Lawrence S. Neinstein Award In Educational Scholarship To Advance Adolescent/Young Adult Health
The Lawrence S. Neinstein Award in Educational Scholarship to Advance Adolescent/Young Adult (AYA) Health recognizes and supports innovative and scholarly educational projects pertaining to adolescent and young adult health and medicine.
The recipient of the LSN Award will receive a maximum of up to $10,000 total in funding to support the innovative and scholarly educational project for up to 2 years.
Eligibility Criteria
- All disciplines invited to apply
- Applicants should be early- to mid- career within their discipline, defined as 10 years or less from completion of training or receipt of a terminal degree in a field directly related to AYA health
- Applicants’ career plans should include sustained and meaningful contributions in educational scholarship to advance AYA health.
- Applicants’ educational scholarship should involve patients, parents, other health professionals, trainees or community members (proposal should provide explicit plans to involve one or more of these groups).
- SAHM membership is encouraged but not required
- No restriction on where the applicant resides
An LSN award recipient will be expected to:
- At 12 Months of Award: submit a one-page written progress report, documenting accomplishments towards the goal of the project, identifying any significant changes, and describing plans for the remainder of their project. If the project is completed within one year of funding, the one-year progress report can be replaced by the final written report (see below).
- Within 24 months of award: submit a final written report of up to three pages documenting the recipient’s final accomplishments including outcomes, significance, implications and future plans. This should be submitted within six months of the end of funding.
Members from both the SAHM Education and Awards Committee will review application packages and select the LSN Award recipient. An individual may receive the LSN Award only once. SAHM reserves the right not to name an award recipient in any given year.
Review criteria includes:
- Significance and innovation of the proposed project, with particular attention to innovative educational strategies/technologies
- Educational intervention or project with specific objectives, methodology, and evaluation plan
- Potential for the project to positively impact AYA health care
2025
African Adolescent Medicine Consortium (AAMC)
2024
Recipient: No award given this year.
2023
Fransisca Agung, MD
Dr. Agung is awarded this prestigious and relatively new award, based on her proposal to provide a central repository of a 4-week training program on basic adolescent health services.
*Education scholarship is defined using the Canadian Association for Medical Education’s (CAME) definition: “‘Education Scholarship is an umbrella term which can encompass both research and innovation in health professions education. Quality in education scholarship is attained through work that is: peer-reviewed, publicly disseminated and provides a platform that others can build on.”