Meet the 2025 Winner: Eduardo R. Núñez, MD, MS
Eduardo R. Núñez MD, MS, is a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician at Baystate Health and Assistant Professor of Medicine and Healthcare Delivery and Population Sciences at UMass Chan-Baystate. After attending medical school at the University of Pittsburgh, he completed internal medicine residency at Brown University and pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Boston Medical Center. Additionally, Dr. Núñez has completed a MS in Population Health Research at the Boston University School of Public Health and is obtaining implementation science training through Research in Implementation Science for Equity (RISE) program.
Overall, Dr. Núñez’s research goals include addressing disparities in lung cancer screening and tobacco treatment among historically marginalized populations and individuals with limited English proficiency. He has secured several grants including NCI F32 and LUNGevity Foundation Health Equity and Inclusiveness Research Fellow Award. Dr. Núñez is currently funded by a NCI K award focused on working with community partners to design a community health worker-delivered intervention improve uptake of lung cancer screening and tobacco treatment. His work has led to several publications and has been recognized with several awards including 2 ATS Abstract Scholarships and the 2020 ATS Minority Trainee Development Scholar award.
Additionally, Dr. Núñez is involved in academic medicine and leadership roles as the director of the Internal Medicine Residency Research Track at UMass-Baystate and Co-Director of the Baystate Lung Cancer Screening Program.
Description
The award will be given to a very early career individual with demonstrated potential to make 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 with burgeoning talent and dedication to a career applying these methodologies to lung diseases, critical illness, or sleep disorders, and who have already demonstrated significant engagement within the BSHSR Assembly, or 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
- Current trainee, Instructor, Assistant Professor, or an equivalent rank in a non-academic institution
- Currently in post-doctoral or clinical training, or up to 3 years after completion of terminal training degree, excluding time off for personal circumstances
- Current ATS member
- Have not previously received an Emerging Career award or Early Career Achievement award from any ATS assembly
- Cannot concurrently be nominated for an Early Career Achievement award
- The submission package must include the candidate’s updated curriculum vitae and a nomination letter from an assembly member addressing the candidate’s qualifications 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
- Clinical and/or academic excellence and leadership contributions
- Participation in BSHSR Assembly and/or other ATS activities (apprenticeships, committees, workshops, etc.)
- Demonstrated interest and promise in a career focused on contributions relevant to the BSHSR Assembly
- Overall impact/impression of the dossier submitted for award application