Awards

The HCSRN is proud to announce that it has established the Founders’ Award. The inaugural award will be bestowed at the 2025 Annual Conference in Saint Louis, MO, April 8-10, 2025.  This award collectively honors, by its name, the original Founders of the HCSRN and recognizes an active or recently retired awardee who best exemplifies the spirit of those early founders in their service and lasting contribution to the network. The original Founders were visionary, creative, influential, persistent, committed, and productive in their efforts to establish what has become a wonderful lasting legacy of a network in which we all participate and from which we benefit.

• The vision and confidence to create something new or unique in embedded healthcare research.
• The spirit of fostering collegiality and collaboration across partner organizations, which remains among the most important values of the network.
• The persuasive expertise and determination to create a legacy of funded platforms or other valuable resources for conducting productive research in the HCSRN.

Criteria

Recognizes a paper that has or is likely to have an impact on science, research methods, health care delivery, policy, or patient outcomes. And the paper must illustrate the type of work that can only be done in HCSRN-like settings.

Criteria

Abstract is judged on specific criteria including abstract quality, relevance and originality, quality of science, and impact, generalizability, and scalability.

Recognizes those who have gone out of their way to provide guidance and motivation and to share their knowledge, expertise, and wisdom. It shines a light on the person who is always there with advice, ideas, and a listening ear.