AAPM: The American Association of Physicists in Medicine

DREAM - Diversity Recruitment through Education and Mentoring Program Award Winners (formally known as Minority Undergraduate Summer Experience Program)

2024: AAPM Education Council through the AAPM Education & Research Fund. The AAPM Northwest Chapter, the AAPM Southwest Chapter and the AAPM Southeast Chapter provided additional support.
Fellow	Mentor	Mentor Institution
Benjamin Awad	Jordan Slagowski	University of Wisconsin
Elizabeth Batchelar	Lei Zhang	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Careesa Billante	Ashley Cetnar	The Ohio State University - James Cancer Hospital
Darya Chaharom	Soyoung Lee	Boston Medical Center
Adward Frazier	Christopher Njeh	Indiana University
Alejandro Martinez	Andrew Santoso	University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Rory Miller II	Jiajian (Jason) Shen	Mayo Clinic
Bryanna Stalnaker	Sarah Quirk	Brigham and Women's Hospital; Harvard Medical School
Hannah Williams	Jessica Fagerstrom	University of Washington

2023: AAPM Education Council through the AAPM Education & Research Fund and the AAPM Southeast Chapter
Vivian Felso	Teh Lin	Fox Chase Cancer Center
Miranda Harkess	Jiyeon Park	UF Health Proton Therapy Institute
Sabrina Ripsman	Atchar Sudhyadhom	Harvard Med School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Brigham & Women's Hospital
Gabriela Roque Oliveira Nomura	Edward Castillo	University of Texas at Austin
Nicole Alma Strecker	Tsuicheng D. Chiu	UT Southwestern Medical Center
Jolie Wang	Jess E. Scholey	University of California San Francisco
Jay Wheeler	Jingjing Michele Dougherty	Mayo Clinic

2022: AAPM Education Council through the AAPM Education & Research Fund and the AAPM Southwest Chapter
Allison Cartee	George Sgouros	Johns Hopkins Medical Institute
Oscar Martin Alonso Cortes	Madan M. Rehani	Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of the Harvard Medical School
Grace Catherine Francis	Mariana Guerrero	University of Maryland School of Medicine
Brianna Rose McCrae	Emil Schueler	MD Anderson Cancer Center
Bridget Patrick	Edward Elliot Graves	Stanford University
Jesiah K Showers	Benedikt Rudek	Jamaica Plain VA Medical Center
Olivia I Stojak	Hyejoo Kang Ph.D.	Loyola University Medical Center

2021: AAPM
Carlos G. Colon-Ortiz	Wu Liu	Stanford University
*Wilson Delmas	Ashley Tao	Gundersen Health System
*Beatriz Guevara	Lijun Ma	UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center
Joana Krasimirova Hadzhilazova	MingDe Lin	Visage Imaging, Inc. and Yale University School of Medicine
Erika Jank	Carri K. Glide-Hurst	University of Wisconsin
Baylie Jensen	Adam S. Wang	Stanford University
*Kristiana Ramos	Mark H. Phillips	University of Washington
Paul Teng	Grace Jianan Gang	Johns Hopkins University
Corrie Williams	George Sgouros	Johns Hopkins Medical Institute
Sara T. Zeidan	Andrea Ferrero	Mayo Clinic
Nahom Zewde	Madan M. Rehani	Massachusetts General Hospital

* Funding for 4 additional grants will be provided by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Diversity Action Fund
* Additional Fellowship provided by the AAPM Northwest Chapter

2020: AAPM/Additional Funding provided by the AAPM Northwest Chapter
Gary Henderson Jr.	Stephen M. Avery	UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Cindy Marie McCabe	Izabella L. Barreto	University of Florida College of Medicine
Tarik Rashada	Maryellen L. Giger	University of Chicago
Genesis Suarez	Jun Deng	Yale Univ. School of Medicine
Hui Ju Wang	Wensha Yang	University of Southern California

2019: AAPM-Additional Fellowship provided by the AAPM Northwest Chapter
Ayobami Ayodele	Jun Deng	Yale Univ. School of Medicine
Neha Swati Bhatt	MingDe Lin	Visage Imaging
Matthew Daniel Hwang	Clemens Grassberger	Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Liyan Jacob	Maryellen L. Giger	Univ Chicago
Gabrielle R. Moss	Nima Kasraie	Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
Erin Snoddy	Kenneth B. Bader	University of Chicago
Rachel Paige Trevillian	Piotr Zygmanski	Brigham & Women's Hospital / Dana Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard Medical School

2018: AAPM
Marco Antonio Carmona	Arvind Rao	UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (until Apr 2018) Univ of Michigan, Bioinformatics &Computational Biology, Rad. Onc.
Vijay Chockalingam	MingDe Lin	Philips Research North America at Yale University Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Tracy Simone Edwards	Justin B. Solomon	Duke University Radiology
Daniel Meza Keane Mr.	Arash Darafsheh	Washington University School of Medicine Radiation Oncology
Claudia R. Miller	Carri K. Glide-Hurst	Henry Ford Health System Radiation Oncology

2017: AAPM-Additional fellowship funded the by the AAPM Northwest Chapter
Jasmine J Byard	George Sgouros	Johns Hopkins Medical Institute Radiology, Div. of Nuclear Medicine
Jeongin Choi	Andrew D. Maidment	University of Pennsylvania Department of Radiology
Ann K Kogler	Mark Bennett Williams	Univ Virginia Dept. of Radiology and Medical Imaging
Stacy L. Mendez	Wu Liu	Yale University School of Medicine
Ruvini Navaratna	Daniel A. Low	UCLA DEPT of Radiation Oncology
Melton D. Parham Jr.	Steven Palefsky	Elekta, Inc. Operational Physics
Azmul H Siddique	Jennifer B. Smilowitz	University of Wisconsin Human Oncology and Medical Physics
Amanda Elise Swanson	Harald Paganetti	Massachusetts General Hospital Radiation Oncology Dept.

2016: AAPM
Soleil Hernandez	Julianne M. Pollard-Larkin	MD Anderson Cancer Center Radiation Physics
Celina Liyao Li	Nancy L. Ford	University of British Columbia
Khyana T Price	Zhiyue J. Wang	Department of Radiology, Children's Medical Center Dallas
Julian Vaughn Roberts	Wei Liu	Mayo Clinic

2015
Vernita Adkins	Predrag Bakic, Ph.D.	University of Pennsylvania
Catherine Carranza	Manuel Arreola, Ph.D.	University of Florida Health Science Center
Howard Heaton	Reinhard Schulte,DM	Loma Linda University
Brigid McDonald	Mark Bennett Williams,Ph.D	University of Virginia
Mayisha Nakib	Alireza Kassaee,Ph.D.	University of Pennsylvania
Adam Pruneda	Mauro Tambasco, Ph.D.	San Diego State University
Jose Trevino	David Lloyd Goff, Ph.D.	Medical & Radiation Physics, Inc.
Davon Webb	Julianne Pollard, Ph.D.	MD Anderson Cancer Center
2014: Additional Fellowship Sponsor: AAPM Northwest Chapter
Arun Chockalingam	Ming De Lin, Ph.D.	Philips Research North America/Johns Hopkins
Taylor Ashley German	Mark Bennett Williams, Ph.D.	University of Virginia
Alice Huang	Neelam Tyagi, Ph.D.	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Morgan Killefer	Katja M Langen, Ph.D.	University of Maryland School of Medicine
Duck Kyeom Kim	Dragan Mirkovic, Ph.D.	UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Flavia Lopez	David G Saez,MS	Cyberknife Center of Miami
Nyasha Gracious Maforo	Maryellen L. Giger, Ph.D.	University of Chicago
Helen Louise Sporkin	Mark Bennett Williams, Ph.D.	University of Virginia
Gabriella Tesfay	Paul Gueye, Ph.D.	Hampton University
2013
Brian Norman Allen	Pavlina Pike, D.Phil	Huntsville Hospital
Michael Conner	Charles D. Bloch, Ph.D.	SCCA Proton Therapy – A Procure Center
Clay Contee	Hania A Al-Hallaq, Ph.D.	University of Chicago
Yacinthe Dorsainvil	Sonja Dieterich, Ph.D.	UC Davis Medical Center
Kaitlyn Sukovich	Krishni Wijesooriya, Ph.D	University of Virginia Health Systems
Terrell White	Maryellen Giger, Ph.D.	University of Chicago
2012
Desmond Fernandez	Chris Beltran, Ph.D.	Mayo Clinic
Omar Orbe-Toledo	Eduardo G. Moros, Ph.D.	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
2011
Anisley Valenciaga	Michael McNitt-Gray, Ph.D.	UCLA School of Medicine
Kenneth Verlage	Cynthia McCollough, Ph.D.	Mayo Clinic
2010
Rabi Alam	Mary Ellen Giger, Ph.D.	University of Chicago
Acacia Ho	David Lloyd Goff, Ph.D.	Medical &Radiation Physics, Inc.
Danielle Nicholson	Paul Gueye, Ph.D.	Hampton University
Siai-Anne Roberts	Paul Gueye, Ph.D.	Hampton University
2009
Mario Bencomo	Marvin Friedman, Ph.D.	St. Luke's Hospital, NY
Deon Dick	Niko Papanikolaou, Ph.D.	University of Texas HSC San Antonio
Tahisa Hamwright	Susan K. Lemieux, Ph.D.	Pennsylvania State University
Christine Jones	Paul Gueye, Ph.D.	Hampton University
Edward Kim	Gregory C. Sharp, Ph.D.	Massachusetts General Hospital
Nivedh Manohar	Sang Hyun Cho, Ph.D.	Georgia Institute of Technology
Yanisley Valenciaga	Michael McNitt-Gray, Ph.D.	UCLA School of Medicine
2008
Jonathan Baca	Shuang Luan, Ph.D.	University of New Mexico
Lauren Foley	Stanley Benedict, Ph.D.	University of Virginia
Sheena Gause	Geoffrey Zhang, Ph.D.	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Lynda Ikejimba	Andrew Maidment, Ph.D.	University of Pennsylvania
Judith Rivera	Mark Williams, Ph.D.	University of Virginia
Korressa Williams	Stephen Brown, Ph.D.	Henry Ford Hospital
Horace Lee Lambert, III	Charles Coffey, Ph.D.	Vanderbilt Medical Center
2007
Lisa Bauer	Albin Gonzalez, Ph.D.	M.D.Anderson Cancer Center
Keith Goodman	Paul Guèye, Ph.D.	Hampton University
Ryan Grant	Helen Liu, Ph.D.	M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Chamir Lawson	Paul Guèye, Ph.D.	Hampton University
Reyna Mayorga	Michael Gillin, Ph.D.	M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Rico Parker	Paul Guèye, Ph.D.	Hampton University
Elisabeth Wayne	Stephen Avery, Ph.D.	University of Pennsylvania

Grants and Fellowships

DREAM - Diversity Recruitment through Education and Mentoring Program Award Winners (formally known as Minority Undergraduate Summer Experience Program)