Summary: AAMI is accepting nominations for its 2025 awards, celebrating excellence and innovation in health technology. The awards recognize professionals in areas like HTM, sterilization science, and research, offering prizes and acknowledgment at the 2025 AAMI eXchange.

Key Takeaways:

  • Awards honor contributions to patient safety, innovation, and healthcare excellence.
  • Nominees include HTM professionals, researchers, and advocates, with winners recognized at key AAMI events.

AAMI has opened the application cycle for the 2025 AAMI Awards. These awards are AAMI’s way of recognizing its community for the professionals, scientists, and advocates who support the safe and effective use of health technology.

Honoring Dedication and Excellence

“Every year, we relish the opportunity to give back to our dedicated network of health technology professionals,” said John Sloan, vice president of membership at AAMI. “The AAMI and AAMI Foundation Awards are an official recognition of their achievements and their legacy.”

AAMI members are encouraged to nominate an HTM professional, researcher, regulatory specialist, or sterilization/sterile processing professional who merits recognition by one of the awards described below.

Each award includes a cash prize and commemorative plaque, and winners will be honored at events like the 2025 AAMI eXchange in New Orleans, taking place June 20-23.

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AAMI Awards

  • AAMI’s HTM Leadership Award: Recognizes excellence in leadership within the HTM field. Nominees cannot self-nominate.
  • AAMI & GE Healthcare’s BMET of the Year Award: Honors a biomedical equipment technician whose contributions have elevated the HTM profession.
  • AAMI’s Young Professional Award: Presented to a professional under 40 who has shown exceptional commitment to healthcare.
  • The Spirit of AAMI Award: Celebrates a volunteer who has made substantial contributions to AAMI’s mission.
  • AAMI’s HTM Association of the Year Award: Given to an HTM association that has distinguished itself through operations and efforts to elevate the profession.
  • AAMI & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award: Awarded for vision and innovation in addressing healthcare cybersecurity challenges.

Standards and Sterilization Science Awards

  • AAMI Sterilization Science Award: For contributions to sterilization and contamination control.
  • Standards Developer Award: Acknowledges up to five individuals for substantive contributions to standards development.
  • AAMI Technical Committee Award: Recognizes committees for outstanding operational contributions.

Research and Grants

  • Publication Awards: Includes Best Article, Commentary, and Research Paper in AAMI News or BI&T.
  • Mary K. Logan Program: Funds scientific studies advancing patient safety and health technology.
  • Kilmer Scholarship Award: Supports students studying microbiological quality or sterility assurance.
  • Kilmer Research Grant: Funds collaborative research in microbiological quality or sterility assurance.

These awards recognize professionals vital to the healthcare field. Nominations can be submitted at www.aami.org/awards.