Congratulations to the Carole Marcus Award Recipients

Congratulations to the recipients of the Carole Marcus Award, a two-year award sponsored by the Department of Pediatrics and the Research Institute, in memory of pioneering sleep researcher Carole Marcus, MBBCh, who was an outstanding and generous mentor for many fellows and faculty. Dr. Marcus had an unwavering commitment to academic rigor and transdisciplinary science. 

The award’s overarching goal is to foster a culture of research mentoring to facilitate the successful research careers of our remarkable CHOP junior investigators. 

Meet the Carole Marcus Award winners for 2021, and visit the related Cornerstone stories to learn more about their research goals and initiatives:

Christopher P. Bonafide, MD, MSCE: Dr. Bonafide’s research focus is on developing, evaluating, and implementing interventions at the intersection of patient safety and technological innovation, and measuring the impacts of these interventions on children and families. Read a Snapshot Science to learn about one of Dr. Bonafide’s studies to help identify the specific factors that contribute to fast or slow response times to patient monitor alarms and how we can work to improve or optimize them for serious situations.

Robert Sutton, MD, MSCE: Dr. Sutton’s career focus is on developing and evaluating novel techniques and devices to improve the care delivered during in-hospital resuscitation attempts. Find out more about Dr. Sutton’s work as co-leader of a translational resuscitation program that aims to create a syndicate of many researchers in order to accelerate novel, first-in-human clinical trials of therapeutics, diagnostics, and devices through collaborative scientific platforms that range from basic science to understand mitochondria genomics, to neuro diagnostics, to computational biology.

Joanne Wood, MD, MSHP: Dr. Wood is committed to improving outcomes for vulnerable children, especially abused and neglected children. One of her studies showed a wide variation in how hospitals screen for hidden injuries, also called “occult injuries,” in young children with a diagnosis of physical abuse. Dr. Wood’s current research also focuses on positive parenting interventions designed to support caregivers of young children and strengthen families. 

Drs. Bonafide, Sutton and Wood have proposed innovative mentorship programs that they will implement in the coming years. This award provides each of them salary support and monetary resources to support these mentor-related activities that will impact their mentees for years to come.

Previous recipients include Elizabeth Lowenthal MD, MSCE, in General Pediatrics; Daniel Licht, MD, in Neurology, and Pamela Weiss MD, MSCE, in Rheumatology.