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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: June 20 - September 15, 2010

The Young Clinician Research Award recognizes outstanding clinicians within CIMIT Consortium eligible hospitals, early in their careers, who are engaged in the development of transformative innovations in healthcare delivery workflows enabled by novel, interoperable medical technologies. Those eligible include clinical researchers such as Fellows, Instructors, and Assistant Professors.

The Young Clinician Research Award Program has been a tremendous success within the Boston community. To date, there have been 18 award recipients, with significant outcomes for advancing healthcare and careers.



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  • Eligible Hospitals
  • Past Recipients

Each award is worth $50,000. Applicants must be nominated by site miners from the CIMIT consortium member hospitals. One clinician from each of CIMIT’s member hospitals is selected each year to receive this prestigious award.  Through CIMIT’s network of site miners, we are able to quickly identify rising stars among our clinical research community to provide a much needed catalyst for these young scientists developing breakthrough medical technologies.

Those eligible include clinical researchers early in their careers, such as Fellows, Instructors, and Assistant Professors who are engaged in the development of transformative innovations in healthcare delivery workflows enabled by novel, interoperable medical technologies.

Key Dates  
Call for Nominations June 20, 2010
Deadline for Nominations September 15, 2010
Award Announcement October 1, 2010
Funding Start Date October 1, 2010

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2010 Award Focus:

Innovations that reduce care fragmentation within and across care environments by:

  • improving patient safety
  • facilitating real-time medical decision making

Criteria:

  • Research aligns with CIMIT ICE initiative
  • Research work is collaborative in nature
  • Research promises great impact on patient care
  • Nominee is a “rising star” who holds promise as a clinical leader in their field

For questions contact: Steve Schachter, MD


Young Clinician 2010 Awards Eligible Hospitals:

  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Boston Medical Center
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Children's Hospital Boston
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Newton-Wellesley Hospital
  • VA Boston Healthcare System
Class of 2007
Audrey Chung Marshall, MD: Children’s Hospital Boston
Positioning device to enable minimally invasive, in utero, cardiac intervention for babies with congenital heart disease
Michael J. Davidson, MD: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Percutaneous repair of damaged heart valves, without the need for open-heart surgery
Daniel S. Kohane, MD, PhD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Developing controlled release technology to prevent problems caused by breathing tubes in premature babies
James Ellsmere, MD: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Novel device to effectively manage care of patients after gastric surgery to control obesity
Yolonda Colson, MD, PhD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Local drug delivery device for lung cancer patients that could minimize surgical resection of normal lung tissue and possibly prevent the spread or recurrence of cancer
 
Class of 2008
Carlos R. Estrada, MD: Children’s Hospital Boston
Novel functional bladder tissue engineering with silk scaffolds
Alexandra Golby, MD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Functional and structural imaging to optimize brain tumor resection
Faisal Merchant, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Novel method to guide RF ablation of atrial fibrillation
Stephanie Morris, MD: Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Expanding techniques in ovarian cryopreservation and transplantation for female cancer patients
Ashish Nimgaonkar, MD: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Endoluminal magnetic resonance imaging for improved detection and characterization of pancreatic lesions
Satish Singh, MD: Boston University Medical Center
Optically-guided biopsy tools for dysplasia detection during gastrointestinal endoscopy.
 
Class of 2009
Claire Cronin, MD, MBA: Newton Wellesley Hospital
Novel 3D reconstruction breast pathology reporting systems
Marilyn L. Moy, MD: VA Boston Healthcare System
A novel system to monitor physical activity and associated physiological responses in the home environment with application to patients with COPD
Harald Ott, MD: Massachusetts General Hospital
Myocardial regeneration based on perfusion decellularized cardiac matrix scaffolds
Robert Riviello, MD: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Innovative wound care technology for low-income settings
Jennifer E. Rosen, MD: Boston Medical Center
Optically guided differential diagnosis in thyroid nodules
Joan Spiegel, MD: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
A novel pressure-sensing syringe for improved airway management
Gerhard Wolf, MD: Children’s Hospital Boston
Development of continuous non-invasive imaging at the bedside to optimize ventilation of critically ill children
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Past Announcements:

8.26.09
CIMIT Names Recipients of Young Clinician Research 2009 Awards.
Seven Innovative Physicians Win $50,000 to Fund Novel Medical Device Research.

7.29.08
CIMIT Names Recipients of 2008 Young Clinician Research Awards:
Six Doctors from Consortium Medical Centers Win $50,000 Grants Supported by Johnson & Johnson

5.3.06
CIMIT Announces Recipients of the 2007 Young Clinician Research Awards
Five physicians will be among the first CIMIT-Johnson & Johnson Young Clinician Research Award recipients. The funding was made possible through the Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science and Technology (COSAT).

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