Michael Liu
The Clinical Student Research Award is presented to undergraduate students in medicine, dentistry, nursing, social work, pharmacy, occupational therapy, or physical therapy who have submitted exceptional research for presentation at the AGS Annual Scientific Meeting, pointing to their promising future careers in geriatrics. Michael Liu, a 3rd-year medical student at the University of Arizona and a Harvard University Master of Public Health candidate in Quantitative Methods, is the recipient of this year’s award for his epidemiology research presented at #AGS18. Mr. Liu’s study, “Relationship Between Gait Speed and Survival Among Older Adults with Hematologic Malignancies,” examines gait speed as a predictor of survival among 420 people 75-years-old and older living with blood cancers. Mr. Liu is a Medical Student Training in Aging Research (MSTAR) scholar and has been first author for four publications in leading medical journals. He is pursuing a research career in geriatric oncology, and is already working toward that goal through the Research in Aging Training Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Center in Massachusetts.
Past Recipients of the Clinician Student Research Award
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