Fellow Awards

2023 Clinical Trialist Early Career Development Scholars awardees: Benjamin Ranard, MD, MSHP, and Jerard Z. Kneifati-Hayek, MD, MS.

The Clinical Trialist Early Career Development Scholars Award recognizes proposals for innovative clinical trials that aim to advance treatment and interventions for multiple areas of health and medicine and increase access to clinical trials for underrepresented groups.


2022-2024 Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program awardees: Jerard Z. Kneifati-Hayek, MD, MS; Danielle Carter, MD, MS; and Pooja Reddy, MD, MS.

The Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program promotes training of physicians in clinical research to facilitate development of biomedical advances in New York State. This grant has been awarded specifically for leveraging health IT to identify and prevent patient safety hazards.


Rustin McIntosh Fellowship awardees: Amanda Esteves, MD, MS (2023), and Pooja Reddy, MD, MS (2022).

The Rustin McIntosh Fellowship honors a pediatric postgraduate fellow who best exemplifies the attributes of Dr. McIntosh during his tenure: a “spirit of doubt and need for inquiry” that led to breakthroughs in the treatments of many childhood diseases. 


Complete List of Awards Received by PSR Fellows

Amanda Esteves, MD, MS
Rustin McIntosh Fellowship Award, CUIMC Department of Pediatrics, 2023
Addressing Racism Seed Grant Initiative (Co-I)
Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, Columbia University, 2021

Anne Grauer, MD, MS
The Doctors Company Foundation Grant Award, 2023–2025

Jerard Kneifati-Hayek, MD, MS
Loan Repayment Program (PI), National Library of Medicine, 2023–2025
Columbia’s Clinical Trialist Scholars Award , 2023–2024
ECRIP Fellow, 2022–2024
Loan Repayment Program (PI), National Library of Medicine, 2021–2023
Roy M. Pitkin Award, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2021

Danielle Carter, MD, MS
ECRIP Fellow, 2022–2024

Benjamin Ranard, MD, MSHP
Columbia’s Clinical Trialist Scholars Award , 2023–2024
Strategic Priorities-Learning Health System Pilot Award (Co-I)
Columbia University Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, 2022–2023

Pooja Reddy, MD, MS
ECRIP Fellow, 2022–2024
Rustin McIntosh Fellowship Award, CUIMC Department of Pediatrics, 2022
SPLIT Trainee Travel Grant Award, Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation, 2021

Amanda Rosen, MD, MS
Susan P. Baker Award for Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
Mailman School of Public Health, 2022