Nicholas A. Cummings Highest Distinguished Fellow Award

Interprofessional Group Recognition Award

Given to groups who have made enduring contributions to interprofessional practice and education.

2025 - InterprofessionalResearch.Global (IPR.Global) & Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education^TM
2024 - Auburn University Rural Health Coalition (AURHC) & Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative (IPC)
2023 - ECLiPSE Team at The Ohio State University
2022 - University at Buffalo Interprofessional Education Leadership Team (UB IPE Leadership Team)
2021 - Woodruff Health Science Center (WHSC) Interprofessional Team Training (ITT) Program Planning Group at the Emory University School of Medicine 
2020 - University of Cincinnati’s Academic Health Center
2019 - Interprofessional Faculty Development Curriculum in Humanism Group
2017 - Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research Center
2015 - Interdisciplinary Shared Clinical Experiences (ISCE) Team, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Nursing, Medicine and Pastoral Care and Notre Dame of Maryland University School of Pharmacy
2013 - Children’s Emotional HealthLink (CEHL), Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA
2012 - The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), University of New England
2011 - Pathways into Health, a grassroots collaboration of organizations and individuals dedicated to improving the health, health care, and health care education of American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) in the US
2010 – The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC)
2009 - Association for Prevention Teaching and Research
2004 - American Academy of Wound Management, Washington, DC
2003 - Kentucky Interdisciplinary Community Screening Program
2002 - Primary Care Fellowship Program (HRSA)
2000 - East Carolina University Interdisciplinary Education program

Creativity in Practice & Education Award

Given to groups who have made enduring contributions to interprofessional practice and education.

2025 - The Raising Families Team at Kean University
2024 - Kern Collaboratory Faculty Fellowships in Interprofessional Leadership
2023 - CAIPER eLearning Trainings and Case of the Kidnapped Healthcare Professionals: Developing a Virtual, Avatar-based, Multi-user, 3-D Video Interprofessional Escape Room
2022 - Thomas Jefferson University's Complex Care Curriculum "3Cs"
2020 - PATH (Providing Access to Healthcare Clinic) and HRTSA (Heart Failure Transitional Care Services for Adults) Clinics of the University of Alabama at Birmingham
2019 - Dr. Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner
2018 - Dr. Simi Jesto Joseph
2017 - Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research Center
2015 - Interdisciplinary Shared Clinical Experiences (ISCE) Team, Johns Hopkins University Schools of Nursing, Medicine and Pastoral Care and Notre Dame of Maryland University School of Pharmacy
2014 - David Itzkoff, DDS, FADPD, DABSCD, SFNAP
2013 - Children’s Emotional HealthLink (CEHL), Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA
2012 - The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), University of New England
2011 - Pathways into Health, a grassroots collaboration of organizations and individuals dedicated to improving the health, health care, and health care education of American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) in the US.
2010 - The Clinical Practice Model Resource Center (CPMRC)
2009 - Association for Prevention Teaching and Research
2004 - American Academy of Wound Management, Washington, DC
2003 - Kentucky Interdisciplinary Community Screening Program
2002 - Primary Care Fellowship Program (HRSA)
2000 - East Carolina University Interdisciplinary Education program
1999 - Madeline H. Schmitt, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP

Patient Advocacy Award

2025 - Liz Salmi
2024 - Ted Meyer
2023 - Susan Dudley Gold
2022 - Dr. Anita Gupta
2021 - Captain Carlos Montalvan (1973-2016) and Tuesday (2006-2019)

Emerging Interprofessional National Academies of Practice Member of the Year Award

2025 - Arvie Vitente, PT, DPT, PhD, MPH, FNAP
2024 - Sarah A. Manspeaker, PhD, LAT, ATC, FNAP & Sara E. North, PT, DPT, PhD, MEd, FNAP
2023 - Joseph A. Zorek, PharmD, BCGP, FNAP
2022 - Laurel Abbruzzese, PT, Ed D, FNAP

Al Rundio Memorial Award for Outstanding Publication

2025 - Albert Rundio, PhD, DNP, RN, APRN, NEA-BC, FNAP, FIAAN, FAAN (post.)

NAP Leadership Award (formerly Senator Daniel K. Inouye Award)

2023 - Patricia A. Cuff, MS, MPH
2021 - Dr. Anthony Fauci
2010 - Edward M. Kennedy (post.)
2006 - Congressman Ted Strickland, Ohio
2003 - State Senator Angela Z. Monson, Oklahoma
2000 - Congressman Charles Norwood, DDS, Washington, DC
1996 - Senator Nancy L. Kassebaum
1990 - C. Everett Koop, MD, former U.S. Surgeon General Senator Jay Rockefeller Representative Claude Pepper

NAPO James A. Boucher Award of Excellence (Optometry)

This award is given to a National Academies of Practice Optometry Academy member who has demonstrated exemplary contributions to the profession of optometry and healthcare field and has upheld the mission of the National Academy of Practice to advance science and the concept of interdisciplinary healthcare.

2025 - Jeffrey L. Weaver, OD, MBA, MS
2024 - Clarke Newman, OD, FAAO, FNAP
2023 - W. Howard McAlister, OD, MPH
2022 - Dr. Glen T. Steele
2021 - James A. Boucher (posthumously)
2020 - John C. Townsend, OD, FAAO
2019 - Sandra S. Block, OD, MEd, MPH, FAAO, FCOVD
2018 - Joseph P. Shovlin, OD, FAAO
2017 - Arol Augsburger, MS, OD
2016 - Richard E. Weisbarth, OD, FAAO
2015 - Thomas L. Lewis, OD, PhD
2014 - Melvin D. Shipp, OD, MPH, DrPH
2013 - Satya B. Verma, OD, FAAO, Diplomate
2012 - Gerald E. Lowther, OD, PhD
2011 - Lester Caplan, OD, MEd
2010 - Ron Fair, OD