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.
Now accepting submissions for the 2025 Building Trust Essay Contest.
2024 Winners
- Kaveri Curlin, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
- Ella Eisinger, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Claudia Rivera Barbeito, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
- Margaret Sorg, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Honorable Mentions
- Melodyanne Cheng, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Nitya Devisetti, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
- Shannon Fang, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
- Meilynn Shi, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Judges
- 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, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Disease at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; Associate Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Medical Education for the Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; member of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Board of Directors and Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Infectious Disease Board
- Jackie Judd, former reporter for ABC News, CBS News, NPR, and the PBS NewsHour; Secretary-Treasurer of the ABIM Foundation’s Board of Trustees; member of the Board of Directors of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
- Elina Kurkurina, MPH, medical student at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University; winner of the 2023 Building Trust Essay Contest
- 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
- Furman S. McDonald, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Academic and Medical Affairs at the American Board of Internal Medicine; Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania
- Shannon Scielzo, PhD, Associate Professor and the Associate Director of Education in Internal Medicine, and Evaluation and Assessment Analyst for Graduate Medical Education at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center; member of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Rheumatology Board
- Daniel Wolfson, MHSA, former Executive Vice President and COO of the ABIM Foundation
