This award honors an undergraduate student in dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, or social work who submitted the most outstanding student abstract for the AGS Annual Scientific Meeting.
2023 Recipient: Matthew Cosmai
Matthew Cosmai is the 2023 Clinician Student Research Award recipient for his submission, “Educational Videos to Inform Older Adults About Medication Safety”, which he completed with Team Alice, an interdisciplinary research and advocacy team focused on patient safety for older adults, from the University at Buffalo. Through a qualitative analysis of open-ended survey questions, Mr. Cosmai found video-based interventions for older adults to be an effective method of improving patient knowledge of medication safety. In his final year of completing his Master of Social Work at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Mr. Cosmai has demonstrated a deep commitment to expanding knowledge of the healthcare aspects of social work, and is celebrated for his accomplishments.
Past Recipients of the Clinician Student Research Award
2022 Dallas Mindo-Panusis
2021 Linda H. Phung
2020 Vanessa Ho, MS
2019 Smrithi Sukumar
2018 Michael Liu
2017 Laura Hatchman
Jessica Rizzuto
2016 Margaret Puelle, BS
2015 Justin Yamamoto
2014 Julie Thai, MPH
Lucille Brunker
2013 Nerissa Duchin
Bianca Methvin
2012 Israel (Riley) Peña, Jr.
2011 Siobhan M. Case, BA, MS-II
2010 Cynthia So, BS, MSII
2009 Melissa M. Fish, MS-II
2008 Gina Fujikami, MSIV
2007 Priscilla Yee, MSIV