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| Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz, MD |
Zach Hermes, MD |
Jennifer Hong, MD |
Lauren Merz, MD, MSc |
Ronnye Rutledge, MD |
The Internal Medicine Residency Program presented the Rappaport Award in Clinical Innovation in Honor of Marshall A. Wolf to two residents and the Martin P. Soloman Primary Care Scholarship Award to three residents to support innovative research projects that have the potential to enhance primary care delivery at the Brigham and beyond.
Rappaport Award in Clinical Innovation in Honor of Marshall A. Wolf
Endowed by the Phyllis and Jerome Lyle Rappaport Foundation and named in honor of Marshall Wolf, MD, this award supports and honors research project proposals that are innovative, efficient and aim to improve health care and/or contain costs. This year’s winners are:
- Zach Hermes, MD, for “Improving Access to Care and Engagement for Pediatric Populations Using a School-based Population Health Platform”: To help schools safely reopen, this project will deploy a digital tool for COVID-19 symptom assessment to allow schools to automate their screening protocols and improve efficiency. The data will be accessible to administrators and school health leaders in a visual dashboard that promotes insight regarding the status and trends within their school community.
- Lauren Merz, MD, MSc, for “Developing a Pipeline for Removing Penicillin Allergy Labels in BMT Patients”: Identifying bone marrow transplant patients with reported penicillin allergies and building a system to refer them to an allergy clinic will create a low-cost, effective and safe pipeline for high-yield penicillin allergy de-labelling, which will improve patient care and significantly reduce health care costs.
Martin P. Soloman Primary Care Scholarship Award
Named in honor of Martin Solomon, MD, this award provides support for Internal Medicine residents who wish to pursue educational activities outside the standard scope of training, particularly projects focused on primary care delivery, quality improvement and teaching in the local community. This year’s winners are:
- Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz, MD, for “Development of a Novel Mentorship Curriculum for Medicine-Pediatrics Residents”: This novel mentorship curriculum is designed specifically for the challenges arising from physical distancing requirements in the era of COVID-19 and tailored to residents in combined training programs.
- Jennifer Hong, MD, for “My Life, My Story in the Ambulatory Care Setting”: Resident physicians work with patients to write a first-person life narrative based on patients’ stories. These discussions can deepen relationships between physicians and patients, increase rapport, change treatment courses, help increase empathy, improve communication skills and decrease burnout for providers.
- Ronnye Rutledge, MD, for “Primary Care Preceptorship Elective”: The purpose of this program is to provide residents with an ambulatory preceptorship experience, which serves as a bridge during the transition from student to practitioner, to prepare upper-level residents for the unique challenges of this role. This program will provide trainees with the basic tenets of peer-to-peer education and coaching.
