The Outstanding Mid-Career Clinician Educator of the Year Award is targeted to a mid-career clinician educator faculty member (Associate Professor) who has made significant contributions to the education and training of students/trainees in geriatrics and the progress of geriatrics education in health professions schools. The ideal candidate will have met some or all of the following criteria: significant contribution to the teaching of students/trainees; significant contribution to mentoring and providing career advice to students/trainees/junior faculty; significant contribution to educational program development. Teaching expertise, as well as educational program development, is valued in the selection of the recipient for this honor.
2024 Recipient: Martine Sanon, MD
This year, the AGS recognizes Martine Sanon for her significant leadership roles, strong interest in mentorship, and for playing an active role in the career development of junior faculty, as well as serving as a role model for her students, residents, and fellows (especially women, and students and faculty of color) who may need encouragement to pursue careers in academic medicine. The Director of the Inpatient Geriatric Medicine Clinical Services, and the Geriatric Liaison to the Department of Emergency Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, she is a master clinician educator with academic interest in models of care for older adults in the acute care setting, improving patient care transitions from the hospital to the community, and providing optimal care for older adults in the emergency department. Dr. Sanon served as the Geriatrics Lead in the CMMI award GEDI WISE (Geriatric Emergency Department Innovations in care through Workforce Informatics and Structural Enhancements), involved in multisite quality improvement projects such as EQUIPPED, focusing on improving prescribing practices of Emergency providers for older adults in the ED and in various initiatives to improve clinical work flow and education in geriatric emergency medicine care. She has an interest in geriatric models of care and is currently working on developing inpatient surgical co-management models for older hospitalized patients and standardizing care across clinical sites and the necessary training to work with our surgical colleagues. Her goal is to lead as an academic geriatric clinician expert clinician educator, who focuses on the training of physicians in the care of older adults in the acute care setting. She is highly regarded by the Emergency Department as a colleague, a collaborator, and a champion for the promotion of Geriatric Emergency Medicine.
Past Recipients of the Outstanding Mid-Career Clinical Educator of the Year Award
2023 Todd James, MD, AGSF
2022 Ravishankar Ramaswamy, MD, AGSF
2021 Jorge Camilo Mora, MD, MPH
2020 Mandi Sehgal, MD
2019 Colleen Christmas, MD, FACP
2018 Amit Shah, MD, FACP, AGSF
2017 Lisa Walke, MD, MSHA, AGSF
2016 Anna Chang, MD
2015 Susan Parks, MD
2014 Louise Aronson, MD
2013 Helen Fernandez, MD