ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
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
Lauren E. Ferrante, MD, MHS, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine) at the Yale School of Medicine and Director of the Operations Core at the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. Her research program is centered at the interface of critical care medicine and geriatrics, with the overarching goal of understanding and improving the functional outcomes of critically ill older adults. Her work has demonstrated the importance of an older person's pre-ICU functional trajectory on post-ICU disability and mortality, identified novel factors associated with functional recovery after a critical illness, and demonstrated the importance of pre-ICU vulnerability factors across various domains with the functional outcomes of older ICU survivors. Among many ongoing projects, Dr. Ferrante is co-leading the NIA-funded VALIANT study (COVID-19 in Older Adults: a Longitudinal Assessment), a prospective study of older adults hospitalized with COVID that evaluates long-term outcomes in function, cognition, mental health, and freedom from burdensome symptoms. She is currently funded by a Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders in Aging Career Development Award, the Yale Pepper Center, and a COVID supplement from the National Institute on Aging.
Dr. Ferrante trained in internal medicine at Columbia before moving to Yale for postdoctoral fellowship. At Yale, she concurrently completed a clinical fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, a research fellowship in Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology, and a Master of Health Science degree before joining the Yale faculty. Dr. Ferrante’s research accomplishments have been recognized internationally, with the Global Rising Star Award from the Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS, 2018), nationally, with the inaugural Arti Hurria Memorial Award for Emerging Investigators in the Subspecialties of Internal Medicine (American Geriatrics Society [AGS], 2019) and the 2021 Outstanding Junior Investigator of the Year Award (AGS), and at Yale, with the Iva Dostanic Physician-Scientist Award. Clinically, she is an attending physician in the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital.