Spirit of 2010 Award

The Class of 2010 supports this yearly gift to a current resident who has a planned educational experience that requires additional funding.

Award Recipient Highlights

Adesuwa Akhetuamhen, MD; Abiye Ibiebele, MD & Maren Leibowitz, MD

2020-2021

Thanks to the Spirit of 2010 Award, we were able to support honoraria for nationally renowned speakers to discuss topics on culturally effective medicine, community engagement, and caring for patients with limited English proficiency.”

Ezekiel Richardson, MD

I am deeply grateful and excited for the SPIRIT award from the class of 2010. With the funds from this award, I have confirmed from three speakers who not only have deep connections to Black and Latinx that are continually communities affected by systemic, structural, and institutional racism, elevated mortality in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic, and shuttering of health institutions. These speakers are also practiced in listening evaluating and speaking with and in some cases on behalf of such populations. They offer a master class in anti-racism and work as activists augmenting the voices of their communities. I relish the opportunity to learn how we as emerging EM physicians might better dialogue with, listen to, and advocate for our communities. None of this would be possible without the funding of the class of 2010.

Andra Farcas, MD

2019-2020

I was able to attend the National Association of EMS Physician’s 2020 National EMS Medical Director’s Course and Practicum in San Diego, CA. I learned about a wide variety of EMS systems and met peers from around the country and world, discussing medical directorship and the unique challenges and situations that can arise.”

Alexandra Herndon, MD

2019-2020

I was able to complete a 4-day hands-on field experience managing emergency medical situations in the wilderness through Advanced Wilderness Life Support in Leavenworth, WA. This course gave an overview of injuries and illness sustained in the wild, including dive-related pathology, marine envenomation, altitude illness, avalanche rescue, and environmental exposures. I am ever grateful for the academic and monetary support to the Spirit of 2010.”

Terese Whipple, MD

2018-2019

I was able to create eye models with changeable intra-ocular pressure in order to teach program participants to measure IOP with a tonopen and recognize pressures that are too high or too low. At the conference this year I was also able to present a case during the poster presentation session, making me a more competitive applicant when applying for fellowships this fall.”

Past Spirit of 2010 Award Recipients

All Awardees

2021

Gabrielle Bunney, MD

Honorarium to support her participation in the SAEM Advanced Research Methodology Evaluation and Design course to further advance her skills as a researcher with a focus on the use of artificial intelligence within EHRs to improve patient safety.

Nick Wleklinski, MD

Honorarium to support his participation in the EMS Medical Directors course sponsored by the National Association of EMS Physicians.

2020

Adesuwa Akhetuamhen, MD, Abiye Ibiebele, MD, Maren Leibowitz, MD, Ezekiel Richardson, MD

Honorarium to support invited speakers featured throughout the Cultural Competency Curriculum series.

Vytas Karalius, MD, MPH, MA

Harvard Macy Institute, Program for Educators in Health Professions.

2019

Andra Farcas, MD

Presented at the National Association of EMS Physician’s 2020 National EMS Medical Director’s Course and Practicum in San Diego, CA.

Alex Herndon, MD

Participated in the Humanitarian Response Intensive Course (HRIC) hosted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative in Boston, MA.

2018

Danielle Miller, MD

Attended the American Association of Medical Colleges' Learn, Lead and Serve Conference in Austin, TX.

Terese Whipple, MD

Presented work at the Sideline Management Assessment Responds Techniques-Emergency Medicine Sports Trauma (SMART-EST) supplement to the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Houston, TX.

2017

Andrew Moore, MD, MS

Completed a month-long emergency medicine elective on the Navajo Indian Reservation with the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation in Tuba City, AZ.

Hashim Zaidi, MD

Presented work the 2018 National EMS Medical Directors Course and Practicum at the National Association of EM Physicians (NAEMSP) in San Diego, CA.

2016

Sushil Jain, MD, MBA

Participated in the 2016 ACEP Emergency Department Directors Academy in Dallas, TX.

Rachel Haney, MD

Traveled to Roatán, Honduras to teach local physicians Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) at Clínica Esperanza.

2015

Alison Marshall, MD

Participated in the Humanitarian Response Intensive Course (HRIC) hosted by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative in Boston, MA.

Elizabeth Dearing, MD

Traveled to Roatán, Honduras to teach local physicians Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) at Clínica Esperanza.

Victoria Weston, MD

Attended Spanish immersion courses through the Ecela Spanish Schools in both Chile and Argentina.

2014

Lauren Gallagher, MD, MA

Traveled to Dublin Ireland to study tips, tricks, and pearls of free open access medical education (FOAMed) from Dr. Andy Neill, an avid proponent of FOAMed and local EM physician at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin.

Charles Pearce, MD

Participated in Kaiser Permanente's elective in mass gather medicine during America's Cup in San Francisco, CA.

2013

Amit Phull, MD

Worked as a medical correspondent for ABC News' Medical Unit in New York, NY.

Krista Brucker, MD

Traveled to Roatán, Honduras to work clinically providing primary, pediatric and OB care and to conduct a formal evaluation of the rotating medical student experience at Clínica Esperanza.

2012

Usha Periyanayagam, MD, MPH

Traveled to Pursat, Cambodia to educate local doctors on bedside teaching as well as creating lectures on basic scientific topics for future learning.

2011

Eunice Park, MD

Completed a month-long emergency medicine elective at the Hospitalito Atitlan, located in the town of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala.