Meet the 2024 Winner: Prescott Woodruff, MD, MPH
Dr. Prescott Woodruff, MD, MPH trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital (residency in Internal Medicine), the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Channing Lab, respiratory epidemiology), Harvard School of Public Health (MPH) and UCSF (fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine) where he is now Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine at UCSF Health and director of the UCSF T32 Training grant (Multidisciplinary Training Program in Lung Disease). His research focuses on molecular phenotyping in asthma and COPD, airway epithelial cell biology, clinical cohort development and disparities in lung disease. His major scientific contributions include the study of T2 high and low endotypes of airway disease (both asthma and COPD) and the study of early COPD. He is a member of ASCI and AAP.
Description:
This award is intended for an established, internationally recognized investigator with a record of sustained exemplary achievement in the scientific areas of the Assembly. There is a single award given per year where the awardee will receive a framed certificate and make a 5-minute presentation of their work to the AII Assembly at the annual Assembly Membership Meeting. There is no monetary award given for this recognition.
Qualifications:
- The awardee must be a Primary or Secondary AII member.
- The nominee does not necessarily need to be an academic; investigators from industry or other settings are also eligible.
- Previous awardees are not eligible for the same award.
Nominations:
- Nominations will come from AII Primary or Secondary Assembly members.
- Submit a completed nomination form summarizing how the nominee has impacted their field or advanced scientific discovery. Include examples (from manuscripts, quality improvement initiatives, etc.) that support why the nominee merits this honor.
- Upload the nominee’s NIH Biosketch or equivalent research CV, limit 5 pages – please make sure that this reflects all of the activities noted on the nomination form.
View Previous Award Recipients
2023- Anuradha Ray PhD
2022 - Fernando Holguin, MD, MPH
2021 - Joseph Mizgerd, PhD
2020 - Sally Wenzel, MD, ATSF
2019 - Jeffrey L. Curtis, MD
2018 - Mitchell Olman, MD, MA
2017 - Serpil C. Erzurum, MD
2016 - Marc Peters-Golden, MD
2015 – John V. Fahy, MD
2014 - Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD
