The Silverstein Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in the Surgical and Related Medical Specialties recognizes emerging researchers across health care committed to careers in aging. Their geriatrics-focused work in surgical and other medical specialties helps to advance the unique care we all need as we age.
2026 Recipient: Cameron J. Gettel, MD, MHS
The 2026 Jeffrey H. Silverstein Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in the Surgical and Related Medical Specialties was awarded to Cameron J. Gettel, MD, MHS Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine.
An emerging national leader in geriatric emergency care whose work is transforming how older adults experience acute care transitions, Dr. Gettel research portfolio spans patient- and caregiver-reported outcome measurement, care fragmentation, rural-urban disparities in access, ED boarding, and the financial burden of acute care for older adults. His work has directly shaped quality measurement and policy at the national level, including contributions to CMS’s Hospital Star Ratings program, the GUIDE Model, and the first emergency medicine-specific MIPS Value Pathway. In addition to his role as Assistant Professor in the Yale Department of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Gettel is a Clinical Investigator at the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation. A recipient of both a National Institute of Aging (NIA) GEMSSTAR R03 and a Beeson Award (K76), he is currently developing innovative digital health interventions to improve ED-to-community transitions for persons living with cognitive impairment and their care partners.
Dr. Gettel also serves as a Co-Director of Yale Emergency Scholars (YES) Program at Yale School of Medicine where he mentors early-career researchers, including trainees interested in geriatrics-focused research. In 2023, he presented his abstract “An Outcome Comparison Between Geriatric and Non-geriatric Emergency Departments” at the AGS Annual Scientific Meeting Plenary Paper Session, having been chosen as one of the top three submissions of over a thousand abstracts. He was honored with the Health in Aging Foundation New Investigator Award that same year. Dr. Gettel has also received a Yale OAIC Pepper Center Scholar Awar, and NIA-funded IMPACT Collaboratory Career Development Award and an Alzheimer's Association Advancing Research on Care and Outcome Measurement (ARCOM) Award.
Past Recipients of the Jeffrey H. Silverstein Memorial Award
2026 Cameron J. Gettel, MD, MHS
2025 Anais Rameau, MD
2024 Michael Devinney, MD, PhD
2023 Elizabeth L. Whitlock, MD
2022 Lauren Southerland, MD
2021 Lindsay Hampson, MD, MAS
2020 Kavita Vyas Dharmarajan, MD
2020 Nazema Y. Siddiqui, MD
2019 Courtney Balentine, MD, MPH
2019 Candace Yvonne Parker-Autry, MD
2018 Tony Rosen, MD, MPH
2017 Anne M. Suskind, MD, MS