All profiles are dated to time of award unless otherwise noted.

2026

Outstanding Student Award

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Ashley Nmoh

Medical Student - Duke University

Ashley is a rising fourth-year medical student at Duke University School of Medicine. Read Bio

Outstanding Postdoctoral/Clinical Fellow Award

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Katia Crisler, M.D., M.Ed.

Fellow - Cincinnati Children's Medical Center

Dr. Crisler is a pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Read Bio

Outstanding Postdoctoral/Clinical Fellow Award

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Nina Hill, M.D., M.S.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center

Dr. Hill is a primary care provider and postdoctoral research fellow in the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center and the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. Read Bio

Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award 

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Committee Member, Member

Christian Pulcini, M.D., M.Ed., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics - University of Vermont

Christian D. Pulcini, MD, MEd, MPH is a pediatric emergency medicine attending and clinician scientist at the University of Vermont Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Vermont. Read Bio

Outstanding Mentor Award - 

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Sarah Beal, Ph.D.

Development Psychologist and Professor - Cincinnati Children's Medical Center

Dr. Beal is a developmental psychologist and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where she serves as the Director of the General Pediatrics Research Fellowship. Read Bio

Paper-of-the-Year Award - "Insurance dynamics during childhood in the fragmented US health system" (Shen et al, JAMA 2025)

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Ye Shen, Ph.D.

Harvard University

Dr. Shen is a graduate of the Harvard PhD Program in Health Policy. Read Bio

2025

Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award

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Member

Laura Chavez, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics - The Ohio State University

Laura Chavez is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Principal Investigator at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Read Bio

Outstanding Mentor Award

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Lisa Prosser, Ph.D.

Professor - University of Michigan Medical School

Dr. Lisa Prosser is a Professor and Director of the CHEAR Center. Her research focuses on measuring the comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of childhood health interventions using methods of decision sciences and economics. Read Bio

Outstanding Trainee Award

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Member

Rohan Khazanchi, M.D., M.P.H.

Resident, Harvard Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program - Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, and Boston Medical Center

Rohan Khazanchi, M.D., M.P.H., is a health services researcher and resident physician in the Harvard Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Combined Residency Program at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, and Boston Medical Center. Read Bio

2024 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

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Committee Member, Member

Kao-Ping Chua, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics - University of Michigan Medical School

Dr. Kao-Ping Chua, M.D., Ph.D., is a primary care pediatrician and health services researcher in the Department of Pediatrics and the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center at the University of Michigan School of Medicine. Read Bio

2023 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

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Jason Nagata, MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics - University of California, San Francisco

Jason Nagata, M.D., M.Sc. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and affiliated faculty with the Institute for Global Health Sciences and the Center for Sexual and Gender Minority Health. Read Bio

2022 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

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Araceli Gonzalez, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology - California State University

Dr. Gonzalez is an Associate Professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach. Read Bio

2021 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

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Olivia Lindly, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor - Northern Arizona University

Dr. Olivia Lindly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Northern Arizona University. Read Bio

2020 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

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Charlene Wong, M.D., M.S.H.P.

Assistant Professor - Duke University Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Charlene Wong, MD MSHP is an adolescent medicine pediatrician and health services researcher. Read Bio

2019 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

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Megan Tschudy, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Megan M. Tschudy, M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School ... Read Bio

2018 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Dr. Kristin Ray

Kristin Nielsen Ray, M.D., M.S.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Dr. Kristin Ray, is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine an... Read Bio

2016 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Katherine Auger, M.D., M.S.

Pediatric Hospitalist - Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Dr. Katherine Auger is a pediatric hospitalist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. Read Bio

2015 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

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Naomi Bardach, M.D., M.A.S.

Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy - University of California San Francisco

Dr. Bardach is a Professor of Pediatrics and Policy in the Department of Pediatrics and the Philip R. Lee Inst... Read Bio

2014 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Donald Chi

Assistant Professor - University of Washington School of Dentistry

2013 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Jay Berry, M.D., M.P.H.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Jay Berry is assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Read Bio

2012 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

2011 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Patrick Conway, M.D., M.Sc.

2010 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Astrid Guttmann, M.D.C.M., M.Sc.

2009 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Paul J. Chung, M.D., M.S.

2008 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Christopher P. Landrigan, M.D., M.P.H. 

2007 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Matthew M. Davis, M.D., M.A.P.P.

2006 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Michael D. Cabana, M.D., M.P.P. 

2005 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Cynthia S. Minkovitz, M.D., M.P.P.

2004 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Christopher B. Forrest, M.D., Ph.D.

2003 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Mark A. Schuster, M.D., Ph.D.

2002 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

Karen Kuhlthau, Ph.D.

2001 - Nemours Child Health Services Research Award

William Cooper, M.D., M.P.H.