Ingrid Katz, MD, MHS (left) | Ron Kikinis, MD (right) | Ann Partridge, MD, MPH (right) |
Ingrid Katz, MD, MHS, of the Department of Medicine, Ron Kikinis, MD, of the Department of Radiology, and Ann Partridge, MD, MPH, of Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center (DF/BWCC), were selected for 2019 Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Awards from Harvard Medical School (HMS) in recognition of their valuable mentoring relationships and the impact they have on professional development and career advancement in basic/clinical medicine, research, teaching and administration.
The first Excellence in Mentoring Award was established in 1995; in 1997, it was renamed to honor the memory of A. Clifford Barger, MD, who, among other things, devoted his career to bringing out the best in those who studied, trained and worked at Harvard Medical School.
In addition to her work at the Brigham, Katz serves as associate faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute and a researcher at the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research over the past decade has focused on the social determinants of health-seeking behavior among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, with the goal of developing sustainable, socio-behavioral interventions aimed at improving care for the most underserved.
Kikinis, founding director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory, has led and has participated in research in different areas of science. His activities include technological research (segmentation, registration, visualization, high performance computing), software system development, and biomedical research in a variety of biomedical specialties.
Partridge — vice chair of Medical Oncology, founding director of DF/BWCC’s Program for Young Women with Breast Cancer and director of the DF/BWCC Adult Survivorship Program — is a medical oncologist focusing on the care of women with breast cancer, with particular interest in the psychosocial, behavioral and communication issues in breast cancer care and treatment. She also serves as principal investigator of the Young Women's Breast Cancer Study, a multi-institutional cohort of young women with breast cancer that has enrolled 1,300 women age 40 and younger at diagnosis.
Since HMS was established in 1782, faculty members have improved human health by innovating in their roles as physicians, mentors and scholars. They’ve piloted educational models, developed new curricula to address emerging needs in health care, and produced thousands of leaders and compassionate caregivers who are shaping the fields of science and medicine throughout the world with their expertise and passion.