Friday, May 24, 2013

The Filerman Prize for Educational Leadership
Nomination Deadline: April 1, 2013

The Prize and Its Purpose
The Nominations Process
The Selection Process
Nomination Form
The Selection Committee
Past Prize Winners

 
The Gary L. Filerman Prize for Educational Leadership was established to honor Gary L. Filerman, PhD, the first President of AUPHA, for his many years of service to the Association and the field of healthcare management education. The Prize recognizes individuals from AUPHA member programs who have made outstanding contributions to the field of health administration education, who have exhibited leadership in the field, and who have enriched their institutions, their students, and health administration education through their work.
A wide variety of achievements and contributions to the field may be recognized by the award including:
  • Exceptional service to AUPHA and the field of healthcare management education.
  • Excellence in academic leadership.
  • Influence on healthcare management education through curriculum development and design.
  • Implementation of education, research, and service partnerships with the field of practice.
  • Other efforts to enhance the quality of healthcare management education
     

The Nominations Process
Nominations may be made by individuals from AUPHA member programs, as well as affiliate or personal members of the Association. The nominee must be a full time faculty member in good standing at an AUPHA Full Member Program. Nominations must be submitted electronically through the AUPHA web site not later than April 1, 2013. The online form requests the nominee’s Curriculum Vitae along with two letters of nomination describing:

  • why the individual is being nominated for the Filerman Prize?
  • how the nominee has contributed to AUPHA?
  • how the nominee has exhibited academic leadership?
  • how the nominee has created innovative teaching methods of healthcare management education?
  • how the nominee has enriched the field of practice
  • in what other ways the nominee has worked to enhance the quality of healthcare management education
In addition nominators are asked to provide a bio and high resolution photo of the nominee.
 
 
The Filerman Selection Committee, appointed by the Chair of the AUPHA Board of Directors, will evaluate the nominations and make a selection in April.
The Prize will be awarded at the 2013 AUPHA Annual Meeting, held June 18-22 in Monterey, California.
 
For further information contact AUPHA at 2000 N. 14th Street, Suite 780, Arlington, VA; Phone: (703) 894-0940 x122; Fax: (703) 894-0941; email: lmeckley@aupha.org
 
 
G. Ross Baker, PhD, Chair
University of Toronto
 
Lawrence Johnson, PhD, FACHE
Army-Baylor University
 
John Lowe, PhD
Simmons College
 
Michael Meacham, JD, MPH
Medical University of Sout Carolina
 
Martha Riddell, DrPH, MPH
University of Kentucky
 
Mary Stefl, PhD
Trinity University
 
Lydia Middleton, MBA, CAE (Ex Officio)
AUPHA
 
 
2012
Jack Wheeler, PhD
University of Michigan
 
2011
Barry S. Greene, PhD
University of Iowa
 
2010
Eugene Schneller, PhD
Arizona State University
 
2009
Douglas A. Conrad, PhD
University of Washington - Seattle
 
2008
James W. Begun, PhD
University of Minnesota
 
2007
G. Ross Baker, PhD
University of Toronto

2006
S. Robert Hernandez, DrPH
University of Alabama at Birmingham
 
2005
Thomas G. Rundall, PhD
University of California, Berkeley
 
2004
Mary E. Stefl, PhD
Trinity University
 
2003
Charles J. Austin, PhD
 
2002
John R. Griffith, MBA, FACHE
University of Michigan
 
2001
Vernon Weckwerth, PhD
University of Minnesota
 
2000
Stephen F. Loebs, PhD
Ohio State University
 
1999
Anthony G. Kovner, PhD
New York University
 
1998
Gordon D. Brown, PhD
University of Missouri-Columbia
 
1997
Peggy Leatt, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 
1996
James D. Suver, DBA
University of Kentucky