2024 Winner: Andy Admon MD, MPH, MS
Dr. Admon is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School and an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He is also an Associate Investigator in the VA Center for Clinical Management Research and Staff Physician at the Ann Arbor VA.
Andy graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Sociology and Cell and Molecular Biology. He received his medical degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. He then completed his internal medicine residency, chief residency, and pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at the University of Michigan. During his fellowship, he completed a Master of Science degree in Health and Health Care Research through the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.
Dr. Admon’s research applies real-world data to make hospital care safer and more effective for patients with acute medical conditions. He has methodological expertise in observational causal inference and in leveraging practical data sources to study and improve acute care delivery. Outside of his research, Andy is Associate Director of the National Clinician Scholars Program (NCSP) at Michigan and co-teaches the NCSP research methods course in biostatistics and epidemiology. He also co-directs a medical student program focused on research training and career development.
Andy has been a member of the ATS and the Behavioral Sciences and Health Services Research Assembly since 2013. He served on the BSHSR Program Committee between 2018 and 2021 and currently serves on the BSHSR Early Career Professional Working Group. He also served on the ATS Members in Transition and Training Committee between 2016 and 2023, most recently as Chair, and as a Presidential Appointee to the ATS Board of Directors from 2022-2023. He currently serves as a member of the ATS Steering Committee on Advancement and Learning (SCALe) and on the Critical Care Assembly Program Committee.
Description:
The award will be given to an early career individual who has made outstanding scientific and scholarly contributions relevant to behavioral and social sciences, clinical epidemiology, statistics, health services research, health economics, comparative clinical efficacy and effectiveness research, patient-centered outcomes research, performance measurement, quality improvement, or implementation science. This award is to recognize individuals who have applied these methodologies to lung diseases, critical illness, or sleep disorders early in their career, and who have made significant contributions to the BSHSR Assembly and the ATS as a whole. The award committee encourages nominations from groups who are under-represented in medicine. Awardees will be presented with a framed certificate at the ATS International Conference. For guidance regarding whether a nominee is more appropriate for the Emerging or Early Award category, please reach out to the BSHSR Planning Committee Chair ahead of the submission deadline.
Criteria:
- Instructor, Assistant Professor, or an equivalent rank in a non-academic institution
- Within 10 years of completing all post-doctoral or clinical training, excluding time off for personal circumstances
- Current BSHSR member (primary or secondary membership)
- Has not previously received an Early Career Achievement award from any ATS assembly
- Cannot concurrently be nominated for an Emerging Career award
- The submission package must include the candidate’s updated curriculum vitae and a nomination letter from an assembly member addressing the candidate’s achievements within the scored award domains.
Scoring:
Applicants are scored on 6 criteria using a 1-5 rating system across the following categories; summed scores provide an overall score:
- Scientific and scholarly contributions/products
- Teaching/mentoring/educational contributions
- Participation in BSHSR Assembly activities (administrative, committees, workshops, etc.)
- Participation in other ATS activities (administrative, committees, workshops, etc.)
- Other considerations from recommendations including relevant extenuating circumstances
- Overall impact/impression of the dossier submitted for award application
View Previous Award Recipients
2023- Jacqueline Marie Kruser, MD, MS
2022 - Thomas Sebastian Valley, MD, MSc
2021 - Neeta Thakur, MD, MPH
2020 - Curtis Weiss, MD, MS
2019 - Valerie Press, MD, MPH & Meeta Prasad Kerlin, MD, MS
2018 - Laura C. Feemster, MD, MSc
2017 - Minal R. Patel, PhD, MPH
2016 - Michelle Eakin, PhD
2015 - Andrea S. Gershon, MD, MSc
2014 - Renda S. Wiener, MD, MPH
2013 - Colin Cooke, MD, MSc, MS
2012 - Christopher G. Slatore, MD, MS
2011 - Theodore J. Iwashyna, MD, PhD
2010 - Jeremy Kahn, MSc
2009 - Kristin A. Riekert, PhD
2008 - Jean-Marie Bruzzese, PhD
2007 - Vincent Fan, MD, MPH
2006 - Christopher H. Goss, MD, MSc
2005 - David Au, MD and Michael K. Gould, MD, MS
2004 - Jerry A. Krishnan, MD, PhD
2003 - Lynn B. Gerald, PhD, MSPH
