AABIP Award Winners

 McLennan Award

YEAR
AWARDEE
TITLE
INSTITUTION
CITY
STATE
COUNTRY
2025 Robert Lentz MD Vanderbilt University Nashville TN USA
2024 Jason Akulian MD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill NC USA
2023 C. Matthew Kinsey MD University of Vermont College of Medicine Burlington VT USA
2022 Samira Shojaee MD Vanderbilt University Nashville TN USA
2021 Horiana Grosu MD MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston TX USA
2019/2020 Hans Lee MD Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore MD USA
2018 Fabien Maldonado MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville TN USA
2017 Erik Folch MD MSc Harvard Medical School Boston MA USA
2016 Septimiu Murgu MD University of Chicago Medicine Chicago IL USA
2015 Roberto Casal MD MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston TX USA
2014 Pyng Lee MD National University Hospital      Singapore
2013 Kazuhiro Yasufuku MD PhD University of Toronto Toronto ON Canada
2012 David Feller-Kopman MD Hopkins Baltimore MD USA
2011 Momen Wahidi MD Duke University Durham NC USA

 

Cynthia Ray Humanitarian Award

YEAR
AWARDEE
TITLE
INSTITUTION
CITY
STATE
COUNTRY
2025 Darlene Nelson MD Mayo Clinic Rochester MN USA
2024 Angela Christine Argento MD Johns Hopkins Medicine Baltimore MD USA
2023 Carla Lamb MD Lahey Hospital and Medical Center Boston MA USA

 

Praveen Mathur Memorial Award

YEAR
AWARDEE
TITLE
INSTITUTION
CITY
STATE
COUNTRY
2025 Samira Shojaee MD Vanderbilt University Nashville TN USA
2024 Hans Lee MD Johns Hopkins Medicine Baltimore MD USA

 

DIU Travel/Education Grant Award

YEAR
AWARDEE
TITLE
INSTITUTION
CITY
STATE
COUNTRY
2025 Belissa Lopez Peña MD San Juan City Hospital San Juan Puerto Rico USA
2025 Bishara Rizvi MBBS Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond Virginia USA
2024 Hira Irfan MD University of Cincinnati  Cincinnati  Ohio USA

 

AABIP RESEARCH GRANT AWARD

YEAR
AWARDEE
INSTITUTION
CITY
STATE
COUNTRY
TITLE
2024 Chan Yeu Pu MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston MA USA

Spray Cryotherapy for the Management of Benign Central Airway Stenosis (Cryo-BAS): A Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial

Published Article:

Airway Stents for Excessive Central Airway Collapse: A Randomized Controlled Open-label Trial
2023 Jamie Bessich, MD NYU Grossman School of Medicine New York NY USA

Rapid Evaluation of Bronchoscopic Biopsies Using Stimulated Raman Histology
2022 Kai Swenson, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston MA USA Assessing intraprocedural changes in regional ventilation via electrical impedance tomography (EIT) during bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(COPD)
2021 Andrew DeMaio, MD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD USA Defining adequacy of transbronchial biopsy for assessment of lung transplant rejection using conventional forceps and a novel sheath cryoprobe
2019-20 Jeff Thiboutot, MD
 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD USA

Optical Coherence Tomography for the in vivo Evaluation of Bronchial Thermoplasty on Airway Smooth Muscle

Published Articles:

Visualization and validation of the microstructures in the airway wall in vivo using diffractive optical coherence tomography

Direct Visualization and Quantitative Imaging of Small Airway Anatomy In Vivo Using Deep Learning Assisted Diffractive OCT
2018-19 Majid Shafiq, MD MPH
 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD USA

Big Data analysis of epidemiologic patterns in pleural disease

Published Articles:

Healthcare Costs and Utilization among Patients Hospitalized for Malignant Pleural Effusion

Epidemiologic Trends in Pleural Infection. A Nationwide Analysis
2016-17 Fayez Kheir, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston MA USA

Silicone Airway Stents for Excessive Dynamic Airway Collapse: A Randomized Placebo Controlled Double-Blinded Trial

Published Articles:

Intrapleural Fibrinolytic Therapy versus Early Medical Thoracoscopy for Treatment of Pleural Infection. Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Concurrent Versus Sequential Intrapleural Instillation of Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Deoxyribonuclease for Pleural Infection
2015-16 Balaji Laxmanan, MD University of Chicago Chicago IL USA Predictors of pleurodesis in patients treated with tunneled pleural catheters
2014-15 George Z. Cheng, MD Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston MA USA Use of combined vs. sequential Deoxyribonuclease and Tissue Plasminogen Activator in pleural effusions