Awards
Nominations for the 2024 DoD Distinguished Civilian Service Award
BACKGROUND:
This award is the Department’s highest award given to career DoD civilian employees whose careers reflect exceptional devotion to duty and whose contributions to the efficiency, economy, or other improvements in DoD operations are of a significantly broad scope. Regions are allowed one nomination each with Regional Commander endorsement sent to BUMED Awards by 20 Mar 2024, tiffany.r.mitchell3.civ@health.mil.
ELIGIBILITY:
Career civilian employees of the DoD whose contributions have been at the highest level and reflect exceptional devotion to duty, efficiency, economy, other improvements in DoD operations. Please consider those employees who have been recognized through the Presidential Rank Award process over the past three years as having already been recognized at the highest Department level.
NOMINATION CRITERIA:
- Must meet the criteria in DoD 1400.25-M, Subchapter 451, Awards.
- This award shall NOT be used for recognizing retirement.
- This award does not require direct interaction with the Secretary or Deputy Secretary of Defense. However, it does require contributions that have a significant impact on furthering the Department’s objective (e.g. national security, fighting terrorism, information technology, cost cutting, transformation).
- Justification must articulate that contributions are at the highest level and reflect efficiency, economy, or other improvements with Department-wide impact.
- Nominating component should describe notable achievements over a period not greater than 10 years that clearly demonstrate its nominees’ contributions to the mission of DoD.
NOMINATION TEMPLATE:
Attachment (1) contains nomination criteria, format, and procedures, and provides a sample nomination template. Additional information concerning this award is contained in the following: DODI 1400.25 V451 of 4 Nov 13, https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025_vol451.pdf.
MHS Award Winners
2023 MHS Allied Health Leadership Awards – 1 winner award per category competed against all services (different than the other 2 Corps, AF won the non-provider categories)
Junior Provider: LT Julia Vandrak, Physician Assistant
Senior Provider: LCDR Kyleigh Hupfl, Pharmacist
2023 Military Health System Military Nursing Leadership Excellence Awards
USN Senior Officer: CAPT Accursia A. Baldassano
USN Mid-Grade Officer: LCDR Sarah M. Chilson
USN Junior Officer: LTJG Christopher R. Jones
USN Senior Civilian: Jean A. Thurber
2023 MHS Award for the Advancement of Women Physicians in Military Medicine
Senior Award: CAPT Juliann Althoff
Junior Award: LCDR Ayeetin Azah
LEAPS 2024 CALL FOR NOMINATIONS – ACHE NAVY REGENT AWARDS – NOMINATIONS DUE NLT 19 JAN 2024
- As the Lewis E. Angelo Professional Symposium (LEAPS) approach the 2024 American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Congress on Healthcare Leadership, they are respectfully requesting nominations for exceptional candidates that have and continue to demonstrate commitment to ACHE, Military Medicine, and our communities.
- Background: LEAPS presents three Navy Regent Awards during the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) Congress on Healthcare Leadership on Thursday, March 28, 2024. The ACHE Navy Regent Award categories are Senior Level Career Healthcare Executive (O-5 and above), Early Career Healthcare Executive (O-4 and below), and Enlisted Healthcare Executive (E4 – E9). Each award category honors an individual who has distinguished themselves in performance, management, and leadership through innovation, excellence, and creativity that goes above and beyond the call of duty to noticeably impact the command system, Budget Submitting Offices (BSO), professional, or service levels. See attached information.
- Submission: Submit your nomination to the Awards POC AM1 Oyindamola Michael, no later than Friday, January 19, 2024.
AMSUS Award Reviewer Opportunity
Navy Medicine needs to select 5 AMSUS Award reviewers (across all Corps). The time commitment is minimal – reviewers will review between 5 and 25 submissions, over a course of two weeks, beginning in late September.
To be considered, please send your bio and CV to CDR Robyn Treadwell (contact in the global) by 7 August.
AMSUS Awards Nominations Open
AMSUS acknowledges the abilities of many outstanding federal healthcare individuals each year through our distinguished Awards Program. As an AMSUS Annual Meeting POC, please communicate the Awards opportunity throughout your agencies and services. Anyone can submit a nominee – nominations are open to any federal healthcare worker from the Army, Navy, Air Force, DHA, USPHS, Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, and the Uniformed Services University.
The AMSUS Awards submission portal is open – you can access it here: https://amsus.swoogo.com/AMSUSAwards/cfs/3779449. Nominations close 15 September.
2024 Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) Annual Meeting – Call for Breakout Session Presentations, Posters, and Award Submissions
The 2024 Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) annual meeting is scheduled to be held 12-15 February 2024 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
The Surgeon General is requesting submissions for prospective breakout presentations.
The following are preferred topics for breakout sessions at AMSUS:
o Initiatives / projects that support new and evolving operational medicine capabilities
o Topics that directly speak to our man/train/equip mission
o Topics that support our warfighting concepts of Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO), Littoral Operations in a Contested Environment (LOCE), and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO)
o Topics that support Joint and/or allies/partners in the operational realm
o Topics that focus on multi-modal patient movement within the maritime domain
o Initiatives that focus on and enhance access to care attainment in garrison
Panel presentations are preferred over single individual presentations. Each panel discussion may have up to four (4) speakers.
Prospective breakout session presentation should provide:
o Title of the Breakout Session
o Presenter(s) names, CVs and email addresses, please identify the panel chair
o A single paragraph summary of the presentation
o 3-5 learning outcomes from the presentation
Prospective breakout session submissions should be emailed no later than 01 SEPT 2023 to CDR Robyn Treadwell.
Further guidance will be provided for presentations selected by the Surgeon General.
Posters – the platform for AMSUS poster abstracts opens 10 JUL 2023 and is an open process. A link to the poster submission portal will follow.
Awards – the platform for AMSUS award nominations will open 01 JUL 2023 and close 15 SEP 2023. A link to the awards submission portal to follow. Full description of AMSUS awards can be found on the website at www.amsus.org.
Joel Schofer's Career Planning Blog 