Faculty Award Opportunities
Alumni Awards
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Senior Award
Honors alumni who have typified the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and brought credit to the university by their personal accomplishment, professional achievement or humanitarian service.
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Senior Award
Honors alumni and friends of Johns Hopkins who have contributed outstanding service over an extended period to progress the university or the activities of the Alumni Association.
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Senior award
Honors alumni who have typified the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and brought credit to the university by their personal accomplishment, professional achievement or humanitarian service.
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Senior award
Honors alumni who exemplify the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and brought credit to the university and their profession in the international arena through their processional achievements or humanitarian service.
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Growth award
Honors recent graduates of Johns Hopkins (within 10 years of graduation) for outstanding achievement or service in their professional or volunteer life. Support of Johns Hopkins may be a consideration, but not a requirement.
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Senior award
Honors alumni (degree recipients, current and former faculty, fellows and house staff) of Johns Hopkins SoM and JHH who have demonstrated excellence and achievement through their personal and professional accomplishments.
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Senior or growth
The Hall of Fame was established in 1993 to recognize the contributions to medicine of women who have preceded us and women who have worked with us. It endeavors to bring to life the energy, enthusiasm and passions of these individuals so that generations to come will have insight into the wide variety of accomplishments achieved by women in medicine at Johns Hopkins.
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Senior or growth
The Asper Award is presented once every two years during the Biennial Meeting of The Johns Hopkins Medical & Surgical Association to a member of the Association who has had a significant impact on the health and education of those in foreign countries.
Clinical Awards
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Senior Award
- >=25% clinical
- >= 5 years faculty at JH (Does not have to be consecutive)
- Mastery of communication & interpersonal skills
- Professionalism & humanism
- Negotiation of the healthcare system
- Diagnostic acumen, knowledge and scholarly approach to clinical practice
- Passion for patient care
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Senior or Growth
- Physician who achieves high standards in practice of medicine and is looked upon as role model by peers
- Clinical skills
- Leadership
- Collaboration
- Advocacy
- Clinical innovation
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Senior or growth
The Armstrong Award for Excellence in Quality and Safety award is presented to the physician who partners with patients, families, colleagues and staff members to optimize patient outcomes and eliminate preventable harm.
- Evaluation Criteria
- Champions the establishment of best practices
- Demonstrates exemplary performance on recognized clinical outcome measures
- Implements tools and processes to improve the patient experience
- Must be a physician
- Cannot be a winner from last year in this category (see most recent winners.)
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Senior or Growth
The Excellence in Service and Professionalism award is presented to the physician who actively promotes a culture that embraces, expects and rewards the delivery of patient- and family-centered care.
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Senior or growth
The Best Consulting Physician award is presented to the physician providing superior consulting or specialized services.
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Senior or growth
The Innovations in Clinical Care award is presented to the physician, nurse and/or team who demonstrates a visionary approach to problem solving and performance improvement.
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Senior or growth
- Builds effective collaborative relationships across different groups to define and resolve problems
- Care team must include a physician lead
- Cannot be a winner or winning team from last year in this category (see most recent winners)
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Any stage
Award recipient(s) will be selected by evaluating the project/initiative based on the following criteria:
- Significant medication-use safety problem is addressed
- High-leverage safety strategies (preferably) are utilized to reduce the likelihood of patient harm from medications
- Ability to demonstrate improvements in medication safety and quality through the use of data and process analysis methods
- Project or initiative is sustainable
- Originality and innovative nature of the project/initiative
- Multidisciplinary approach to developing and implementing safety intervention
- Initiative/program scope was broad or system-wide in nature
- Applicability to other settings within the hospital or health system
- Quality of abstract and supporting documents
- Implemented within the last 2 years
Education Awards
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Senior award
Candidates must have a current or former association with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and have demonstrated commitment to and extensive achievement in medical and/or biomedical education.
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Junior/early career
The Heiser award is given to a early career faculty member who has made an outstanding contribution in medical/biomedical education, and shows great promise for future contributions to medical/biomedical education.
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Junior/early career
The Educational Innovation Award recognizes an individual or a team for developing a resource that directly improves medical or biomedical education. This award is meant to encourage faculty members to creatively apply their talents to improve the academic needs of learners on a national scale.
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Senior, junior, early career
Three awards are given:
- One for those on faculty less than 10 years
- One for those on faculty 10 or more years
- One specifically for part-time faculty
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Early career
The Program and Curriculum Development Award recognizes a noteworthy medical or biomedical team responsible for an educational program or curriculum which has been implemented for five years or less.
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Senior
The Assessment and Evaluation Award recognizes an individual or, in some cases, a team for demonstrating exemplary creation or utilization of assessment and evaluation tools to evaluate competency, provide feedback for improvement, identify learner gaps, measure progress over time, and ensure educational quality.
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Senior
The Educational Scholarship Award recognizes a faculty member who has a body of educational scholarship work. We define scholarship broadly and include not only publications, but also workshops, other dissemination and contributions to other institutions.
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Senior
The Educational Leadership Award recognizes a faculty member who demonstrates outstanding achievement in the Educational Leadership competencies, whose leadership has shown impact of program(s), initiative(s), organization(s) or educational grant(s).
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Senior
Mentors, Coaches and Advisors may contribute in many areas, including, but not limited to:
- Intellectual growth and development
- Career development
- Professional guidance
- Advocacy
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All stages
All full- or part-time faculty members with a primary appointment within the DOM are eligible for nomination.
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Senior
A senior faculty member whose excellent mentorship has enabled their trainees to establish independent, distinguished careers.
Excellence in mentoring should include evidence of mentoring a range of individuals, including faculty and trainees, as well as evidence of the impact of the nominee's mentoring on these individuals' careers.Candidates should demonstrate collegiality, dedication to their profession, and extraordinary citizenship in Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine.
School of Medicine faculty, staff and alumni may submit nominations. (Please note, this year the committee will reconsider all candidates who were nominated for the 2019 award).
Research Awards
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Growth award
Applications from early-career faculty in any academic or professional discipline at the university are encouraged to apply.
The term “early-career” is defined as any full-time tenure-track faculty member who was first appointed to a full-time, tenure track faculty position at any institution within no less than three (3) years and no more than ten (10) years as of July 1 of the deadline year.
Eligible 2024 applicants were appointed to their first full-time, tenure track faculty position between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2021.
If your appointment started between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022, you will be eligible for the 2025 awards cycle.
Non-tenure-track Research Associates and Research Scientists at the School of Medicine (SOM), Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH), the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE), and the KriegerSchool of Arts and Sciences (KSAS) are NOT eligible for the Catalyst Award, but are encouraged to consider applying for the Discovery Award.
Only one application per person, per year. Successful applicants will not be eligible for subsequent Catalyst Awards.
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Growth award
Applications must include at least two faculty members and/or APL staff members representing at least two separate schools/divisions or affiliates of the university. Only one application per lead PI will be accepted. There is no limit to the number of proposals you can participate in as a co-PI.
If you were the lead PI of a funded 2023 Discovery Award, you are not eligible to apply as the lead PI of a 2024 award. You will be eligible again in 2025.
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Mid-career
A full-time faculty member in any division who has demonstrated exceptional scholarly achievement and for whom the award will significantly expand their prominence as an intellectual leader within their relevant fields of study. The ideal candidate will be a mid-career, full-time faculty member.