Outstanding Research Coordinator Award

The Outstanding Research Coordinator Award honors an individual who has made exceptional contributions to primary care research through a central support role. This award recognizes outstanding dedication and impact, whether demonstrated through a single large-scale project or across multiple research initiatives. Recipients exemplify excellence in coordination, organization, and research support, playing a vital role in advancing primary care research.

No Longer Accepting Nominations

The Call for Awards Nominations will close April 16, 2025

 

Nomination/Submission Process

1. Nominator: By April 16, 2025, the nominator will submit the following materials electronically:

  • Complete the nomination form - linked below
  • A letter of nomination (two page maximum). The letter of nomination should emphasize why the nominee is both eligible for and deserving of the award (merit).

Please note: After submitting your nomination, please notify the nominee. The nominee must complete a nomination package. The questions are in depth and may require between 1-3 hours of time to complete.

2.  Nominee: The Awards Committee Chair will contact each nominee via electronic mail, to inform them that they're being considered for the Outstanding Research Coordinator Award. The nominee must submit the following materials by April 25, 2025: 

  • Complete the nominee form.
  • Upload a current Curriculum Vitae (five pages maximum, if more than five pages are included the committee will only review the first five.)

Please note: Once you begin your submission, you will not be able to save and return unless you click "Save and Resume". You must save the link provided, NAPCRG staff will not be able to provide you with the link.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The nominee must be a current NAPCRG member.
  • The nominee’s primary role must be to help facilitate the organization, management and/or execution of research projects as described in the purpose statement below.
    • The term “Research Coordinator” has many synonyms, including Project Manager, Clinical Research Professional, Research Assistant, Research Associate, and/or Practice Facilitator. The Research Coordinator is an individual who manages the day-to-day operation of a research project, group of projects, or program. These individuals are often credentialed at the Master’s level, but may also be Baccalaureate-level professionals, or in some cases, doctorally-prepared individuals. Research Coordinators perform many tasks, including managing IRB submissions, recruiting subjects, cleaning or analyzing data, hiring, training and supervising other research staff, managing budgets and grant processes, and participation in manuscript writing and editing, to name just a few. In short, the Research Coordinator helps facilitate the organization, management, and/or execution of research projects.

Examples of ineligible individuals might include graduate students whose primary role was coordinating their own student-initiated projects; individuals who provide purely administrative support, without a substantive role in the direct execution of research activities; faculty.

Evaluation Process

Complete submissions will be evaluated independently by at least three members of the Awards Committee. The recipient of the Outstanding Research Coordinator Award will be recognized at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting.

Scoring Rubric

 

Recipients

2024 - Heather Holderness, MPH

2022 - LeAnn C. Michaels, B.S.

2021 - Lauren A. Cafferty, MA

2020 - Leslie Meredith, MEd

2019 - Heather Angier, MPH

2018 - Jamie Jensen

2017 - Deborah Johnson

2016 - Tarek Bouhali, MD, MSc

 

Questions about this award? Please contact Natalie Gross at ngross@napcrg.org.

 

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