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