The American College of Rheumatology is pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of merit awards for rheumatology fellows. The intent of the Distinguished Fellow Awards Program is to recognize clinical and research fellows who are in a rheumatology fellowship training program and who have performed meritoriously. The recipients of these awards will be honored in Washington, DC at the time of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Rheumatology, during the week of November 9-14, 2012.

AWARD FUNDING

Ten awards in the amount of $1,500 each will be presented by the ACR. The Distinguished Fellow Awards Program is sponsored by the ACR and supported through the ACR Fellows Education Fund. As part of the 2012 Fellows Education Fund, the ACR thanks the following organizations for their support of the Distinguished Fellow Award Program: Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, UCB, Inc., and Janssen Biotech, Inc.

2012 Awardees

Elana Bernstein, MD
Hospital for Special Surgery

Scott Canna, MD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Daria Crittenden, MD
New York University School of Medicine

Melissa Cunningham, MD, PhD
Medical University of South Carolina Program

Sharon Frattalone, DO
Walter Reed Bethesda (National Capital Consortium)

Shaun Jackson, MD, PhD
Seattle Children's Hospital

Jason Knight, MD, PhD
University of Michigan

Erica Lawson, MD
University of California (San Francisco), Pediatric

Zsuzsanna McMahan, MD
Johns Hopkins University

Eveline Wu, MD
Duke University Hospital, Pediatric