Previous Winners

2021

Alison Norris Winner 

Dr. Alexandra Mazo & Dr. Rebecca Levy 

AECOM/Montefiore Medical Center

Basic Science

Dr. Joselyn Reyes Bahamonde

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Clinical Science
1^st Place Dr. Sergio Dellepiane (Mt. Sinai)

2^nd Place Dr. Nick Fuco (Mt. Sinai)

3^rd Place: Dr. Andrew Moses (Columbia)

2019

Alison Norris Award Winner

Belen A. Nunez

AECOM / Montefiore Medical Center

“Association between Serum Bicarbonate Levels and Cognitive Function among Older Community Dwelling Adults”

First Place Basic Science

Divya Shankaranarayanan

New York Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medical College

“Tipping the Balance from An Allograft Destructive Immune Response to A Protective One Including Tolerance by CRAC Channel Blockade”

First Place Clinical Science

Niralee Patel

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

“Hypernatremia Correction: It’s not the Inverse of Hyponatremia!”

Second Place Clinical Science

Jeanne Kamal

New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Irving Medical Center

“Clinicopathologic Assessment of Monoclonal Immunoglobulin

(MIg) -associated Renal Disease in the Kidney Allograft, A Retrospective Study and Review of the Literature”

Third Place Clinical Science

Denver Brown

The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

“Group Based Care in Adults and Adolescents with Uncontrolled Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease”

2018

Alison Norris Award Winner

Sarah Ramer

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

“Health Outcome Priorities of Older Adults with Advanced CKD and Concordance with their Nephrology Providers’ Perceptions”

First Place Clinical Research

Siddhartha Kattamanchi

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

“Using IVC collapsibility and lung ultrasound to determine UF goal in dialysis patients”

Second Place Clinical Research

Syed Ali Husain

New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center

“Patients Prioritize Waitlist Factors over Outcomes When Evaluating Kidney Transplant Centers”

First Place Basic/Translational Research

Samira S. Farouk

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

“Hematopoietic Cell Kinase (Hck) Regulates Effector and Regulatory T Cell (Treg) Function”

Second Place Basic/Translational Research

Joshua L. Rein

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

“3D Modeling of Potassium Secretion in the Kidney Cortical Collecting Duct”

2017

Alison Norris Award Winner

Jamil Ibrahim

Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine

“High Risk Medication Discrepancies in Late Stage Chronic Kidney Disease”

First Place Clinical Research

Syed Ali Husain

New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center

“Characteristics and Performance of Unilateral Deceased Donor Kidney Transplants”

Second Place Clinical Research

Lili Chan

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

“National Estimates of Thirty Day Unplanned Readmissions in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis”

First Place Basic/Translational Research

Molly Fisher

Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

“Pharmacologic blockade of prostaglandin transporter (PGT) attenuates cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity”

Second Place Basic/Translational Research

Saritha Ranabothu, MD

The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

“Single-Cell RNA Sequencing of Kidney and Skin Biopsies of Patients with Lupus Nephritis: A Novel Approach to Understand the Molecular Mechanisms”