We are excited to share the 2026 APA Awardees!
Pillar Awards
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Emerging Leader Award
- Yarden Fraiman, MD, MPH | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (acceptance speech)
- Marina Masciale, MD, MPH | Baylor College of Medicine (acceptance speech)
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Transformational Leader Award
- Adriana Bialostozky, MD | Vanderbilt University (acceptance speech)
Community-Engaged Health Care Delivery Award – Early Career
- Priyanka Shekhawat, MD | Mass General Brigham (acceptance speech)
Community-Engaged Health Care Delivery Award – Mid-Career
- Jane B. Amati, MD | Prisma Health (acceptance speech)
Health Care Delivery Program Award
- Kevin Fiori, MD, MPH | Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Miller-Sarkin Mentoring Award – Career/Holistic
- H. Barrett Fromme, MD, MHPE | Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago (acceptance speech)
Miller-Sarkin Mentoring Award – Research
- Sarah Ronis, MD, PhD, MPH | Case Western Reserve University (acceptance speech)
Public Policy and Advocacy Developing Leader Award
- Vivek Ashok, MD, MSHP | Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center (acceptance speech)
Public Policy and Advocacy Emerging Leader Award
- Jenni Saper, MD, MS | Lurie Children’s Hospital (acceptance speech)
Public Policy and Advocacy Transformational Leader Award
- Sophie Balk, MD | Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (acceptance speech)
Research Award – Early Career
- Colin Orr, MD, MPH | Vanderbilt University Medical Center (acceptance speech)
Research Award – Mid-Career
- Kimberly Montez, MD, MPH | Wake Forest University School of Medicine (acceptance speech)
Research Award – Senior
- Chris Forrest, MD, PhD | Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Teaching Award – Early Career
- Rachel Poeppelman, MD, MHPE | University of Minnesota (acceptance speech)
Teaching Award – Mid-Career
- Kathleen Huth, MD, MMSc | Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School (acceptance speech)
Teaching Program Award Teaching Excellence Among Medical Providers
- (“TEAM”) Program at Children’s Hospital Colorado (acceptance speech)
Thank you to all of the nominees and nominators, for taking the time to submit applications for consideration, and to the review committees for their time and dedication during the review and selection process.
Please join us in celebrating the 2026 APA Award Winners during PAS on Saturday, April 25, 2026, from 12:30–1:55 PM in Room 259 of the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center.
Abstract Awardees
Health Care Delivery Abstract Award for Faculty
- Rachel Cafferty, MD | University of Colorado School of Medicine
Health Care Delivery Abstract Award for Trainees
- Francisco Zepeda, MPH | University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine
Joel Alpert Abstract Award for Faculty
- Lawrence C. Kleinman, MD, MPH | Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Joel Alpert Abstract Award for Trainees
- Joseph Wilson, MHS | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Ludwig-Seidel Abstract Award for Fellows in Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Kelly Walters, MD, MPH | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Michael Shannon Environmental Health Faculty Abstract Award
- Fapo Olushola, MD, MPH | Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital
Michael Shannon Environmental Health Trainee Abstract Award
- Hanna Suh, BA, BS | Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Ray E. Helfer Innovation in Medical Education Faculty Abstract Award
- Elizabeth Chawla, MD | Medstar Georgetown University Hospital
Ray E. Helfer Innovation in Medical Education Trainee Abstract Award
- Victor Oboli, MBBS | Yale School of Medicine
Trainee Research Abstract Award for Fellows
- Rosemary Martoma, MD, MBChB | Boston Children’s Hospital | Harvard Medical School
Trainee Research Abstract Award for Residents
- Rohan Khazanchi, MD, MPH | Harvard Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Boston Medical Center
Trainee Research Abstract Award for Students
- Ashley Nmoh, BA | Duke University School of Medicine
George Armstrong Lecture Awardees
- Tina L. Cheng, MD, MPH
- Claibourne Dungy, MD, MPH
- David M. Jaffe, MD
- Danielle Laraque-Arena, MD
- Katherine Lobach, MD, FAAP
