Laboratory Medicine Foundation Award

DESCRIPTION

The award is to recognise an outstanding contribution to Laboratory Medicine by an Association Member, who is normally resident in the UK or Republic of Ireland.

QUALIFYING CRITERIA

The recipient will be a Member of the Association, normally resident in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland, who is acknowledged as having made an outstanding contribution to Laboratory Medicine and has been nominated by their peers.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Written nominations are sought from a proposer, who is a Member of the Association.  Nominations must be accompanied by a supporting statement outlining the nature of the contribution made by the nominee and the reasons for consideration for the Award. Nominations can be made through the online nomination form, which can be found here, and should include a supporting statement of up to 10,000 characters outlining the nature of the contribution made by the nominee and the reasons for consideration for the Award in line with the scoring criteria outlined below.

Members can also self-nominate for the Laboratory Medicine Foundation Award.

PROCESS OF AWARDING

• The recipient is selected by no fewer than four members of the Association’s Nominations Committee and the successful nominee will be advised 2-3 months prior to the award being made.
• The submission will be scored out of 10 marks*, the following criteria will be considered during the scoring process:
  • Significant leader in innovation or service delivery
  • Significant achievements in teaching or training
  • Has led/Chaired/been a member of a national programme in their specialist field
  • Has led/Chaired/been a member of an international working group/subcommittee in specialist field
  • Published Manuscript in scientific journal with international peer reviewing
  • Scientific projects – PhD/postdoc research and scientific societies’ working group positions

*The score should be an overall score for excellence in one or more of these areas, the individual does not have to display excellence in all of the above. i.e a nominee who scores well, but not outstanding, in all of the above should not outscore an individual who scores outstandingly in one or two criteria.

• Should more that one nomination be received for an individual, each submission will be scored separately on its own merit.
• Council is informed of this outcome at its first meeting after the selection is completed. The awardee is invited to accept the award by letter from the President. The Award is presented by a representative of the Association’s Executive after the recipient has delivered the Laboratory Medicine Foundation Lecture. Recipients must be available to present the lecture at the LabMedUK meeting that follows their nomination.

PRIZE

The Laboratory Medicine Foundation Award is presented annually at LabMedUK. The recipient will give a plenary lecture (The Laboratory Medicine Foundation Award Lecture) on the area of laboratory medicine for which they were nominated. A suitable memento will also be given to the recipient.