky, MD, MS

All the Feels: Practicing Emotional Intelligence Skills in Medicine

Michael Simonson, MD, MS

GLP-what? Transitioning Diabetes Management from the Clinic to the Hospital and Back Again