New members, 2020

The ASCI is pleased to announce the election of the Society’s new members for 2020.

These new members come from 41 different institutions and represent excellence across the breadth of academic medicine. They will be officially inducted into the Society at the ASCI Dinner & New Member Induction Ceremony on April 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting (April 3-5) at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park.

The Council recommended 80 nominees (the limit according to the ASCI bylaws) for election from the 247 nominations submitted for consideration. The Active and Senior segments of the membership voted on the recommendation, with nearly 50% of eligible voters submitting their ballots by the deadline. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of approving the recommendation.

Benjamin Humphreys, the 2019-2021 Secretary-Treasurer, served as one of three required auditors of the ballot; Drs. Erik Roberson and David T. Teachey volunteered their time to serve as the other two auditors.

Name Institution
Larry Alexander Allen, MD, MHS University of Colorado School of Medicine
Rishi Arora, MD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Themistocles L. Assimes, MD, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine
Jared Murray Baeten, MD, PhD University of Washington School of Medicine
Christopher E. Barbieri, MD, PhD Weill Cornell Medical College
Julie Anne Bastarache, MD Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Justin E. Bekelman, MD University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Tammie S. Benzinger, MD, PhD Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Gregory P. Bisson, MD, MSCE University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
David R. Boulware, MD, MPH University of Minnesota Medical School
Scott Dexter Boyd, MD, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine
Katrin Faye Chua, MD, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine
Sara E. Cosgrove, MD, MS Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Deidra Candice Crews, MD, ScM Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Saumya Das, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Vinicio A. de Jesus Perez, MD Stanford University School of Medicine
Tushar J. Desai, MD, MPH Stanford University School of Medicine
Joseph Alexander Duncan, MD, PhD University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Stephanie Caroline Eisenbarth, MD, PhD Yale School of Medicine
Jordan Jay Feld, MD, MPH University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Maria E. Figueroa, MD University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Alexander G. Fiks, MD, MSCE Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Amit Gaggar, MD, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
Katherine A. Gallagher, MD University of Michigan Medical School
Santhi K. Ganesh, MD University of Michigan Medical School
Wendy Sarah Garrett, MD, PhD Harvard School of Public Health
Benjamin Elison Gewurz, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Don L. Gibbons, MD, PhD University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Timothy D. Girard, MD, MSCI University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Carlos G. Grijalva, MD, MPH, FIDSA Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Johann E. Gudjonsson, MD, PhD University of Michigan Medical School
Alan M. Hanash, MD, PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Dennis J. Hartigan-O’Connor, MD, PhD University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
Mark Edward Hatley, MD, PhD St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Brent K. Hollenbeck, MD, MS University of Michigan Medical School
Edward Chiaming Hsiao, MD, PhD University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Erik Ingelsson, MD, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine
Shuta Ishibe, MD Yale School of Medicine
Kevin Bruce Jones, MD University of Utah School of Medicine
Fasiha Kanwal, MD, MSHS Baylor College of Medicine
Dennis H. Kim, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital
Krzysztof Kiryluk, MD, MS Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
James N. Kochenderfer, MD NIH, National Cancer Institute
Allison W. Kurian, MD, MSc Stanford University School of Medicine
Douglas S. Kwon, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Dan A. Landau, MD, PhD Weill Cornell Medical College
Elizabeth Austin Lawson, MD, MMSc Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Grace M. Lee, MD, MPH Stanford University School of Medicine
Anne Marie Lennon, MB, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michail S. Lionakis, MD, ScD NIH, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Conor M. Liston, MD, PhD Weill Cornell Medical College
Rohit Loomba, MD, MHSc University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
Meenakshi Swaminathan Madhur, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Denise K. Marciano, MD, PhD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Erica E. Marsh, MD, MSCI University of Michigan Medical School
Michael E. Matheny, MD, MS, MPH Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Marcela Valderrama Maus, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, MS Harvard Medical School
Joshua T. Mendell, MD, PhD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Duane Anthony Mitchell, MD, PhD University of Florida College of Medicine
Nicholas Mitsiades, MD, PhD Baylor College of Medicine
Javid J. Moslehi, MD Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Carolyn I. Rodriguez, MD, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine
Gregory A. Roth, MD, MPH University of Washington School of Medicine
Lauren Hachmann Sansing, MD, MS Yale School of Medicine
Kevin Navin Sheth, MD Yale School of Medicine
Daichi Shimbo, MD Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Alexander A. Soukas, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jennifer Lynn Taylor-Cousar, MD, MSCS National Jewish Health
David Tsai Ting, MD Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Shreyas Shreenivas Vasanawala, MD, PhD Stanford University School of Medicine
Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez, MD, PhD University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Andrew Zhuang Wang, MD University of North Carolina School of Medicine
Richard C. Wang, MD, PhD University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Richard M. White, MD, PhD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Renda Soylemez Wiener, MD, MPH Boston University School of Medicine
Brian M. Wolpin, MD, MPH Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Jennifer A. Woyach, MD Ohio State University College of Medicine
Mark Wu, MD, PhD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Jennifer S. Yu, MD, PhD Cleveland Clinic

New Council members elected, 2020

The ASCI is pleased to announce the results of a recent ballot to fill Council vacancies pending in 2020. Dr. Benjamin Humphreys, Secretary-Treasurer Elect, oversaw the ballot; Drs. Wonder Drake and Anna Hemnes volunteered as auditors.

The following members will join the Council at the conclusion of the upcoming AAP/ASCI/APSA Joint Meeting, April 3-5.

Vice President: Sohail F. Tavazoie, MD, PhD


Dr. Tavazoie

Dr. Tavazoie is Leon Hess Professor and Senior Attending Physician at the Rockefeller University. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and PhD from Harvard University, completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and completed a fellowship in oncology at the Sloan Kettering Institute. Elected to the ASCI in 2015, he currently serves on the Council as a Councilor.

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Secretary-Treasurer Elect: Priscilla Ying Hsue, MD


Dr. Hsue

Dr. Hsue is the William Watt Kerr Professor of Medicine and Co-Director, Center of Vascular Excellence, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She received an MD from UCSF, where she completed her internship and residency. Dr. Hsue was elected to the ASCI in 2013.

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Councilor: Jennifer A. Wargo, MD, MMSc


Dr. Wargo

Dr. Wargo is Professor, Department of Genomic Medicine, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She received an MD from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, completed a clinical internship and residency in general surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH); a research fellowship in surgical oncology at the University of California, Los Angeles; a clinical residency in general surgery at MGH; and a clinical fellowship in surgical oncology at the National Cancer Institute. She received an MMSc from Harvard University in 2012. She was elected to the ASCI in 2019.

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The 2020 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award: Judith A. James, MD, PhD

Judith A. James, MD, PhD, is the recipient of the 2020 Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award from the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) for her contributions to understanding the mechanisms of systemic autoimmune diseases.

Dr. James earned her BS from Oklahoma Baptist University in 1989 and her PhD and MD from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) in 1993 and 1994, respectively. From 1993 to 1995, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) in the laboratory of John Harley, MD, PhD. At OUHSC, she completed her internship and residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in rheumatology.

Systemic autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), arise from dysregulation of the immune system. This dysregulation signals immune cells to target a person’s normal proteins, protein complexes, tissues, and organs, creating potentially extremely damaging inflammation and shortened lifespans. Dr. James has focused on identifying changes in the immune system before clinical diagnosis of disease. In 2003, she and her collaborators used the US Department of Defense Serum Repository to identify SLE autoantibodies in samples collected from military personnel before their diagnosis with SLE; this research demonstrated that one or more of these autoantibodies are present for several years before diagnosis and that they progressively accumulate before the appearance of disease symptoms. This work has since progressed to a US multicenter clinical trial, initiated in 2017, to identify people who are at high risk for developing SLE and to treat them with hydroxychloroquine before the onset of disease, with the goal of delaying onset and disease severity.

Dr. James’s research has been supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, among other sources.

In addition to her body of research now comprising more than 280 journal articles, Dr. James has a deep mentoring history spanning the student spectrum and postdoctoral fellows, with a particular dedication to America Indian and underrepresented minority trainees.

Dr. James, a native of Pond Creek, Oklahoma, began her affiliation with OMRF as a Sir Alexander Fleming Scholar in 1988. She joined the scientific staff of OMRF in 1994. She is Vice President of Clinical Affairs, OMRF, and Associate Vice Provost for Clinical and Translational Science, OUHSC. She holds the George Lynn Cross Research Professorship and is Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pathology, and Adjunct Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, OUHSC; and is Lou C. Kerr Endowed Chair in Biomedical Research, OMRF.

Dr. James has received national and international recognition for her achievements, including the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2000); the Edmund L. Dubois, MD, Memorial Lectureship, Research and Education Foundation of the American College of Rheumatology (2007); the Paul Klemperer, MD, Memorial Lectureship of the American College of Rheumatology (2019), and the Evelyn V. Hess, MD Award from the Lupus Foundation of America (2019). She was elected to the Henry Kunkel Society in 2002 and to the ASCI in 2003. Dr. James served from 2012 to 2015 on the ASCI Council as Secretary-Treasurer Elect and Secretary-Treasurer.

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