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HOPE Award

The House Staff Organization Professionalism Excellence (HOPE) Award was created in 2011 to honor our Emory residents and fellows who demonstrate exceptional professionalism in working with patients and colleagues. The goal of this annual award is to recognize those Emory residents and fellows who excel in collaborating with colleagues across different departments. These are the people you particularly enjoy working with and find extremely helpful when caring for your patients. Winners will be announced at the end of the academic year.

 

2022-2023 HOPE Award Winners

Overall Winner

  • Sarah Newman, Neurological Surgery

Overall Runner-up Winner

  • Emma Rooney, Vascular Surgery

Internal Medicine
Martin Campbell
Alvaro Ceballos  
Charlie Fortin-Leung 

Primary Care
Alanna Meadows, Family Medicine  
Hanain Fazal, Family Medicine
Matthew Young, Family Medicine / Carolina Huertas Ayala, Family Medicine

Surgery
Chadd Funk, Neurological Surgery
Megan Cosgrove,  Neurological Surgery
Zachary Grady, General Surgery

Specialties
Vanessa Nguyen, Child Neurology
Julie Cronan, Interventional Radiology - Integrated
Jimmy Patel, Radiation Oncology

Fellows
Isaiah Rolle, Vascular Neurology
Matthew Stanley, Thoracic Surgery
Hassan Aboul Nour, Vascular Neurology

Previous HOPE Award Winners

2020-2021

Overall Winner

  • Mina Ghobrial, Emergency Medicine

Overall Runner-up Winner

  • Chadd Funk, Neurosurgery

2019-2020

Overall Winner

  • James Malcolm - Neurosurgery

Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Preventive Medicine and Transitional Year

  • Tammy Lin - Emergency Medicine
  • Tyler Giberson - Emergency Medicine
  • Peyton Jones - Emergency Medicine

Internal Medicine and Internal Medicine/Psychiatry

  • Elizabeth McCord - Internal Medicine-Psychiatry
  • Craig Cook - Internal Medicine

General Surgery, Surgery Research, Neurosurgery, OB/GYN, Ophthalmology, and Oral Surgery

  • James Malcolm - Neurosurgery
  • Nealen Laxpati - Neurosurgery

Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Thoracic Surgery-Integrated, Plastic Surgery-Integrated, Vascular Surgery-Integrated and Urology

  • Matthew Broggi - Orthopaedics
  • William Godfrey - Orthopaedics

Anesthesiology, Medical Genetics and Genomics. Neurology, Nuclear Medicine, Pathology, Rehab Medicine, Radiology and Interventional Radiology-Integrated

  • Eric Lawson - Neurology
  • Anuj Dhir - Neurology
  • Jenny Joseph - Neurology

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology, and Dermatology

  • Philip Bowers - Psychiatry
  • James Janopaul-Naylor - Radiation Oncology

ACGME Fellows Voting Cohort 1

  • Jesse O'shea - Infectious Disease
  • Meredith Greer - Pulmonary Disease/Critical Care Medicine
  • Randi Connor-Schuler - Pulmonary Disease/Critical Care Medicine

ACGME Fellows Voting Cohort 2

  • Elkins Kathryn - Child Neurology
  • Deepika Koganti - Surgical Critical Care
  • Thomas Reeve - Vascular Surgery

2018-2019

Overall Winner

Spencer K Hutto (Neurology)

Primary Care 1 (Tie)

  • Isabel Malone (Emergency Medicine)
  • Brandon Elliot Giberson (Emergency Medicine)

Primary Care 2 (Tie)

  • Caitlin Roberson Anderson (Internal Medicine)
  • Amalia Aldredge (Internal Medicine)

Surgery

Nealen Gordon Laxpati (Neurosurgery)

Specialties

Denise Fay Chen (Neurology)

Fellows

Alfonso Claudio Hernandez (Infectious Diseases)

2017-2018

Overall Winner

Kristy Whyte - Emergency Medicine  

Primary Care

  • Sar Medoff - Emergency Medicine
  • John Haydek – Internal Medicine 

Surgery

Jessica Kramer – General Surgery 

Specialties

Spencer Hutto - Neurology 

Fellows

Jennifer Spicer – Infectious Diseases 

2016-2017

Overall Winner

Daniel Rutz - Emergency Medicine

Primary Care

  • Daniel Rutz - Emergency Medicine (overall winner)
  • Christopher Bodle - Emergency Medicine

Surgery

  • Paul Ghareeb - Plastic Surgery
  • Laura Bellaire - Orthopedics

Specialties

  • Ming "Sammy" Lee - Neurology
  • William Roche - Neurology

Fellows

  • Cheryl Maier - Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine
  • Priya Rajdev - Critical Care Medicine 

2014-2015

Overall Winner

Lauren Hudak (Emergency Medicine)

Primary Care

  • Lauren Hudak (Emergency Medicine)
  • Katherine Nugent (Emergency Medicine)
  • Pearl Arnovitz (Emergency Medicine)

Surgery

  • Jason Chu (Neurosurgery)
  • Sarah Fisher (General Surgery)
  • Christopher Funderburk (General Surgery)
  • Ajay Ganti (OMFS)
  • David McCracken (Neurosurgery)

Specialties

  • Michael Kassin (Radiology)
  • Adam Prater (Radiology)
  • Meena Kannan (Neurology)
  • Jay Patel (Radiology)

Fellows

  • Charlotte Paige Rolle (Infectious Disease)
  • Chandler Long (Vascular Surgery)
  • Jason Brown (Gastroenterology)
  • Mahmoud Abdou (Cardiology) 
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