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How to Apply

Research Award Application Information

APA members may apply or nominate a colleague for the APA Research Award. To be considered for this award, an applicant or  nominator must:

  1. Be a current APA member (all candidates should be current APA members)
  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

The APA Research Award recognizes the contribution of a senior investigator or a network in advancing pediatric knowledge through excellence in research.  Research excellence is characterized by originality, creativity, and methodological soundness.  Through his/her/their research, the network/senior investigator has epitomized the mission of the APA and contributed significantly to the general health of children in such areas as understanding mechanisms of health and disease, methods of education, and innovative ways of providing children’s services, especially in the setting of vulnerable populations.  The award recipient will be celebrated to and outside APA membership, thus being held as a role model to young investigators and demonstrating to all the important mission of the APA.

Such a person or network should have an unquestionably successful career in research as demonstrated through many, if not all, of the following:

  • Peer reviewed publications that advance the field
  • Research grants that demonstrate sustained external funding for novel ideas
  • Active and successful mentoring of junior scholars
  • Discoveries that have improved the lives of vulnerable children
  • Leadership as service in the field of research

Ideally this person or network shall have an active APA presence with continued collaboration, sustained membership, service to the APA as a grant reviewer and mentor, and/or a prior or current role within the Board or one of the research networks or other core programs.

Award Winners

2022

  • Ian M. Paul, MD, MSc

2021

  • Alan L. Mendelsohn, MD

2020

  • Samir Shah, MD, MSCe

2019

  • Shari Barkin, MD, MSHS

2017

  • Rita Mangione-Smith, MD, MPH
    University of Washington

2016

  • Cynthia Minkovitz, MD, MPP

2015

  • Bruce Lanphear

2014

  • Alejandro Hoberman

2013

  • William Cooper

2012

  • Glenn Flores

2011

  • Allison Kempe

2010

  • Dimitri A. Christakis

2009

  • Mark A. Schuster

2008

  • James M. Perrin

2007

  • Tracy Lieu
    Harvard Pilgrim Health Care & Medical School

2006

  • Neal Halfon

2005

  • Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS)

2004

  • Thomas B. Newman

2003

  • Terry Klassen
    Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

2002

  • Peter Szilagyi
    Rochester, NY

2001

  • Ronald Graham Barr
    Montreal, Canada

2000

  • Katherine Kaufer Christoffel
    Chicago, IL

1999

  • Paul McCarthy
    Yale University School of Medicine
    New Haven, CT

1998

  • John M. Leventhal
    Yale Medical School
    New Haven, CT

1997

  • Michael Weitzman
    Rochester General Hospital
    Rochester, NY

1996

  • Marie C. McCormick
    Harvard University School of Public Health
    Boston, MA

1995

  • Ruth E. K. Stein

1994

  • Jack L. Paradise

1993

  • Michael S. Kramer

1992

  • Frederick P. Rivara

1991

  • Ivan Barry Pless

1990

  • Barbara Starfield

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