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.
About the awardee
Aeron Small, MD, MTR is a cardiovascular medicine fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. He attended the University of Pennsylvania for medical school where he also obtained a Masters of Science in Translational Research. He completed his internal medicine training at Yale University/Yale New Haven Hospital. He is currently pursuing a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Broad institute through a Doris Duke Physician Scientist Fellowship under mentorship by Dr. Pradeep Natarajan. His research is broadly focused on multi-omics approaches to elucidating the pathobiology of valvular heart disease. He is particularly interested in the genetic determinants of calcific aortic stenosis (CAS) and is a founding member of a large, international genetics consortium on CAS (the International Aortic Valve Genetics Consortium). In parallel, he has an interest in electronic health record (EHR) phenotyping and has experience in the application of novel text based learning approaches including natural language processing to generate atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease phenotypes in the EHR.