Awards Committee
The Awards Committee is comprised of the President, the immediate Past President and the President-elect. The Awards Committee selects deserving individuals who may receive the Lifetime Achievement, Distinguished Scientist, Distinguished Career Contribution Award, Outstanding New Investigator Award and other honors provided by the ISBM, except the Early Career Awards. The immediate Past President of the ISBM will chair the awards committee.
Chair
Members
The Awards Committee is comprised of the President, the immediate Past President and the President-elect.
Michael Hoyt
Information on Awards
ISBM has two categories of Awards:
Scientific Awards
These awards recognize scientific merits, in relation to the stage of a scientific career. Within each stage individuals can be recognized for their scientific merits. Awards in this category are: Lifetime Achievement Award, Distinguished Scientist Award, Outstanding New Investigator Award, and Early Career Award.
Service Awards
These awards recognize excellence in achievements and contributions to the development of the field of behavioral medicine. There are separate awards for contributions at national or regional level, and contributions with regard to international collaboration. Awards in this category are: Distinguished Career Contribution Award, and Contributions to International Collaboration Award.
Criteria for the Selection
Scientific Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award
This award recognizes substantial contributions to behavioral medicine over the whole of a career. Recipients are recognized for distinguished scholarly contributions to the science of behavioral medicine across a productive career.
Distinguished Scientist Award
This award recognizes distinguished theoretical or empirical contributions to behavioral medicine. Recipients have made several outstanding contributions to the science of behavioral medicine.
Outstanding New Investigator Award
This award recognizes an outstanding contribution by a new investigator to the science of behavioral medicine. Recipients have made a specific, outstanding contribution to the science of behavioral medicine, and are more experienced than those who apply for the Early Career Award.
Early Career Award
This award recognizes an important contribution to the science of behavioral medicine at an early career stage. Applicants should be no further than seven years after their highest degree and/or
have held a faculty or professional position for no more than seven years.
Service Awards
Distinguished Career Contribution Award
This award recognizes a distinguished career as a leader in the field of behavioral medicine. Recipients have made distinguished contributions at national or regional level to the development of behavioral medicine. Contributions can be to behavioral medicine as a clinical field or as a field in public health and health promotion; to teaching of behavioral medicine; or to mentoring in the field of behavioral medicine.
Contributions to International Collaborations Award
This award recognizes important contributions to facilitate international collaboration in the field of behavioral medicine. Recipients have made distinguished contributions to facilitate collaboration between ISBM member societies, or between ISBM and organizations outside ISBM.
Current ISBM Awardees (2023)
The International Society of Behavioral Medicine (ISBM) is most pleased to announce the recipients of the ISBM Awards 2023.
Warm congratulations to all recipients!
ISBM Lifetime Achievement Award
Joost Dekker
Professor Emeritus
Amsterdam University Medical Centers, The Netherlands
Howard Leventhal
Distinguished Professor
Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, USA
Susan Michie
Professor
University College London, UK
Jo Salmon
Alfred Deakin Professor
Deakin University, Australia
ISBM Distinguished Scientist Award
Frank Penedo
Professor
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA
Tim Stockwell
Scientist
University of Victoria, Canada
ISBM Outstanding New Investigator Award
Phoenix Mo
Associate Professor
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Rebecca Wyse
Research Fellow
University of Newcastle, Australia
ISBM Distinguished Career Contribution Award
Sharon Simpson
Professor
University of Glasgow, UK
Michael Hoyt
Associate Professor
University of California at Irvine, USA
Bai Bo
Professor
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine, China
Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin
Professor
University of Michigan School of Medicine, USA
ISBM International Collaborations Award
Briony Hill
Senior Research Fellow
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
Health and Behavior International Collaborations Award
Alysha Deslippe (Ireland)
Luz Tores (Israel)
Tamla evans (Australia)
Sol Vidal Almela (Spain)
Elizabeth Schneider (Germany)
Past ISBM Awardees
2021
ISBM Lifetime Achievement Award
Norito Kawakami, MD, Japan
Johannes Siegrist, PhD, Germany
ISBM Distinguished Scientist Award
Joseph Tak-Fai Lau, China
Ulrike Ehlert, Switzerland
ISBM Outstanding New Investigator Award
Inês Trindade, Sweden
Jojo Kwok, Hong Kong
ISBM Distinguished Career Contribution Award
Petra Lindfors, Sweden
Adrienne Stauder, Hungary
ISBM International Collaborations Award
Susan Czajkowski, USA
Health and Behavior International Collaborations Award
Isabela Roque Marçal, Brazil
Connor Gleadhill, Australia
Delfin Lovelina, India
Arwa Ben Salah, Tunisia
Michelle Pebole, USA
Brett Messman, USA
Carley O’Neill, Canada
Rossmary Marquez-Lameda, USA
2019
Heath and Behavior International Collaborations Award
Tess Langfield, UK
Suzanne Tanya Nethan, BDS, MDS, India
Thomas Kraynak, USA
Leslie Johnson, MPH, PhD, USA
Chloe Huelsnitz, USA
2018
ISBM Lifetime Achievement Award
ISBM Distinguished Scientist Award
ISBM Outstanding New Investigator Award
ISBM Distinguished Career Contribution Award
ISBM International Collaborations Award
Health and Behavior International Collaboration Award
Jorge Amadeo Grau Abalo, PhD, Cuba
Eliana Guic Sesnic, Msc. PhD, Chile
Omer van den Bergh, PhD, Belgium
Michael H. Antoni, PhD, USA
Annette L. Stanton, PhD, USA
Ricarda Nater-Mewes, PhD, Austria
Anne H. Berman, PhD, Sweden
Kerry Sherman, PhD, Australia
Joseph Tak Fai Lau, PhD, Hong Kong
Joost Dekker, PhD, Netherlands
Freddie Rivera
Joshua Wiley, PhD
Jessica Latak, PhD
Fabiana Brito Silva, PhD, MS, BSN
2017
Health and Behavior International Collaboration Award
Samantha van Beurden
Lydia Roos
Patricia Moreno, PhD
2016
ISBM Lifetime Achievement Award
ISBM Distinguished Scientist Award
Outstanding New Investigator Award
International Collaborations Award
Health and Behavior International Collaboration Award
ISBM Distinguished Career Contribution Award
ISBM Early Career Award
Bjorn E. Hollstein, PhD
Yang Zhi Yin, MD
Stephen M. Weiss, PhD, MPH
Christina Lee, PhD
Urs M. Nater, PhD
Christian Albus, MD
Linda Cameron, PhD
Beate Ditzen, PhD
Rebecca Wyse, PhD
Marc Gellman, PhD
Ben Colagiuri, Australia
Rebecca Wyse, Australia
Jonathan Rawstron, Australia
Jessica Kerr, Australia
Nelson Chun Yiu Yeung, Hong Kong
Zixin Wang, Hong Kong
Maria Kleinstauber, Germany
Babatunde Fadipe, Nigeria
Oluwakemi Odukoya, Nigeria
Gareth Hollands, UK
Lauren Wisk, USA
Kathleen Gali, USA
2014
ISBM Lifetime Achievement Award
ISBM Distinguished Scientist Award
ISBM Distinguished Career Contribution Award
ISBM Contributions to International Collaborations Award
ISBM Early Career Award
Redford B. Williams, MD
Brian Oldenburg, PhD
Winfried Rief, PhD
Eliana Guic Sesnic, PhD
Carina Chan, PhD
Chengxuan Qiu, MD
Annette Stanton, PhD
Aliya Amirova, Kazakhstan
Raphael Herr, Germany
Rebbeca Hodder, Australia
Sandra Klaperski, Germany
Tamara Lacourt, USA
SolbjørgMakalaniMyrtveit, Norway
Patrícia Pinto, Portugal
Justin Presseau, UK
Annelieke Roest, Netherlands
Susanne Rooij, Netherlands
Kashif Shafique, Pakistan
Steven Vijver, Kenya