• Age ≤ 40 years old at the time of the meeting (see below for Nursing Award criteria)

• And/or within 5 years of completing Fellowship/Training

• The work has been done by the person submitting and presenting the paper 

Given to the best presentation(s) at the IFMSS meeting:

• Camille Vandenberghe / Gerard Barki Award

• John C. Fletcher Award

• The-Hung Bui Award

• Bill & Carol Clewell Award

• Shara Evans Award

• Manfred Hansmann Award

• Michael & Gretchen Harrison Award

• Umbero Nicolini Award

• Kevin & Carol Pringle Award

• Knox Ritchie (University of Toronto) Award (2024 IFMSS meeting only)

• Charles Rodeck Award

Jody Farrell / Lori Howell Nursing Award

Criteria for Nursing Award:

• No age limit .... (ahem!)

• The work has been done by the person submitting and presenting the paper 

One or more awards can be awarded at the discretion of the Judging Committee, for the outstanding presentation(s) presented by a Young Investigator at the Annual Meeting.  

Depending on the number of submissions, there may be one or two Scientific Sessions devoted to the presentations competing for these awards. The Judging Committee will be made up of at least four senior members of the Society. Potential candidates for this award need to identify the presentation(s) that they intend to deliver at the meeting for consideration for this award at the time they submit their abstracts. 

Although RCTs and Basic Science Presentations receive a higher weighting than a Case Report, it is still possible for an excellent Case Report to score more points than a poorly-presented RCT or a poorly designed and poorly presented Laboratory Study. In addition, since the Travel Awards are based on judging of abstracts, while the Vandenberghe / Barki Award is judged on the actual presentation at the Annual Meeting, it may be possible for a young investigator to win both awards.