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SHM's Awards of Excellence

SHM's Awards of Excellence 2025 Submissions Have Been Extended!

SHM’s Awards of Excellence Program honors members who have made exceptional contributions to hospital medicine in a wide variety of categories. Now is your time to shine! Deadline to submit is now October 8, 2024.

How to Apply

The deadline for nominations for the 2024-2025 Awards of Excellence have now been extended! Submissions will now close on Tuesday, October 8th at 11:59 pm ET.

Apply today!

For questions or if you need more information, please email awards@hospitalmedicine.org.

Congratulations to the 2024 Awards of Excellence winners. View the 2024 Awards of Excellence Winners

Submission Requirements

All submissions require the following: (please review additional category specific requirements below)

  • Nominee's name, title, organization, phone number, email address, title, and practice setting.
  • Nominator's relationship to nominee
  • Description of engagement and affiliation with SHM (Member, Fellow, SIG Member, etc.)
  • One letter, either self-nominating or from another party addressing the specific criteria for the award.
    • This letter should be:
      • No more than 500 words. Note: letterhead and signature block text are not counted.
      • Single Spaced
      • No less than 11-point font
      • No less than standard margin spacing (1-inch on all sides)

Eligibility requirements for all categories include:

  • Nominees MUST be members of the Society of Hospital Medicine.
  • Nominees should have demonstrated engagement with the Society of Hospital Medicine and its missions.
    o   Engagement with the Society of Hospital Medicine: the candidate should describe their involvement with the Society e.g. years of SHM membership; involvement with SHM committees, task forces or panels for scientific meetings, presentation of research at SHM meetings (abstracts, posters, and oral sessions); participation at SHM local or regional meetings (including local chapters); attendance at various SHM sponsored activities etc. If an applicant has limited engagement in SHM, please describe engagement in other national hospital-medicine engagement as well as future plans for engagement in SHM including the SHM Academic Summit, the Academic Hospitalist Academy, etc.
  • Members may self-nominate.
  • Board members, officers, previous award winners and current members of the awards committee are ineligible.
  • The maximum number of nominations per nominee, per category is 2, including self-nominations. The first 2 nominations submitted chronologically will be reviewed, at the discretion of the Awards Committee. Any additional nominations, per nominee per category, will not be reviewed.

Additional eligibility requirements for specific award categories include:

  • To be eligible for the Junior Investigator Award, faculty must be in the first 7 years of their first faculty appointment and hold a title no higher than Assistant Professor.
  • Practicing physicians and advanced practice providers are ineligible for the Leadership for Practice Managers award.
  • Additional eligibility information for the Excellence in Teamwork and Junior Investigator Awards are detailed below.


Teamwork Award Applicants MUST be ready to upload the following:

  1. Nomination Cover Letter
    • A complete listing of the individual team members, their professional backgrounds, and their roles in the team project, including a succinct description of the leadership role played by a hospitalist team member.
    • Information about the team and/or process not included in the abstract, including:
      • The nature/process of the collaboration, and how the program improved system processes and patient outcomes (include process and outcomes measures)
    • Explain how this work impacted Hospital Medicine specifically.
    • The innovative aspect of the collaborative approach
    • The portability/transferability/scalability of the intervention to other institutions
  2. Abstract
    • Limited to 2500 words (abstracts greater than 2500 words will not be accepted).
    • To include:
      • Background
      • Detailed methods addressing:
        • How the team worked together
        • How goals were attained
  3. Letters of Support
    • At least one, but no more than two, letters of support from a senior hospital administrator (Chief Nursing Officer, Chief Medical Officer, Director of Quality Improvement, or equivalent leader).
    • Should include an institution where the project has been implemented.
    • If more than two letters are submitted, the team lead nominee will be contacted to specify which should be considered; letters should indicate if the confidentiality of content is waived.
    • Up to two letters may also be submitted from other institutions that have adopted the intervention (if more than two letters are submitted, team lead nominee will be contacted to specify which should be considered; the letter should indicate if the confidentiality of content is waived)
  4. Disclosure statement
    • Should indicate any direct, indirect, or pending project or faculty support from sources outside the home institution.

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What Winners Receive

In honor of their achievements, recipients of each Award of Excellence receive:

  • Complimentary meeting registration to SHM Converge*
  • Recognition on stage at SHM Converge
  • Acknowledgment in The Hospitalist, SHM’s monthly news magazine, and on SHM's main website.
  • Recognition in press releases to local and state outlets

*Excludes Advanced Learning Course registration. Recipients of the Excellence in Teamwork in Quality Improvement Award receive recognition at Converge and complimentary registration for up to 4 team members.

Awards Categories

SHM’s Awards of Excellence Program honors members who have made exceptional contributions to hospital medicine in the following categories.
Click on an award category for more information, and view all past winners hereNote: For all award category submissions, nominees must be SHM members and have services to the Society of Hospital Medicine (ex. attended local or regional meeting, member of a Special Interest Group, a Fellow/Senior Fellow, involved in a committee, etc.)

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