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 2022 ISOQOL President’s Award was presented by President Joanne Greenhalgh to Madeleine T. King, 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 2022 Emerging Leader Award recipients: 

Kathrin I. Fischer, MSc PhD

Manraj N. Kaur, PT PhD

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

Abigail Fry, Considerations for conducting and reporting digitally supported cognitive interviews with children and adults. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (2021) 5:131. DOI 10.1186/s41687-021-00371-5

Outstanding Article of the Year: Quality of Life Research

Caroline B. Terwee, Minimal important change (MIC): a conceptual clarification and systematic review of MIC estimates of PROMIS measures. Qual Life Res (2021) 30: 2729–2754. DOI 10.1007/s11136-021-02925-y

 

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:

Ruth Barclay, PhD, Shifting perspective: facilitating response shift

 

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

Tibyan Ahmed, HBSc MSc Candidate, TWO-STEP SCREENING FOR DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS IN LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

Student Poster Award

Michiel Luijten, MSc, Mental and social health of children and adolescents in the Dutch general population before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Investigator Oral Award

Jae-Yung Kwon, PhD RN, Patient-reported anxiety, depression and well-being trajectories in oncology patients during radiation therapy: An expository analysis using the Ontario Cancer Registry

New Investigator Poster Award

Anouk van Alphen, MD, Minimizing population health loss in times of scarce surgical capacity: a modelling study for non-academic surgical procedures.

 

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.