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Awards Grants & Recognition

Over the past 150 years, women physicians have blazed new trails, opened closed minds, lifted downcast spirits, and profoundly impacted medicine in countless ways. Through our awards and recognition programs, AMWA celebrates the contributions and accomplishments of these remarkable American Medical Women.

New! AMWA Exceptional Mentor Award 

Have you had a mentor who has helped you develop your career, supported your interest, helped you develop or meet your goals? This mentor may have been a colleague, advisor, friend, or boss and the relationship may have been formal or informal. Recognize your mentor's contribution to your career by nominating them for the AMWA Exceptional Mentor award. A few paragraphs is all that is needed and your mentor will receive a letter and certificate from AMWA. Mentors will be recognized at the next AMWA Annual Meeting. Any AMWA member may nominate a mentor. The nominee need not be an AMWA member. Download a nomination form here.

2012 AMWA Awards: Submit Your Nominations

AMWA encourages nominations for the 2012 National Awards. Help us recognize exceptional contributions to medicine and to AMWA. NEW DEADLINE: January 15, 2012. 

Learn how to submit a nomination.

2011 AMWA Award Winners

Presidents Recognition Award- Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA, Surgeon General, Vice Admiral USPHS and Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs

Anne C. Carter Leadership Award- Adrienne Clark - Student President- University of California Los Angeles

Bertha Van Hoosen Award- Beatrice Sachs, MD (posthumously- Accepted by her daughter, Robin Murphy)- AMWA Past President

Elizabeth Blackwell Award- Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD- Meharry Medical College School of Medicine, Center for Women's Research

Lila A. Wallis Award- Saralyn Mark, MD- Solamed Solutions, LLC

Woman in Science- Katherine Wisner, MD, MS- Women's Behavioral HealthCARE

Camille Mermod Award- Sarah Hagy, AMWA Associate Director

View a list of previous winners here.

AMWA honors the pioneering medical women of yesterday

From Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive an M.D. degree from an American medical school, to Bertha Van Hoosen, founder and first president of the American Medical Women's Association.

AMWA champions the determined and talented medical women of today

From Antonia Novello, the first woman, and the first Hispanic, to become Surgeon General of the United States, to Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, the first woman, and the first African American, to be president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

AMWA encourages the promising young medical women of tomorrow

To the next generation of physicians, like Ashley Styczynski, AMWA Student President and 2010 winner of the Anne C. Carter Leadership Award.

Learn how to submit a nomination.

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Medicine: A Woman's Career

When AMWA was founded in 1915, women represented 5-6% of all physicians in the U.S. The organization's statement of purpose was, "to bring Medical Women into communication with each other for their mutual advantage, and to encourage social and harmonious relations within and without the profession."

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Health Care Advocacy

A leading advocate for women's health and women in medicine, AMWA is an active participant in setting national health care policy and influencing legislation on women's health issues.

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