The William Beaumont Research Awards are given to three students for outstanding research accomplishments from work submitted for publication in Fusion, the student-run research magazine at GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
The recipients of the 2025-26 William Beaumont Research Awards are:
Natalie Ewing, MSIII
Title: Temporal Trends in Fetal Congenital Heart Disease: Is there a Potential Link with Air Quality?
Mentor: Jennifer H. Klein, MD, MPH ’22, assistant professor of pediatrics
Sam Kwon, MSII
Title: Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists Use Is Associated with Improved Outcomes After Partial Nephrectomy in T2DM Patients with Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma: A TriNetX Study
Mentor: Michael J. Whalen, MD, associate professor of urology
William Randall, MSII
Title: Pilot Study of an AI‑Powered Surgical Training Platform to Boost Neurosurgical Capacity in Tanzania
Mentors: Hamisi Shabani, EdD, Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute; Timothy Singer, PhD, neurosurgery resident; Daniel Donoho, MD, assistant professor of neurological surgery