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Pope Clinical Trainee Award

No longer accepting applications. 

The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center solicits nominations for the annual Pope Clinical Trainee Award, funded by the John William Pope Foundation, to honor outstanding clinical trainees for their cancer research accomplishments and clinical excellence. These awards recognize outstanding senior fellows or residents (MD and MD/PhD) for performance of a cancer-related clinical or translational research project (abstract or full publication) and for demonstration of excellence in clinical cancer care. Nominations may come from any cancer-related clinical discipline.

Nominations should include:

  • 1-2 page letter from a faculty mentor describing the nominee and their clinical research achievement
  • A short letter of endorsement from the fellow/residency director regarding clinical excellence
  • The nominee’s curriculum vitae
  • 1 page description of the research submitted by the trainee

For any questions about this award, please contact lccctraining@unc.edu.

2025 Awardees

Jeffrey Lee Jensen, MD, PhD (Department of Medicine)
Ethan Steele, MD, MS (Department of Radiation Oncology)
Jaewon Lee, MD (Department of Surgery, Surgical Oncology)
Joseph Kearney, MD (Department of Surgery, General Surgery)
Zach Feuer, MD (Department of Urology)

Previous Awardees

Andrew Abumoussa, MD, MSc (Department of Neurosurgery)

Ryan Morse, MD (Department of Radiation Oncology)

Wesley Stepp, MD, PhD (Department of Otolaryngology)

Gabriel Ologun, MD (Department of General Surgery)

Jeremy Meier, MD, PhD (Division of Hematology, Department of Medicine)

Kathryn H. Gessner, MD, PhD (Department of Urology)

Joannie Ivory, MD, MSPH (Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine)

Xavier Baldwin, MD (Department of Surgery)

Lindsey Buckingham, MD (Division of Gynecologic Oncology)

Ibardo Zambrano, MD (Department of Urology)

Christopher Jensen, MD (Division of Hematology & Oncology)

Joshua Herb, MD (Division of Surgical Oncology)

Chelsea Osterman, MD (Division of Hematology & Oncology)

Steven Johnson, MD (Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine)

Stephen Kimani, MD (Division of Hematology & Oncology)

Vaibhav Kumar, MD (Division of Hematology & Oncology)

Stephanie Lumpkin, MD (Department of Surgery)

Pauline Filippou, MD (Department of Urology)

Matthew Painschab, MD (Division of Hematology)

Tyler Ellis, MD (Department of Surgery)

Aaron Mitchell, MD (Division of Hematology & Oncology)

Kyle Wang, MD (Department of Radiation Oncology)

Kate Westmoreland, MD (Department of Pediatrics)