Congratulations to the 2021 Minority Trainee Development Scholarship!
Congratulations to the 40 recipients of the 2021 ATS Minority Trainee Development Scholarship (MTDS)! Please click here to view the complete list of names! The MTDS is supported by the American Thoracic Society and provides travel support for underrepresented minorities defined by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to attend the ATS 2020 International Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
This year due to COVID-19 the ATS 2020 International Conference has been cancelled, more information can be found here. Unfortunately, recipients will not get a travel award. They will get an electronic award certificate, their name will be listed on the website as a 2020 Minority Trainee Development Scholarship (MTDS) Award Recipient, and we will recognize awardees at next year’s ATS 2021 International Conference during the Diversity Forum. MTDS recipients are selected for the quality of the science in their submitted abstract, among other criteria.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Elizabeth Guzmán at the ATS office by email (lguzman@thoracic.org).
Once again, congratulations to the 2021 MTDS awardees, and thank you to all those who applied.
Sincerely,
Yolanda Mageto, MD, MPH
Chair, MTDS Subcommittee
2021 Minority Trainee Development Scholarship (MTDS) Awardees
- Jimi Akingbade, MD
University of Virginia
Mentor: Catherine Saenz Bonham, MD - Maura Alvarez Baumgartner, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Mentor: Mari Rice, MD - Veneese Brown, BS
University of California, Davis
Mentor: Laura S. Van Winkle, MD - Hugo Carmona, MD
University of Washington
Mentor: James Town, MD
- Alexander Castro, BA
University of Pittsburg School of Medicine
Mentor: Florian B. Mayr
- Joaquin Chapa, MD, MS
Oregon Health and Science University
Mentor: Donald Sullivan - Melissa Cole, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Mentor: Harold J, Farber, MD - Magdalena Fandino, PhD
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Mentor: Lesliam Quiros-Alcala - Carlos Flores Oria, MD
The University of Texas Health Science Centere at Houston- McGovern Medical School
Mentor: James Stark, MD - Carla Freire, MD
Johns Hopkins University
Mentor: Vsevolod Y Polotsky, MD - Marta T. Gomes, PhD
Indiana University
Mentor: Roberto F. Machado - Shekina Gonzalez-Ferrer, BS
University of Pittsburg
Mentor: Janet S. Lee - Eleana Guardado, PhD
University of California, Riverside
Mentor: Tara M. Nordgren, PhD - Joy Gullo, BS
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Mentor: Phillippe Cunningham, MD
- Lauren Heine, BS
Michigan State University
Mentor: Jack R Harkema - Julio Huapaya, MD
University of Maryland
Mentor: Irina Timofte - Jose Magranger, MPH
San Diego State University
Mentor: Eyal Oren
- Horacio Maldonado Lorca, MD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mentor: James Hagood - Jorge Masso Silva, PhD
University of California San Diego
Mentor: Laura E Crotty Alexander - David Moreno McNeill, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Mentor: Manuel Silva-Carmona - Zerihun Negasi, PhD
Harvard University, Harvard Medical School
Mentor: Yohanes Tesfaigzi
- Omolara Olabisi, MS
Ann & RObert H. Lurie Children's Hospital Chicago
Mentor: Debra Weese-Mayer
- Oyinkansola Osobamiro, MD
University of Washington
Mentor: Kristina Crothers, MD - Rafael Paez, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Mentor: Pierre P. Massion - Mallory Perry, PhD, RN
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Mentor: Martha AQ Curley, MD
- Josly Pierre-Louis, BS
Virginia Commonwealth University
Mentor: Patricia Jane Sime
- Leslie Seijo, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Mentor: Neeta Thakur - Noah Siegel, BS
University of California, Davis
Mentor: Lisa A. Miller
- Walter Velasco Torrez, MD
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Mentor: Seyed Moghaddam
- Deena Yousif, MD
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Mentor: Roberta Kato
