Prize for Innovation in Pediatric Diabetes Care
This prize focuses on diabetes in childhood by recognizing innovations to improve health and quality of care for children and young people
The ISPAD Prize for Innovation in Pediatric Diabetes Care is kindly supported by Abbott.
The prize winner will be invited to attend ISPAD’s Annual Conference to officially receive the award at ISPAD’s Networking & Recognition Evening. ISPAD will cover registration, Economy travel, and accommodation.
How to nominate a candidate for this prize?
Nominations for this category can be submitted by ISPAD members. A person can be nominated only by a third party. No self-nominations will be accepted.
The nominator should provide all documents below (in English):
- A letter from the person/institution issuing the nomination specifying the reason for the nomination. The letter should highlight the innovation and describe how different it is from what has been established, its impact on care and change of the current practice, its significance for diabetes care, and how significant or needed this innovation is.
- The complete CV of the candidate.
Nominations for the 2025 ISPAD Prizes are closed. Thank you for celebrating excellence with us!
Send all the documents mentioned above to [email protected].
Eligibility criteria
- Current ISPAD member and ISPAD membership (individual or the organization’s members) for at least 50% of the last 2 years or professional relation between ISPAD and the organization
- All professions
- Candidates can be from any country
- There are no age restrictions
Previous winners
2024: Michael Witsch, Germany
2023: ISPAE Diabetes Education And Learning (IDEAL), India
2022: Action4Diabetes - Charles Toomey and Jerry Gore
2021: Osagie Ebekozien, USA
2020: Henk J. Aanstoot and Henk Veeze, Netherlands
2019: Peter Goss, Australia
2018: Bruce Buckingham, USA
2017: Peter Adolfsson, Sweden
2016: SWEET Consortium, international
2015: Roman Hovorka, UK
2014: Henrik Mortensen, Denmark
2013: Reinhard Holl, Germany
2012: Center for Rare Forms of Diabetes EXETER, UK
2011: Nicholas Woolfield, Australia
2010: Manuel Vera Gonzalez, Cuba
