President’s Award
The President’s Award is awarded to individuals who have advanced health related quality of life (HRQL) research and made outstanding contributions to the ISOQOL in one or more of the following areas:
- Education of professionals, patients or lay individuals about HRQL’s value
- Promotion or execution of HRQL or other scholarly activities
- Facilitating or furthering policy initiatives that have an impact on HRQL
The 2025 ISOQOL President’s Award was presented by President Josephine Norquist to Kevin P. Weinfurt, PhD.
Emerging Leader Award – In Honor of Donna Lamping
The Emerging Leader Award was established in 2011 to honor and commemorate past-President Donna Lamping’s contribution to the leadership of the Society. It is awarded to members showing exceptional leadership skills and potential by initiating and/or steering an ISOQOL task or project to successful completion.
Such activities may be linked to the ISOQOL Board, a Special Interest Group (SIG), committee, task force or other initiatives undertaken by ISOQOL.
Congratulations to the 2025 Emerging Leader Award recipient, Devin Peipert, PhD.
Outstanding Volunteer Service Award
The Outstanding Volunteer Service Award was established in 2023. It is awarded to ISOQOL members who have performed in a way that is conspicuously above and beyond what is reasonably expected with respect to volunteer duties and responsibilities for ISOQOL during the 12 months preceding the nomination.
Congratulations to the 2025 Outstanding Volunteer Service Award recipients:
Caroline Anfray
for outstanding leadership and service with the Translation and Cultural Adaptation SIG.
Brittany Lapin, PhD MPH
for outstanding service with the journal Quality of Life Research and the development and execution of virtual symposia.
Outstanding Article of the Year Awards
The Outstanding Article of the Year Awards recognize the best articles dedicated to HRQL research published in Quality of Life Research and in the Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes during the previous calendar year.
These awards recognize authors for significant intellectual contributions that promise to advance the state of the art in HRQL research methods, theory and application.
Outstanding Article of the Year: Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Sri Harshini Malapati, Use of patient-reported outcome measures after breast reconstruction in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (2024) 8:25. DOI 10.1186/s41687-024-00687-y
Outstanding Article of the Year: Quality of Life Research
Øyvind Grindheim, Response processes for patients providing quantitative self-report data: a qualitative study. Qual Life Res (2024) 33: 2949–2961. DOI 10.1007/s11136-024-03749-2
Outstanding Poster Award
The Outstanding Poster Award is given to the presenting authors of Annual Conference poster submissions receiving the highest evaluations during the review process.
The Outstanding Poster Award Winner this year is:
Lindsey Murray, PhD, Expansion of the Rare Disease Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Resource, a Tool to Aid in COA-derived Endpoint Selection
Student and New Investigator Awards
Every year ISOQOL recognizes the best overall oral and poster presentations at the Annual Conference made by full-time students and investigators in the early stages of their career.
Student Oral Award
Audrey Yuki Brinker, MSc, Linking the Physical-Performance Test to the PROMIS physical function metric: results from a prospective multicenter study
Student Poster Award (Tied)
Siddharth Kakked, Artificial intelligence meets clinical trial design: A test case in predicting patient achievement of minimal significant difference using conditional generative adversarial networks
Jiwon Kim, PhD, Comparing Linking Approaches for Patient Reported Outcomes under Non-Normal Distribution: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study
New Investigator Oral Award
Ellen Elsman, PhD, Developing PROM-GRIP: a reporting guideline for the integration or use of PROMs in clinical practice
New Investigator Poster Award
Chloe Hery, PhD, Symptom Severity and Quality of Life Among Long Term Metastatic Breast Cancer Survivors
Congratulations to all award winners!
The International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) is a global community of researchers, clinicians, health care professionals, industry professionals, consultants, and patient research partners advancing health related quality of life research (HRQL).
Together, we are creating a future in which patient perspective is integral to health research, care and policy.