Named in honor of Dr. Thomas T. Yoshikawa and his wife, Catherine—who together served the AGS and the geriatrics community for more than two decades—the Yoshikawa Award will offer recognition and financial support to emerging eldercare scholars who represent the early promise of the Yoshikawas’ own illustrious career. The award, which includes a $2,000 honorarium, has been supported through 2032 thanks to generous support from AGS members and countless friends and colleagues of the Dr. and Mrs. Yoshikawa.
2026 Recipient: Ariel Green, MD, MPH, PhD, AGSF
Dr. Ariel Green, MD, MPH, PhD, AGSF, Associate Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University is the 2026 recipient of the Thomas & Catherine Yoshikawa Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in Clinical Investigation.
Dr. Ariel Green is an internationally recognized leader in deprescribing research, with a longstanding goal of optimizing medication use for older adults with multiple chronic conditions, particularly those with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). Her work focuses on developing and implementing evidence-based, patient- and care partner-centered strategies to improve older adults’ health outcomes by reducing potentially inappropriate medication use. Her research portfolio spans pragmatic clinical trials, pharmacoepidemiology, and mixed-methods approaches, including qualitative and survey methods to elicit the values, preferences, and priorities of older adults and their care partners.
Dr. Green has recently worked on projects such as a full-scale effectiveness trial of “ALIGN: Aligning Medications with What Matters Most,” a pragmatic, pharmacist-led deprescribing intervention for patients with cognitive impairment in primary care. Dr. Green is currently building upon her previous work to develop and pilot a patient portal-based version of ALIGN.
Widely recognized for her contributions to geriatrics and aging research, Dr. Green has garnered several peer-reviewed grants as Principal Investigator, including a K23 and R01 from the NIA, pilot awards from the NIA’s IMPACT Collaboratory and the U.S. Deprescribing Research Network, and a Demonstration Project grant from the IMPACT Collaboratory. Dr. Green is an active member of the AGS community and, among her many contributions, currently serves as Chair of the Clinical Practice and Models of Care Committee. Her achievements within the Society include receiving Fellow status in 2023, the Junior Investigator of the Year award in 2022, the Choosing Wisely Champion Award in 2016, and an AGS Outstanding Committee Service Award in 2014.
Past Recipients of the Thomas and Catherine Yoshikawa Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award
2026 Ariel Green, MD, MPH, PhD, AGSF
2025 Nancy Schoenborn, MD, MHS
2024 C. Barrett Bowling, MD, MSPH
2023 Dae Kim, MD, MPH, ScD
2022 Amy S. Kelly, MD, MSHS
2020 Alexander Smith, MD, MS, MPH
2019 Amy Kind, MD, PhD
2018 Heather Whitson, MD, MHS
2017 Sei Lee, MD, MAS
2016 Mara Schonberg, MD, MPH
2015 Rebecca Sudore, MD
2014 XinQi Dong, MD, MPH
2013 Cynthia J. Brown, MD, MSPH
2012 Malaz A. Boustani, MD, MPH
2011 Catherine A. Sarkisian, MD, MSPH
2010 Cynthia M. Boyd, MD, MPH
2009 Louise C. Walter, MD
2008 R. Sean Morrison, MD
2007 Eric A. Coleman, MD, MPH
2006 David J. Cassaret, MD, MS
2005 Joe Verghese, MBBS, MS
2004 Terri R. Fried, MD
2003 Edward Marcantonio, MD, Boston, MA
2002 James T. Pacala, MD, Minneapolis, MN
2001 Thomas M. Gill, MD, New Haven, CT
2001 Greg A. Sachs, MD, Chicago, IL
2000 Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN