At Research Day 2024, we celebrated three awards for faculty researchers while the Poster Awards went to outstanding presentations across several categories.
Use the links below to view this year's awards.
Award Winners
Poster Award Winners
MD Students
Clinical Research
- Taylor Drake
- Zachary Bouker
Basic Science Research
- Urvi Patel
- June Choi
Public Health Research
- Dagmawi Shimeles
Educational Research
- Andrea Hooberman-Pineiro
Residents/Fellows
- Kyle Admire
Medical Masters Students
- Sarah Parks
Biomedical Sciences Programs
Biomedical Science MS Student
- Amanda Yermal
Biomedical Science Ph.D. Student
- Zachary Luyo
Faculty Awards
This year, we will be celebrating three Research Day awards for faculty researchers and one award to recognize long-standing service to our Institutional Review Board (IRB).
Early Career Research Excellence Award
The EVMS Early Career Research Excellence Award will be presented each fall at EVMS Research Day to honor and recognize early career researchers or clinician scientists who have exhibited a significant contribution to their discipline through widely disseminated and impactful research relatively early in their academic careers.
This award recognizes the individual's outstanding research achievements, innovative appronewaches, influence within their academic field, and potential for continued excellence. It serves not only as recognition of their early accomplishments, but also as an encouragement to continue striving for research excellence throughout their academic careers.
Winner
Petra Popovics, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Excellence in Research Mentorship Award
The Excellence in Research Mentorship Award will be presented each fall at EVMS Research Day to one mid-career or senior member of the EVMS faculty who has exhibited robust excellence in research mentorship. This award recognizes the accomplishments of EVMS faculty who have demonstrated exceptional mentoring in research to junior faculty, fellows, post-docs, and/or student trainees.
Winner
Cristina Baldassari, MD, FAAP, FACS
Professor
Otolaryngology
Junior Clinical Investigator Program (JCIP)
The Junior Clinical Investigator Program (JCIP) is a competitive three-year training program providing career advancement opportunities to select research faculty interested in academic medicine.
Fellows
Tetsuya Kawakita, MD
Assistant Professor
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Chinelo Okigbo, MD, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
Institutional Review Board (IRB) Service Award
This Institutional Review Board (IRB) Service Award was presented to Dr. John M. Herre in appreciation of his many valuable contributions, outstanding leadership and dedication to the EVMS Institutional Review Board for the past 22 years, including 6 years as Chair.
2024 Awardee
John M Herre, MD
Professor of Medicine, Macon and Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University
Medical Director, Advanced Heart Failure and Heart Transplantation, Sentara Norfolk General Hospital
Please join us in congratulating our award winners!