Congratulations to听Dr. Kathryn Hacker Gessner who has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious 2023 .
Dr. Gessner joins a distinguished list of 黑料网 Urology Program alumni who have received the award, including current faculty members听Angela Smith, MD, MS in 2012 补苍诲听David Johnson, MD, MPH听in听2014, and former trainees听Pauline Filippou, MD in 2019 and Ibardo Zambrano, MD, MS in 2022.
Supported by the听, award recipients are named by the University of North Carolina鈥檚听,听with nominations voted on by all Department Chairs and Division Chiefs of cancer-related clinical and research areas.
The Pope Clinical Trainee Award is designed to honor emerging physician-researchers for excellence, accomplishment, and dedication to cancer research and clinical care.
The other 2023 award winners included .
Congrats to fellow on winning the Pope Clinical Trainee Award. Proud day for mentor
— Ray Tan (@tanray22)
“It is an honor to be recognized for both my patient care and research in kidney and bladder cancer. I am grateful to Dr. William Kim and Dr. Ray Tan for their continued guidance and support on our exciting research projects. This award is truly a reflection of the incredible mentoring I received from the 黑料网 urologic oncology faculty during both my urology residency and urologic oncology fellowship.”
Kathryn Hacker Gessner, MD, PhD
Urologic Oncology Fellow
About Dr. Gessner鈥檚 Research
Dr. Gessner was recognized for her work evaluating the decision-making experiences and genomics of renal mass biopsy specimens in patients with small renal masses, which is performed under the mentorship of and Dr. Ray Tan. This research was presented at the Kidney Cancer Research Symposium, International Kidney Cancer Symposium, Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Meeting, and American Urological Association annual meeting. Dr. Gessner also received the at the Society of Urologic Oncology Annual Meeting for this work. Dr. Gessner studies how molecular alterations and the tumor microenvironment promote both the development and progression of bladder cancer and treatment response.
About The Pope Foundation
The awards, supported by the , are given to emerging physician-scientists in-training based on their excellence in research and clinical oncology practice.
The Pope Foundation endows the Clinical Trainee Awards through a gift made in 2014 designed to help recruit, educate and train future oncologists.