The HIVMA Awards honor our members for advancing the field through clinical care, provider education, research, or advocacy to help make it possible to envision ending HIV as an epidemic.
Members are nominated by their peers and awarded by the HIVMA Awards Committee and Board of Directors. Awards are presented at IDWeek.
New in 2023:
The HIVMA Award categories have been redefined to be more inclusive of member contributions to leading advances that improve HIV prevention, care, and treatment and to offer members the opportunity to submit nominations for the HIVMA Citation Award.
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The nomination period is currently closed. Nominations for the 2023 awards will open in Spring 2023.
Transformative Leader Award
The Transformative Leader Award recognizes HIVMA members who have transformed the field with demonstrated significant achievement in HIV clinical care, provider education, research or advocacy. Significant achievement will be based on overall achievement and contributions that transcend a single institution and that have impacted patient care within a city, region, state or nationally.
Innovator Award
The Innovator Award recognizes HIVMA members in early or mid-career who have made outstanding and original contributions to HIV medicine in clinical care, provider education, research or advocacy. Nominees must be junior to mid-career, achieving no higher than associate professor or its equivalent for an institution without a formal academic rank. The award will be based on innovation and originality in advancing independent research and productivity, HIV clinical care, provider education or advocacy.
Citation Award
The HIVMA Citation Award recognizes exemplary contributions or service to HIVMA and/or in advancing efforts to end HIV as an epidemic, such as through social justice and public service. This is a discretionary award that may not be given every year. In special circumstances, it may be awarded to recognize extraordinary acts by individuals who are not HIVMA members.
Past Awardees
Clinical Educator Award Recipients
The Clinical Educator Award recognized HIVMA members that demonstrated significant achievement in HIV clinical care and provider education. Significant achievement based on overall achievement and referred to contributions in acquisition and dissemination of information on HIV disease that transcend a single institution.
2022-David H. Spach, MD
2021- Roger Bedimo, MD, MS
2020- Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2019- Carlos del Rio, MD, FIDSA
2018- Rajesh T. Gandhi, MD
2017- Monica Gandhi MD, MPH
2016- Elaine J. Abrams, MD
2015- Peter A. Selwyn, MD, MPH
2014- Judith S. Currier, MD, MSc, FIDSA
2013- Joseph Eron Jr., MD
2012- Roy M. Gulick, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2011- Kimberly Smith, MD, MPH
2010- Mark W. Kline, MD
2009- Paul E. Sax, MD
2008- Jeffrey L. Lennox, MD
2007- Alice Pau, PharmD
2006- Joel E. Gallant, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2005- Stephen Raffanti, MD
2004- Harold Henderson, MD
Research Award Winners
The Research Award recognized HIVMA members that made outstanding contributions to HIV medicine in clinical or basic research. Awardees actively engaged in HIV research at a junior to mid-career level, such as an associate professor or its equivalent for an institution without a formal academic rank. The award was based on innovation and originality and required demonstration of significant independent research (such as success in securing independent peer-reviewed grant funding) and productivity (such as publications in peer-reviewed journals).
2022- Sara Hurtado Bares, MD, FIDSA
2021- Colleen Kelley, MD, MPH
2020- Gabriel Chamie, M.D., MPH
2019- Andrea Ciaranello, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2018- Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH
2017- Raphael J. Landovitz, MD, MSc
2016- Vincent Lo Re III, MD, MSc, FIDSA
2015- Ingrid V. Bassett, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2014- Deborah Persaud, MD
2013- Ighovwerha Ofotokun, MD, MSc, FIDSA
2012- Kelly Gebo, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2011- Marshall Glesby, MD, PhD, FIDSA, & Michael Mugavero, MD, MHSc
2010- Peter W. Hunt, MD, & David M. Smith, MD
2009- Benigno Rodriguez, MD
2008- Rochelle Walensky, MD
2007- Grace McComsey, MD
2006- Susan J. Little, MD
2005- Steven Deeks, MD
2004- Diane Havlir, MD