Shashank Kotakonda

Anesthesia Researcher Wins 2016 E. Donnall Thomas Prize COOPERSTOWN – Shashank Kotakonda, M.D., internal medicine resident in his third year of training at Bassett Hospital, has won the 2016 E. Donnall Thomas Award for exceptional research. The award is named for the Bassett’s physician-in-chief from 1955 to 1963, who received the 1990 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his pioneering work in bone marrow transplantation.  He performed the first such transplant at Bassett in 1956.…