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 2020 ISOQOL President’s Award was presented by President Lori Frank to Karon Cook, 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 playing a key role in initiating and/or steering a specific 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 2020 Emerging Leader Award recipients:
Angela M. Stover, PhD MPH
Laura C. Pinheiro, PhD MPH
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
Philip J. van der Wees, Development of a framework with tools to support the selection and implementation of patient-reported outcome measures. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (2019) 3:75. DOI 10.1186/s41687-019-0171-9
Outstanding Article of the Year: Quality of Life Research
Claire Snyder, Making a picture worth a thousand numbers: recommendations for graphically displaying patient-reported outcomes data. Qual Life Res (2019) 28: 345–356. DOI 10.1007/s11136-018-2020-3
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:
Katie Hall, Rewarding participants through charitable donations to Melanoma UK motivates recruitment and engagement: a bring your own device (BYOD) study example
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
Belle de Rooij, MSc, Symptom clusters in survivors of 7 cancer types from the PROFILES registry: a network analysis
Student Poster Award
Jae-Yung Kwon, RN PhD(c), Health status trajectories of outpatients with atrial fibrillation
New Investigator Oral Award
Jin-ah Sim, PhD, Multilevel social determinants of patient-reported outcomes among childhood cancer survivors: a report from the PEPR Consortium
New Investigator Poster Award
Meagan Whisenant, PhD APRN, The unique symptom burden of receiving CAR T-cell therapy
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.