2020 AAHPM Research Scholars

Devon Check, PhD – Understanding and addressing barriers to integrating nurse-led CBT for cancer pain into routine care, Duke University
Karleen Giannitrapani, PhD, MPH, MA – Integrating interdisciplinary teams into the VA organizational fabric and clinical practices, Stanford University and VA Palo Alto healthcare system
Sarina Isenberg, PhD MA – Observing, Understanding, and Telling stories at end of Life for Opioid Use Disorder patients (OUTLOUD), University of Toronto
Cara McDermott, PharmD, PhD – Improving Medication Use to Reduce Fall Risk among Older Adults with COPD or Heart Failure, University of Washington
Kate Nelson, MD PhD – Children with neurological impairment (NI) who have critical illness episodes, Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto)
Arpan Patel, MD PhD – Communication with Hospitalized Adults Who Are Not Candidates for Liver Transplantation, UCLA, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

2019 AAHPM Research Scholars

Natalie Ernecoff, PhD, MPH; health services researcher and Post-Doctoral Scholar at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Emily Johnston, MD, MS; health disparities and palliative care researcher and faculty at University of Alabama, Birmingham
Laura Petrillo, MD; Palliative care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School
Hanneke Poort, PhD; Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jennifer Reckrey, MD; Associate Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Zachary Sager, MD, MA; Advanced Fellow in the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center

2018 AAHPM Research Scholars

Jill M. Steiner, MD; Senior Fellow, Cambia Palliative Care Center of Excellence, University of Washington; Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
Jennifer M. Snaman, MD MS; Physician, Psychosocial Oncology & Palliative Care and Pediatric Oncology; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Myrick (Ricky) C. Shinall, Jr., MD PhD; Assistant Professor of Surgery and Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Shayna E. Rich, MD PhD; Associate Medical Director, Haven Hospice, Gainesville, FL
Naomi George, MD; Emergency Medicine / Critical Care Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Critical Care
Amber R. Comer, PhD JD; Assistant Professor, Health Sciences, Indiana University

2017 AAHPM Research Scholars

Claire K. Ankuda, MD MPH, Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Nathan A. Boucher, DrPH PA MS MPA CPHQ, Advanced Fellow in Geriatrics, Durham VA Geriatric Research Education & Clinical Ctr., Veterans Health Administration, Chapel Hill, NC
Elizabeth Chuang, MD MPH, Palliative Care Attending Physician, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY
Alexis Coulourides Kogan, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Claremont, CA
Krista Lyn Harrison, PhD, Geriatrics Research Fellow, University Of California, San Francisco, Division of Geriatrics, San Francisco, CA
Erica C. Kaye, MD, Combined Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellow, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Eliza (Leeza) M. Park, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N

2016 AAHPM Research Scholars

Prasanna Ananth, MD, MPH, Pediatric Oncology/Hematology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Crystal E. Brown, MD, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington
Heather Coats, PhD, MS, APRN-BC, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington
Kei Ouchi, MD, Instructor of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Justin Sanders, MD, MSc, Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Megan Shen, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
Susan Wong, MD, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington 

2015 AAHPM Research Scholars

Jessica Bauman, MD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Massachusetts General Hospital CancerCenter
Carey Candrian, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine and Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group
Kavita Dharmarajan, MD MSc, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Elizabeth Dzeng, MD MPH MPhil MS, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Nidhi Khosla, PhD MPH, University of Missouri
Danetta Hendricks Sloan, PhD MSW MA, NIH Clinical Center, Pain and Palliative Care

2014 AAHPM Research Scholars

Lilia Cervantes, MD, Denver Health Medical Center
Zara Cooper, MD MSc FACS, Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization
Kimberly Garner, MD JD MPH, Little Rock Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Department of Veterans Affairs
Ann Long, MD, University of Washington
Hilliary Lum, MD PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Eastern Colorado Healthcare System
Eric Roeland, MD, UCSD Moores Cancer Center

2013 AAHPM Research Scholars

Areej El-Jawahri, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital & Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
David Hui, MD MSc, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dio Kavalieratos, PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Division of General Internal Medicine
Elizabeth Loggers, MD PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Group Health Research Institute
Jessica S. Merlin, MD MBA, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Katherine Ornstein, PhD MPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Tara Schapmire, PhD MSSW, University of Louisville School of Medicine

2012 AAHPM Research Scholars

Jonathan Bergman, MD, UCLA; West LA VA Greater Health System
Stephanie Gilbertson-White, PhD RN, University of Pittsburgh
Liza-Marie Johnson, MD MPH MSB, St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Thomas William LeBlanc, MD MA, Duke University
Abby R. Rosenberg, MD, Seattle Children's Hospital; University of Washington
Melissa W. Wachterman, MD MPH MSc, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing