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.
Winners by Year Heading link
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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)
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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)
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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)