CJASN Trainee of the Year

CJASN is strongly committed to the next generation of nephrologists and strives to encourage junior colleagues as they begin their careers. In honor of this commitment, in 2019, CJASN launched CJASN Trainee of the Year, a prize contest among trainees for the best article submitted to the journal by a trainee as first author. This competition recognizes outstanding work done by junior colleagues in the early stages of their careers in nephrology.

Eligibility Criteria:

• Submission eligibility for the 2021 competition is June 15, 2020-June 16, 2021 11:59 PM ET.
• The study must report upon original research conducted by the Trainee.
• The first author must be a Trainee (defined as student, resident, graduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or fellow).
• The trainee must be a member of the American Society of Nephrology at the time of submission of the manuscript. (ASN membership is free for Trainees. Become an ASN member)
• The article must be submitted during or within six (6) months of completion of the training program. A 12-month extension will be considered for child-birth in the last year of training or within six (6) months of completion of the training program, allowing for submission within 18 months of completion of training.
• Prize recipients will not be eligible in subsequent years.
• The submitting author must select “CJASN Trainee of the Year” as the Manuscript Type during online submission to ensure the manuscript is considered for this competition. (Manuscripts will be reviewed to confirm correct Manuscript Type was selected.)

Judging Criteria:

• Significance: This will be the primary consideration and will entail an assessment of the extent to which the findings advance the field of nephrology.
• Internal and external validity of the findings reported in the study.
• Quality of writing including how well the manuscript describes the research methods, the clarity with which the results are presented, and putting the findings of the study in context of our current knowledge in the discussion.

Prizes (up to two cash prizes will be awarded):

• Cash prize:
  • $750 1^st place cash prize
  • $500 2^nd place cash prize
• Article page fees reimbursed/waived
• Announcement at Kidney Week*
• Certificate presented to the trainee at the annual CJASN Editorial Board Luncheon at Kidney Week
• Letter from CJASN EIC to Author’s Department Head and/or Division Chief upon acceptance

CJASN encourages all applicants to separately submit an abstract for consideration at Kidney Week following the “Call for Abstracts” announcement for Kidney Week 2021 on the same original research topic; poster acceptance cannot be guaranteed.

 

2020 Trainee of the Year Award Recipients

First Place Karly Murphy, MD, MHS				Association of Socioeconomic Status and Comorbidities with Racial Disparities during Kidney Transplant Evaluation Karly A. Murphy, John W. Jackson, Tanjala S. Purnell, Ashton A. Shaffer, Christine E. Haugen, Nadia M. Chu, Deidra C. Crews, Silas P. Norman, Dorry L. Segev and Mara A. McAdams-DeMarco Karly Murphy, MD, MHS, is a general internist and an assistant professor within the Division of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She attended Harvard Medical School before coming to Hopkins where she completed internal medicine residency (Urban Health track) and a GIM fellowship. Murphy is passionate about improving the health of vulnerable populations with multimorbidity. Her research focuses on understanding how medically complex, vulnerable populations utilize and navigate the health care system and on developing pragmatic interventions to improve chronic disease care.
				CJASN Editor-in-Chief Rajnish Mehrotra interviews Karly Murphy on the findings from her article, “Association of Socioeconomic Status and Comorbidities with Racial Disparities during Kidney Transplant Evaluation,” as well as her outlook on the field and advice for trainees. Listen now or read the transcript!
Second Place Jordan G. Nestor, MD				Pilot Study of Return of Genetic Results to Patients in Adult Nephrology Jordan G. Nestor, Maddalena Marasa, Hila Milo-Rasouly, Emily E. Groopman, S. Ali Husain, Sumit Mohan, Hilda Fernandez, Vimla S. Aggarwal, Dina F. Ahram, Natalie Vena, Kelsie Bogyo, Andrew S. Bomback, Jai Radhakrishnan, Gerald B. Appel, Wooin Ahn, David J. Cohen, Pietro A. Canetta, Geoffrey K. Dube, Maya K. Rao, Heather K. Morris, Russell J. Crew, Simone Sanna-Cherchi, Krzysztof Kiryluk and Ali G. Gharavi Jordan G. Nestor, MD, is an instructor of medicine at Columbia University. She aspires to become an independent translational genomics investigator and make meaningful contributions toward eliminating the inequities that contribute to higher rates of kidney disease among communities of color. Her research focuses on strategies for making genomic medicine more accessible to nephrologists and inclusive of diverse patient populations in hopes of improving the long-term health outcomes of these communities through personalized nephrology care. She holds a doctorate from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at Weill Cornell and her Nephrology and Precision Medicine fellowships at Columbia University.
				CJASN Editor-in-Chief Rajnish Mehrotra interviews Jordan G. Nestor on the findings from her article, “Pilot Study of Return of Genetic Results to Patients in Adult Nephrology,” as well as what sparked her interest in the field and where her research will take her. Listen now or read the transcript!

 

 

2019 Trainee of the Year Award Recipients

Tessa Novick, MD, MS, MSW       University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School		Associations of Opioid Prescriptions with Death and Hospitalization across the Spectrum of Estimated GFR Tessa K. Novick, Aditya Surapaneni, Jung-Im Shin, G. Caleb Alexander, Lesley A. Inker, Eric A. Wright, Alex R. Chang and Morgan E. Grams
Denver D. Brown, MD Children's National Hospital		Low Serum Bicarbonate and CKD Progression in Children Denver D. Brown, Jennifer Roem, Derek K. Ng, Kimberly J. Reidy, Juhi Kumar, Matthew K. Abramowitz, Robert H. Mak, Susan L. Furth, George J. Schwartz, Bradley A. Warady, Frederick J. Kaskel and Michal L. Melamed

 

Questions? Please contact Natalie Ngo, Managing Editor, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.