Awards and Recognition
The BCH Academy for Teaching and Educational Innovation and Scholarship congratulates the 2023–2024 grant awardees. The primary aim of the grant is to support either ongoing or proposed clinical teaching innovations and/or scholarly pursuits (including education research) within Boston Children’s Hospital. Click here for the full list awardees dating back to 2017.
2023 Academy Health Professional Education Grant Awardees

Jonathan Awori, MD, MS, MFA
Applications of Virtual Reality (VR) to Enhance Learner Understanding of Congenital Heart Disease

Katherine Canty, MD
Enhancing Sentinel Injury Recognition and Reducing Bias in Occult Injury Screening and Reporting in Child Physical Abuse through a Tiered-Complexity Reverse Boot Camp Simulation Curriculum

Eric Gaier, MD, Ph.D.
Assessing the Impact of the Resident Research Showcase

Christina Kratlian, MD, MA
Interdisciplinary Advocacy Education Curriculum in Primary Care

Kristen Richard, MD
Best Virtual Learning Practices for an Unscripted Hybrid Case Conference

Patricia Stoeck, MD
Developing a Psychologically Safe Peer Coaching Initiative for Pediatric Hospitalists: Using Video Recorded Feedback Conversations to Propel Change
2023 John Cloherty Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award

Joshua Nagler, MD, MHPEd
Emergency Medicine
HMS Associate Professor of Pediatrics
2023 BCH Academy Award for Achievement in Educational Scholarship and Innovation

Kate Donovan, PhD, MBA, MS
Clinical Director of Innovation, Inpatient Medical Programs
2023 BCH Academy Ambassador Award for Distinguished Participation and Contribution to Educational Excellence

Lynn Bush, PhD, MS, MA
HMS Lecturer in Pediatrics, Part-time, Genetics
2022 John Cloherty Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award

Christy Cummings, MD
Department of Pediatrics

Ariel Winn, MD
Department of Pediatrics
2022 BCH Academy Award for Achievement in Educational Scholarship and Innovation

Laura Chiel, MD
Department of Pediatrics, Pulmonary Division
2022 Ambassador Award for Distinguished Participation and Contribution to Educational Excellence

Erica Lee, PhD
Department of Psychiatry

Ellen Brennan, DPT
Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy
2021 John Cloherty Excellence in Clinical Teaching Award

Debra Hillier, MD
Medical Clinical Care

Sarah Pitts, MD
Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
2021 BCH Academy Award for Achievement in Educational Scholarship and Innovation

Carolyn Marcus, MD
General Pediatrics
2021 Ambassador Award for Distinguished Participation and Contribution to Educational Excellence

Donna Luff, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine

Matthew Taylor, RN
SIMPeds Program