Search Tag: Awards
2023 22 Dec
In 2023, Affidea has once again set a gold standard in healthcare, garnering numerous awards and recognitions that highlight its unwavering commitment to patient safety, innovation, and community care. "This year's achievements are a true reflection of our team's dedication to excellence in healthcare. Each award represents the hard work,...Read more
2023 30 Aug
The International Hospital Federation (IHF) has announced the finalists of the IHF Awards 2023 after scoring entries in all 7 Award categories. This year, more than 500 entries were submitted by hospitals and healthcare organizations from 43 countries/territories – a record number since the Awards commenced in 2015. The projects and programmes...Read more
2018 22 Sep
How the UK Space Agency is contributing to healthcare. England’s National Health Service (NHS) is joining forces with the UK Space Agency to tackle four critical healthcare challenges. The UK Space Agency has launched a multi-million-pound joint initiative with the NHS for healthcare innovators who can demonstrate how technology...Read more
2015 08 Sep
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) -- the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging -- has chosen Kyriakos S. "Kokos" Markides, PhD, of the University of Texas Medical Branch as the 2015 recipient of the Robert W. Kleemeier Award. This distinguished honor is given annually to a GSA member in recognition...Read more
2015 25 May
Supporting recognition of excellence, innovations and outstanding achievements in global healthcare leadership and management. IHF - DR KWANG TAE KIM GRAND AWARD Eligibility - IHF Full and Associate Members ONLY - Demonstrated fields of excellence and and achievements with proven results at health system or facility level in several areas such...Read more
2015 01 Apr
The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association have recognised Harris Health System’s Ben Taub Hospital for its success in providing care for acute ischaemic strokes. The Houston-area hospital was awarded the Get With The Guidelines®- Stroke Gold Plus-Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus Award for achieving a minimum of 85 percent adherence...Read more
2014 07 Oct
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with one half to John O´Keefe and the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. How do we know where we are? How can we find the way from one...Read more
2014 18 Jul
Internationally renowned surgeon Angelita Habr-Gama, MD, PhD, has been named the 2014 ASTRO Honorary Member by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). This is the highest honour awarded by ASTRO and Dr. Habr Gama has been selected from many distinguished cancer researchers, scientists and leaders. The Award will be presented...Read more
2014 11 Jul
Charles E. Daniels, PhD, FASHP, pharmacist-in-chief for UC San Diego Health System, is this year's recipient of the prestigious John W. Webb Lecture Award, announced The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). The Webb Award honours experts in the field of health-system pharmacy who have shown exemplary leadership and dedication to promoting...Read more
2014 15 May
The 2014 William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research has been awarded to Stuart H. Altman, PhD, who will receive his prize during a ceremony to be held at the AUPHA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, on June 19. Subsidised by The Baxter International Foundation and managed by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration...Read more
2014 21 Feb
EMBO and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announce Pascale Cossart, a world renowned bacteriologist and Professor at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France, as the winner of the 2014 FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award. Professor Cossart receives the award for her outstanding contributions to the study of how bacteria...Read more
2014 30 Jan
Marking its seventh year, the Arab Health Innovation & Achievement Awards continue to honour exceptional healthcare professionals across the Middle East, announcing the 2014 winners Wednesday night at a gala ceremony at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre. The Awards were celebrated during the Arab Health Exhibition & Congress,...Read more
2014 23 Jan
The 2014 Louis-Jeantet Prize For Medicine is awarded to the Italian biochemist Elena Conti, Director of the Department of Structural Cell Biology at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich (Germany) and to Denis Le Bihan, the French medical doctor, physicist and Director of NeuroSpin, an institute at the French Nuclear and Renewable...Read more
2013 05 Sep
The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the leading pan-European organisation representing medical oncology professionals, has announced the recipients of the annual society’s prestigious awards, recognising excellence in oncology. Cora Sternberg will receive the ESMO Award for her pioneering research into the treatment of genitourinary...Read more