The nomination cycle for this award will open in March 2024.
Award Information
This award recognizes a program faculty member who has made extraordinary contributions to research and scholarly work related to PA education; therefore, it may not be awarded annually.
Criteria
Nominees will be evaluated in all four of the following areas and must demonstrate outstanding contributions to PA education in a minimum of two of the following areas:
- Scholarship that is distinguished
- Distinguished: published in peer-reviewed journals, high-impact books or book chapters, high-quality conference presentations or proceedings, or equivalent work to PA education literature that is influential on a national level
- Scholarship that is sustained over time or is seminal
- Sustained: ongoing contributions over time that result in a substantial body of work about PA education, the profession and other related topics
- Seminal: original, fundamentally new ideas that are course-changing
- New knowledge or a significant extension of existing knowledge to PA education
- New knowledge: original work that may be limited or broad in its application
- Extension of existing knowledge: addition of facts, evidence, or interpretation to existing published topics
- Applicability of scholarship to a broad range of PA programs
- Applicable: usable by PA programs in varied geographic and academic settings, and with varied instructional frameworks
Requirements and materials
Employment Status
Employed at least half-time at the time of nomination (0.5 FTE) at a PAEA member program and for a minimum of three cumulative years in PA education. All years do not have to be at the same program.
Record of Contributions to PA Education
A list of scholarly contributions to PA education or indication of a recent seminal work of importance to PA education must be included in the nominee’s CV
Nomination Letter
A list of scholarly contributions to PA education or indication of a recent seminal work of importance to PA education must be included in the nominee’s CV
Letters of Support
Two letters of support addressing the author’s first-hand knowledge of the nominee with relation to two or more of the award criteria
Recognition
- Personalized award
- Check for $500
- Recognition at the Awards Ceremony
- Complimentary 2022 PAEA Education Forum registration
- 2022 – Not Awarded
- 2021 – Not Awarded
- 2020 – Not Awarded
- 2019 – James Van Rhee, Yale University
- 2018 – Eric Larson, MEDEX Northwest
- 2017 – Gerald Kayingo, University of California – Davis
- 2016 – Christine Everett, Duke University
- 2015 – Theresa Hegmann, University of Iowa
- 2014 – Jennifer Coombs, University of Utah
- 2013 – Bettie Coplan, Northern Arizona University
- 2011 – Anita Duhl Glicken, University of Colorado
- 2010 – Perri Morgan, Duke University
- 2009 – Donald Pedersen, University of Utah
- 2008 – Meredith Davison, University of Oklahoma, Tulsa
- 2007 – P. Eugene Jones, UTSWMC
- 2005 – James Cawley, George Washington University
- 2004 – Albert Simon, Arizona School of Health Sciences
- 2003 – Richard Dehn, University of Iowa
- 2002 – Roderick Hooker, UTSWMC
- 2001 – J. Dennis Blessing, UTHSC