HSR Investigator Receives 2026 American Thoracic Society Early Career Achievement Award

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May 19, 2026

HSR Investigator Receives 2026 American Thoracic Society Early Career Achievement Award

Health Systems Research (HSR) is proud to announce that HSR investigator Arianne Baldomero, MD, MS, received the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Early Career Achievement Award on May 18, 2026 at the ATS Clinical Problems Assembly Membership Meeting in Orlando, Florida. This award is presented to an individual in the early stage of their career who has made outstanding contributions in clinical, translational, or laboratory-based research relevant to clinical problems. A core Investigator at HSR's Center for Care Delivery and Outcomes Research (CCDOR) and a practicing pulmonologist and intensivist at the VA Minneapolis Healthcare System, Dr. Baldomero is also an HSR Career Development Awardee (CDA).

Dr. Baldomero's research focuses on improving outcomes for Veterans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by optimizing management, reducing health disparities, and enhancing access to evidence-based care. For example, she led a retrospective cohort study to examine associations of living in a rural area and drive time to care that provides tobacco dependence treatment (TDT) among more than 238,000 Veterans with COPD. Published in JAMA Network Open (Baldomero et al., 2025), the study showed that the provision of TDT-perhaps the most important of all COPD interventions-was low among this population. "This work emphasizes that enhancing tobacco dependence treatment for COPD is a priority, and reducing geographic barriers will require multidisciplinary approaches and innovative, equitable healthcare solutions," said Dr. Baldomero.