Nominations are currently being accepted!
Please consider nominating a colleague for this award. Nominations are due April 1, 2026.
Overview
A challenging career stage transition for trainees is advancing from post-doctoral and clinical fellowship to faculty positions.
To promote the training and career development of trainees, the Department of Medicine has created the Equity Academic Scholar Awards.
These awards are intended to demonstrate significant departmental and institutional commitment to awardees at NIH study sections and other funding organizations.
This award provides partial or full salary support for 1-2 years at $50,000 per year.
eligibility
- Career stage: Primarily later stages of fellowship (Senior Fellow) or early stages of a junior faculty position (Acting Instructor or Acting Assistant Professor). This award is not intended for faculty who already hold Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor titles.
- Awardees may be on the clinician-scholar, physician-scientist or research-scientist pathways.
- Research/academic excellence and potential for a career as independent PI and/or medical educator
- Targeted to training stage with funding gaps from T/F to K transition
- This award is open to all applicants. We encourage applicants from groups who are from historically marginalized and minoritized communities, with disabilities, and/or with added family responsibilities.
Application
- Nomination letter from Division Head addressing (2 pages, 11-point font):
- Accomplishments and credentials of the nominee to date
- Potential for the nominated individual to develop a successful research career as a PI and/or medical educator
- Description of funding gap
- Divisional commitment to and support for the nominee
- Personal statement from nominee (2 pages, 11-point font):
- Research accomplishments to date; future research plans; short- and long-term career goals
- Plans for applying for grants or developing scholarly activities
- Describe how your activities will address health care disparities. Some examples include research to understand existing disparities, medical education to improve cultural competency, or work to support inclusive health care pathways.
- Nominee CV (UW format)
Nominations should be made by the respective Division Head. The nomination packet should consist of a single pdf submitted to Dave Horne and copied to Isabel Goncalves and W. Conrad Liles. Please reach out to David Horne with any questions
timelines
- Call for applications: January/February
- Nomination deadline: April 1
- Awards announced: May
Past recipients
2025
- Justin Bullock
- Tijana Milinic
- Khai Tram
2024
- Christine Limonte, Nephrology
- Vidhushei Yogeswaran, Cardiology
2023
- Tara Reid, Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Massiel Stolla, Hematology
- Ana Valencia, Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition
2022
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Busola Oluwole, Hematology
2021
- Crystal Brown, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
- Chase Cannon, Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Erik Kimble, Hematology
- Helen Stankiewicz Karita, Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Kennedy Ukadike, Rheumatology