The AAOM Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes and promotes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the American Academy / Association of Orthopedic Medicine and to interventional regenerative orthopedic medicine through instruction, leadership and service, and/or research minimum of 25 years.

ELIGIBILITY

Nominees must a physician who has graduated from an accredited US Osteopathic or Medical College or University and are legally licensed to practice medicine and surgery, who have graduated from an ACGME accredited residency and /or fellowship program.

Nominees must be members of AAOM, and have shown a commitment to the Association and mission and objectives of interventional regenerative orthopedic education.

Nominees will be evaluated based on contributions in the following areas:

Instruction: Participation and development in instruction on regenerative orthopedic medicine, including, but not limited to, effectiveness in undergraduate, postbaccalaureate, professional and graduate instruction; curriculum development and innovation; accomplishments of former students; special student educational projects; honors and awards for excellence in teaching and invited lectureships; and assessment of national educational involvement including active participation in AAOM meetings, committees, teachers seminars, national and international workshops. Among the most important qualities are inspiration, leadership, and quality of contributions and the impact on educational programs and professional growth of individuals;

Advancement: Working for the advancement of the profession of interventional regenerative orthopedic medicine, can be documented in terms of the following examples but not limited to: contributing to the development of the IROM Standards, transforming the delivery of care, serving at the forefront of technology and/or innovation, advancing interprofessional education, significant contributions in administration education that lead to improved patient outcomes and or improvements in medical education, creating new knowledge such as a regenerative orthopedic medicine discovery that enhances physician therapy for improved patient outcomes, or developing new care delivery models that improve patient outcomes, or developing patient interventions that improve outcomes, and modeled excellence of medicine;

Leadership/Service to AAOM: Sustained service/leadership to with American Academy/Association of Orthopedic Medicine (consideration should be given to the breadth of service to AAOM, elected and all other forms of volunteer service).

Leadership/Service on behalf of AAOM: Sustained contributions externally on behalf of regenerative orthopedic medicine, outside of AAOM and one's own institution, such as but not limited to active involvement in other health-related organizations through elected office, committee participation, and contributions to program development.

NOMINATION PROCEDURE

Nominations will be brought forth by members of the Board of Directors, but recommendations may be made by any AAOM member, including self-nominations and are encouraged from peers in the regenerative orthopedic medicine field.

Any AAOM member intending to recommend a nominee must submit a dossier as an introduction to the nominee’s service and dedication to the field. The dossier’s contents should include the following separate sections, each beginning on a new page:

1. Cover letter from the nominator summarizing the nominee’s qualifications and commitment to the Association;

2. Résumé (CV) detailing education, appointments, activities, memberships, awards and honors, and other relevant data;

3. Reflection on contributions to instruction;

4. Reflection on contributions to the advancement of the profession of pharmacy;

5. Reflection on contributions to leadership/service to Association, local, state and/or national pharmacy organizations and other health-related organizations;

6. Reflection on evidence of research and creative scholarship activities; and

7. An additional three to five letters of support with reflections on the nominee’s contributions including those endorsements from individuals outside of the nominee’s home institution (supporting letters should interpret the impact that the nominee has had on his/her field and pharmacy education and provide evidence of contributions to instruction, to the advancement of the profession of pharmacy, leadership/service, and evidence of research and creative scholarship activities).

The dossier should be submitted by email 60 days in advance of the annual members meeting. Materials will be reviewed by the Board of Directors during its regularly scheduled board meeting after a screening for completeness by AAOM Staff.

Recommendations of nominations or questions regarding the nomination or submission process should be directed to Amy Bucaida, AAOM Executive Director.

SELECTION PROCEDURE

1. Dossiers will be screened for completeness by staff upon receipt. If time permits, staff will notify nominators of missing items. Applications that are incomplete at the deadline for submission will not be evaluated.

2. The AAOM Board of Directors will serve as the Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee and will conduct peer review of nominations in light of the established criteria for the award.

3. At the conclusion of the evaluation process, the AAOM Board of Directors will select and notify a single recipient.

4. The AAOM Board of Directors will present this Award based on qualified applicants only and reserves the right not to present the Award on an annual basis.

DISCLOSURE REQUIRED

AAOM’s Board of Directors has adopted a policy affirming AAOM’s right to grant, defer or decline to grant an honor or award, including a leadership position, to any person. AAOM expects all recipients of honors and awards to embody the highest standards of professional and personal ethical behavior, therefore, AAOM will not confer any honor, award or leadership position when, in its discretion, there has been a determination or credible question of unethical behavior. 

To implement this policy, AAOM is instituting a disclosure process for nominees for the Lifetime Achievement Award. The required disclosure form must be completed, signed and submitted prior to the award announcement at the AAOM annual membership meeting.