This award honors an undergraduate student in dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, or social work who submitted the most outstanding student abstract for the AGS Annual Scientific Meeting.
2025 Recipient: Gabrielle Katz
Gabrielle Katz is the 2025 Clinician Student Research Award recipient for her submission, “Provision of Air Conditioning and Mortality During Extreme Heat in Nursing Homes: A Case Crossover Study in Ontario, Canada.” Examining whether extreme heat was associated with an increased risk of mortality in Ontario nursing homes with and without air conditioning, Gabrielle’s work will be important in guiding the implementation of cooling technology in nursing homes and other congregate settings for older adults, especially as climate change leads to more frequent extreme heat events. Gabrielle has an impressive research background, including two first-author reports for the Ontario COVID-19 Science Table and a first author publication in JAMA Health Forum. A second-year medical student at the University of Toronto, Gabrielle’s passion for geriatrics, research, and leadership position her to be a promising leader in geriatric medicine and aging research.
Past Recipients of the Clinician Student Research Award
2025 Gabrielle Katz
2024 Elizabeth Margaret Ann Kelly
2023 Matthew Cosmai
2022 Dallas Mindo-Panusis
2021 Linda H. Phung
2020 Vanessa Ho, MS
2019 Smrithi Sukumar
2018 Michael Liu
2017 Laura Hatchman
Jessica Rizzuto
2016 Margaret Puelle, BS
2015 Justin Yamamoto
2014 Julie Thai, MPH
Lucille Brunker
2013 Nerissa Duchin
Bianca Methvin
2012 Israel (Riley) Peña, Jr.
2011 Siobhan M. Case, BA, MS-II
2010 Cynthia So, BS, MSII
2009 Melissa M. Fish, MS-II
2008 Gina Fujikami, MSIV
2007 Priscilla Yee, MSIV