Winners

Congratulations and thank you to all who participated, and a special thanks to the judges whose efforts were essential to the success of the event.

Medical Students

  • First: Ciara Callanan (Dermatology)
  • Second: Isabel Scharf
  • Honorable Mention: Sitara Rao
  • Honorable Mention: Jeremy Yuan
  • Honorable Mention: Aaron Van Geest

PhD/MD PhD

  • First: Izabela Hawro (Medicine)
  • Second: Meenal Karunanidhi
  • Honorable Mention: Nathan Calzadilla (Bioengineering)
  • Honorable Mention: Edgar Lopez

Postdoctoral and Residents

  • First: Lindsey Ramirez (Psychiatry)
  • Second: Naji Bou Zeid (Surgery)
  • Honorable Mention: Gitika Thakur

Research Assistant Professors

  • First: Duy Binh Tran (Surgery)
  • Second: Harish Krishnan (Psychiatry)
  • Honorable Mention: Kumar Kotlo (Psychiatry)

Other

  • First: Puranjay Gupta (Orthopaedics)
  • Second: Jeffrey Mathew (Bioengineering)
  • Honorable Mention: Ali Imran Sarwar (Medicine)
  • Honorable Mention: Mohammad Soleimani (Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences)

Medical Student Category

  • First: Ashwini Deshpande (Medical Education)
  • Second: Isabel Scharf (Medical Education)
  • Honorable Mention: Daniel Deysher (Neurosurgery)
  • Honorable Mention: Amber Lopez (Orthopedics)
  • Honorable Mention: Ashwini Deshpande (Cardiology)

PhD, MD-PhD Category

  • First: Jessica Lee (Microbiology and Immunology)
  • Second: Karen Rakowiecki (Anatomy and Cell Biology)
  • Honorable Mention: Yongchao Huang ( Bioengineering)
  • Honorable Mention: Aditi Wadhwa (Bioengineering)
  • Honorable Mention: S M Nasifuzzaman (Biomedical Sciences)

Postdoctoral Fellows and Residents Category

  • First: Kathryn Przybysz (Psychiatry)
  • Second: Lindsay Ramirez (Psychiatry)
  • Honorable Mention: Samuel Lee (Medicine)
  • Honorable Mention: Paya Saraff (Medicine)
  • Honorable Mention: Hyun-Dong Cho (Pharmacology)

Research Assistant Professors Category

  • First: Harish Krishnan (Psychiatry)
  • Second: Handojo Kusumo (Psychiatry)
  • Honorable Mention: Hu Chen (Psychiatry)
  • Honorable Mention: Tara Cruise (Psychiatry)
  • Honorable Mention: Hagar Ismail (Medicine)

Other

  • First: Puranjay Gupta (Orthopaedics)
  • Second: Varun Gnanasekar (Bioengineering)
  • Honorable Mention: Anissa Sanders (Emergency Medicine)
  • Honorable Mention: Tu Nguyen (Medicine)
  • Honorable Mention: Halley Bergen (Pediatrics)

Medical Student Category

  • Gold Medal honors: Julia May (Dermatology)
  • Silver Medal honors (tie): Dominick Martinico (Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics)
  • Silver Medal honors (tie): Sam Jiang (Orthopaedics)
  • Honorable Mention: Claire Larkin (Medicine)
  • Honorable Mention: Andrea Ohk (Bioengineering)
  • Honorable Mention: Maria Valle Coto (Medical Education)

Graduate, MD-PhD, and Other Combined Degree Students Category

  • Gold Medal honors: Anna Di Staulo (Pharmacology)
  • Silver Medal honors: Tanner Roach (Physiology and Biophysics)
  • Honorable Mention: Cody Justice (Emergency Medicine)
  • Honorable Mention: Daniel Principe (Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics)
  • Honorable Mention: David Gong (Bioengineering)

Postdoctoral Fellows and Residents Category

  • Gold Medal honors: Carolina Battistini (Medicine)
  • Silver Medal honors: Sreeparna Chakraborty (Pharmacology)
  • Honorable Mention: Amanda Knepper (Pediatrics)
  • Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Schappi (Physiology and Biophysics)
  • Honorable Mention: Eleonora Gatta (Psychiatry)
  • Honorable Mention: Sivareddy Challa (Pharmacology – Peoria)

Research Assistant Professors and Scientific Staff Category

  • Gold Medal honors: Ismihan Uddin (Medicine/Endocrinology)
  • Silver Medal honors (tie): Margaret Starr (Psychiatry)
  • Silver Medal honors (tie): Yongchao Mou (Biomedical Sciences, Rockford)
  • Honorable Mention: Skylar Grimsley (Pharmacology)
  • Honorable Mention: Eilidh O’Brien (Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics)
  • Honorable Mention: Pavitra Kotini-Shah (Emergency Medicine)

Other

  • Gold Medal Honors: Tara Cruise (Psychiatry – Research Associate 1)
  • Silver Medal Honors: Ali Almousawi (Anatomy and Cell Biology – undergraduate)
  • Honorable Mention: Annette Diaz (Medicine – undergraduate)
  • Honorable Mention: Josh Pasaye (Psychiatry – Research Associate 1)
  • Honorable Mention: Anniek van Aarem (Pediatrics – undergraduate)