Meet the 2024 Winner: Joanna Hart MD, MS
Dr. Joanna Hart is a practicing pulmonary and critical care physician at the University of Pennsylvania and the Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center. Her research broadly focuses on improving the serious illness experience for patients and families. Her approach recognizes that serious illness affects families, not just patients. Dr. Hart has particular research interests in how patients, families, and clinicians communicate with one another; the role families play in supporting patients with serious illnesses; how health systems integrate family members into care; and complex, value-sensitive shared decision making. She uses mixed methods, community-engaged research, longitudinal cohort studies, and clinical trials to advance the well-being of patients and their family members. Through all of her work, Dr. Hart emphasizes health equity and empathy. She is also deeply committed to the education of the next generation of physicians and health care leaders, particularly those facing structural barriers to their success in medicine. Dr. Hart proudly lives and works in the diverse West Philadelphia community.
Description:
The award will be given to a mid-career individual who has made outstanding scientific and scholarly contributions relevant to behavioral and social sciences, clinical epidemiology, statistics, health services research, health economics, comparative clinical efficacy and effectiveness research, patient-centered outcomes research, performance measurement, quality improvement, or implementation science. This award is to recognize individuals who have applied these methodologies to lung diseases, critical illness, or sleep disorders during their career, and who have made significant contributions to the BSHSR Assembly and the ATS as a whole. The award committee encourages nominations from groups who are under-represented in medicine. Awardees will be presented with a framed certificate at the ATS International conference.
Criteria:
- Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or an equivalent rank in a non-academic institution
- 10-20 years from completing all post-doctoral or clinical training, excluding time off for personal circumstances
- Current BSHSR member (primary or secondary membership)
- Has not previously received a Mid Career Achievement award from any ATS assembly
- The submission package must include the candidate’s updated curriculum vitae and a nomination letter from an assembly member addressing the candidate’s achievements within the scored award domains.
Scoring:
Applicants are scored on 6 criteria using a 1-5 rating system across the following categories; summed scores provide an overall score:
- Scientific and scholarly contributions/products
- Teaching/mentoring/educational contributions
- Participation in BSHSR Assembly activities (administrative, committees, workshops, etc.)
- Participation in other ATS activities (administrative, committees, workshops, etc.)
- Other considerations from recommendations including relevant extenuating circumstances
- Overall impact/impression of the dossier submitted for award application
