Past Winners of the Steve Miller Fellowship
2021
- Caroline Cherston (VP&S 2022), “Developing a Pilot VP&S Curriculum on Trauma-Informed Care.”
- Todd Jones (VP&S 2022), “Post Intensive-Care Syndrome.”
2020
- Zach Pitkowsky (VP&S 2022), “Using a Child Life Approach with Pediatric Patients and Families.”
- Teddy Goetz (VP&S 2021), “Professional Identify Formation.”
- Amanda Wang (VP&S 2023), “Understanding Food Insecurity in Northern Manhattan: A Mixed-Methods Approach.”
2019
- Rebekah Boyd and Angela Chang (VP&S 2022), “Interdisciplinary Refugee Partnership in Health.”
- Rachel MacLean (VP&S 2020), “The Companion Project.”
- Catherine Kernie (VP&S 2022), “Development of a Service-Learning Partnership between VP&S and Gigi’s Playhouse.”
2018
- Vibhu Krishna (VP&S 2021), “Humanizing the Body: Life Drawing in Preclinical Education.”
- Taylor Jacob O’Grady (VP&S 2021), “Service-Learning in the VP&S Student Run Clinics: A Pilot.”
- Sarah Godfrey (VP&S 2018) & Gregory Karelas (VP&S 2020), “The Public Health Commute.”
2017
- Stanislaw Gabryszewski (MD/PhD candidate), “Enhancing Nutrition Education in Medical School through Humanistic Approaches.”
- Dua Hassan (VP&S 2018), “Fighting for Equality in Healthcare: Addressing Health Disparities and Implicit Bias through Medical Education.”
- Katrina Kostro (VP&S 2020), “Meditation and Relaxation Skills Workshop for Medical Students, Patients, and Caregivers: A Shared Practice for Mindfulness, Empathy, and Mutual Healing.”
- Dylan Marshall (VP&S 2018), “Emotional Intelligence: Fostering Relationships Essential to Making the Practice of Medicine Sustainably Meaningful, thus Preventing Medical Student Burnout.”
2016
- Amulya Iyer (VP&S 2017), “Exploring the Relationship between Hospitalized Patients and their Medical Students: A Qualitative Study.”
- Subha Perni & Lauren Pollack (VP&S 2017), “Moral Distress in Caring for Older Adults during Early Clinical Training.”
- Patrick van Nieuwenhuizen (VP&S 2017), “Democratizing Medical Education: An Open Access Platform for Preclinical Sciences.”
2015
- Jemma Benson (VP&S 2018) & Christopher Clayton (VP&S 2018), “Digame Bienvenidos: Washington Heights Pre-Orientation Program.” Ana Esteban, MD, Project Mentor
- Erica Cao (VP&S 2018), “The Benefits of Music and Service-Learning: An Intervention Program for Medical Students and At-Risk Youth.” Deepthiman Gowda, MD, MPH, Project Mentor
2014
- Erin Elbel (VP&S 2017), “Development & Piloting of an Educational Module for Medical Students in Hospital-Based Interdisciplinary Communication and Quality Improvement.” Robert V. Sideli, MD, Project Mentor
- Jessica Calihan (VP&S 2017), “Developing a Humanistic Cross-School Training for Examining Asylum Seekers.” Michael J. Devlin, MD, Project Mentor
2013
- Zeena Audi (VP&S 2014), “Lang Scholar Community Ambassador Internship.” Marina Catallozzi, MD, Project Mentor
- Hannah Roberts (VP&S 2016), “Medical Students’ Perceptions of Dementia Patients (before and after attending a non-clinical arts-centered session).” Dr. James Nobel, Project Mentor
2012
- Jonathan D. Hansen (VP&S 2012), “The 21stCentury Lecture Hall.” Dr. Boyd Richards, Project Mentor
- Lily Mundy (VP&S 2015), Katherine Nash (VP&S 2015), & Michael Steinhaus (VP&S 2015), “Washington Heights Immersion Program.” Dr. Christine Krause, Project Mentor
2011
- Cecilia Fix (VP&S 2014), “Similarities and Differences between the Health Care System in New York and the Dominican Republic.” Dr. Delphine Taylor, Project Mentor
- Haley Masterson (VP&S 2014), “Assessing the Effect of the VP&S Psychiatric Rotation on Student Perceptions of the Mentally Ill.” Dr. Janice Cutler, Project Mentor
2010
- Jon Hatoun (VP&S 2012) & Yuna Larrabee (VP&S 2011), “Ethics: Truth-Telling & the Major Clinical Year (MCY) in Medical School.” Dr. Paul Lee, Project Mentor
- Eliza Miller (VP&S 2012), Narrative Medicine Curriculum.” Dr. Rita Charon, Project Mentor