The Medical School Engagement Program (MSEP) provides a way for education leaders to encourage medical student interest in endocrinology and recognize the best and brightest learners with opportunities to engage with leaders in our field. The Society is delighted to announce the 2025 recipients of the MSEP Award.
Program Lead: Aysegul Bulut, MD
“To strengthen medical student engagement, we plan to establish monthly endocrine interest groups to facilitate interactive discussions, career mentorship, and case-based learning. Students will also be invited to didactic sessions, including grand rounds, monthly diabetes technology conferences, journal clubs, and fellows’ didactics. Additionally, we plan to host an Endocrine Toolkit Sessions outside the medical school curriculum, tailored to students’ interests.” – Aysegul Bulut, MD
Program Lead: Carrie Burns, MD
Program Lead: Jessica Berman, MD
“Our approach to engaging medical students is multifaceted, leveraging the unique opportunities offered by the colocation of pediatric and adult endocrine programs at the Perelman School of Medicine. This setting provides a wide range of experiences and mentorship potential. For first-year medical students, exposure to the field begins early in the preclinical curriculum, with career and patient panels, as well as introductions to mentorship and research opportunities within our divisions. We have developed a streamlined process to match interested students with faculty for clinical experiences, research opportunities, and informal mentoring sessions, such as coffee meet-ups.” – Carrie Burns, MD
Program Lead: Christopher R. McCartney, MD
“We will use MSEP funds to pursue three synergistic pipeline programs: (1) Endocrinology Interest Group (EIG): EIG membership will be available to all medical students open to an endocrinology career. (2) Endocrine Research Sponsorship and Mentorship Program (ERSMP) and (3) Endocrine Board Review Program (EBRP). Most MSEP funds would be used to provide meals for EIG meetings. A small portion would be used to purchase prizes for the Endocrine Jeopardy session and two annual Excellence in Endocrinology plaques” – Christopher R. McCartney, MD
Program Lead: Anne Marie Van Hoven, MD
Program Lead: Colette Knight, MD
“The endocrine division at Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC) is committed to recruiting and mentoring the next generation of endocrinologists. As a division, we have a track record of mentoring residents for endocrine fellowship, some of whom are now members of our current faculty. The Medical Student Engagement Program (MSEP) will serve as a catalyst to develop and expand student-targeted programs and expose the medical students to the breadth and depth of endocrine clinical practice, research and academic scholarship." – Colette Knight, MD
Program Lead: Thomas Gallagher, DO
Program Lead: Co-lead Imali Sirisena, MD
“Our goals with the Medical School Engagement Program (MSEP) are to encourage and support medical students’ interest in endocrinology as their future career. The LKSOM has the main campus in Philadelphia, PA and the 4-year regional campus in Bethlehem, PA. By utilizing both campuses to implement the MSEP program, this will maximize the number of students reached. We would utilize the award to implement an Endocrinology Interest group that includes students from both the North Philadelphia and St. Luke s campuses of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. Our goal would be to have at least two in person events at a location convenient to both campuses. These events would allow students to network with students, endocrinology fellows, and faculty across different sites and serving different patient populations. We will also include virtual meetings to allow for easy access for interested students of all years to gain exposure to different facets of endocrinology. Using virtual meetings maximizes the flexibility for demanding class, work and travel schedules accessible to all classes of students as they move towards graduation.” – Imali Sirisena, MD
Program Lead: Madhu N. Rao, MD
Program Lead: Robert Weber, MD
“UCSF Endocrinology has a long and well-established program of fellowship training and robust, innovative research. We hope to leverage aspects of these programs to increase student engagement. We aim to: (1) Develop a comprehensive endocrine curriculum for summer students in the NIDDK-funded Medical Student Research Program (MSRP) in Diabetes at UCSF. (2) Establish Endocrinology Interest Groups (EIG) by leveraging faculty leaders in the medical student curriculum and activities in the fellowship training program. We aim to...expose students to the clinical scope and intellectual depth of endocrinology.” – Madhu Rao, MD
Program Lead: Partha Sinha, MD
Program Lead: Allison Kimball, MD
“The Medical Student Engagement Program will be a great resource to advance education and interest in endocrinology among medical students. The monthly meetings will serve three main purposes: 1) complement the endocrine curriculum for 1st- and 2nd-year Harvard Medical students 2) prepare 3rd and 4th year medical students for clerkships in endocrinology and 3) serve as a forum to explore careers in endocrinology and meet leading academic endocrinologists from Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston Children s Hospital, and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, including opportunities for clinical shadowing and career and research mentorship. The travel awards further augment this program, enabling our students to attend conferences and develop their research interests. We would be grateful to be part of this program as it would help advance our mission of nurturing the next generation of academic endocrinologists. ” – Parth Sinha, MD
Program Lead: Stanley Andrisse, MD
“Our approach to boosting engagement with medical students in endocrinology at Howard University College of Medicine centers on enhancing interactive learning, mentorship, and exposure to cutting-edge research and clinical practice. This award will be instrumental in implementing these initiatives by providing funding for educational resources, simulation technology, and student travel to professional meetings. It will also support the development of mentorship programs and research opportunities, ensuring sustained engagement and enthusiasm for endocrinology among medical students.” – Stanley Andrisse, MD
Program Lead: Tobias Else, MD
Program Lead: Katherine I. Wolf, MD
“Currently, the University of Michigan has a strong, active Internal Medicine Interest Group composed of almost fifty students. We would like to partner with this established organization to create metabolism, endocrinology, and diabetes specific seminars, host informal, drop-in Q&A sessions during the M1 Endocrine Sequence, and establish a journal club to review and discuss burgeoning topics in the field. All activities will be coordinated with the Pediatric Interest Group to ensure that future pediatric endocrinologists are included. Students would be offered the opportunity to match with a current faculty member who specializes in their area of interest (bone and metabolism, lipids, atypical diabetes, thyroid, adrenal, pituitary, etc.) to participate in clinics or begin a research project. While not required, students will be encouraged to present their work at one of the weekly Endocrine Case Conference s through the adult Endocrine fellowship program. In addition, faculty and fellows will be available for students to review and offer guidance on potential abstracts/posters for regional or national meetings, hopefully for Endocrine Society.” – Tobias Else, MD
Program Lead: Zeina Hannoush, MD
Program Lead: Diana Soliman, MD
“Endocrinology is a vital yet often underrepresented specialty in medical education. To enhance student engagement at the University of Miami, our approach will focus on early exposure, hands-on experiences, and mentorship. Ensuring Sustainability: By supporting faculty development and student engagement events, this award will help create a lasting impact on how endocrinology is introduced and taught at our institution. Through these efforts, we aim to increase student interest in endocrinology, improve early career exploration, and foster long-term engagement with the specialty. This initiative will ultimately ensure that future physicians gain a deeper understanding of endocrine disorders and their management, benefiting both students and the patients they will serve.” – Zeina Hannoush, MD
Program Lead: Deepika Reddy, MD
“(1) start a formal Endocrinology Interest group for medical students. Try to get at least 10 students to join the interest group. (2) Have monthly meetings for the students with a specified theme for each meeting. A faculty member from either the adult/pediatric division of endocrinology will be invited to speak to the students. Provide snacks/ light meal for the meeting (3) Topics of discussion can be varied: clinical topics review, interesting cases, description of journey to choosing endocrinology as a career, describe mentoring that was effective , discuss current research etc. (4) Assign a mentor to each interested student. (5) Invite students to attend endocrine grand rounds, to meet and learn from Endocrinologists from outside our institution. (6) Build on a current project at the People's Health Clinic in Park City to look at efficacy of diabetes care at a free clinic for a predominantly Spanish Speaking patient population. (7) Identify 2 students who have demonstrated excellence in Endocrinology of the award(s)" – Deepika Reddy, MD
