Awards, Honours & Scholarships

2024 Medal / Award Recipients

Recipient

Medal / Award

Prof Gerhard Flaherty Peter Leggat Oration Medal
Prof Anne McCarthy Ashdown Oration Medal
Prof Richard Franklin President’s Medallion
Prof Marc Shaw ACTM Medal For outstanding service to the college 2015-2024
Brigadier Prof Michael Reade Surgeon General Medal

 

2024 Certificate Recipients

Recipient

Certificate

Prof Colleen Lau Presidential Citation
Adam Bartlett Best Presentation
Fasil Shiferaw
Runner Up
Alison Jaworski Best Poster
Eloise Skinner Runner up

Thank you to our Judges
Harunor Rashid, Phil Britton and Stephen Muhi

 

 

 

Nominations

The College seeks nominations from College members for:

  • ACTM Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Tropical Medicine, Travel Medicine or Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, through research, development, and or teaching.
  • ACTM Medal for Outstanding Service to the College.
  • Major General John Pearn Surgeon General’s Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Tropical Medicine by a member of the uniformed services (requires endorsement by the Surgeon General of the Australian Defence Force)
  • ACTM Award for Educational Excellence for outstanding educators/group of educators/organisation at the undergraduate, postgraduate and/or continuing professional development level
  • ACTM John M Goldsmid Award for the best paper published in the Annals of the ACTM
  • ACTM Presentation Award for the best original paper presented at an ACTM Scientific Meeting (preference to postgraduate students as a lead author)
  • Honorary Fellowship and Honorary Membership.
  • Membership and Fellowship Through Distinction

The College also appoints eminent persons to present the following Orations and Special Lectures

  • Ashdown Oration and Medal, in memory of the late Dr Les Ashdown, Foundation Vice President of the College, usually presented during College conferences or convocations.
  • Copeman Oration, in memory of the late A/Prof C. Bruce Copeman, AO, presented at College Convocation.
  • Anton Breinl Memorial Lecture, in memory of the Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, Townsville.

The College also supports a number of student awards at various institutions in Australia and abroad (awarded by subscribing institutions)

  • ACTM Medal for students to recognize excellence in scholarship and research.
  • Rick Speare Medal for students to recognize excellence in postgraduate coursework

 

Due dates: 31 March and 31 October.

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