AABIP Award Winners

Submit your nominations for the 2025 AABIP Awards by January 12, 2025!

Award recipients will receive:
  • An invitation to present at the 2025 AABIP Annual Conference in Austin, Texas August 14-16, 2025
  • Complimentary registration to the 2025 AABIP Annual Conference, with travel reimbursement up to $1000 and 1-night hotel accommodation at the conference hotel. 

 McLennan Award

YEAR
AWARDEE
TITLE
INSTITUTION
CITY
STATE
COUNTRY
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
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
2024 Hans Lee MD Johns Hopkins Medicine Baltimore MD 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
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
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
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