We would like to extend our congratulations to 9 Junior Faculty and 10 students who were awarded the 2025 IAMSE Travel Awards for the conference last month. These awards support junior faculty and aspiring educators to attend the IAMSE Annual Conference. Made possible in part by Aquifer and Elsevier, each award is meant to cover the expenses related to attendance at the IAMSE Annual Conference, such as conference registration, lodging, and airfare.
The awardees for 2025 were:
Junior Faculty
- Sara Allison, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker, M.D. School of Medicine
- Melissa Armas, Nova Southeastern University
- Flawendjee Djaweelentz Jacques, Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais
- Aditi Kesari, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Christine Prater Wood, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
- Amberly Reynolds, Rocky Vista University
- Anna Ricci, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
- Laurence Boitet, University of Alabama, Birmingham (Sponsored by Elsevier)
- Yamile Perez, Zanmi Lasante/Partners in Health (Sponsored by Elsevier)
Students (Sponsored by Aquifer)
- Sreeja Varanasi, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia
- Jack Stomberger, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville
- Corey Shafer, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
- Katherine Martinez Carmona, Tecnologico de Monterrey
- Sheila Pierson, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
- Japmehr Sandhu, Government Medical College, Amritsar
- Ronaé McLin, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
- Gloria Urrutia, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
- Ciara Madigan, University of Texas at Tyler School of Medicine
- Eola Saltibus, University of Manitoba
Congratulations to this year’s winners! We look forward to seeing you in the future.