How to Apply

Health Care Delivery Award Application Information Individuals or groups may nominate themselves or may be nominated by a colleague for the APA Health Care Delivery Award. APA members holding any healthcare leadership role including physicians, nurses, and administrators are eligible to apply.  The APA is committed to confidentiality of the review process as well as intentional inclusion of diverse pools of applicants. To be considered or nominate a colleague for this award, an individual or nominator must:

  1. Be a current APA member
  2. Fill out the common application
  3. Submit two one-to-two page letters of recommendation explaining why they are deserving of the award
  4. Submit a CV.  If submitting an application on behalf of a group, we suggest submitting one file with CVs of primary program leaders merged as one file

The application window for 2023 awards is currently closed. Please check back late 2023 for 2024 information.

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

Award Winners

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