ASCI / Emerging-Generation Awards, 2024

The Emerging Generation Awards (E-Gen Awards) recognize post-MD, pre-faculty appointment physician-scientists who are meaningfully engaged in immersive research.

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Neha Joshi, MD, MS
Stanford University School of Medicine
(Affiliation at the time of recognition)

About the awardee

Neha Shirish Joshi, MD, MS is a Clinical Scholar in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Stanford University. Dr. Joshi received her MD with Distinction from the University of California San Francisco. She subsequently completed both residency in Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Stanford University, where she additionally received a Masters in Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Her research centers around identifying and implementing high value care practices for late preterm and term infants during the birth hospitalization that promote an intact parent-infant dyad whenever safely possible. She won the Jennifer Daru Memorial Award for Original Contribution with Most Potential to Impact Clinical Care from Hospital Pediatrics for her manuscript describing a clinical examination-based approach to stratifying infants at risk for early onset sepsis. Dr. Joshi is currently funded through a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, the Gerber Foundation, and the Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute. Dr. Joshi sits on national committees surrounding newborn care for the American Academy of Pediatrics' Section on Hospital Medicine and the Academic Pediatric Association’s Better Outcomes through Research for Newborns (BORN) Network.