APA’s Pillar Award Test Page

Description

The APA Health Care Delivery Award for Faculty recognizes contributions of APA members who are faculty members for working to advance health care delivery. Contributions are assessed not only by the quantity of related activities but also by their quality and/or impact.

Eligibility

APA members from all professions and specialties are eligible for this award, and members from diverse backgrounds are highly encouraged to apply.

Early Career is within 7 years since completion of training.

Criteria

Excellence is assessed by the

• quantity of related activities.
• quality and impact.

How to Apply

Individuals may nominate themselves or a colleague. To be considered for this award, the nominated individual must:

1. 1. Be a current member of the Academic Pediatric Association.
   2. Fill out the common application.
   3. Submit two 1-2 page letters of recommendation explaining why they are deserving of the award
   4. Submit a CV
   5. Submit a nomination statement. Nomination statements should speak to the nominee’s contributions to the field of pediatric academic medicine and other successes related to the award category for which they are being nominated. (500 word maximum)
   6. Please include with your application a statement describing how societal factors have shaped your career interests and growth as an academic child health professional. This may include socioeconomic factors, growing up in rural areas, and other challenges, hardships, and unique life experiences that have contributed to your personal and professional narrative.  (Note: 500 word limit)

Award Winners

• 2024
  • Kimberly Montez, MD, MPH for Early-Career

Description

The APA Health Care Delivery Award for Faculty recognizes contributions of APA members who are faculty members for working to advance health care delivery. Contributions are assessed not only by the quantity of related activities but also by their quality and/or impact.

Eligibility

APA members from all professions and specialties are eligible for this award, and members from diverse backgrounds are highly encouraged to apply.

Mid-Career is within 7-15 years since completion of training.

Criteria

Excellence is assessed by the

• quantity of related activities.
• quality and impact.

How to Apply

Individuals may nominate themselves or a colleague. To be considered for this award, the nominated individual must:

1. 1. Be a current member of the Academic Pediatric Association.
   2. Fill out the common application.
   3. Submit two 1-2 page letters of recommendation explaining why they are deserving of the award.
   4. Submit a CV.
   5. Submit a nomination statement. Nomination statements should speak to the nominee’s contributions to the field of pediatric academic medicine and other successes related to the award category for which they are being nominated. (500 word maximum)
   6. Please include with your application a statement describing how societal factors have shaped your career interests and growth as an academic child health professional. This may include socioeconomic factors, growing up in rural areas, and other challenges, hardships, and unique life experiences that have contributed to your personal and professional narrative.  (Note: 500 word limit)

Award Winners

• 2025
  • Megan Marie Tschudy, MD, MPH
• 2024
  • Anna Volerman, MD for Mid-Career

Description

The APA Health Care Delivery Program Award recognizes an innovative and effective program that supports health care in the context of a teaching setting.

Eligibility

General pediatric programs led by APA members are eligible for this award. The program must include residents, fellows, and/or medical students. It may provide general pediatric care or care to children with special or specific needs (e.g., children with lead poisoning, teenage mothers and their children, or children with chronic illnesses), or it may support a system of care (e.g., an immunization tracking system).

Criteria

Applications will be evaluated based on consideration of the extent to which the program excels in the following domains:

• Innovation in program development and design
• Scope and breadth of the program
• Incorporation of teaching for healthcare professionals
• Strength of evaluation of the program (i.e. assessment of impact on healthcare outcomes and/or trainees)
• Potential for dissemination and sustainability
• Extent to which the program embraces principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion

How to Apply

Individuals may nominate themselves or a colleague. To be considered for this award, the nominated individual must:

1. 1. Be a current member of the Academic Pediatric Association.
   2. Fill out the common application.
   3. Submit two 1-2 page letters of recommendation explaining why they are deserving of the award.
   4. Submit a Program Description. You may download the minimum components of a Program Description here.
   5. Submit a CV.
   6. Please include with your application a statement describing how societal factors have shaped your career interests and growth as an academic child health professional. This may include socioeconomic factors, growing up in rural areas, and other challenges, hardships, and unique life experiences that have contributed to your personal and professional narrative.  (Note: 500 word limit)

Award Winners

• 2025
  • Odessa Brown Children's Clinic
• 2024
  • Kate Connor, MD, MSPH, Johns Hopkins Rales Health Center

  2023

  • Robin Scott, MD, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore

  2022

  • Steve Federico, MD Denver Health Division of General Pediatrics and School Health

  2021

  • Ihuoma Eneli, MD, MS Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition Nationwide Children's Hospital

  2020

  • Amy Houtrow, MD, PhD, MPH Technology Assisted Children's Home Program (TACHP)

  2019

  • Bonny Lyn Johnston Whalen, MD The Center for Addiction Recovery in Pregnancy and Parenting, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center/Geisel School of Medicine

  2018

  • Rahil Briggs, PsyD Montefiore Medical Group

  2017

  • Susmita Pati, MD, MPH Stony Brook University

  2016

  • Barron Patterson, MD Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Pediatric Primary Care Clinic

  2015

  • Judith Shaw, EdD, MPH, RN NIPN Program Director

  2014

  • Barry Zuckerman, MD Department of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine

  2013

  • Johns Hopkins Children's Center Harriet Lane Clinic

  2012

  • John Cowden, MD Kanas City, MO

  2011

  • Susan Fisher-Owens, MD Health Care Delivery - Primary Teeth Program, UCSF, Program Director

  2010

  • Scott Krugman, MD Franklin Square Hospital Center Baltimore, MD

  2009

  • Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health (Golberg CNMC) Children's National Medical Center of Washington D.C. Denice Cora-Bramble, MD, MBA

  2008

  • CATCH Pediatric Mobile Team Affiliated with Wayne State University School of Medicine/Children's Hospital of Michigan Detroit, MI Program Director: Teresa Holtrop, MD

  2007

  • The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center Shannon Thyne MD, Medical Director: Nan Madden

  2006

  • Rocking Horse Center Springfield, OH Medical Director: James Duffee, MD, MPH

  2005

  • South Main Clinic, University of Utah Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics, University of Utah Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Salt Lake Valley Health Department Salt Lake City, UT

  2004

  • Guilford Child Health, Inc. Guilford County, North Carolina

  2003

  • The Ohio Rural Developmental and Behavioral Clinic Initiative Columbus, Ohio

  2002

  • Denver Health Division of General Pediatrics Denver, CO

  2000

  • Young Parents Program, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA

  1999

  • ChessPenn Health Services, Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Chester, PA

  1998

  • Community House Calls, Harborview Medical Center

  1997

  • MEDIC Salvation Army Homeless Shelter Clinic, Madison, WI New York Children's Health Project New York, NY

  1996

  • Cabrini Green Youth Program Clinic Children's Memorial Hospital Chicago, IL

  1995

  • Georgetown University Community Pediatric Program Pediatric Mobile Clinic Washington, DC

Description

The APA Community-Engaged Health Care Delivery was inspired by Dr. Marjorie Rosenthal. Marjorie Rosenthal, MD, MPH, was an associate professor of pediatrics at Yale and the associate director of the National Clinician Scholars Program, where she led the Program’s Community-Based Participatory Research Group, establishing ties between Yale Scholars and New Haven community-based organizations and stakeholders. Dr. Rosenthal exemplified all the best qualities of an academic physician: as a teacher and role model, caregiver and community member, researcher, and mentor. She devoted her research career to developing novel approaches to address health inequities for young, marginalized families. Her academic research was focused on identifying practical solutions to complicated community problems, and her success derived from the great joy she experienced from connecting people—planting the seeds of shared understanding and collaboration between stakeholders with different life experiences.

The APA Community-Engaged Health Care Delivery is granted to an instructor, assistant, or associate professor who has led meaningful community-based efforts focused on decreasing health inequities and/or positively impacting the delivery of health care for vulnerable patients and families.

Eligibility

APA members from all professions and specialties are eligible for this award, and members from diverse backgrounds are highly encouraged to apply.

Early Career is within 7 years since completion of training.

Criteria

Community-based efforts are assessed by the

• extent to which work demonstrated decreased health inequity or impacts HCD for vulnerable patients and families.
• engagement of community partnership.
• innovation.
• replicability.

How to Apply

Individuals may nominate themselves or a colleague. To be considered for this award, the nominated individual must:

1. 1. Be a current member of the Academic Pediatric Association.
   2. Fill out the common application.
   3. Submit two 1-2 page letters of recommendation explaining why they are deserving of the award.
   4. Submit a CV.
   5. Submit a nomination statement. Nomination statements should speak to the nominee’s contributions to the field of pediatric academic medicine and other successes related to the award category for which they are being nominated. (500 word maximum)
   6. Please include with your application a statement describing how societal factors have shaped your career interests and growth as an academic child health professional. This may include socioeconomic factors, growing up in rural areas, and other challenges, hardships, and unique life experiences that have contributed to your personal and professional narrative.  (Note: 500 word limit)

Award Winners

Description

The APA Community-Engaged Health Care Delivery was inspired by Dr. Marjorie Rosenthal. Marjorie Rosenthal, MD, MPH, was an associate professor of pediatrics at Yale and the associate director of the National Clinician Scholars Program, where she led the Program’s Community-Based Participatory Research Group, establishing ties between Yale Scholars and New Haven community-based organizations and stakeholders. Dr. Rosenthal exemplified all the best qualities of an academic physician: as a teacher and role model, caregiver and community member, researcher, and mentor. She devoted her research career to developing novel approaches to address health inequities for young, marginalized families. Her academic research was focused on identifying practical solutions to complicated community problems, and her success derived from the great joy she experienced from connecting people—planting the seeds of shared understanding and collaboration between stakeholders with different life experiences.

The APA Community-Engaged Health Care Delivery is granted to an instructor, assistant, or associate professor who has led meaningful community-based efforts focused on decreasing health inequities and/or positively impacting the delivery of health care for vulnerable patients and families.

Eligibility

APA members from all professions and specialties are eligible for this award, and members from diverse backgrounds are highly encouraged to apply.

Mid-Career is within 7-15 years since completion of training.

Criteria

Community-based efforts are assessed by

• extent to which work demonstrated decreased health inequity or impacts HCD for vulnerable patients and families.
• engagement of community partnership.
• innovation.
• replicability.

How to Apply

Individuals may nominate themselves or a colleague. To be considered for this award, the nominated individual must:

1. 1. Be a current member of the Academic Pediatric Association.
   2. Fill out the common application.
   3. Submit two 1-2 page letters of recommendation explaining why they are deserving of the award.
   4. Submit a CV.
   5. Submit a nomination statement. Nomination statements should speak to the nominee’s contributions to the field of pediatric academic medicine and other successes related to the award category for which they are being nominated. (500 word maximum)
   6. Please include with your application a statement describing how societal factors have shaped your career interests and growth as an academic child health professional. This may include socioeconomic factors, growing up in rural areas, and other challenges, hardships, and unique life experiences that have contributed to your personal and professional narrative.  (Note: 500 word limit)

Award Winners

• 2025
  • Sandra H. Jee, MD, MPH
• 2024
  • Jyothi Marbin, MD