The winner of the Blakemore Prize for 2023, is Miguel M. Leiva Juárez, MD, MSE., a graduate of the General Surgery Residency Program at New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical Center. He receives $2,000 in prize money, and his name will be added to the Blakemore Plaque listing previous winners, hanging on the wall on 7 Garden South, in the Milstein Hospital Building. See previous Blakemore Prize winners.
The Blakemore Prize is awarded annually for the best body of research performed by a graduating Chief General Resident during the training program. A research committee composed of current surgery faculty members, review submissions.
Dr Leiva Juárez will begin a Thoracic Fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he plans to continue his research on lung transplantation, focusing on, “understanding the role of foregut function on long term outcomes after transplant,” His goal is to continue bringing clinical problems to the bench and back to the clinical field to improve patient outcomes. See information on his research.
The Review Committee congratulates Dr. Leiva Juarez on his outstanding research achievements, and wish him continued success as a surgeon and research scientist.
Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore joined the surgical faculty in 1936. He and Dr. Arthur B. Voorhees, Jr., were distinguished vascular surgeons in our department who described laboratory and clinical studies of vascular replacement using Vinyon N sail cloth in 1954. Blakemore was a surgical innovator also well known for the Blakemore tube, widely used in the past for the treatment of bleeding esophageal varices.
As a resident working in Blakemore's laboratory, Dr. Voorhees appreciated the importance of laboratory research by house staff and later established a fund to support the Blakemore Prizes and Awards. Dr. Roman Nowygrod a current faculty member and a vascular surgeon, has been a pivotal figure in maintaining the tradition of these research prizes.
For further information on the Blakemore Prize and Awards, and the Resident Research Symposium, contact:
Giovanni Ferrari PhD
Vice Chair of Research & Director, Cardiothoracic Surgery Research
Associate Professor of Surgery and BME
Columbia University
Email: gf2375@cumc.columbia.edu
Web: https://www.ferrarilabcolumbia.com/