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Borten Family Foundation Junior Investigator AwardPurposeThe Borten Family Foundation Junior Investigator Award is granted to individuals who make significant contributions to the field of delirium research as well as their long standing contributions to the American Delirium Society Community. EligibilityThe criteria to apply for this award are:
Must be a member of the ADS attending the Annual ADS meeting and has submitted a high quality abstract for oral or poster presentation- Must be an investigator with commitment to research in the field of delirium who is less than or equal to 10 years from the last professional degree (e.g. M.D., D.O., Ph.D., Pharm.D., DNP or equivalent)
- Individual must not be higher than Assistant Professor in academic rank
Awardees
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Shi-Yin Lin, MM, MPH, PhD
Dr. Lin is a Senior
Research Scientist at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. She currently
serves as co-chair of the ADS Research Committee and is a recipient of
the 2023 NIDUS II Pilot Grant and the 2022 Emory Roybal Pilot Grant. Her
research focuses on understanding delirium superimposed on dementia
(DSD) and improving care through education, technology, and
non-pharmacological interventions, with a particular emphasis on the
role of family caregivers in DSD prevention, detection, and management.
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Yiying Zhang, MD, PhD
Dr. Zhang is an
Assistant Professor in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and
Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical
School. An active member of ADS, she advances collaborative initiatives
in delirium research and education, with a focus on the gut–brain axis
and neuroimmune mechanisms in delirium. Supported by R21 awards from the
NIA, her work investigates how gut microbiome dysbiosis drives delirium
in mice models and how blood Tau proteins and microbiome markers may
help predict delirium risk in delirium patients.
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Blair Golden, MD, MS
Dr. Golden is a hospital medicine physician and Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Her K23 grant focuses on improving dementia caregiver engagement surrounding delirium during hospitalization events. She serves on the American Delirium (ADS) Research committee and co-leads the ADS Year-in-Review.
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Monika Sadlonova, MD
Dr. Sadlonova is a
Psychosomatic Attending Physician and Advances Clinician Scientist in
the Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University
Gottingen Medical Center in Germany. Her research interests include pre-
and perioperative factors associated with postoperative delirium in
patients undergoing cardiac surgery, as well as non-pharmacological
delirium management programs in the clinical treatment of patients
undergoing cardiac and abdominal surgery.
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Shixie “Max” Jiang, MD
Dr. Shixie Jiang
completed a fellowship Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at Stanford
University School of Medicine. He is an Assistant Professor of
Psychiatry at the University of Florida and pursuing an NIH K23 career
development award. Dr. Jiang serves on the American Delirium Society’s
Research and Education committees.
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Felipe Salech, MD, Ph.D.
Dr. Salech is a
geriatrician and researcher from Santiago, Chile. His main interest is
exploring new avenues to prevent delirium, including the use of
technologies and geroscience. He is currently a researcher at the Center
for Advanced Clinical Research – CICA of the University of Chile
Clinical Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University
of Chile Faculty of Medicine.
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Sara LaHue, MD
Dr. LaHue is a neurohospitalist, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Visiting Scientist at the Buck Institute. She is an NIA GEMSSTAR awardee and Butler-Williams Scholar. Dr. LaHue studies how biological mechanisms of aging and neurodegeneration drive delirium and subsequent dementia. She is passionate about studying delirium in adults with acute neurological conditions and has published Perspectives in JAMA and NEJM.
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Thiago J. Avelino-Silva, MD, PhD
Thiago J.
Avelino-Silva, MD, PhD, is a geriatrician and researcher from Sao Paulo,
Brazil, who has a strong interest in exploring the clinical context of
delirium and its long-term effects on cognition, function, and survival.
As an academic from a low- and middle-income country and an Atlantic
Fellow for Equity in Brain Health, Dr. Avelino-Silva is passionate about
advancing collaborative aging research.
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Leanne Boehm, Ph.D., RN, ACNS-BC, FCCM
Dr. Boehm focuses her research on strategies to improve outcomes for the critically ill. Her primary research interests include exploration of interventions to improve interprofessional protocol implementation, adherence, and fidelity in the acute care setting; implementation of ICU peer support and diary programs with exploration of the associated patient, staff, and organizational outcomes; and exploration of interventions to reduce the burden of Post-Intensive Care Syndrome.
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Matthew S. Duprey, Pharm.D., Ph.D., BCCCP
Matthew S. Duprey
is postdoctoral research associate at the Brown University School of
Public Health who focuses on improving the medication use process
throughout the continuum of care. He is trained as a critical care
pharmacist and pharmacoepidemiologist. His research interests include
delirium, pain and analgesia, sedation, and fall-related injuries in
long-term care.
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Junior Investigator Awards
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Rachel Skains, MSPH, MD
Dr. Rachel Skains is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Birmingham VA Medical Center. An early-stage investigator, her research focuses on improving medication safety and cognitive impairment management in the acute care of older adults through patient-centered outcomes research. She has received multiple NIH and foundation grants, national recognition for her contributions to geriatric emergency medicine, and serves in leadership roles advancing national guidelines and quality measures in the field.
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Kelly Toth, PhD, RN
Dr. Kelly Toth (née Potter) is an Assistant Professor and nurse scientist in the Department of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include the heterogeneity of delirium during critical illness, subtype-specific treatment responses, and the implementation of evidence-based sedation and delirium management strategies in the ICU. She currently serves as one of the tri-chairs of the American Delirium Society Research Committee.
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Leah Acker, PhD, MD
Dr. Acker is a practicing anesthesiologist and Assistant Professor at Duke University. She leads the ACkER (Anesthesiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Engineering Research) Lab, which studies novel contributors to postoperative delirium—such as the brain-heart-immune axis and attentional control—as well as new predictors and potential treatments including wearable monitoring and neuromodulation. She is an NIH R01-funded investigator, an active ADS member, and a dedicated mentor with roughly a dozen current mentees.
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