Robert R. Simon Leadership Award

Each year the Emergency Medicine faculty selects one graduating resident who best exemplifies the principles and practice that Dr. Robert Simon exhibited during his tenure as the first chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cook County Hospital. Dr. Simon’s leadership skills were extraordinary during his seventeen years as chairman. His vision and hard work built the largest and strongest Emergency Medicine department in the country. His dedication and enthusiasm to train “Emergentologists” set the highest standards for emergency medicine practice. Dr. Simon defines Emergentologist as “a physician specializing in emergency medicine who can diagnose and initially manage any medical or surgical emergency in any organ system with the same quality and efficiency as someone who specializes in only one particular organ system.”

• 2005 Ann Buchanan, MD.
• 2006 David Rosenbaum, MD.
• 2007 Jonathon Bankoff, MD.
• 2008 Michael A. Schindlbeck, MD.
• 2009 Christopher Hoyte, MD.
• 2010 Tamara Espinoza, MD.
• 2011 Erik K. Nordquist, MD.
• 2012 Katie Tataris, MD.
• 2013 Negean Afifi, DO.
• 2014 Michael T. Paddock, DO.
• 2015 Joseph S. Palter, MD.
• 2016 Jessica Folk, MD.
• 2017 John Cook, DO. and P. Quincy Moore, MD.
• 2018 Thomas W. Engel II, MD.
• 2019 Ashlea Danielle Winfield, MD.
• 2020 Ryan M. Tabor, MD.
• 2021 Jorge Aceves, MD.
• 2022 Katia Johnston, MD.
• 2023 Asma Hashim, DO.

Constance S. Greene Excellence in Teaching Award

The Constance S. Greene Excellence in Teaching Award is dedicated to Dr. Connie Greene who was the founder of the Cook County Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Greene’s hard work and visionary leadership in education helped to grow the Cook County Emergency Medicine Residency Program into one of the strongest and largest emergency medicine residency programs in the country. Her dedication to resident learning and excellence set the standard in emergency medicine education across the country. The Constance S. Greene Excellence in Teaching Award is given each year to the Cook County Emergency Medicine Attending who provides the most outstanding educational experience to the Cook County Emergency Medicine Residents.

• 1992 James Nolin, MD.
• 1993 Abbas Zagnoon, MD.
• 1994 Isam Nasr, MD.
• 1995 Diane Gottschalk, MD.
• 1996 David Levine, MD.
• 1997 Jeffrey Schaider, MD.
• 1998 Jeffrey Schaider, MD. and Trevor Lewis, MD.
• 1999 Karen Cosby, MD. and Teresa Schwab, MD.
• 2000 Eric Reichman, MD. and Robert Bilkovski, MD.
• 2001 David Harter, MD. and Moses Lee, MD.
• 2002 Lauren Grossman, MD. and Robert Feldman, MD.
• 2003 Christopher Ross, MD. and Scott Sherman, MD.
• 2004 David Harter, MD.
• 2005 David Harter, MD.
• 2006 Jordan Moskoff, MD.
• 2007 Shari Schabowski, MD.
• 2008 Sean M. Bryant, MD.
• 2009 Kevin Kern, MD.
• 2010 Rashid Kysia, MD.
• 2011 Michael Schindlbeck, MD.
• 2012 Tarlan Hedayati, MD.
• 2013 Scott Sherman, MD.
• 2014 Erik Nordquist, MD.
• 2015 Deborah Kimball, MD.
• 2016 Erik Nordquist, MD.
• 2017 Joseph Weber, MD.
• 2018 Joseph S. Palter, MD.
• 2019 Sean P. Dyer, MD.
• 2020 Sean P. Dyer, MD.
• 2021 Rashid Kysia, MD.
• 2022 Ashlea Winfield, MD.
• 2023 Sean P. Dyer, MD.

Christian B. Marcelo Award

Presented annually to a second year Cook County Emergency Medicine Resident by the graduating class, who best embodies those qualities that we admired in Christian. Christian was an outstanding resident in the program from July 2011 to November 2013. He delivered compassionate care to his patients and was universally admired by his peers and faculty. We will always remember Christian for his strength of character and joyous spirit.

• 2015 John Aaron Cook, MD.
• 2016 Thomas Engel, MD.
• 2017 Mwiche Sinyinza, MD.
• 2018 Roger R. Roxas, MD.
• 2019 Joshua Euijin Kim, DO.
• 2020 Melissa Ann Hoshizaki, MD.
• 2021 Asma Hashim, DO.
• 2022 Vladimir Bernstein, MD.
• 2023 Samuel Epstein, MD.

Rebecca R Roberts Research Award

The Rebecca R Roberts Award recognizes the Emergency Medicine Resident who has demonstrated excellence in emergency medicine research and scholarly activity. Dr. Roberts joined the Department of Emergency Medicine in 1990 and served as Research Director from 1997-2018. Dr. Roberts obtained over 8 million dollars in grant funding and was a recognized national expert in healthcare economics and ED observation units. Dr. Roberts was a tireless advocate for improving urban health through collaborative research.

• 2019 Amber N. Fiutko, MD.
• 2020 Justine Seidenfeld, MD.
• 2021 Kevin McGurk, MD.
• 2022 Larissa Unruh, MD.
• 2023 Garrett Prince, MD.