Executive Vice Chair of Pediatrics Alejandro Hoberman received the Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award for 2022 from the Clinical Research Forum, a nonprofit association of clinical research experts and thought leaders from the nation’s leading academic health centers.
Hoberman is the first person to receive this award twice from the forum.
This year's award recognizes Hoberman and his research team for a study entitled “Tympanostomy Tubes or Medical Management for Recurrent Acute Otitis Media.” First published in May 2021 in the New England Journal of Medicine, the study found no long-term benefit to surgically placing ear tubes in a young child’s ears to reduce the rate of recurrent ear infections compared to use of episodic oral antibiotics.
In 2015, the Clinical Research Forum recognized Hoberman for his team’s findings in “Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Children with Vesicoureteral Reflux.”