Physician Division — Awards
Woman in Science
The Woman in Science Award is given to a woman physician who has made exceptional contributions to medical science, especially in women’s health, through her basic and /or clinical research, her publications and through leadership in her field.
Criteria
- Quality of Scientific Work
- Original
- Basic or Clinical
- Primary role (either primary investigator, co-investigator, or among many)
- Current Involvement
- Source of Grants
- Publications – peer reviewed in scientific journals
- High National Leadership Profile
- Chair of important committees
- Advocacy of Women’s Health and Other Related Issues
- Presidency of national scientific organization
- Lectures on topic of work
- Involvement in AMWA (only if the candidate is an AMWA member – not a prerequisite)
2022 AMWA Award Winner
Submit a Nomination
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2022
Previous Winners
2021 Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil
2020 No award presented
2019 Natalie Afshari, MD
2018 Pauline Maki, PhD
2017 Tamara A. Scerpella, MD
2016 Neelum Aggarwal, MD
2015 Myra Hurt, Ph.D.
2014 Claudia Baquet, MD, MPH
2012 Pamela Lipsett, MD, MHPE
2011 Katherine Wisner, MD, MS
2010 Carolyn Westhoff, MD
2009 Mary Guinan, MD, MPH
2008 Linda C.Giudice, MD
2007 Lori Jean Mosca, MD, MPH, PhD
2006 Denise L. Faustman, MD, PhD
2005 Etta Pisano, M.D., FACR
2004 Saroja Bharati, MD
2003 Jo Ann Manson, M.D.
2002 Marianne J. Legato, M.D., FACP
2000 Judith Lewis Herman, M.D.
1999 Bernadine Healy, M.D.
1998 Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D.
1997 Olga Jonasson, M.D.
1996 Florence Haseltine, M.D.
1995 Not Awarded
1994 Suzanne W. Fletcher, M.D.
1993 Nanette Wenger, M.D.