The awards are presented in honor of Eric W. Martin, PhD, 1971 AMWA president and author of AMWA's Code of Ethics.
Entry deadline is February 4, 2011.
Entry form
Submission Criteria
- Competition is open to material written by AMWA members only.
- Written material must have been published during calendar year 2010.
- The author's name must appear in the byline of the article. If the article appears in a publication that does not normally include bylines, the author must provide a signed statement by a supervisor or editor verifying authorship.
- An award will be given in each of 2 categories:
1. Article, print or online, intended for a public or health care consumer audience
2.Article, print or online, intended for a professional (medical) audience
- Articles designed for the awarding of continuing education credit are eligible if they are published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- The following are not eligible: brochures, self-published articles, material posted on an intranet and not otherwise publicly available, and entries in medical encyclopedias, wikis, and other reference works.
- Minimum length of all articles is 500 words.
- Entries will be limited to 1 per person per category.
- A separate entry form must accompany each entry in each category.
- The entry fee of $30 US per entry must be included with the entry form.
- Five copies of each entry are required.
2010 Eric W. Martin Award recipients:
Professional Audience Article
Bridget Murray Law, A New Attitude: As time goes on, more doors open for HIV survivors
HEMAWARE, July/August 2009
Public or Health Care Consumer Audience
Kirsten Dorans, Outpacing Cancer
Nature Medicine, July, 2009
2009 Eric W. Martin Award recipients:
Professional Audience Article
Laura Hale Brockway, The diversion dilemma
The Reporter, October 2008
Public or Health Care Consumer Audience (formerly lay audience)
Patricia McAdams, Easing the Stigma of Disease
AARP Bulletin Today, September 2008
2008 Eric W. Martin Award recipients:
Professional Audience Article
Marie Rosenthal, Identity Theft: When Senior Dogs Forget
Veterinary Forum, February 2007
Lay Audience Article
Richard Laliberte, The New Alternative Medicine
Fitness Magazine, July 2007
(Themonograph award was discontinued in 2008.)
The Eric Martin Awards are presentedat AMWA's Annual Conference.
Previous winners:
Diane Shannon, MD, Helping Your Patients Decide: Making Informed Health Choices about Hormonal Contraception
Debra Bradley Ruder, Life Lessons
Florence M. Witte, MA with Lois Margaret Nora, MD, JD, and Terry Stratton, PhD, Stories from the Field: Students' Descriptions of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment During Medical School
Leslie Goldman, MPH, Meet Two Sisters Who've Changed the Future of Fertility
Stephen E. To, MBA, Depression and the Drugs Used to Treat it
Kelli Miller Stacy, Therapeutic Mabs: Saving Lives and Making Billons
Kathryn Faguy, Health Literacy
Lonnie Christiansen, Capturing the Potential:What Stem Cell Science Offers Diabetes
Paul Couter, Keeping Pace with Genomics
Faith E. Reidenbach,Conceiving Solutions
Bryan P. Bechtel,Anthrax One Year Later
Barbara Delonnay,ACTOS-Confronting the Challenges and Concerns of Type 2 Diabetes
Pasquale Iannuzzelli, PhD,The Physiology of Wound Healing
Katie Rodgers,What Cigarettes do to American Business
Joy Noel Travalino,The Proper Use of Calcium Channel Blockers
Ragnar G. Levi,Pitfalls in Medicine
Linda L. Phillips, PhD,Understanding Pharmacoeconomics
Robert Lande,Controlling Sexually Transmitted Diseases
David J. Howell, PhD,Stroke: Etiology and Treatment
Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD,Prostate Enlargement:Say Yes to Drugs?
Ruth Winter,New Miracle Drugs
Barbara Stankus,Cytovene (Ganciclovir Sodium)
H. Michael Zal, DO,Panic Disorder: Is It Emotional or Physical
Joyce Mordenti, PhD,Man Versus Beast: Pharmacokinetic Scaling in Mammals
William A. Check, PhD,New Drugs and Drug Delivery Systems in the Year 2000
Gregory T. Freiherr,Monoclonal Antibodies Against Cancer: Clinical Application
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