Select Societies and Awards

National Academies

Election to the National Academy of Sciences or the National Academy of Medicine is one of the highest honors a physician or physician-scientist can achieve. No pediatric program has had more residents selected for membership in these two prestigious than the BCRP.

Active members of the National Academy of Sciences or the National Academy of Medicine who are graduates of the residency program:
Nancy C. Andrews
Scott Armstrong
Donald M. Berwick
Diana W. Bianci
Jan L. Breslow
Atul Butte
Patrick Conway
Jonathan E. Fielding
Jonathan D. Gitlin
Todd R. Golub
Stephen A. Grupp
Alan E. Guttmacher
Jodi Heymann
Joel Hirschhorn
Margaret K. Hostetter
Anna Huttenlocher
Richard Johnston
Stephen Joseph
Rainu Kaushal
Isaac S. Kohane
Philip J. Landrigan
Rudolph Leibel
Kenneth D. Mandl
Louis J. Muglia
Jane W. Newburger
Stuart H. Orkin
Philip A. Pizzo
Scott Pomeroy
Bonnie Ramsey
Frederick Rivara
Mark C. Rogers
Joshua Scharfstein
Mark A. Schuster
Alan L. Schwartz

Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics

The 1968-1996 graduates won 35% of the E. Mead Johnson awards (the most prestigious research award in pediatrics) that could have been won by their classes. Overall Children’s trainees and faculty have won 37% of the 168 awards given since the inception of the award in 1939.

Residents who were awarded the E. Mead Johnson award for research in pediatrics (year awarded):
Erwin W. Gelfand (1981)
Samuel E. Lux IV (1983)
John A. Phillips III (1984)
Jan L. Breslow (1984)
Raif S. Geha (1986)
Stuart H. Orkin (1987)
Alan L. Schwartz (1993)
Margaret K. Hostetter (1995)
Alan M. Krensky (1995)
Donald Y.M. Leung (1997)
Jonathan D. Gitlin (1998)
Steve A.N. Goldstein (2001)
Nancy C. Andrews (2002)
David S. Pellman (2006)
Marc E. Rothenberg (2007)
Todd R. Golub (2008)
Victor Nizet (2008)
Joel Hirschhorn (2011)
Scott A. Armstrong (2012)
William Pu (2013)
Atul Butte (2014)
Loren Walensky (2015)
Kimberly Stegmaier (2016)
Sallie R. Permar (2021)
Vijay Sankaran (2022)

Society for Pediatric Research Young Investigator Award

Since the inception of the SPR Young Investigator award in 1983, Children’s Hospital or BCRP-trained Faculty have won 42% of the awards given.

Residents who won the SPR Young Investigator Award (year awarded):
Alan L. Schwartz (1983)
Alan M. Krensky (1985)
Edward V. Prochownik (1986)
Roger E. Breitbart (1998)
Nancy C. Andrews (1994)
Todd R. Golub (1997)
Louis J. Muglia (1999)
Joel N. Hirschhorn (2004)
Brian J. Feldman (2008)
Loren D. Walensky (2009)
Atul J. Butte (2010)
Kimberly Stegmaier (2012)
Sallie R. Permar (2014)
Vijay G. Sankaran (2015)
Jeff Dvorin (2016)
Daniel E. Bauer (2017)
Alex Kentsis (2018)
Seth Rakoff-Nahoum (2022)