National Outstanding Medical Student Award Winners
Larry H Bernstein, MD, FCAP, Curator
LPBI
2015 National Outstanding Medical Student Recipients
Brittney Bernardoni
University of Wisconsin
Lauren Black
University of Florida
Chanel Fischetti
UC Irvine School of Medicine
Paul Jansson
Northwestern University
Alyssa Karl
Penn State
Joseph Kennedy
Mayo Clinic
Mark Liao
UC Davis
Megan Litzau
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Benjamin Nicholson
Virginia Commonwealth University
Stephen Villa
University of California, San Francisco
2015 National Outstanding Medical Student
Honorable Mention Recipients-NEW
Bryan Darger
UT Houston
Brook Harris
University of Mississippi
Justin Henneman
Long Island Jewish Medical Center
Jillian Nickerson
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Ronnie Ren
Baylor College of Medicine
2014 National Outstanding Medical Student Recipients
Shakira Bandolin
University of Washington SOM
Zach Jarou
Michigan State University
Kathleen Lee
Johns Hopkins SOM
Jordan Wolfe
University of CA, San Francisco
Rebekah Zaizer
Ohio State University
2013 National Outstanding Medical Student Recipients
Kiah Bertoglio
University of California, Irvine
Jia Jessica Chang
Stanford University
Thomas Heflin
Johns Hopkins SOM
Soo Jung
University of Maryland, SOM
Julie R. Kautz
University of California, San Francisco
Johnathan C. LeBaron
UMDNJ, Einstein Medical Center
Katherine A. Pollard
Ohio State University
Nicholas A. True
University of North Carolina
Emily Kathleen Turner
The University of Texas, Houston
Kimberly M. Yang
University of Arizona
2012 National Outstanding Medical Student Recipients
Eike Blohm
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Joshua Elder
Harbor UCLA
Jenelle Holst
Denver Health Medical Center
Dennis Hsieh
University of CA-San Francisco
Benjamin Morrissey
UMDNJ
Christopher Tems
George Washington University School of Medicine
2011 National Outstanding Medical Student Recipients
Nitin Aggarwal
Alpert Medical School, Brown University
Corey Bills
The University of Chicago
Amanda Clauson
Harbor-UCLA
Cameron Decker
Baylor College of Medicine
Nicole Dubosh
Ohio State University COM
Brian Geyer
Maricopa
Cristina Martinez
University of California, San Francisco
Caitlin McCord
Emory University
Rod Mortazavi
University of California, Irvine
Joey Verzyvelt
University of Mississippi
2010 National Outstanding Medical Student Award Recipients
Brandon Allen
Florida State University
Maura Dickinson
Touro University
James Heilman
Drexel University College of Medicine
Kevin Jones
Oregon Health and Science University
Deepa Ravikumar
University of California, San Fransisco
Jeremiah Ray
Standford University
Donald Stader
Baylor College of Medicine
2009 National Outstanding Medical Student Award Recipients
Alia Breon
Oregon Health and Science University
Daniel Hess
The University of Maryland, School of Medicine
Naresh Ramarajan
Stanford University
Thomas Robey
University of Washington
Tara Marie Scherer
Washington University School of Medicine
Nicole Seleno
Denver Health Medical Center
Mariel Solares
University of California San Fransisco
Veronica Theresa Tucci
University of South Florida
2008 National Outstanding Medical Student Award Recipients
David J. Carlberg
The University of Maryland School of Medicine
Bonnie L. Kaplan
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Brian W. Roberts
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden
Benjamin J. Sandefur
Mayo Medical School
Eric F. Silman
UC Irvine Department of Emergency Medicine
Stacy A. Trent
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center
Andrew P. Weiss
The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
Joaquin Zalacain
The University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Awards
- Family Practice Management Award for Practice Improvement(www.stfm.org)
- H. Winter Griffith Resident Scholarship for Excellence in Practice Improvement and Patient-Centered Care(www.stfm.org)
AAFP Foundation Awards and Grants
- AAFP Foundation Awards and Grants for Students(www.aafpfoundation.org)
- Pfizer Teacher Development Award(www.aafpfoundation.org)
These awards recognize medical students, residents, and medical education faculty who are deemed to have made exceptional advances in furthering the strategic objectives of the AAFP.
The AAFP Office of Governance tracks all awards given by the organization and maintains records of previous recipients, award citations, and photographs of actual awards for reference.
Medical students who participate in the Tar Wars challenge to educate kids about the harmful effects of tobacco use can win up to $500 for their FMIGs.
This award recognizes outstanding family medicine residents for their leadership, civic involvement, exemplary patient care and aptitude for and interest in family medicine.
These awards recognize exemplary teaching skills, the implementation of outstanding educational programs and the development of innovative teaching models.
This award recognizes Family Medicine Interest Groups (FMIGs) for their efforts to stimulate interest in FMIG activities and a career in family medicine.
This award recognizes a family medicine residency director who has demonstrated leadership and advancement of the specialty.
A listing of all scholarships available for the National Conference of Family Medicine Residents and Medical Students.
This award honors poster presentations created by medical students and family medicine residents.
| Gentlemen, we’ve run out of money. It’s time to start thinking. – Ernest Rutherford |
| The most powerful way devised by humans for finding new facts is the experimental method. – Louis F. Leloir |
| Progress is made by young scientists who carry out experiments that old scientists said wouldn’t work. – Frank Westheimer |
| Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. – Sir Winston Churchill |
| Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. – Oscar Wilde |
| TRENDS IN NIH FUNDING (1992-2013) |
| The National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides more support for biomedical research than any agency in the world. About 75% of the total NIH budget is allocated to its external Extramural Programs and the remainder supports internal Intramural Research and other activities such as the National Library of Medicine, the Center for Information Technology, and the Fogarty International Center, which supports global health.
In the first session of the 105th Congress (January 1997), Senate Republicans initiated the successful effort to double the NIH budget. This proposal had bipartisan support in both the House and Senate as was passed into law in 1998. This resulted in a large 15% increase in the 1999 budget with larger increases through 2003 (Fig. 1). This was accompanied by an increase in R01-type research grant (R01, R29, and R37) funding from $5.9 to $10 billion dollars (1998-2003). R01 awards and their equivalent (R29, no longer given, and R37 Merit Awards) are grants that support most independent laboratories. P01 Program Project Grants support broadly based multidisciplinary programs made up of a group of investigators. These are a few of the ≈ 240 different types of grants supported by the NIH. The allocation of all extramural funds (research grants, training grants, fellowships, faculty salary support grants, etc.) increased from $10.9 to $21.9 billion (1998-2003). The number of all awards increased from 41,504 to 55,448 and the number of R01-type awards increased from 18,662 in 1998 to 21,995 in 2003 (Fig. 2). The total NIH budget peaked in 2010, the total Extramural support in 2011, and the total number of Extramural awards in 2006 (Table 1). |
Trends in NIH Funding 1
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Since 2010, the total NIH budget has declined somewhat along with most other NIH metrics. The sequestration in 2013 has further accelerated this decline, but perhaps not as much as one might have expected. The total number of Principal Investigators (PIs) receiving grants decreased from 37,418 in 2011 to 36,863 (– 555) in 2012 and the number of PIs receiving R01-type of grants declined from 20,663 to 20,142 (– 521). The total number of PIs receiving grants decreased from 36,863 in 2012 to 36,197 (– 666) in 2013 and the number of PIs receiving R01-type of grants declined from 20,142 to 19,251 (– 891). These relative declines are small when compared with the R37 Merit awards and the P01 Program Project Awards. The number of R37 Merit awards peaked at 1402 in 1995 and has been steadily declining to 660 in 2013. The number of Program Project Grants peaked at 1224 in 2002 and has declined to 647 in 2013, representing nearly a 50% decline in both types of Awards (Fig. 3).
There were 28,698 funded investigators in 1998 and 38,361 in 2007, an increase of only 34% despite the 110% increase in the total NIH budget (Table 1). The percentage of reviewed grant applications that received funding (success rates) was about 31% in 1998, but only about 22% in 2007 (the year that the total number of PIs peaked as noted in Table 1).
The sequestration of 2013 decreased the total NIH budget by 5%. However, the total number of PIs that receive these funds declined by only 1.8% when compared with 1.4% the year before the sequestration. However, the record of the NIH in supporting meritorious research is exemplary, and every effort not only to maintain, but to increase the NIH budget is warranted. Not only would this benefit the health of the nation and world, it would also have a favorable economic impact as reported by Research!America.
Trends in NIH Funding 3
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The story is somewhat different when inflation is taken into account. In constant 1998 dollars, the total NIH budget increased from $13.7 in 1998 to $22.9 billion in 2004, a 67% increase and not a 100% increase (Fig. 4). The maximal funding of R01 equivalents also peaked in 2004. The total NIH budget decreased from $22.9 in 2004 to $17.8 in 2013, a 22% decrease in constant dollars. Note that the support for Intramural Research support has held steady from 2004 to 2012 (Table 2). The total NIH budget increased from $13.7 in 1998 to $17.8 billion in 2013, which represents only a 30% increase in constant dollars.
All of the data on Extramural grant support were obtained from the Worldwide Data file for each year (1992-2013), which are available on the NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools (RePORT). These reports list every Extramural award made each year including the grant number (R01, R37 P01, etc.), the names of each Awardee (one per grant), the amount of the award, the project title, etc. One shortcoming of specifying a single Principal Investigator per award is that a grant made to multiple PIs (e.g., P01 awards) undercounts the actual number of funded investigators listed in Tables 1 and 2. For additional information from the NIH on multiple PIs, which is listed as a Note, click here. The data on the total NIH budget and Intramural Research funding were obtained from the NIH Office of Budget. The inflation factors (Biomedical Research and Development Price Index, or BRDPI) were also obtained from the NIH Office of Budget. These files were downloaded on 10-11 March 2014. Please report any discrepancies between the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research files and the NIH files to Webmaster@brimr.org.
| In scientific funding, the best plan is no plan. – Arthur Kornberg in “The Golden Helix, Inside Biotech Ventures.” |
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| En principe, oui. A French expression for non. – Walter J. Moore |
| It takes one thousand nanobiologists to make one microbiologist. – Sydney Brenner |
| The Nobel Prize is a nice thing to have. But it’s not a great event like a birth or a marriage. – Charles B. Huggins |
| Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future. – Niels Bohr (Surprisingly, this is not attributed to Yogi Berra). |
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