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    Awards

    AAHPM recognizes the importance of celebrating your achievements, in addition to supporting your critical work and passion for the field. Outstanding individuals are recognized with a variety of awards in hospice and palliative care.

    Award recipients will receive complimentary registration to the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care, funds toward travel-related expenses, and an award celebrating their achievements and contributions to our field.

    AAHPM’s 2027 award recipients will be announced in late fall and honored at the 2027 Annual Assembly, March 17-20, 2027, in Pittsburgh, PA.

    Explore Our Awards

    Learn about AAHPM’s award categories and the outstanding individuals recognized for their contributions to hospice and palliative care.

    Lifetime Achievement Award

    Recognizes outstanding contributions and significant publications that have helped shape the direction of the field of hospice and palliative care.

    Gerald H. Holman Distinguished Service Award

    Recognizes outstanding and dedicated service to the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. The award will be presented to an individual (or group) that has advanced the mission of the AAHPM in a significant and lasting way.

    Josefina B. Magno Distinguished Hospice Physician Award

    Recognizes a hospice medical director or hospice physician who provides the highest quality services and innovative programs and who demonstrates exemplary dedication to the practice of palliative medicine in a hospice setting.

    Distinguished Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Member Award

    This award recognizes a hospice interdisciplinary team member who provides the highest quality services and innovative programs and who demonstrates exemplary dedication to the practice of palliative care in a hospice setting.

    Richard Payne Outstanding Achievement in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award

    This award will be presented annually to an individual who demonstrates strong, lasting, personal, and professional commitment to improving care for diverse, vulnerable, and underrepresented patient populations.

    Humanities Award

    Recognizes person(s) whose work has advanced the relationship between humanities and palliative care, and who have employed the discipline of the humanities to improve end-of-life care through community or professional education. Candidates for the award include poets, artists, musicians, medical educators, and others involved in medical humanities in the broadest terms.

    Award for Excellence in Scientific Research in Palliative Care

    Recognizes meaningful, exemplary research contributions to the field of hospice and palliative care. The recipient is expected to present his/her research within the broad context of the field of hospice and palliative care.

    Award for Excellence in Education and Training

    This award recognizes, encourages and rewards an AAHPM member who has enhanced the practice and profession of hospice and palliative care through education. The educator has made significant, outstanding contributions to education in hospice and palliative care. Education may be in the form of teaching, directing, mentoring, writing, and/or presenting to multiple levels of audiences including physician, interprofessional, resident, fellow, student.

    Early Career Investigator Award

    Recognizes a member of AAHPM who is developing as a research leader, showing promise of making contributions to the development of a scientific foundation for practice and research, conducting or facilitating research by others that advances the field of hospice and palliative medicine, has a beginning record of scientific publications, and contributes to the AAHPM community at large. The nominees for this award will not yet have achieved independence as an investigator (ie having R01 level funding or its equivalent).

    The State of the Science in Palliative Care Research Mentoring Award

    This award was created to honor the fundamental necessity of research mentorship as an essential pillar of a robust and growing palliative care scientific community. The award recognizes prominent senior scientists in palliative and hospice care who have demonstrated:

    • a sustained, high-impact program of research that has promoted the development of other researchers in the area,
    • visionary leadership on a national level to advance early career palliative care scientists, and
    • inspirational mentorship to future generations of palliative care researchers.

    Presidential Citation(s)

    These award(s) acknowledge individuals who have made significant contributions to the field of hospice and palliative medicine but do not qualify for consideration in other award categories.

    Recommendations would be made by the President, Board members or leadership, and approved by the Board of Directors or Executive Committee.

    Celebrating Excellence Every 5 Years

    Every five years, we honor individuals whose work has made a profound and lasting impact on the field of hospice and palliative care.

    These awards recognize both rising talent and enduring leadership, celebrating those who shape the future and those who have transformed the present.

    Emerging Leaders

    This award celebrates early-career professionals who demonstrate exceptional promise, innovation, and leadership in hospice and palliative care. Emerging Leaders are recognized for their forward-thinking contributions and their potential to drive meaningful change in the years ahead.

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    Visionaries in HAPC

    Presented to individuals whose pioneering work has significantly advanced the field, this award honors those whose vision, dedication, and influence have left a lasting legacy. Visionaries are recognized for shaping the standards, practices, and future direction of hospice and palliative care.

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