{"id":587,"date":"2025-01-06T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nutritioncarestage.com\/foundation\/?page_id=587"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:04:21","slug":"past-george-blackburn-research-mentorship-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/past-george-blackburn-research-mentorship-award\/","title":{"rendered":"George Blackburn Research Mentorship Award Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-congratulations-to-the-2025-george-blackburn-research-mentorship-awardee\"><strong>Congratulations to the 2025 George Blackburn Research Mentorship Awardee!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-64989fb1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"681\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/image.png?resize=640%2C681&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-615 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/681;width:175px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/image.png?resize=963%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 963w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/image.png?resize=282%2C300&amp;ssl=1 282w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/image.png?resize=768%2C816&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/image.png?resize=1445%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1445w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/image.png?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/image.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tom Jaksic MD, PhD, FASPEN<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>W. Hardy Hendren Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School<br>Vice-Chair Pediatric Surgery, Boston Children&rsquo;s Hospital <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A message from Dr. Jaksic:<\/em><br><em>&ldquo;It is a distinct honor to receive the George Blackburn Research Mentorship Award for 2025.<\/em> <em>Dr. George Blackburn, the second ASPEN president, was a true pioneer in the field of surgical metabolism. The nutritional support program he built with Dr. Bruce Bistrian was a paragon of excellence in interdisciplinary research, education and clinical care. I was fortunate to have been one of their fellows and am gratified to see that the inclusive model they fostered continues to be a foundational component of ASPEN.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In my own career, spanning over 30 years, I have been privileged to continuously supervise &nbsp;stellar research fellows and work with an incredible interdisciplinary team. Whatever I might have accomplished scientifically was largely due to their work. Professionally there is no greater pleasure than witnessing the tremendous success of my mentees and their ongoing contributions to ASPEN. I would sincerely like to thank them for nominating me for this award and the ASPEN Rhoads Research Foundation for selecting me.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\r\n<div class=\"single-accordion-block\">\r\r\n    <div class=\"accordion-single\">\r\r\n        <div class=\"accordion-title\" tabindex=\"0\" data-aid=\"#accordion1\"><icon><\/icon><span>View All George Blackburn Research Mentorship Award Recipients<\/span><\/div>\r\r\n        <div class=\"accordion-content\" id=\"accordion1\">\r\r\n            <div class=\"accordion-text-block\"><p><!-- wp:paragraph --><strong>2025 <\/strong>&ndash;&nbsp;Tom Jaksic, MD, PhD, FASPEN<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><strong>2024 <\/strong>&ndash;&nbsp;Paul W. Wales, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS, FASPEN<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><strong>2023 <\/strong>&ndash;&nbsp;John Alverdy, MD<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><strong>2022 <\/strong>&ndash; Justine Turner, MBBS, FRACP, PhD<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><strong>2021 <\/strong>&ndash;&nbsp;Kenneth A. Kudsk, MD, FAACS, FCCM<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><strong>2020 <\/strong>&ndash;&nbsp;Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><strong>2019 <\/strong>&ndash;&nbsp;Samuel Klein, MD<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --><strong>2018 <\/strong>&ndash;&nbsp;John L. Rombeau, MD, FASPEN<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\r\n        <\/div>\r\r\n    <\/div>\r\r\n<\/div>\r\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to the 2025 George Blackburn Research Mentorship Awardee! Tom Jaksic MD, PhD, FASPEN&nbsp;W. Hardy Hendren Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical SchoolVice-Chair Pediatric Surgery, Boston Children&rsquo;s Hospital A message from Dr. Jaksic:&ldquo;It is a distinct honor to receive the George Blackburn Research Mentorship Award for 2025. Dr. George Blackburn, the second ASPEN president, was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-587","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.6 (Yoast SEO v25.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>George Blackburn Research Mentorship Award Recipients - Rhoads Research Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The George Blackburn Research Mentorship Award recognizes nutrition leaders for their achievements as outstanding research mentors.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/past-george-blackburn-research-mentorship-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"George Blackburn Research Mentorship Award Recipients\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The George Blackburn Research Mentorship Award recognizes nutrition leaders for their achievements as outstanding research mentors.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/past-george-blackburn-research-mentorship-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rhoads Research Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-02-27T15:04:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/01\/image-963x1024.png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/past-george-blackburn-research-mentorship-award\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nutritioncare.org\/foundation\/past-george-blackburn-research-mentorship-award\/\",\"name\":\"George Blackburn Research Mentorship Award Recipients - 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