The Outstanding Junior Clinician Educator of the Year Award is targeted to an AGS Member who is a clinician-educator junior faculty (Assistant Professor/Instructor) in the development stages of their careers. The awardee will have made a significant contribution to the education and training of students/trainees in geriatrics and the progress of geriatrics education in health professions schools as evidenced by meeting some or all of the following criteria: significant contribution to the teaching of students/trainees; significant contribution to mentoring and providing career advice to students/trainees; significant contribution to educational program development. Teaching expertise, as well as educational program development, is valued in the selection of the recipient for this honor.
2025 Recipient: Omar Amir, MD, MS
Omar Amir, MD, MS, is the 2025 recipient of the Outstanding Junior Clinician Educator of the Year Award. Dr. Amir is the Director of the Age Friendly Acute Care Unit at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in New York City where he is dedicated to implementing geriatric standards of care according to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Geriatric 4Ms model. In his clinical and programmatic leadership roles, he has successfully implemented several quality-of-care initiatives including projects to optimize discharge efficiency and improve safe transitions of care for older adults, facilitate early patient mobilization and reduce pressure ulcer incidence, improve nutrition support to frail older adults and augment enhance workplace safety and wellbeing. He is universally regarded by his trainees as an excellent teacher, mentor, and role model. While attending the Harvard Macy Program for Educators in Health Professions, he developed an interprofessional team-based geriatrics curriculum for rural Indian Health Service Providers in South Dakota. He has championed this model as a way to extend geriatrics expertise to a vulnerable and underserved population, with a combination of direct clinical care and remote education.
In addition to mentoring residents, fellows, and faculty, he serves as co-faculty advisor for the Gold Humanism Honor Society at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he mentors new students who have been inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society and advises them on their capstone humanism in medicine service project. Among his many accomplishments and honors, he was chosen as a Stanford Medical Scholar and inducted into the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2011 and won the Student Recognition Award for Service in Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health in 2006.
Past Recipients of the Outstanding Junior Clinician Educator of the Year Award
2024 Mariah Robertson, MD, MPH
2023 Jennifer Ouellet, MD
2022 Norka Quillatupa, MD
2021 Pei Chen, MD
2020 Nina Blachman, MD, MHPE
2019 Skotti Church, MD
2018 Andrea Wershof Schwartz, MD, MPH
2017 Kristen Thornton, MD, FAAFP, AGSF, CWSP
2016 Jessica Colburn, MD
2015 Shaida Talebreza Brandon, MD
2014 Danelle Cayea, MD, MS
2013 Manuel Eskildsen, MD, MPH, CMD