ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2023
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Hermioni L. Amonoo, MD, MPP, is a physician-scientist, Assistant Professor, and Director of the Well-being and Cancer Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). She is a graduate of HMS (MD), Harvard Kennedy School of Government (MPP), the Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, and the BWH/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Psychosocial Oncology Fellowship Training Program. Her clinical training and expertise in caring for patients with serious medical illnesses and psychiatric comorbidities inspire her research program, which aims to understand the well-being needs of vulnerable cancer populations to develop innovative and practical psychological interventions and digital therapeutics for patients and their caregivers. She has authored several peer-reviewed journal publications and has received numerous national awards for her scholarship and research. Several local and national organizations, including HMS, the Harvard Catalyst, the BWH/Brigham Research Institute, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute of Health (NIH), the Oppenheimer Family Foundation, the American Society for Hematology, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, have consistently funded her work.