Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD, and Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc, were honored for their service to translational scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) during the Vanderbilt Translational Research Forum.
The annual forum is co-sponsored by Edge for Scholars, which provides comprehensive research career development resources to early-career faculty, pre- and postdoctoral trainees, and leaders of institutional training grant awards at VUMC.
Hartmann, former VUMC Vice President for Research Integration, and former associate dean for Clinical & Translational Scientist Development in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, was presented with the Distinguished Service to Translational Scientists Award.
The honor was renamed the Katherine E. Hartmann Distinguished Service to Translational Scientists award in recognition of her role in the development of Edge for Scholars. The program serves more than 400 Vanderbilt scientists and reaches 45,000 academics nationally with a biweekly newsletter and online content.
Effective Feb. 15, Hartmann has assumed a new position as director of the University of Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational Science in Lexington.
Kripalani, who directs the Center for Health Services Research and the Center for Clinical Quality and Implementation Research, received the award for Excellence in Mentoring Translational Scientists.
He is principal investigator of the Vanderbilt Scholars in T4 Translational Research faculty career development program in implementation research. The program is supported by a grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
During the forum, which was held at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center, 14 faculty members of the Schools of Medicine and Nursing gave short talks about their research that has recently received grant support from the NIH.
Marilyn Albert, PhD, director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Cognitive Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, gave the keynote address.
Other forum sponsors are the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (VICTR), and the MSCI (Master of Science in Clinical Investigation) and MPH (Master of Public Health) degree programs.
For more information about Edge for Scholars and the Translational Research Forum, go to https://edgeforscholars.vumc.org.