Meetings & Events

Early Career Forum

October 18, 2024

The Early Career Forum is a prestigious program offered exclusively to graduate and medical students, postdoctoral and clinical fellows, and internal medicine residents. The ECF workshop provides a unique opportunity to connect with today’s leading endocrine professionals. Attendees gain tools and perspectives needed to successfully navigate career options as physicians and scientists. 

 

Note: this is an Endocrine Society member-exclusive program. If you are interested in participating Join Now.

The 2025 application period is open until January 15, 2025.

Nominations

  • Nominations Application Open: October 18, 2024
  • Application Deadline: January 15, 2025
  • Notification: Nominees will receive a notification regarding applications by March 14, 2025
  • Award Program Dates: ENDO 2025—July 12-15, 2025

Note: Please wait to register for ENDO until you receive a notification. Winners will receive complimentary ENDO 2025 registration. 

Early Career Forum is a pre-ENDO event. The upcoming Early Career Forum will be held July 11, 2025. ENDO 2025 will take place July 12-15, 2025, in San Francisco, CA.  

Important note: In-person attendance at ENDO 2025 is required to receive the award. The travel award program is not offered virtually. Members are eligible to receive one travel award or travel reimbursement per meeting. If you are selected for more than one travel award you will receive the higher monetary value.


Attendance at the Early Career Forum will provide attendees with the tools to:

  • Develop new perspectives in career options for physicians and physician scientists
  • Develop new perspectives in career options for scientists
  • Apply expert advice to maneuver through training and career transitions
  • Navigate the rigors of a career in science, including how to interview and prepare for a seminar, publishing, and transitioning through different career stages

Please note: Early Career Forum and the Type 1 Diabetes Fellows in-person program occur on the same day. If applying to both programs, please note that you can only participate in one.

Eligible Participants: 

  • PhD Students  
  • Medical Students  
  • Postdoctoral Fellows  
  • Clinical Fellows 
  • Residents  
  • Must be an Endocrine Society member

Optional but beneficial award criteria:

  • Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for the ENDO Annual Meeting but are not required.
Travel Awards and Registration

Travel awards are offered to select student and fellow members. Recipients receive a $400 travel award and complimentary registration to attend the workshop and ENDO 2025, the Society’s Annual Meeting. Individuals who do not receive travel awards may register to attend the workshop.

Previous Early Career Forum or Endocrine Trainee Day travel award winners are ineligible. 

Application Requirements: 

  • Complete Early Career Forum application form
  • Applicants must submit a personal statement detailing their interest and experiences in endocrine research or practice along with their career goals. The personal statement should indicate what they hope to learn from Early Career Forum and how it will benefit their careers. (1 page maximum, single spaced).
  • Applicant must receive verification of participation in endocrine focused program from a mentor at the institution or the program chair. This can be completed through the application submission portal. 

Testimonial

 

Early Career Forum Scenes

Early Career Forum Awardees

2024 Early Career Forum Awardees

Junichi Okada, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine 

Kiran Kumar Pasam, MD,DM, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

Rashi Sandooja, MD, Mayo Clinic 

Zi Tan, MD, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics 

Raul Lopez Fanas, MD, Montefiore Medical Center 

Anira Iqbal, MD, Cleveland Clinic 

Amirhossein Abazarikia, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center 

Natalie Rivera Vargas, MD, UCF-HCA Greater Orlando Florida 

Denise Lopez, MD, Philippine General Hospital 

Netanya Pollock, MD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia  

Melody Salehzadeh, BSc, University of British Columbia 

Saran Dejprapasorn, MD, Prince of Songkla University  

Apoorva Malipeddi, MD, Baton Rouge Medical Center

Rita Lis, MD, University of California - San Diego  

Krista Grennan, MD, Mayo Clinic Florida 

Akshay Sanghi, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins Hospital  

Raluchukwu Attah, MD, Temple University Hospital 

Apoorv Tiwari, MD, Garden City Hospital 

Natasha Ortiz, BS, University of Minnesota  

Oliver Stockert, BA, B.S., University of Minnesota 

Jasmine Saini, MBBS, Mayo Clinic 

Alice Zhao, MD, New York – Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center  

Amr Wahba, MD, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics   

Joanne Lin, MD, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center  

Regine Boutin, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital 

Viola Viola, MS, Baylor College of Medicine  

Susan Schmidt, BS, University of Minnesota 

Ikki Sakuma, MD, PhD, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine 

Kristen Lavelle, MD, University of California, San Francisco 

Daniel Bisno, MD, University of Pennsylvania 

Rochelle Dominisac, MD, Makati Medical Center 

Leili Rahimi, MD, Mayo Clinic  

Brandon Podyma, MD, PhD, University of Virginia 

Kelly De Sousa, PhD, University of Michigan Medical School  

Kayla Patel, MD, Emory University 

Danielle Tran, MD, University of Washington  

Angelica Gutierrez-Mata, MSc, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 

Maralee Kanin, MD, University of California Los Angeles 

Yumiko Esaki, MD, University of Rochester Schl of Med/Dentistry 

Adelaide Weidner, MS, University of Rochester 

Jennifer Hewlett, MD, Mayo Clinic 

Syed Haider, MBBS, HCA - Kingwood Medical Center  

Sidney Pereira, DVM/PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital 

Nadia Rashid, PhD, University of Rochester Schl of Med/Dentistry  

Neesha Desai, MD, University of Rochester Schl of Med/Dentistry 

John Kincaid, MS, MPhil, Harvard Medical School  

Javier Mascaro, MD, University of Pennsylvania 

Alejandra Rondon, MSc, Erasmus MC 

Noemi Nunez, MD, St Lukes Medical Center 

Cinthia Meireles, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital 

Xiao Zhang, MS, Washington University School of Medicine 

Jairo Noreña Velasquez, Standford University

Apoorva Iyer, MD - West Virginia University

Jessica Perini, MD, MSEd, WVU School of Medicine 

Patricia Lusica, MD, MBA, Philippine General Hospital 

Ahmed Abdelhameed, MS, University of Mississippi Medical Center 

M. M. Fahd Qadir, DVM, PhD, Tulane University School of Medicine

Mirza Qadir, PhD, Tulane University School of Medicine 

Maram Alashoor, MD, Rosalind Franklin University/Northwestern Medicine McHenry Hospital  

Nisha Thomas, PhD, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 

Ainee Lee, MD, St Lukes Medical Center 

Wonmi So, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center  

Freddy Bonilla, MD, National Institutes of Health  

Sadhana Puri, MD, University of Wisconsin 

Chandi Bheeman, DO, University of Rochester  

Mercedes Soto, MD, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias 

Lina Schiffer, PhD, University of Miami  

Shaymaa Bahnassy, PhD, Georgetown University 

Kerim Kaylan, MD, PhD, University of Chicago 

Brian Peng, MD, Washington University in St. Louis 

Lara McHan, MD, University of Rochester 

Rutu Jatin Shah, MD, Washington University in St. Louis 

Masanori Fujimoto, MD, PhD, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 

David Tobon, MD, Mayo Clinic 

Jacob Seidenberg, MD, Wellspan Medical Group 

Robert Weber, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco 

Leor Needleman, MD, Stanford University Medical Center 

Calvin Macrohon, MD, Makati Medical Center 

Seth Dotson, MD, Providence Sacred Heart 

Delphine Franssen, PhD, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School 

Julia Cicogna, MD, Santa Casa de São Paulo 

Sreekant Avula, MD, University of Minnesota 

Giuliana Arevalo, MD, University of Miami 

Mirela Ilie, MD, MSc, Cancer Research Center of Lyon 

Yousaf Ali Shaikh, MD, Baystate Medical Center 

Yasmin Al-Sayed, PhD, Queen Mary University of London 

Yeung-Ae Park, Bbmed, MD, Royal Melbourne Hospital & Monash Health

Eugene Looi, MD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus  

Kevin Ni, MD, PhD, University of Colorado 

Drew Howard, BS, University of Cincinnati College of medicine 

Sheikh Ali, MBBS, FCPS 

Angel Alejandro Campos Rodriguez, MD, Boston Medical Center

Aastha Randhawa, MD, Maimonides Medical Center 

Pratyusa Das, MS, Southern Illinois University School Medical 

Michelle Koh, MD, Cedars-Sinai 

Ekta Tirthani, MD, Tufts Medical Center 

Geethika Thota, MD, National Institution of Health

Hamayle Saeed, MD, Joslin Diabetes Center 

Yu Mi Kang, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital 

Sai Posani, University of Minnesota 

Laraib Javed, MBBS, MD 

Priyanka Kesavan Chary, MD, Washington University in St Louis 

Pingping Xiang, MD, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Emilia Thurber, MD, MPH, Brigham and Women's Hospital 

Mahmoud Nassar, MD, PhD, MSc, MHA, MPA, CPHQ, SSBB, University of Buffalo

Dana Krinsky, MD, Westchester Medical Center 

Ashna Grover, MD, National Institutes of Health 

Hanna Chin, BS, University of Rochester 

Alicia Yang, BA, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Karina Romo, MD, Cedars-Sinai 

Isabel Barata, MSc, University of Bern  

Siresha Bathina, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine 

Margaret Kruithoff, MD, University of Rochester 

Luke Boyle, MB BCh BAO MSc PhD MRCP, University of Edinburgh 

Bedour Jafar, MBBS, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 

Ruchika Mehta, MBChB, FCP, MMed, University of Witwatersrand 

Jawariea Sabri, MBBS, MSc 

Mason Price, DO, Christus Health

Mariana Henry, MD, Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic 

Cherry (Sharon) Jiang, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 

Kimia Anaraki, MD, University of Maryland Medical System Center 

Samantha Pfiffner, BS, Wayne State University 

Joseph Haddad, MD, University of Florida 

Ibiagbani Max-Harry, PhD, Ohio University 

Belinda Xavier, MBBCh, Billings Clinic 

Froylan Martinez-Sanchez, MD, Hospital General Dr. Manuel Gea González 

Early Career Forum Awardees 2023

Recipient 

Institution

Nwamaka Akabogu

Anota Akofu

University of Missouri-Columbia

Mina Amiri

Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences

Kimia Saleh Anaraki

 

Sarwat Anjum

BIDE

Archimedes Apa-ap

University of the Philippines

Gunjan Arora

Ascension Saint Joseph Hospital Chicago 

Sewon Bann

University of British Columbia

Jelina Basnet

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Salman Bhat

Johns Hopkins University

Kathryn Blew

Duke University Medical Center

Aiden Brossfield

Columbia University

Siresha Bathina 

Baylor College of Medicine 

Ezgi Caliskan Guzelce

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Lindsay Carafone

Laurana Cellin

University de Sao Paulo

Mrunal Chinthapalli

Mayo Cinic

Moon Kyung Choi

Patricia Chu

Samantha Cote

Amit Dash

Baylor College of Medicine

Karel David

KU Leuven

Nikita Dhir 

 

Diana Colleen Dimayuga

St. Luke’s Medical Center

William Doerfler

UPMC

Jane Eapen

Maimonides Medical Center

Matthew Edwards

Case Western Reserve University

Henrik Elenius

National Institutes of Health

Cristian Espinel Pachón

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Francesca Galbiati

Brigham and Women's/Massachusetts General Hospital

Erin Gibbons

University of Rochester

Christian Gomez Hernandez

Mount Sinai Beth Israel

Raul Gregg Garcia

Mayo Clinic

Irshad Ahmad Hajam

Texas A&M University

Charlotte Hall

Katherine Halloran

University of Michigan

Batoul Hammoud

Azucena Herrera Chancay

Grant Herrington

Baylor University Medical Center

Zarwa Idrees

Indiana University

Shanshan Jiang

Auburn University

Minseon Jung

University of British Columbia

Elnaz Kasiri

UTMB

Maryam Kazemi

Mount Sinai School of Medical

Annop Kittithaworn

Mayo Clinic

Abhigna Kulkarni

Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital

Poonam Kumari

Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research

Han Lam

Henry Ford Health System

Guillaume Le

Khemaporn Lertdetkajorn

Emory University

Claire Lin

Mcgill University

Brett Mansfield

University of the Witwatersrand

Nikolina Markovic

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Nathalia Menezes de Andrade

University of Sao Paulo

Mitra Moazzami

Ayca Mogol

University of Illinois

Sapir Nachum Goldberg

Michele Obeid

Joris Osinga

Erasmus MC

Garyfallia Papaioannou

Massachusetts General Hospital

Julienne Sanchez Perez

University of Illinois at Chicago

Van Phan

Tufts Medical Center

Kharisa Rachmasari

Mayo Clinic

Shafiya Imtiaz Rafiqi

University of Toledo

Giulia Rathmes

University of Zurich

Lisa Raven

St. Vincent's Hospital

M. Raza

University of Rochester School of Medicine/Dentistry

Raíssa Rezende

University de Sao Paulo

Paola Rios

University Miami

Adriana Rodriguez

UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh

Stacey Rolak

Rebecca Rosenberg

Jawariea Sabri

JPMC

Jasmine Saini

Mayo Clinic

Dennis Samuel

Rashi Sandooja

Mayo Clinic

Zhinoosossadat Shahidzadeh Yazdi

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Joshua Shapiro

Maimonides Medical Center

Nishitha Shekhar

Savitt Medical Library, University of Nevada School of Medicine

Marta Sierra-Cruz

University of Illinois-Chicago

Emily Skutnik

Lehigh Valley Health Network

Young Song

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine And Science

George Stamatiades

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Pichatorn Suppakitjanusant

Emory University

Varun Suryadevara

JIPMER, Pondicherry

Rupak Thapa

Southern Illinois University School Medical

David Toro Tobon

Kubra Tuna

University of Florida

Libia Vasquez

Ellen Wall

University of Cambridge

Yu Wang

Kate Warde

Huntsman Cancer Institute

Mila Welling

Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital

Kaylin Whittaker

Todd Young

Georgetown University Medical Center

Zohyra Zabala

Emory University

Ziyue Zhou

Early Career Forum Awardees 2022

Recipient

Institution

Ozair Abawi

Erasmus Medical Center

Tiba Abdulwahid

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center- Mercy

Gonzalo Acosta Garcia                   

UCLA Medical Center Endocrine Fellowship Program

Oluwatomi Adeoti

Boston Medical Center

Omodamola Aje

Emory University

Tugce Akcan

Marshfield Clinic

Ibraheem Aldeeri

King Saud University

Yusuf Ali

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Henin Alsamarraie

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Oluwatomisin Aluko 

Mercy Catholic Medical Center

Shripa Amatya

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

Alheli Arce Gastelum

University of California - San Diego

Muhammad Fahad Arshad

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

Ei Thuzar Aung

Whiston Hospital

Muriel Babey

University of California San Francisco

Vedesh Kumar Babu

Texas Tech University Health Science Center Permian Basin

Simrun Bal

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Jewel Banik

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Siresha Bathina

University of Rochester

Lucas Bouys

Institut Cochin

Katherine Bronson

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Snezhana Brovkina

FSBEI HE RostSMU MOH Russia

Julieth Daniela Buell Acosta

Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Battsetseg Buyandalai

Gunma University

 Nirmita Doshi 

Alameda Health System – Highland Hospital, Oakland, Calif.

Amitay Cohen

Hadassah University Hospital

McKenna Crossen

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Maria Nikki Cruz

St. Luke’s Medical Center

Reuben De Almeida

University of Missouri

Angela Dean

University of Illinois

Carlos Diaz-Balzac

University of Rochester

Erin Finn

University of Colorado

Myrto Eleni Flokas

Children’s National Hospital

Noelle Gillis

University of Minnesota

Pranav Gupta

Emory University

Erin Hallman

Oakland University

Joi Hester

Morehouse School of Medicine

Isabel Inácio

Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga, Portugal

Wenyuan He

University of Toronto

Ren-Lei Ji

Auburn University

Shuai Jia

School of Veterinary Medicine,UW-Madison

Shanthakumari Jinnur

Creighton University

Sara Atiq Khan

Johns Hopkins University Endocrine Fellowship Program

Anna Sophie Lebech Kjaer

Rigshospitalet

Wafa Latif

Florida Atlantic University

Alicia Lee

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Juchan Lim

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Jennifer Livschitz

Medical College Wisconsin

Tiffany Lu

Maimonides Medical Center - Brooklyn, NY

John Lung

University of Nevada, Reno School Of Medicine

Lakshmi Priyanka Mahali

Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Moses and Weiler Campuses) Endocrine Fellowship Program

Priyanka Majety

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Endocrine Fellowship Program

Noemi Malandrino

John Hopkins Univeristy

Alessandra Mancini

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Federica Mangili

Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico University of Milan, Italy

Arian Mansur

Harvard Medical School

Miya McKnight

Wake Forest Baptist Health

Neha Mehrotra

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Sarah Moats

Sunrise Health GME Consortium

Bobak Moazzami

Emory University School of Medical

Raneem Mokatrin

University Of California - San Diego

Luis Roberto Monroy

Oca Medical Center

Elio Monsour

University of Florida

Sadia Nasir

Cambridge University Hospitals UK

Jennifer Lourdes Ng

St. Luke’s Medical Center – Quezon City

James Nguyen

University of Illinois

Isabella Niu

UCSF

Christine Nnyamah

University of Illinois Chicago

Angela Olvera

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bruno Orozco

Centro Universitario São Camilo (CUSC)

Jun Park

UC Davis

Wasita Parksook

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Amanda Pechman

Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Moses and Weiler Campuses) Endocrine Fellowship Program

Pallavi Pradeep

University of Illinois At Chicago

Jillian Prescott Wilbourne

University of Wisconsin Madison

Divya Puthankovilakam

Ohio State University

Kharisa Rachmasari

Mayo Clinic

Natasa Radovanovic

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Ashutosh Rai

Queen Mary University of London

Ana Del Carmen Rivadeneira Rodriguez

University of Pennsylvania

Jelonia Rumph

Meharry Medical College

Kimia Saleh Anaraki

NIH

Maria Salguero Bermonth

University of Chicago

Damonie Salmon

Eastern Virginia Medical College

Marion Sarigumba

Makati Medical Center

Shruti Sastry

UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Khalid Sheikh

University of Texas--Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine

Fnu Sidra

UT Southwestern Medical Center

Soundara Viveka Thangaraj

University of Michigan Medical School

Martin Thelin

UCSF

Teressa Sunny Thomas

Massachusetts General Hospital

Sanjana Thota-Kammili

Appalachian Regional Healthcare

Ashraf Uddin

University of Missouri-Columbia

Desmaré Van Rooyen

University of Michigan

Heidi Vanden Brink

Cornell University

Ron Varghese

NIH NIDDK

Pranathi Vemparala

St. Luke's University

Camila Villavicencio

Metropolitan Hospital Center

Rebecca Vitale

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Nicholas Whitticar

Ohio University

Amaris Williams

Ohio State University

Molly Willging

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Vickie Wu

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Yuting Ye

Northwell Health

Yan Emily Yuan

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Weinan Zhou

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Rafael Zubiran-Sanabria

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

 

Early Career Forum Awardees 2021

Basma Abdulhadi

University of Alabama-Birmingham

Ky'Era Actkins

Meharry Medical College

Neftali Eduardo Antonio Villa

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Arora

University of Miami

Tania Arous

University of Rochester School of Medicine/Dentistry

Alanood Asiri

King Saud University

Shananthan Balachandran

Eastern Health

Heather Beasley

Meharry Medical College

Jabiz Behzadpour

Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

Jessica Berman

University of Pennsylvania

Joshua Bertels

Texas A&M University

Monica Bhanot

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Salman Bhat

University at Buffalo/Jacobs School of Medicine

Emilie Brule

McGill University

Khulood Bukhari

University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus

Julia Chang

Stanford University Medical Center

Charlotte Chen

Joslin Diabetes Center

Harold Henrison Chiu

University of Philippines Manila

Karishma Chopra

William Beaumont Hospital

Patricia Chu

University of Pennsylvania

Julia David

Memorial Sloan Kettering

Sean DeLacey

Children’s Hospital of Chicago

Roxana Ioana Dumitriu

National Institute of Endocrinology C I Parhon

Matthew Ettleson

University of Chicago Hospitals

John Falcone

New York Presbyterian

Jared Friedman

University of Cincinnati

Xiyu Ge

University of Illinois

Laiba Jamshed

McMaster University

Ashley Jancuska

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Susanne Kuckuck

Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam

Shree Vijayaswathi Senthil Kumar

University of Auckland

Nicole Lafontaine

Keogh Institute

Cesar E. Lam Chung

Instituto Nacional De Ciencias

Annah Lee

City of Hope National Medical Center

Ting Liu

Auburn University

Lakshmi Priyanka Mahali

Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Alexandra Martirossian

Washington University in St. Louis

Tara McDonnell

Tara McDonnell

Zina McSweeney

Memorial Healthcare System

Hooman Motahari

University of Arkansas Medical Sciences

Avinash Patil

Sri Venkateshwara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati

Karlijn Pellikaan

Erasmus University Medical Center

Jacob Pruett

University of Mississippi Medical Center

Enrique Ramos

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso

Anna Rosenberg

Erasmus University Medical Center

Melody Salehzadeh

University of British Columbia

Payal Shah

Texas A&M University

Chan Ho Shin

Broward Health Medical Center

Noa Tal

Montefiore Medical Center

Charit Taneja

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Freddy Toloza Bonilla

UAMS - MetroWest Medical Center

Neelam Upadhyaya

Temple University

Michelle Walker

University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Xiaoqiang Wang

City of Hope National Medical Center

Michael Weintraub

Weill Medical College/Cornell University

Rashaun Williams

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madushika Wimalarathne

University of Alabama in Huntsville

Anna Zenno

National Institutes of Health

Huifei Zheng

Auburn University

 

 

 
 

To learn more about the Early Career Forum, contact us at [email protected].

 

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