Meet the 2025 Winner: Lida P. Hariri, MD, PhD, ATSF
Dr. Lida Hariri, MD, PhD, ATSF is a physician-scientist and Associate Professor at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School. She received her combined MD/PhD degrees from the University of Arizona, with her doctorate in Biomedical Engineering focused on multimodal optical imaging for early cancer detection. She subsequently completed her pathology residency and fellowship training at MGH, where she is a practicing pulmonary pathologist. Dr. Hariri has been a member of the ATS for 15 years, a member of the Clinical Problems Assembly for 10 years, and is an ATS Fellow. Her NIH-funded research lab investigates endobronchial optical coherence tomography (EB-OCT) for diagnosis, monitoring, and pathophysiologic investigation of fibrotic interstitial lung disease, interstitial lung abnormalities, long COVID, small airways disease, and vaping associated lung disease. She has had the privilege of mentoring numerous trainees throughout her career, including post-doctoral research fellows, clinical pulmonary and pathology fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students. Dr. Hariri considers mentoring to be one of the most fun and rewarding aspects of her career as a physician-scientist.
Description
This award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to mentoring, training, and guidance of junior pulmonary/critical care medicine individuals and/or colleagues in research, education or clinical care. We encourage nomination of diverse nominees, including but not limited to gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, country, area of focus and primary occupation.
Award Presentation
Awardees will be presented with a framed certificate during the annual Clinical Problems Membership Meeting at the ATS International Conference, during the Clinical Problems Assembly business meeting at which time the Chair of the Clinical Problems Assembly and Planning Committee chair will jointly present the award to the awardee. The awardee will have the opportunity to speak about what this award means to them. Awardees will also be announced on ATS platforms including the website and social media accounts. A letter of recognition will also be sent to the designated institutional leader.
Criteria
- Nominee: Recipient must be a primary member of the Clinical Problems Assembly as this award seeks to highlight ATS members with direct and specific contributions to the ATS Clinical Problems Assembly.
- have been an active mentor in pulmonary/critical care medicine for at least 10 years, with the rank of Associate Professor or Professor (or equivalent).
- be recognized as having the characteristics of a successful mentor (e.g., support, altruism, availability, professionalism).
- demonstrate a track record of successful mentorship as documented by individual mentee accomplishments, impact on mentee career development, and mentee career advancement to independence in clinical medicine, teaching, or administration.
- Nominator: Nominations can be submitted by any ATS member. Nominators who are not Clinical Problems Assembly members can submit nominations, as long as the nominee meets the qualifications above and the area of the nominee’s work matches the award goals.
- Application elements:
- Nominee's curriculum vitae must be included.
- Provide a table listing current and past mentees including mentees’ current employment/position, number of co-publications, grant funding, educational achievement, and/or other relevant metrics.
- Provide a short letter (three-page maximum) in support of your nominee addressing each of the above criteria. We encourage the nomination letter to specifically discuss contributions by the nominee to the Clinical Problems Assembly and how the nominee and/or their work advances diversity, equity and inclusion within the ATS.
- Provide up to three letters of support (each letter three-page maximum) from current/prior mentees or colleagues describing their experiences with regard to the nominee’s mentoring accomplishments.
- Name, title and email address for nominee’s division chief, or other institutional leader who should be notified of this nomination and award, if selected.
- Scoring Metric(s): Applications will be reviewed by the Clinical Problems planning committee, utilizing a scoring scale ranking each of the following metrics:
- Expertise as a mentor.
- Extent and impact of contributions to mentorship in pulmonary/critical care medicine.
- Past, present or anticipated future contributions to the ATS Clinical Problems Assembly.
- Additional minor scoring criteria can include nominee characteristics such as efforts related to diversity/equity/inclusion or work/location in a low-to-middle income setting. Nominators are encouraged to highlight these and other unique characteristics of the nominee they would like the committee to consider.
- Repeat or carry over applications: Nominations for this award will not be carried over from prior years. A new application will need to be submitted in order for the same nominee to be considered for the same award during the next year's call for award nominations of application.