Building Trust Essay Contest

Building Trust Essay Contest

Since 2022, the ABIM Foundation’s Building Trust Essay Contest has offered students and trainees of health professions an opportunity to share how they have or are building trust with their schools, faculty, peers, family, patients, and communities. 

2025 Winners

Honorable Mentions

* Adil Hassan is a pseudonym used at the request of the author. 

Judges

  • George Abraham, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School; Chief of Medicine at Saint Vincent Hospital  
  • Margaret Flinter, APRN, PhD, FAAN, FAANP, Senior Vice President and Clinical Director of the Moses Weitzman Health System and its Community Health Center, Inc.; member of the ABIM Foundation’s Board of Trustees  
  • Erica Johnson, MD, FACP, FIDSA, Senior Vice President for Academic and Medical Affairs of the American Board of Internal Medicine  
  • Bruce A. Leff, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; member of the ABIM Foundation’s Board of Trustees  
  • Jessica Perlo, MPH, Executive Vice President of the ABIM Foundation  
  • Margaret Sorg, DNP, MS, medical student at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine; winner of the 2024 Building Trust Essay Contest  
  • Daniel Wolfson, MHSA, former Executive Vice President and COO of the ABIM Foundation  
  • Heather Comer Yun, MD, FACP, FIDSA, Chief of Staff at South Texas Veterans Health Care System; member of the ABIM Foundation’s Board of Trustees 

 

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