Annual Chief’s Roast

A few weeks ago, the J. Willis Hurst Internal Medicine Residency hosted the Annual Chief’s Roast to celebrate the 2022-2023 Chief Residents, Shub Agrawal, Alex Galloway, John Huang, Sindhu Prabakaran, Kevin Shah, and Joey Sharp. This year, they celebrated the commitment of our residents as they progressed in their training and education in challenging times. Reena Hemrajani, MD, program director of the internal medicine residency program, provided opening remarks to express thanks to this group of chief medical residents for their incredible impact on the residency program this year. Faculty and fellows were recognized and appreciated as integral in residents’ education and career development. The evening concluded with the traditional ‘roast and toast’ of our chief medical residents, followed by closing remarks. 

See below for a full list of award winners.

Juha P. Kokko Teaching Award

This award represents the single most outstanding teaching attending the residents work with at any of the hospital sites.

• Daniel Hunt, MD

Joyce P. Doyle Award

The award recognizes an individual who has shown exceptional dedication toward Dr. Doyle’s vision of tirelessly working on behalf of residents to make this the best program in the country.

• Karen Law, MD

Golden Apple Award

This award recognizes the most outstanding inpatient attending and subspecialist attending at each hospital.

Emory University Hospital:

• Inpatient attending: Alexandra Arges, MD
• Subspecialist: Adviteeya Dixit, MD

Emory University Hospital Midtown:

• Inpatient attending – Yoo Mee Shin, MD, and Hayley Tseng, MD
• Subspecialist:  Bryan Wells, MD

Grady Memorial Hospital

• Inpatient attending:  Mikhail Akbashev, MD, and Jennifer Lom, MD
• Subspecialist: Lisa Daniels, MD, and Jennifer Spicer, MD

Atlanta VA Medical Center

• Inpatient attending: Monee Amin, MD
• Subspecialist: Andrew Webster, MD

Most Outstanding Fellow Award

This award recognizes the most outstanding fellows who engage our residents with teaching and enthusiasm for their subspecialty.

• Chijioke Ofoche, MD (Renal)
• Wassim Abdallah, MD and Vanessa Van Doren (Infectious Diseases)
• Mohammed “Ferras” Dabbagh, Elizabeth Iffrig, MD, Michael Marll, MD, Adam Shaver, MD, and Divya Verma, MD (Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine)

Laurence Sperling Outstanding Research Mentor Award

This award recognizes the faculty mentor and fellows who most deeply supported resident involvement in research. 

• Faculty: Lesley Miller, MD (General Medicine and Geriatrics)
• Fellow: Alexis Okoh, MD (Cardiology)

Outstanding Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Award

This award recognizes the most dedicated and impactful APPs in our system who play instrumental roles on teams and in teaching.

• Jim Aksamit (EUH 5TN ICU)
• Corice Williams (EUHM 71 ICU)

Outstanding Resident Teacher Award

This award is presented to PGY2 and PGY3 residents who show the greatest dedication to resident teaching and medical education.

• PGY2: Youssef Saklawi, MD
• PGY3: Alexander Matelski, MD

Golden Stethoscope Award

This award is presented to residents from each class who exemplify superior clinical skills, judgment, and use of evidence to support practice.

• PGY1: Brett Montelaro, MD
• PGY2: Youssef Saklawi, MD
• PGY3: John Davis, MD

Compassionate Resident Physician

This award recognizes the residents from each class who represent exemplary humanism towards patients, colleagues, and all members of the health care team, serving as role models for integrity, altruism, respect, empathy, and service combined with clinical excellence.

• PGY1: Maya Patel, MD
• PGY2: Peter Butler, MD, Madison Canning, MD, Irtiqa Fazili, MD, and Mohamad Ali Tfaily, MD
• PGY3: Emma Kofmehl, MD

Citizenship Award

This award is bestowed by the chief residents upon the residents from each class who most exemplify program engagement and citizenship throughout the year.

• PGY1: Noah Newman, MD, Nidhi Patel, MD, and Katherine Sorentino, MD
• PGY2: Miko de Bruyn, MD, Yokabed Ermias, MD, and Alex Youngblood, MD
• PGY3: Bonnie Cruser, MD, Grace Haser, MD, and Seema Mustafa, MD

Outstanding Residents in Primary Care Award

These awards recognize the residents who display leadership and excellence in primary care, as well as respect, accountability, and integrity.

• Grady PCC: Nirisha Commodore MD (PGY1), Christina Offut, MD (PGY2), and Andrew Davis, MD (PGY3)
• 1525: Maya Patel, MD (PGY1), James Pennoyer, MD (PGY2), and Lauren Crossman, MD (PGY3)
• MOT: Sierra Fleming, MD (PGY1), Daniel Resnick, MD (PGY2), and Adithya Yadalam, MD (PGY3)

Best Conference Leadership Award

This award recognizes the highest quality hospital-based conference from each hospital in our system.

• EUH: Krakow Case Conference (David Krakow, MD)
• EUHM: Hoofbeats (Jonathan Huang, MD)
• GMH: BST Mode/BST Mode Storytellers/BST Mode Faculty Edition (Kimberly Manning, MD)
• VAMC: POCUS and I/O Workshops (Jason Williams, MD and Sneha Neurgaonkar, MD)