President’s Award
The President’s Award is awarded to individuals who have advanced health related quality of life (HRQL) research and made outstanding contributions to the ISOQOL in one or more of the following areas:
- Education of professionals, patients or lay individuals about HRQL’s value
- Promotion or execution of HRQL or other scholarly activities
- Facilitating or furthering policy initiatives that have an impact on HRQL
The 2024 ISOQOL President’s Award was presented by President Josephine Norquist to Michael Brundage, MD.
Emerging Leader Award – In Honor of Donna Lamping
The Emerging Leader Award was established in 2011 to honor and commemorate past-President Donna Lamping’s contribution to the leadership of the Society. It is awarded to members showing exceptional leadership skills and potential by playing a key role in initiating and/or steering a specific ISOQOL task or project to successful completion.
Such activities may be linked to the ISOQOL Board, a Special Interest Group (SIG), committee, task force or other initiatives undertaken by ISOQOL.
Congratulations to the 2024 Emerging Leader Award recipient, Sumedh Bele, PhD MBBS MPH.
Outstanding Article of the Year Awards
The Outstanding Article of the Year Awards recognize the best articles dedicated to HRQL research published in Quality of Life Research and in the Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes during the previous calendar year.
These awards recognize authors for significant intellectual contributions that promise to advance the state of the art in HRQL research methods, theory and application.
Outstanding Article of the Year: Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Ben G. Glenwright, Facilitators and barriers to implementing electronic patient-reported outcome and experience measures in a health care setting: a systematic review. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes (2023) 7:13. DOI 10.1186/s41687-023-00554-2
Outstanding Article of the Year: Quality of Life Research
Ludvig Daae Bjørndal, The structure of well-being: a single underlying factor with genetic and environmental influences. Qual Life Res (2023) 32: 2805–2816. DOI 10.1007/s11136-023-03437-7
Outstanding Poster Award
The Outstanding Poster Award is given to the presenting authors of Annual Conference poster submissions receiving the highest evaluations during the review process.
The Outstanding Poster Award Winner this year is:
Allison Deal, Electronic Symptom Monitoring During Metastatic Cancer Treatment: Does it work better for some patients than for others (AFT-39)?
Student and New Investigator Awards
Every year ISOQOL recognizes the best overall oral and poster presentations at the Annual Conference made by full-time students and investigators in the early stages of their career.
Student Oral Award (Tied)
Olayinka Arimoro, MSc, Tree-based item-response theory model for evaluating sample heterogeneity in patient-reported outcome measures: A web-based R Shiny implementation
Kelly de Ligt, PhD, Personalized communication for promoting implementation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures in clinical practice: Insights from health communication and digital sciences
Student Poster Award
Margaret-Ann Tait, The association of cannabinoid combinations with patient-reported pain improvements in patients with chronic pain prescribed medicinal cannabis.
New Investigator Oral Award
Birgith Grove, PhD, Remote symptom monitoring with patient-reported outcome measures in outpatients with chronic kidney disease (PROKID): a multicentre randomised controlled pragmatic non-inferiority study
New Investigator Poster Award
Kalpana Thapa Bajgain, Patient-Reported Outcome Measures to Inform Measurement-based Care for Youth Living with Mental Health Concerns: A mixed method study.
Congratulations to all award winners!
The International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) is a global community of researchers, clinicians, health care professionals, industry professionals, consultants, and patient research partners advancing health related quality of life research (HRQL).
Together, we are creating a future in which patient perspective is integral to health research, care and policy.