Congratulations to the 2024 Excellence in Mentoring Award recipients!

Join the Center for Faculty Development in congratulating all the 2024 Excellence in Mentoring Award winners. If you missed the Celebration of Mentoring at MGH and keynote Nancy J. Tarbell, MD Faculty Development Lecture on January 23, 2025, click below to watch the recordings. Nominees for the CFD Excellence in Mentoring Awards were also recognized during the award ceremony.

2024 John T. Potts, Jr., MD, Faculty Mentoring Award Recipients 

To recognize and honor senior faculty members with ten or more years of mentoring experience at MGH, in the spirit of further building a culture of mentoring at our hospital. 

Joanne Borg-Stein, MD

Dr. Borg-Stein is a specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation who specializes in PM&R and sports medicine. She is an Associate Professor of PM&R at HMS and Associate Chair of the Harvard Department of PM&R. She is the associate director of the Spaulding/Harvard Sports Medicine Fellowship, the director of Regenerative Medicine for MGB Sports Medicine, and the Chief of Sports/Musculoskeletal Medicine for the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network. Dr. Borg-Stein’s research focuses on regenerative injection treatments for sports injury. Outside of HMS, she is the chair of the Regenerative Medicine council of the American Academy of PM&R and incoming Chair of the Orthobiologics committee of the American Medical Society of Sports Medicine.

Lee Cohen, MD

Dr. Cohen is Director of The Ammon-Pinizzotto Center for Women’s Mental Health at MGH. He is also the Edmund and Carroll Carpenter Professor of Psychiatry at HMS.

2024 Rising Mentor Award Recipients 

To recognize faculty members at the Instructor through Assistant Professor rank with less than ten years of mentoring experience at MGH. 

Margaret Chapman, MD, FHM

An Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS, Dr. Chapman has been a hospitalist in the Hospital Medicine Unit (HMS) since 2018 and the Inpatient Core Educator Faculty since 2019. She currently splits her clinical time between the Bigelow Residency service and the Albright Hospitalist service. In HMU, she is the Director of Education and Professional Development; in that role, she leads several innovative programs in continuing education, academic skill development, and career advancement. She is also the Associate Program Director for Quality and Safety, the Core Educator Faculty Director of MedEd electives, and the faculty advisor for the Residents Interested in Medical Education (RIME) group for the MGH Department of Medicine Residency Program. In her free time, she enjoys exploring Boston's North Shore with her husband and two sons from their home base in Ipswich. 

Nicole Zürcher Wimmer, PhD

Dr. Zürcher is Assistant Professor of Radiology at HMS. She obtained her PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland and completed her postdoctoral training at the Martinos Center at MGH. She is the Director of Human Imaging in the Chemical Neuroscience Program at the Martinos Center and serves as the Lurie Center for Autism Director of Neuroimaging. With a background in neuroscience and imaging, she is an expert in simultaneous PET-MRI and the major focus of her work is on autism spectrum disorder.

2024 Ally for Women Faculty Award Recipients 

To recognize allies who support and empower women colleagues in advancing their career and achieving their professional goals and who actively work to create a more open, equitable environment in which women can thrive, grow, and attain major leadership roles. 

Amy Barczak, MD

Dr. Barczak is a physician-scientist and attending physician on the inpatient Infectious Diseases consult service. An HMS Associate Professor of Medicine, she serves as the Director of Research in the Division of Infectious Diseases and is a member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. 

Cornelia L. Griggs, MD

Dr. Griggs is a pediatric surgeon, critical care specialist, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at HMS. She serves as the surgical lead of the Pediatric Weight Center at MGB. 

2024 Outstanding Mentor of Underrepresented in Medicine (UiM) Faculty and Trainees Award Recipient 

To recognize faculty who support and empower their UiM colleagues in advancing their careers and achieving their professional goals and who actively work to create a more open, equitable environment in which UiM can thrive, grow, and attain major leadership roles. 

Areej El-Jawahri, MD, MPH

Dr. El-Jawahri is an HMS Associate Professor of Medicine, an oncologist specializing in the care of patients with hematologic malignancies and those undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT). Her research interests include investigating patient-reported outcomes, developing interventions to enhance patient-centered decision-making, and designing supportive and palliative care interventions to improve the care of patients with hematologic malignancies and their caregivers across the continuum of illness. She is also interested in adapting successful palliative and supportive care interventions to the digital health platform and exploring models of health care delivery to improve patients’ quality of life and care.

Camilo Jaimes Cobos, MD

Dr. Jaimes is the Chief of Pediatric Neuroradiology at MGH, Associate Vice Chair for Imaging Sciences, Co-Director of the Pediatric Imaging Research Center, and Associate Professor of Radiology at HMS. He trained in diagnostic radiology and neuroradiology at MGH, where he served as chief resident, and in pediatric neuroradiology at Boston Children’s Hospital. He directs a successful neuroimaging program with NIH and private funding, focusing on pediatrics and neurodevelopment. He also serves as the section editor for Neuroradiology for the Pediatric Radiology and chairs various committees for the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR) and the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR).

2024 Excellence in Clinical Mentoring Award - new this year!

To recognize clinicians who serve as stellar models of best practice in patient care and provide substantive, ongoing mentorship support to fellow faculty in clinical practice across the inpatient, outpatient, or operating room setting. 

Daniel Pratt, MD

Dr. Pratt is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at HMS and the Director of the Autoimmune and Cholestatic Liver Center at MGH. He joined the faculty of HMS and the MGH GI Division in 2004, founded the Autoimmune and Cholestatic Liver Center at MGH in 2009, and served as the Clinical Director of the MGH Liver Transplant Program from 2012-2021. Dr. Pratt has a passion for patient care and for medical education on all levels. He has received numerous teaching awards from Medical Students, Medicine Residents, and GI Fellows. He is a recognized expert in the care of patients with autoimmune and cholestatic liver diseases. His clinical and translational research efforts focuses on the rare disorders of primary sclerosing cholangitis, primary biliary cholangitis, and autoimmune hepatitis.  

Jan Shifren, MD

Dr. Shifren is the Vincent Trustees Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at HMS. She is a reproductive endocrinologist at MGH and Director of the MGH Midlife Women’s Health Center. Dr. Shifren currently divides her time among patient care, teaching, and research. She focuses her research on menopause, including the effects of estrogens, androgens, and alternative therapies on menopausal symptoms and sexual function. She has served as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator for several important studies related to menopause. She has published numerous articles, abstracts, and book chapters and has delivered national and international presentations on menopausal hormone therapy, androgens for women, female sexual function, and the genitourinary syndrome of menopause. Dr. Shifren is active in numerous professional societies and is a past President of the Menopause Society. 

2024 Outstanding Principal Investigator Mentor of Trainees Award

To recognize Principal Investigators (PIs) who have contributed to the success of their trainees: postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduates, or high school students.

Anahita Dua, MD, MBA, MSc

Dr. Dua is a vascular surgeon at MGH and an Associate Professor of Surgery at HMS. At MGH, she is co-director of the Peripheral Artery Disease Center and Limb Evaluation and Amputation Program (LEAPP), associate director of the Wound Care Center, associate director of the Vascular Surgery Clerkship, and director of clinical research for the division of vascular surgery. She specializes in advanced endovascular (minimally invasive) and traditional (open) limb salvage techniques for treating peripheral arterial disease and critical limb ischemia, diabetic limb disease, aortic disease, carotid disease, thoracic outlet syndrome, and venous disease. She is board-certified in vascular surgery, general surgery, and advanced wound care and management. Dr. Dua runs an NIH funded translational lab focused on anticoagulation and biomarkers that are predictive of thrombosis and hemostasis in patients that have undergone revascularization. 

Bettina Hoeppner, PhD, MS

An Associate Professor of Psychology at HMS, Dr. Hoeppner is an experimental psychologist focusing on substance use disorder research. The broad aim of her research program is to increase access to care, especially for underserved, stigmatized and marginalized populations. The type of “care” she specializes in is the auxiliary support people can access outside of the formal treatment setting: care that can support and extend the care they receive in a hospital setting. To this end, she has taken two approaches: (1) her research examines, builds and tests mHealth approaches to support people as they transition away from substance use; and (2) her research elucidates mechanisms by which community resources (e.g., mutual help, recovery community centers) can be leveraged to support recovery from substance use disorder. 

2024 Outstanding Research Fellow Award 

To recognize postdoctoral research fellows who have made outstanding contributions in mentoring fellow postdoc trainees, graduate students, college students, and/or high school students.

Carlos Huesa-Berral, PhD

Dr. Huesa-Berral was born in Málaga, in the south of Spain, where he completed a BSc in Biomedical Engineering and an MSc in Mathematics at the University of Málaga. Because he was intrigued by how physics can help us understand biological processes, he decided to dive into research, completing a PhD at the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain), where his project was focused on lung adaptive radiotherapy. A postdoc at MGH, he received the Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the American Cancer Society (2025 - 2027) to develop a computational model for Y-90 radioembolization for liver cancer. Other research lines, such as radiopharmaceuticals and their radiobiological effect, as well as the modeling of tumor microvasculature, are of great interest to him. 

Sujin Lee, MD, MS

Dr. Lee is an integrated vascular surgery resident at MGH and a postdoctoral fellow in the Malhotra Lab at the MGH CVRC. Currently funded by an F32 grant from the NHLBI, she is studying novel genetic and molecular regulators of vascular calcification. At the end of her clinical training in vascular surgery, she aims to synthesize her efforts in basic science research with her clinical practice to optimize the care of high-risk vascular patients. 

Jason Chang Marvin, PhD

Dr. Marvin received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and Cornell Provost Diversity Fellow. He is now completing his postdoctoral training under Dr. Jenna Galloway at the MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine as a HMS Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Marvin is a recipient of the ORS New Investigator Recognition Award, Einstein Musculoskeletal Repair & Regeneration Symposium Young Investigator Award, ORS Tendon Section 3-Minute Thesis First Prize, and numerous presentation awards and rising star accolades. He has also received numerous awards and institutional recognitions for his advocacy, mentoring, and service endeavors.