NAMS 2011 Award Recipients

NAMS is pleased to announce the recipients of the Society's 2011 awards that recognize outstanding contributions to the field of women's health and menopause. Recipients will be acknowledged during the NAMS Annual Meeting, in Washington, DC, on September 21-24, 2011.

The Society extends its congratulations to all of this year’s outstanding award recipients.

Recognition Awards

		NAMS/Thomas B. Clarkson Outstanding Clinical & Basic Science Research Award This award recognizes a NAMS member’s outstanding menopause-related clinical or basic science research. Recipient: Nancy Fugate Woods, PhD, RN, FAAN Seattle, WA
		NAMS/Leon Speroff Outstanding Educator Award This award recognizes a NAMS member’s excellence in menopause-related education of clinicians or the general public. Recipient: James A. Simon, MD, CCD, NCMP, FACOG Washington, DC
		NAMS/Ann Voda Community Service Award This award recognizes a healthcare provider within the NAMS membership who has demonstracted outstanding community service. Recipient: Elaine E. Jolly, OC, MD, FRCS(C) Ottawa, ON, Canada
		NAMS Media Award This award recognizes a media professional whose body of work, through any consumer media outlet, has served to expand the knowledge and understanding of menopause. Recipient: Ms. Tanya Rivero ABC News New York, NY
		NAMS Menopause Practitioner of the Year This award recognizes one current NAMS Certified Menopause Practitioner (NCMP) for outstanding work to his/her patients. Recipient: Lisa A. Chism, DNP, APRN, NCMP, FAANP Detroit, MI
		NAMS/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Best Paper of the Year Award The award recognizes the best paper published in Menopause in 2010. The recipient is selected by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal. Recipient: Matthew A. Allison, MD, MPH La Jolla, CA "Vasomotor symptoms and coronary artery calcium in postmenopausal women" (Menopause 2010;17:1136-1145)

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Excellence Awards

NAMS/Teva Women’s Health Medical Residents Excellence Awards
This award recognizes a total of ten physicians or fellows who are currently in training in obstetrics and gynecology
or primary care.

Amelia P. Bailey, MD Boston, MA	Jessica L. Chan, MD San Francisco, CA	Joan S. L. Hier, MD Brighton, MA	Jo Marie Janco, MD Boston, MA	Sobia Khan, MD, NCMP Cleveland, OH
Amanda N. Kallen, MD Meriden, CT	Sa Cara D. Shaw, MD Antioch, TN	Sharon Y. Vila-Wright, MD West Lawn, PA	Lauren D. Weber, DO Cleveland, OH	Manisha Yadav, MD Cleveland, OH

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New Investigator Awards

This award recognizes the outstanding abstract submissions of four investigators who have achieved their degree
within the past seven years.

Mindy S. Christianson, MD
Steriani Elavsky, PhD
Kelsey Mills, HBSc, MD
Maria Velasco, MD

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Medical Residents & Fellows Reporter Program

NAMS/Pfizer Medical Resident & Fellow Reporters
These 30 scholarships were designed to provide medical residents and fellows the opportunity to attend the 2011 NAMS Annual Meeting. The recipients have been asked to prepare a presentation on a topic of their choice from content at the meeting to share with colleagues and other residents and fellows in their program when they return home.

Recipients:

Kim Briscoe, MD—Greensboro, NC Angela Cade, MD—Tyler, TX Jhosselini A. Cardenas-Mori, MD—Philadelphia, PA Irene Cheng, MD—Loma Linda, CA Jane Conolly, MD—San Diego, CA Dipali Dave, MD—Silver Spring, MD Khary S. Dorsey, MD—Stamford, CT Joseph O’Brien Doyle, MD—Boston, MA Mohammad Ezzati, MD—Washington, DC Elizabeth Fountaine, MD—Rochester, NY Melissa Wollan Francis, MD—Bethesda, MD Mahmuda Islam, MD—Amarillo, TX Sonali Jain, MD—St. Louis, MO Shaheera Kader, MD—West Allis, WI Amy E. Lambert, MD—Oklahoma City, OK

Nancy E. Larkin, MD—Fitchburg, MA Maggie H. Lee, MD—Lancaster, PA Erica J. Lilly, MD—Ottawa, ON, Canada Michael Lowney, MD—Fitchburg, MA Erika Lubsey, MD—Franklin, TN Becky McGilligan, MD—Cincinnati, OH Rebecca Menzies, MD—Toronto, ON, Canada Luciano Minuzzi, MD, PhD—Hamilton, ON, Canada Vicki Ng, MD—Houston, TX Daniel Novella, MD—Aurora, IL Modupe Omole, MD—Lafayette Hill, PA Monalee Patel-Chheda, MD—Amarillo, TX Bilal Hussain Piracha, MD—Monroeville, PA Aaliyah Rizvi, MD—Stonybrook, NY Maryam Nemati Shafaee, MD—New York, NY

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Poster Prize Winners

The NAMS Poster Judging Panel announced the winners of the 2011 NAMS Poster Prizes on Saturday morning. First place goes to "Sexual Function and Breast Cancer: the Elephant in the Bedroom" (P-70) by Beth Prairie, MD, MPH, and colleagues from multiple US research centers. The three runners-up (in no particular order) are: "Assessment of Menopause-Related Symptoms among Perimenopausal Women with HIV" (P-52) by Sara Looby, PhD, ANP, and colleagues from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School "Lifetime Estradiol Exposure and Risk of Depression during the Menopausal Transition: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation" (P-54) by Wendy Marsh, MD, MS, and colleagues from multiple US and Canadian research centers "Self-Reported Vasomotor Symptoms and Dietary Isoflavones: Results from the LeAVES Study" (P62) by Katherine M. Newton, PhD, and colleagues from several institutions in Seattle, WA The first-place award carries a $1,000 prize, and each of the runner-up awards will bring their research teams a $500 prize. Congratulations to these researchers and their teams!

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