BY TOM FLANAGAN, MMS MEDIA RELATIONS MANAGER
The Massachusetts Medical Society and the MMS Committee on Information Technology have announced the recipients of two IT-focused awards.
Dr. David Roach
David Roach, MD, a second-year infectious diseases fellow at Mass General Brigham, is the recipient of the 2023 Information Technology Award for the resident and fellow category. Deniz Goodman from the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of
Medicine has won the student category.
The honors recognize the development of an information technology tool that helps physicians practice medicine, teach medicine, or pursue clinical research and come with a $5,000 award.
This year, the award is sponsored by Click Therapeutics, Inc. (“Click”), a leader in Digital Therapeutics™ as prescription medical treatments.
The MMS Information Technology in Medicine Awards have been presented annually since 2001, and many winners have seen their projects make indelible marks on science, medicine, and patient care.
The process of determining winners was especially difficult this year with a bevy of quality entries submitted, representing a vast array of end-user utility.
“As is the case every year, the selection committee received a wealth of outstanding submissions, making our process of identifying a winner both interesting and difficult,” says Jennifer Joe, MD, chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on
Information Technology.
Roach’s winning project is the “development of a low-resource assay to profile drug-resistant K. pneumoniae in Peru.” He is currently doing his postdoc in the Bhattacharyya Lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He is originally
from Washington State and received his undergraduate degree from Carroll College in Helena, Montana, before moving to Seattle for medical school and residency at the University of Washington. He subsequently spent two years working as an ICU
nocturnist before moving to Boston for a fellowship.
Deniz Goodman
Goodman’s work is “iProbe: an ultrasound simulator application,” an app that provides an easily accessible and free repository of ultrasound images; it functions as a probe simulator and provides point-of-care ultrasound scan simulation to medical students
without local access to tower machines. Goodman completed his undergraduate studies through BU’s accelerated medical program with a double major in psychology and medical science. He was selected to join the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute’s prestigious
SOAR Fellowship for the class of 2024 and was also chosen as one of 30 scholars nationwide for the Health Equity Leaders Program class of 2023.
Each year, applications for the awards open on September 1 and are due by the end of December. Finalists make presentations in late January. For more information, visit massmed.org/cit_award or contact Leon Barzin, MMS digital media manager and director of health information technology, at lbarzin@mms.org.
