Meet the 2025 Winner: Laura C. Myers, MD, MPH
Laura C. Myers, M.D., M.P.H., is a Research Scientist I (Assistant Professor level) at Kaiser Permanente Northern California and a pulmonary intensivist in the Diablo Service Area. She obtained her medical degree in 2012 from Harvard Medical School and a Master’s in Public Health in 2018 from Harvard Chan School of Public Health. She completed fellowships in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Patient Quality and Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research focuses on protecting vulnerable populations with chronic lung disease from the negative health effects of environmental exposures, such as poor air quality and heat. She has special interest in the negative health effects of wildfire smoke and making communities more resilient in the face of a changing climate. She manages a portfolio of funded research projects and is actively implementing interventions at scale within the Kaiser member population.
Description
The award will be given to an early career individual who has made outstanding scientific and scholarly contributions relevant to behavioral and social sciences, clinical epidemiology, statistics, health services research, health economics, comparative clinical efficacy and effectiveness research, patient-centered outcomes research, performance measurement, quality improvement, or implementation science. This award is to recognize individuals who have applied these methodologies to lung diseases, critical illness, or sleep disorders early in their career, and who have made significant contributions to the BSHSR Assembly and the ATS as a whole. The award committee encourages nominations from groups who are under-represented in medicine. Awardees will be presented with a framed certificate at the ATS International Conference. For guidance regarding whether a nominee is more appropriate for the Emerging or Early Award category, please reach out to the BSHSR Planning Committee Chair ahead of the submission deadline.
Criteria
- Instructor, Assistant Professor, or an equivalent rank in a non-academic institution
- Within 10 years of completing all post-doctoral or clinical training, excluding time off for personal circumstances
- Current BSHSR member (primary or secondary membership)
- Has not previously received an Early Career Achievement award from any ATS assembly
- Cannot concurrently be nominated for an Emerging Career award
- The submission package must include the candidate’s updated curriculum vitae and a nomination letter from an assembly member addressing the candidate’s achievements within the scored award domains.
Scoring
Applicants are scored on 6 criteria using a 1-5 rating system across the following categories; summed scores provide an overall score:
- Scientific and scholarly contributions/products
- Teaching/mentoring/educational contributions
- Participation in BSHSR Assembly activities (administrative, committees, workshops, etc.)
- Participation in other ATS activities (administrative, committees, workshops, etc.)
- Other considerations from recommendations including relevant extenuating circumstances
- Overall impact/impression of the dossier submitted for award application