--- url: 'https://www.healthinaging.org/health-aging-foundation/what-we-do/recognizing-achievements-and-leadership-geriatrics/arti-hurria' title: 'Arti Hurria Memorial Award' author: name: 'LiChia Chansanchai' url: 'https://www.healthinaging.org/user/100' date: '2019-02-20T18:34:23+00:00' updated: '2025-09-24T19:11:41+00:00' type: page summary: 'Arti Hurria Memorial Award > In 2019, the AGS Health in Aging Foundation established the Hurria Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in Internal Medicine Who are Focused on the Care of Older Adults in honor of Arti Hurria, MD, a distinguished geriatrics oncologist and long-standing leader of efforts to integrate geriatrics into the internal medicine specialties.' published: true --- ## [Arti Hurria Memorial Award](/health-aging-foundation/what-we-do/recognizing-achievements-and-leadership-geriatrics/arti-hurria) In 2019, the AGS Health in Aging Foundation established the **Hurria Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in Internal Medicine Who are Focused on the Care of Older Adults** in honor of Arti Hurria, MD, a distinguished geriatrics oncologist and long-standing leader of efforts to integrate geriatrics into the internal medicine specialties. This award will recognize accomplishments of junior and mid-career clinician investigators in general internal medicine and the specialties of internal medicine whose research is focused on geriatrics aspects of their subspecialty and who are committed to a career in aging research. One Hurria Memorial Award will be presented each year at the AGS Annual Scientific Meeting. [Click here for more information on eligibilty and application process.](https://meeting.americangeriatrics.org/submissions/arti-hurria-memorial-award-emerging-investigators-internal-medicine-are-focused-care) Arti Hurria, MD, was a geriatrics oncologist who was one our country’s most passionate advocates for older adults with cancer. She was committed to improving the geriatrics competence of all physicians and health professionals and championed some of the American Geriatric Society's most influential programs connecting other specialists to geriatrics principles, and to the rewards of caring for older adults. Dr. Hurria was Chair of the AGS Cancer and Aging Special Interest Group and the AGS Medical Specialties Section. She also lead the National Institute on Aging-supported conference series for the Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists' Transition to Aging Research (GEMSSTAR) program. Along with being a world-class researcher, she was an ardent champion for team-based, interprofessional care and for integrating geriatrics principles into education so that all patients and families could receive person-centered, high-quality care. ## 2025 Recipients ### Brienne Miner, MD, MHS & Melisa Wong, MD, MAS, AGSF **Brienne Miner, MD, MHS** is an Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine in Geriatrics at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. Dr. Miner completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Yale University including serving as chief resident, followed by subspecialty training in geriatrics and sleep medicine, and a postdoctoral fellowship in geriatric clinical epidemiology and aging-related research. Her research path became clear while caring for patients in Yale’s Geriatric Assessment Clinic, where sleep disturbances are pervasive and challenging to manage. Her research, funded by GEMSSTAR and Beeson awards from the NIA, focuses on the evaluation and management of sleep deficiency in older persons. She uses both self-reported and objective measures — including devices such as gold-standard polysomnography, actigraphy, and encephalography-measuring headbands — to evaluate sleep comprehensively. Her work, published in leading aging and sleep medicine journals such as the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) and the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (JCSM), supports combining self-reported and objective measures as the best method to evaluate sleep. Ultimately, she aims to decrease the burden of sleep deficiency in patients and their care partners through interventions to promote sleep health. Over the course of her career, Dr. Miner has served in leadership roles in aging and sleep societies, including as Chair of the AGS Junior Faculty Special Interest Group and of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation’s Sleep Research Program for Advancing Careers. She is a past recipient of the AGS New Investigator Award, a Tideswell Emerging Leaders in Aging scholar, and currently serves on the editorial board of JAGS. **Melisa Wong, MD, MAS, AGSF** is a Research Scientist II in the Division of Research at Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) and Associate Adjunct Professor in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is a thoracic medical oncologist and geriatric oncology clinician-investigator who completed her residency in internal medicine at UCSF, followed by fellowships in medical oncology and aging research. Her research aims to transform cancer care for older adults — to help patients clarify their goals and values in the face of uncertainty and to support oncologists to keep these truths at the core of the care they provide. As an NIA Beeson K76 Scholar, Dr. Wong adapted, and pilot tested, the Best Case/Worst Case (BC/WC) communication tool from geriatric surgery to geriatric oncology to support shared decision making for older adults with cancer. She also developed the infrastructure for a multicenter prospective cohort study of older adults with lung cancer with serial geriatric assessments to develop risk prediction tools for functional and cognitive decline. Dr. Wong was a 2022-2023 UCSF Pepper Center Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core Scholar and was inducted to the American Geriatrics Society Fellows in 2023. Amongst a plethora of honors and awards, her research paper ‘“You have to be sure that the patient has the full picture’: Adaptation of the Best Case/Worst Case communication tool for geriatric oncology” received the Journal of Geriatric Oncology’s Dr. Arti Hurria Best Paper Award for 2021-2022. As one of Dr. Hurria’s geriatric oncology mentees, Dr. Wong is especially honored to continue advancing the field that Dr. Hurria dedicated her career to. Past Award Recipients 2022 Anil N. Makam, MD, MAS 2021 Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD 2020 Kah Poh Loh, MD 2020 Rasheeda K. Hall, MD 2019 Lauren Ferrante, MD, MHS Thank You to the Hurria Memorial Award Supporters ### Our sincere thanks to those who made this award possible. | Karen Alexander Andrew S. Artz Shipra Arya John Beilenson Miles Berger Gwen Bernacki Rebecca Brown Harvey Jay Cohen Andrew Benjamin Cohen William and Tamra Dale Marianna Drootin Kristine Erlandson Lauren E. Ferrante Rachel Freedman Constance Fung Elizabeth Maria Goldberg William R. Hazzard | Kevin High Holly M. Holmes Ula Hwang Robin Jump Alok Kapoor Keith Kaye Dae H. Kim Hillary D. Lum Jennifer Lund Nancy E. Lundebjerg Ronald John Maggiore Anil N. Makam Melissa Mattison Reena Mehra Brienne Miner Lona Mody Supriya Mohile Terrence Edward Murphy | Gregory Michael Ouellet Veerawat Phongtankuel Margaret Pisani Vincent James Quagliarello Michael W. Rich Kenneth E. Schmader Nancy Li Schoenborn Canlan Sun Keipp Talbot Kathleen T. Unroe Carolina Uranga David van Duin Tanya Wildes Melisa Wong | |---|---|---| Current as of April 9, 2019