Jehan Alladina, MD (Baylor College of Medicine, 2012; residency: MGH), received a first place Basic Science Research Award at the 14th Annual Respiratory Disease Young Investigators’ Forum. Dr. Alladina’s winning project, “CD141+ Dendritic Cells Distinguish Allergic Asthmatics from Allergic Controls,” studied the role of dendritic cells in allergic asthma. Dr. Alladina is a pulmonologist in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
at MGH.
Sameer Hirji, MD (Duke University School of Medicine, 2015; general surgery residency: Brigham and Women’s Hospital), received the J. Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Award from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons at its 55th annual meeting. The Chamberlain award, which is given to the meeting’s top-ranked abstract, recognized Dr. Hirji’s project, “Relationship Between Hospital Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR) Volume and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Outcomes.” The award was shared with Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD, the project’s senior principal investigator and attending cardiac surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Dr. Hirji is a resident in the department of surgery at BWH in the joint general and cardiothoracic surgery program.
Philicia Moonsamy, MD (Jefferson Medical College, 2015; residency: MGH), received the Nina Starr Braunwald Research Fellowship Award from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Thoracic Surgery Foundation. The award, which is given annually to promising women surgical residents, will support Dr. Moonsamy’s work on the NEW-AF clinical trial in cardiac surgery. Dr. Moonsamy is a clinical fellow in surgery at MGH.
Motaz Qadan, MD, PhD (University of Edinburgh, 2003; residency: Stanford University Medical Center; fellowship: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center), was named the inaugural incumbent of the Gapontsev Family Endowed Chair in Surgical Oncology at MGH. The chair is responsible for advancing research, care, and education in surgical oncology. Dr. Qadan is a liver and pancreas surgeon at MGH.
John A. Renner Jr., MD (Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 1964; residency: Tufts New England Medical Center), was the 2019 recipient of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Special Award for Excellence in Medical Service. The award honors a physician who has made a distinguished demonstration of compassion and dedication to the medical needs of his or her patients and the public. Dr. Renner is renowned for his treatment of adults and adolescents with substance use disorder (SUD) and his work reducing the stigma around SUD. Dr. Renner is a professor of psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine, director of the BMC Addiction Psychiatry Residency, and associate chief of psychiatry of the VA Boston Healthcare System.
Hyun-Sik Yang, MD (Seoul National University, 2009; residency: BWH/MGH), was selected for the 2019 Robert W. Katzman, MD, Clinical Research Training Scholarship in Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research. Dr. Yang’s research seeks to reveal how genetic variants affecting immune cell function are involved in the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. The scholarship will support his project, “Immunogenetic Alzheimer’s Disease Risk and the Progression of Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease.” Dr. Yang is an instructor in neurology at BWH.
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