HST Community Awards 2022

Left to right: Minyu Yang, HST MEMP PhD student, Catherine Ward, Harvard Medical School IT; getting ready for the HST Community Awards 2022 ceremony

The annual awards recognize those in the HST community who have made a lasting impact in teaching, mentorship, and service.

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The HST Community Awards are an annual celebration that recognizes those in the HST community who have made a lasting impact in teaching, mentorship, and service. These awards are nominated by the HST community, and the honorees will be presented at this year’s Spring Dinner (with the date to be announced). But the awards need help from the community in order to be a success, and to adequately represent all the talent prevalent among the students, faculty and staff.

To that end, more information about who is eligible and the nomination forms can be found here. The nomination forms are now open and the submission deadline is February 17th. These nominations don’t take long to fill out, and the committee will make the selections in late February.

Read on for the HST Community Awards results for 2022, and more on what each award is about:

Sanjat Kanjilal

Sanjat Kanjilal, MD, PhD, was the recipient of the Irving M. London Teaching Award.

  • Dr. Irving M. London Teaching Award

Since its inception in 1970, HST has owed much of its success to the wise and visionary leadership of Irving M. London, MD. The brilliance of our students, the dedication of our faculty, and the humor and good will that pervade our culture, all reflect the spirit of the man who has guided the Division as director, mentor and friend. This award was established in 1986, when Dr. London stepped down as director, to honor him and to recognize teaching faculty who have made outstanding contributions to the training of HST students.

Winner 2022: Sanjat Kanjilal, MD, MPH

Elazer gets award

Elazer Edelman received the Seidman Prize for MD Research and Mentorship. Left to right: Efrat Goffer, HST MEMP PhD student, Edelman, Kimberly Lamberti, HST MEMP PhD student.

  • Seidman Prize for MD Research Mentorship

This prize was established in 2009 by an alumnus of HST's MD program in honor of Drs. Christine and Jonathan Seidman for their inspirational mentorship. Christine Edry Seidman, MD, is the Thomas W. Smith Professor of Medicine and Genetics at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Jonathan G. Seidman, PhD, is the Henrietta B. and Frederick H. Bugher Foundation Professor of Genetics at HMS. The prize is designed to acknowledge a faculty member for outstanding research mentorship of an HST MD student.

Winner 2022:  Elazer R. Edelman, MD, PhD (Edelman, Edward J. Poitras Professor in Medical Engineering and Science Professor, MIT; Professor of Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, is also the director of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) and an HST faculty member. IMES is HST's home at MIT).

Thomas McMahon Mentoring Award

Ann K. Shinn, MD, was the recipient of the Thomas A. McMahon Mentoring Award, 2022. Left to right: Nana Okada, HST MD student, Shinn, Sara Rubin, HST MD student, Suchita Nety, HST MD student.

  • Thomas A. McMahon Mentoring Award

The McMahon Award, established in 1999, is presented annually to the person who, through the warmth of his/her personality, inspires and nurtures HST students in their scientific and personal growth, and through honest advice and generosity to all students and colleagues sets an admirable example of excellence in mentoring. 

Winner 2022: Ann K. Shinn, MD     

Roger Mark Service Awards 2022

Simran Handa, HST MD candidate, was the 2022 recipient of the Roger G Mark Service Award, student recipient. Left to right: Handa, Tom LaSalle, HST MD student.

  • Roger G. Mark Service Awards

Established in 2019, to honor the contributions of HST faculty member and former HST director, Dr. Roger Mark. The two Roger G. Mark Services Awards are presented annually to current members of the HST community who embody excellence through actions or deeds that promote HST community values and/or ideals. Nominees will have worked to improve the quality of the HST program via student life, curriculum, and/or program services. One awardee will be selected from the current HST student body and the second award will be selected for faculty or staff in the Harvard or MIT community.

Recipient Student 2022: Simran Handa, MD Candidate

Recipent Faculty or Staff 2022: William M. Kettyle, MD

Roger Mark Service Award Faculty

William M. Kettlye, MD, was the recipient of the Roger G. Mark Service Award for Faculty or Staff, 2022. Left to right: Maia Mesyngier, HST MD student, Kettlye, Yee-Ming, MD, PhD (HST faculty).

Outstanding student teaching award 2022

Lucas Cahill, HST MEMP PhD, 2021, HST MD student, recipient of HST 2022 Outstanding Student Teaching Award. Left to right: Melissa Yeung, MD (HST faculty, course director, HST.110), Cahill.

* HST Outstanding Student Teaching Award

Awarded to a current HST student who has made outstanding contributions to one or more classes in the HST curriculum through exemplary efforts as a teaching assistant.

Winner 2022: Lucas Cahill, MD student and MEMP PhD alumnus 

HST Director's Award 2022

Lee Gehrke, PhD, was the recipient of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program Director's Award for Service 2022. Gehrke is the Hermann L.F. von Helmholtz Professor, IMES, MIT; Professor, Microbiology and Immunobiology and Health Science & Technology, Harvard Medical School. Left to right: Emery N. Brown, Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, Warren M. Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, MGH, and former co-director of HST; Gehrke; Edelman.

 

* Richard J. Cohen, Whitaker Professor in Biomedical Engineering, MIT, Emeritus, also received the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program Director's Award for Service, 2022, but was unable to attend the ceremony.