Meet the 2025 Winner: Anica Law, MD, Msci
Anica Law, MD, Msci is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University. She is a critical care physician, health services researcher, and principal investigator on an NIH/NHLBI-funded K23; she also has received support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, PCORI, the Robert Dawson Evans Junior Faculty Research Merit Award, and the BU Department of Medicine Career Investment Award. Using large databases and leveraging natural experiments where feasible, she seeks to understand the determinants of outcomes after critical illness in order to better inform decision-making during critical illness and the optimal delivery of care after acute critical illness. Her work has been cited as top papers in American Thoracic Society’s Clinical Year in Review (2023, 2024), referenced in media outlets including NPR, US News and World Report, and the Associated Press and has achieved Altmetric Attention Scores in the 99th percentile. She serves as Deputy Editor at CHEST Critical Care and on the Editorial Board of the Annals of the American Thoracic Society. Within the American Thoracic Society, she served as Chair of the Critical Care Assembly’s Planning Committee (2022-2024) and now serves on the ATS Project Review Committee.
Description
This award recognizes a junior faculty with exemplary achievements in a scientific area of interest to the Assembly and who demonstrates clear promise for a future of sustained productivity. The awardee will be honored at the CC Assembly gathering at the ATS International Conference.
Criteria
Candidate should be:
- An active clinician or investigator in critical care medicine within ~10 years of completion of training (i.e., fellowship or terminal doctoral degree, whichever was completed/awarded latest)
- A CCA member (primary or secondary).
- Contributions to the CC Assembly in the form of committee participation or leadership, promoting CCA diversity, and/or otherwise advancing the CCA’s mission will be viewed favorably.
The nomination package must include a nomination letter touching on all four scoring metrics (see below scoring rubric) from one or more members of ATS describing why the award is merited. Nominators should note in their letter any extenuating circumstances affecting the nominee. The curriculum vitae from the candidate must also be included with the nomination packet. Unawarded nominations from prior years do not carry over and should be resubmitted; previous awardees are not eligible for the same award.
Example Nomination Letters
Alison E. Turnbull, DVM, MPH, PhD, 2023 Awardee
Lauren E Ferrante, MD, MHS, ATSF, 2022 Awardee
Scoring Rubric
Applicants are scored on 4 criteria using a 1-5 rating system (with 1 being the best) across the below categories. In the event that none of the nominees in a given category receive an average score ≤3, the Planning Committee may choose to defer granting an award in that category that year. If the Planning Committee does not receive any eligible nominations in a given category (e.g., CCA member, active clinician/investigator for roughly the stated time frame), the Committee may choose to nominate an individual, who must be unanimously approved by all members in order to receive the award.
- Scientific Contributions/Products (which may include: research articles, data, reagents, software, and intellectual property)
- Teaching/Mentoring/Educational/Advocacy Contributions
- Participation in Assembly and ATS Activities (administrative, committees, workshops etc.)
- Overall impact/impression of dossier submitted for award application