SRM 2026 Photos
Founders' Medal Award
Congratulations to Kenneth Nugent, MD, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, the SSCI's 2026 Founders' Medal Award recipient!
Mentor of the Year Awards
Student
Erin M. Peacock, PhD, MPH
Tulane University School of Medicine
Postgraduate
Joseph B. Barney, MD, MSPH
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Junior Faculty
Michael E. Hall, MD, MSc
University of Mississippi Medical Center
(Accepted by S. Calvin Thigpen, MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center)
Early Career Awards
The 2026 Early Career Faculty Award was presented to Flor Alvarado, MD, MHS, MPH, Tulane University School of Medicine.
AJMS Tinsley Harrison Award
The 2026 AJMS Tinsley Harrison Award was presented to Ahmed Daoud, Medical University of South Carolina for his paper entitled "ACEI/ARB use Within One Year of Kidney Transplant is Associated with Less AKI and Graft Loss in Elderly".
SSCI Research Scholar Award
The 2026 Tinsley Harrison Award was presented to Chao He, MD, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine for his paper entitled "Stiffness Drives Macrophage Fibrotic Programming Via Coupled Metabolic and Epigenetic Rewiring".
SSCI Awards
SSCI Tinsley Harrison Scholars
SSCI Michael S. & Kathy J. Bronze Young Investigator Awards
First
Laibah Khan, MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center
"Chronic Kidney Disease with Inflammation and Incident Coronary Heart Disease in Black Adults from the Jackson Heart Study"
Second
Syed Javaid, MD, University of Mississippi Medical Center
"Inflammatory Obesity and Heart Failure in Black Adults: Insights from the Jackson Heart Study"
Third
Flavia Queiroga, MD, Emory University School of Medicine
"Efficacy And Safety of Second-Generation Aldosterone Synthase Inhibitors for Hypertension: A Bayesian Metaanalysis of Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Trials"
Nathan Solomon & Irene Oransky-Solomon Medical Student Awards
First
Rebecca Horowitz, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Mechanisms of Vaccine Hyporesponse in Hypertension"
Second
Anne D'Armond, Tulane University Health Sciences Center
"Metabolic And Survival Traits of Lung CD4+ Tissue-Resident Memory TH17 Cells in The Context of Klebsiella Pneumoniae"
SSCI Early Career Awards
Flor Alvarado, MD, MHS, MPH, Tulane University School of Medicine
SSCI Student Research Award
SSCI Trainee Research Award
SSCI Young Faculty Research Award
SSCI Poster Awards
First
Sameera Shuaibi, Ochsner Clinic Foundation
"Early Relapse of Hepatorenal Syndrome"
Second
Ngan Tran, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
"The Cost of Hand Injuries to Non-Us Citizen Manual Laborers"
Third
Ty Gregory, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
"Bromelain's Impact on Cytotoxicity and Differentiation in Myoblast"
