We are pleased to announce ACAIM Leadership Award recipients for 2025. Each year ACAIM awards two prestigious recognitions – Emerging Leader Award and Distinguished Leader Award. This year, the ACAIM Awards Committee decided to award two Emerging Leader Awards, in recognition of extraordinary contributions by the corresponding emerging leaders.
2025 ACAIM Emerging Leader Award
Dr. Laura Hansen (Northwell Health, New York)
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2025 ACAIM Emerging Leader Award
Dr. Vihas Patel (Northwell Health, New York)
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2025 ACAIM Emerging Leader Award
Dr. Mayur Narayan (Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery, Professor of Surgery, Trauma Medical Director, and Program Director of the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship, Rutgers Health / Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey). Of note, Prof. Narayan is also ACAIM's Past President (2022-2023 Academic Year)
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Leadership Award Nominees are reviewed by an independently operating ACAIM Awards Committee, in unbiased fashion, utilizing a standardized evaluation process. The following criteria are utilized to identify Leadership Award Recipients:
The ACAIM Distinguished Leader Award – To be selected by the Awards Committee, the candidate must:
- Demonstrate a long-term, deep commitment to international medicine;
- Have made an exceptional contributions to improving health internationally, through research, education and/or service;
- Demonstrate outstanding leadership skills;
- Be well published in academic journals;
- Be well-recognized in the international medicine community nationally and internationally;
- Have played a key role in advocating for, implementing or advancing international medicine policies and/or programs.
The ACAIM Emerging Leader Award – To be selected by the Awards Committee, the candidate must:
- Have shown outstanding achievement in education, research, advocacy and/or service in international medicine;
- Have collaborated with colleagues in limited resource settings;
- Have published in academic journals; and
- Have demonstrated leadership in international medicine organizations.
