Congratulations to the recipients of the Marguerite Rush-Lerner and Program for Humanities in Medicine prizes! The winners of this annual poetry, prose, and visual art competition, open to all Yale health profession students, were announced on April 12.
POETRY
1st Place (tie) Rush-Lerner Prize
Matthew Ponticiello
My Five Friends and Me
MD-PhD Class of 2030
1st Place (tie) Rush-Lerner Prize
Anna Preston
Birth
MD-MPH Class of 2023
2nd Place Rush-Lerner Prize
Ryan A. Sutherland
Memory
MD Class of 2026
Honorable Mention Rush-Lerner Prize
Ryan A. Sutherland
Rain
MD Class of 2026
3rd Place PHM Prize
Christina Hijiya
In An American Pandemic
School of Public Health Class of 2023
Honorable Mention Rush-Lerner Prize
Ryan A. Sutherland
Mortality
MD Class of 2026
Honorable Mention Rush-Lerner Prize
Anna Preston
Letter to a younger universe
MD-MPH Class of 2023
PROSE
1st Place (tie) Rush-Lerner Prize
Hannah May
The Donor and Daycare
MD Class of 2026
1st Place (tie) PHM Prize
Kristin Brockler
Prologue
Yale Physician Assistant Online Class of 2023
2nd Place Rush-Lerner Prize
Matthew Ponticiello
(Dis)Enlightened Inner Child
MD-PhD Class of 2030
3rd Place PHM Prize
Sydney A. Steele
Finding Community in Unforgiving Spaces
School of Public Health Class of 2023
Honorable Mention Rush-Lerner Prize
Hannah May
North Country
MD Class of 2026
Honorable Mention Rush-Lerner Prize
Rose Bender
Nine Hundred
MD Class of 2026
ART
1st Place Rush-Lerner Prize
Grace Wang
The Anatomy Garden
MD Class of 2025
2nd Place Rush-Lerner Prize
Brooks Leitner
Intensive Care
MD-PhD Class of 2024
3rd Place PHM Prize
Mary Peng
Art & Vision
School of Public Health Class of 2023
Honorable Mention Rush-Lerner Prize
Keyuree Satam
Suture and Stitch
MD Class of 2023
Honorable Mention PHM Prize
Anqi He
Cigarettes
School of Public Health Class of 2023
Contest Judges: Aba Black, Terry Dagradi, Rosana Gonzalez-Colaso, Sarah Cross, Lorence Gutterman, Melissa Grafe, Randi Hutter-Epstein, Kenneth Morford, Sharon Ostfeld-Johns, Vincent Quagliarello, Lisa Sanders, Nora Segar, Joanne Wilcox, Elizabeth Marhoffer, and Muffy Pendergast