ASCI / Emerging-Generation Awards, 2022
The Emerging Generation Awards (E-Gen Awards) recognize post-MD, pre-faculty appointment physician-scientists who are meaningfully engaged in immersive research.
About the awardee
Snigdha Jain, MD, is a Pulmonary and Critical Care physician with research training in geriatric epidemiology. She completed her medical school at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa before starting her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. During her clinical training, her work elucidated variability in the availability of telemedicine services in intensive care units in rural areas, gender differences in compliance with recommendations for congenital heart disease surgery, and characteristics of hospital readmissions after pneumonia hospitalizations.
She joined Yale as a postdoctoral fellow in the Geriatric Clinical Epidemiology and Aging-Related Research program and a clinical fellow in the division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine. Her research has focused on improving equity in patient-centered outcomes of critically ill older persons. Her recent work has identified socioeconomic disparities in disability and dementia after critical illness hospitalization and racial deficiencies in improvement in mobility among ventilated patients at long-term acute care hospitals. This important work was acknowledged with the receipt of a scholarship from the American Thoracic Society and presented at the prestigious presidential poster session at the American Geriatrics Society annual meeting. She has also been awarded the Parker B. Francis Foundation Fellowship Award by the American Thoracic Society to investigate the role of rehabilitation in socioeconomic differences in the development of disability following ICU hospitalization.