The Outstanding Junior Clinician Education Manuscript Award is targeted to clinician-educator junior faculty (Assistant Professor/Instructor) in the development stages of their careers. The junior faculty member must have first-authored an outstanding peer-reviewed clinical education journal article focused on the care of older adults. Selection of award winners will consider the article's novelty, methodological, clarity of presentation, and potential to influence education relevant to the care of older adults.
2026 Recipient: Catherine Dawson, MD
The 2026 recipient of the Outstanding Junior Clinician Education Manuscript award is Catherine Dawson, MD, Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Medicine; investigator at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center; and Medical Director of the Interprofessional Geriatrics Clinic at the VA in Bedford, MA. She is being recognized for her work on “The State of Geriatrics Education at US Medical Schools: A National Survey of Medical Education Deans” published in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society in 2025.
Her nominated manuscript illuminates how leaders of medical school curricula perceive geriatrics. To unearth these perceptions, Dr. Dawson and her colleagues designed and disseminated a national survey to Medical Education Deans at all 191 accredited allopathic and osteopathic US medical schools in 2021. With an impressive response rate of 73%, they concluded that there are gaps between the current and desired state of geriatrics education at the national level. The potential impact of Dr. Dawson’s work is far-reaching, given its insights into leadership priorities and motivators on a national scale, which can springboard action plans for feasible curricular change.
Past Recipients of the Outstanding Junior Clinical Education Manuscript Award
2026 Catherine Dawson, MD
2025 Eva Syzmanski, MD & Jessica Zuo, MD
2024 Kimberly Beiting, MD
2023 Susan Glassburn, PhD, MSW
2022 Patricia G. Ng, MD, FACP
2021 Anna Goroncy, MD
2020 Marcia Mecca, MD
2019 Rebecca Brown, MD, MPH
2014 Erika Rozalia Manu, MD
2013 Kimberly S. Johnson, MD, MHS