Awards

The submission deadline for NAP's 2020 awards is December 1, 2019.  The winners will be recognized at our 2020 Forum March 12-14 in San Diego.

Nominations are accepted
for the following three awards for 2020:

  • The Nicholas Andrew Cummings Award
  • Interprofessional Group Recognition Award
  • Creativity in Practice and Education Award

Descriptions and criteria for each can be found below.

  

Submissions are accepted from all NAP Fellows.  There is no official nomination form; simply send your nomination letter with background on the nominee and details on how they fit the award criteria to:

Melanie Bowzer, Executive Director
[email protected]
859-514-9181

The submission deadline for 2020's awards is December 1, 2019.  

 


View list of previous award winners

Nicholas Andrew
Cummings Award

Named for NAP's Founder, this award is presented annually to a Distinguished Fellow of NAP who has demonstrated outstanding or extraordinary contributions to the National Academies of Practice and interprofessional health care.

  • Nominee must be a NAP Fellow
  • Nominator can be a NAP member or non-member (cannot self-nominate)
  • Given annually
  • Nomination letter submitted to headquarters with background on the nominee, a CV of the nominee, and details on how they fit the award criteria

2019 - Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, DPNAP, Diplomate

Pictured left to right: Satya Verma, Michelle Troseth

  

Interprofessional Group Recognition Award

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

  • Nominee(s) can be NAP members or non-members
  • Nominator can be a NAP member or non-member (and can be a member of a group he/she is nominating)
  • May be given annually (when a suitable candidate is nominated)
  • Nomination letter submitted to headquarters with background on the nominee and details on how they fit the award criteria

2019 – the Interprofessional Faculty Development Curriculum in Humanism Group

Pictured left to right: Michelle Troseth, Elizabeth Rider

Creativity in Practice and Education Award

This award recognizes a person and/or team who display creative solutions in interprofessional education and/or interprofessional practice, thereby achieving improvements in health care.

  • Nominee(s) can be NAP members or non-members
  • Nominator can be a NAP member or non-member (and can be a member of a group he/she is nominating)
  • May be given annually (when a suitable candidate is nominated)
  • Nomination letter submitted to headquarters with background on the nominee and details on how they fit the award criteria

2019 – Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, FNAP

Pictured left to right: Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, Michelle Troseth

  

NAPO James A. Boucher Award (Optometry)

Awarded by the Optometry Academy to a NAP Optometry Academy Member who has demonstrated exemplary contributions to the profession of optometry and the healthcare field and has upheld the mission of NAP to advance science and the concept of interprofessional care.

2019 – Sandra S. Block, OD, MEd, MPH, FAAO, FCOVD

Pictured left to right: Doug Benoit, Sandra Block