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

Anne H. Berman

anne.h.berman@psyk.uu.se

 


Members

The Awards Committee is comprised of the President, the immediate Past President and the President-elect.

Kerry Sherman

kerry.sherman@mq.edu.au

 

 

 

 

Michael Hoyt

mahoyt@uci.edu


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