MD Travel Award Program

2025 Awards

• Jonathan Chen, MD, MPH, University of Chicago
• Seetha Davis, BA, Harvard Medical School
• Victor Ekuta, MD, Morehouse School of Medicine
• Ning "Olivia" Zhao, MD, UTHealth Houston

2024 Awards

• Tesiya Franklin, BS, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
• Jennifer Jolivert, BS, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Lola Ortiz-Whittingham, BS, University of Pittsburgh
• Jayson Wild, BS, Florida Atlantic University Schmidt College of Medicine

2023 Awards

• Ayesha Khan, BS, University of South Florida
• Palwasha Najeeb, MS, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

2022 Awards

• Sasha Correia, BSc, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
• Victor Ekuta, BS, MIT
• Nadia Liyanage-Don, MD, Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Ekaterina Protsenko, BS, UCSF
• Jasper Voechel, MD, University Hopsital Cologne, Clinic and Polyclinic for Child - and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic

2020 Awards

• Ellen Bradley, MD, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Victor Ekuta, BS, TEDMED, Audubon, PA, USA
• Nadia Liyanage-Don, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
• Bethany Thompson, BSc, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK

2019 Awards

• Avital Fischer, BSc, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA
• Zaneta Franklin, BSc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Hiroe Hu, BS, Touro University California, University of California San Francisco, El Cerrito, CA, USA
• Jason Patel, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine - Metrohealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
• Adam Schweber, BA, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
• Robyn Stocks, BSc, Brighton & Sussex Medical School , Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
• Rikki Winchester, Medical Student, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Eastbourne, East Sussex, England
• Eleanor Woodward, MD, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

2018 Awards

• Avital Fischer, BSc, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA
• Mytra Haerizadeh, BA, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA
• Jason Patel, MD, Case Western Reserve University, Metrohealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
• Monkia Sadlonova, MD, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia, Gottingen, Germany

2017 Awards

• Matthew Allen, BA, University of Pittsburgh, Springfield, VA, USA
• Avital Fischer, BSc, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, CA, USA
• Jonathan Heldt, MD, Loma Linda University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Lars Margolis, BA, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

2016 Awards

• Irma Bonvanie, MD, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
• Jai Gandhi, MD, University of Washington
• Bishoy Goubran, MBBCH, Larkin Community Hospital, Clinical and translational Research
• Nuwan Perera, BS, University of Pittsburgh
• Arundhati Undurti, MD/PhD, University of Washington
• Hélène Vulser, MD/PhD, AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest

2015 Awards

• Elizabeth Ahn, BA, Medical College of Georgia, Lawrenceville, GA, USA
• Desire Christensen, MS, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
• Timothy Cooper, BS, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
• Sebastian Karl, BSc, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
• Tatjana Meier, Dr.med., University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
• Nathalie Moise, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
• John Samaan, MD, MPH, Larkin Community Hospital, South Miami, FL, USA
• Corita Vincent, MSc, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

2014 Awards

• Adam Hinzey, BS, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
• Chaitanya Pabbati, MD, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
• Daniel Lindqvist, MD, PhD, Lund University, Sweden
• Dooyoung Jung, MD, Seoul National University, Gwanak-gu, Seoul, South Korea
• En-young Cho, MD, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
• Vanessa Hux, BS, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Nashville, TN, USA
• Vasthie Prudent, MD, University of Miami SOM/Jackson Memorial Hospital Miami, FL, USA
• Vivek Datta, MD, University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA

2013 Awards

• Hussam Jefee Bahloul, MD, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX, USA
• Tatiana Deveney, BA, The University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY, USA
• Jennifer Kruse, MD, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Antonio Lazzarino, MD, MSc, FFPH, University College London, London, United Kingdom
• Vanessa Lentz, MD, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Jayme Mulkey, BS, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Jayati Das Munshi, PhD, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
• Maria Steinisch, MD, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany
• Karima von Oehsen, MD, University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany

2012 Awards

• Nazar Mazurak, MD, PhD, Odessa National Medical University, Odessa, Ukraine
• Safiya Richardson, BS, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA

2011 Awards

• Jay Champlin, BA University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Parikshit Deshmukh, MD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
• Sheryl B. Fleisch, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Samantha Leathers, BS, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Alexander Otti, MD, Technical University Munich, Germany
• Paul R. Puri, MD, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
• Sarah Ramer, BA, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Tracie B. Rivera, MD, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
• Magdalena Romanovicz, MD, Warsaw Medical University, Poland
• Claire Stramrood, MD, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands

2010 Awards

• Rafael Camara, MD, University of Bern, Switzerland
• Virginia Carroll, MD, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
• Mark Dreusicke, MD, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
• Jessica Eccles, MBChB, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK
• Brandon Hidaka, MD, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA
• Jennifer Knight, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, USA
• Sarah Patterson, BA, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Christian Schultzer-Florey, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
• Sophie Adrienne Vreeburg, MD, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Felicia Kuo Wong, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

2009 Awards

• Sunny Aslam, MD, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, USA
• Jessica Bury, BA, Mayo Medical School, Rochester, MN, USA
• Matthew P. Harbaugh, BS, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Petra Wilhelmina Hoen, BSc, University of Groningen, Groninger, The Netherlands Yelena Kalitenko, MD, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA
• David Lovas, MD, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Eliza M. Park, MD, Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA
• Leah Rosenberg, BA, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
• Costin Roventa, MD, Pr. Dr. Alexandru Obregia, Bucharest, Romania

2008 Awards

• Yoichi Chida, MD, PhD, University College London, London, England
• Sigrid Gardner, MD, MPH, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
• Niama Jacobs, MD, Harvard University Psychiatry Residency, Boston, MA USA
• Eun-Ho Kang, MD, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea Sujith Kuruvilla, MD, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
• David Medelson, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Darcy Shaw, MD, University of Minnesota, Roseville, MN, USA Isabella Soreca, MD, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Ekaterina Stepanova, MD, Stony Brook Medical Park, Stony Brook, NY, USA

2007 Awards

• Vance Albaugh, BS, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
• Shannon Allen, MD, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Tamara Arroyo Cordero, MD/JD, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, USA
• David Atkinson, BS, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Avni Atul-Shah, BS, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA
• Paul Ballas, DO, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• Georgi Bergitha, Technische Universitat Dresden, Dresden, Germany
• Robert Bolash, BS, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
• Mark Bradley, MD, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
• Marianne Chai, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
• Spencer Dorn, MD, Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
• Esther Glick, BA, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Suchan Gupta, MD, University of Texas, Galveston, TX, USA
• Max Henderson, MD, Institute of Psychiatry, Leston Education Ctr, London, United Kingdom
• Stephanie Ho, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA Cory Daniel Jaques, BS, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
• Nathan Kolla, MD, MA, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Tania Murynka, MD, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• Michael Noll-Hussong, MD, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
• Rebecca Payne, MD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
• Mimi Raka –Bhattacharyya, MBBS, MRCP, BS, University College London, United Kingdom
• Misty Richards, MD, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY, USA
• Kristen Shirey, MD, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
• Lineke Tak, University of Groningen, Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Danielle Verbeek, MD, Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands
• Michelle Wang, MD, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, USA

2006 - Partial Awards

• Lian Phay Chien, MD, San Gabriel, CA, USA
• Shirley Delaleu, BA, New York, NY, USA
• Doralynne Di Pasquale, , Brooklyn, NY, USA
• Michael A. Rapp, MD, PhD, New York, NY, USA
• Dallas Peter Seitz, MD, Kingston, ON, Canada
• Sareena Singh, BS, B.A., Cincinnati, OH, USA
• Magdalena Spariosu, MD, Floral Park, NY, USA
• Lina Wiedemar, MS, Bern, Switzerland

2006 - Full Awards

• Sarah Singleton, BA, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• Silvana Barone, BSc, Montreal, PQ, Canada
• Sandra Demaries, MD, Westmount, PQ, Canada
• Rebekah Kaplowitz, MD, MPH, Providence, RI, USA
• Patrick Blake, BA, Cleveland, OH, USA
• Norana Irene Caivano, MD, West Hollywood, CA, USA
• Michelle Nichols, MD, St Louis, MO, USA
• Nosheen Javed, MD, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Neil A. Harrison, MBBS, BSc, London, United Kingdom
• Meghan Kolodziej, MD, Boston, MA, USA
• Manuel Paz-Yepes, MD, New York, NY, USA
• Paul Koch, BA, Cleveland Heights, OH, USA
• Matheen A. Khuddus, MD, Gainesville, FL, USA
• Karran Phillips, MD, Baltimore, MD, USA
• Jianping Zhang, PhD, MD, Strongsville, OH, USA
• Jason P. Caplan, MD, Boston, MA, USA
• Ian Kronish, MD, New York, NY, USA
• Howard Liu, MD, Canton, MI, USA
• Jeffrey Aaron Horn, MD, PhD, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Kathleen A. Hecksel, BSc, Rochester, MN, USA
• Hideaki, Suzuki, Sendai, Japan
• Takuya Hasegawa, MD, Kingston, ON, Canada
• Gregory Sayuk, MD, St. Louis, MO, USA
• Fahd Zarrouf, MD, Charleston, WV, USA
• David Wolfe, MD, MPH, Boston, MA, USA
• Vinayak A. P. Hegde, MD, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• David B. Merrill, MD, New York, NY, USA
• Bernadette M. Stevenson, MD, PhD, Hollywood, FL, USA
• Adomas Bunevicius, BS, Kauno Rajonas, Lithuania
• Anthony Charuvastra, MD, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2005 - Partial Awards

• Adomas Bunevicius, BS, Kauno Rajonas, Lithuania
• Robertas Bunevicius, MD, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
• Tiffany Cooke, BS, Nashville ,TN, USA
• Shirley Delaleu, BA, New York, NY, USA
• Patrick Dominguez, BA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• Kimberly A. Humann, MD, Springfield, VA, USA
• Arta Lahiji, MD, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• Shanthi Pramila Lewis, MBBS, MD, Monmouth Junction, NJ, USA
• Zohra Lodin, MD, Albany, NY, USA
• Christina Mueller, BA, MD, Cleveland, OH, USA
• Michelle Nichols, MD, St Louis, MO, USA
• Rheanna Platt, BA, Rochester, MN, USA
• Joseph J. Rasimas, MD, PhD, Rochester, MN, USA
• Alicia A. Romeo, MD, Milford, CT, USA
• Ashish Sharma, MD, Omaha, NE, USA
• Farid Singh, MD, Augusta, GA, USA
• Sareena Singh, BS, BA, Cincinnati, OH, USA
• Roderick Stuart, MD, Colton, CA, USA
• Jeffrey Walch, BSA, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
• Lei Wei, DO, Lawrence, KS, USA
• Melissa Wysong, MD, Loma Linda, CA, USA

2005 Full Awards

• Ama Terasha Nkumah Arthur, BA, Nashville, TN, USA
• Christopher S. Bermant, BS, Madison, WI, USA
• Anthony Charuvastra, MD, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• James F. Cunagin, MD, Cleveland, OH, USA
• Andrea Iaboni, BSc, Dphil, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Roger J. Jou, MD, New Haven, CT, USA
• Qian Lu, MD, MS, Los Angeles, CA, USA
• James Brad McConville, MD, Iowa City, IA, USA
• Maryruth Mendoza, MD, Queens Village, NY, USA
• Karran Phillips, MD, Baltimore, MD, USA
• Maria Rueda-Lara, MD, Robbinsville, NJ, USA
• Isabel Schuermeyer, MD, Cleveland, OH, USA
• Nakia G. Scott, MD, Salado, TX, USA
• Stephanie Tache, MD, MPH, San Francisco, CA, USA
• Glendon Tait, MD, MS, Toronto, ON, Canada
• Lukas Van Oudenhove, MD, Leuven, Belgium
• Subhdeep Virk, MD, Syracuse, NY, USA
• Stephen Kayode Williams, MD, New York, NY, USA