2025 ACCE Advocacy Awards Nomination Form. Deadline: extended to January 1, 2025

Submit your nomination before the deadline.

The ACCE Advocacy Awards have been in place since 1994. From the beginning, they were in place to recognize outstanding people in various aspects of our profession, whether members of ACCE or not. In the recent years, we have broadened the awards to include international colleagues and institutions that have advanced clinical engineering in their countries and regions. The reach and impact of clinical engineering continue to expand; we honor those who lead this growth.

Lifetime Achievement Award
Patient Safety Award
Challenge Award
Tom O'Dea Advocacy Award
Professional Achievement in Management/Managerial Excellence Award
Professional Achievement in Technology/Professional Development Award
Antonio Hernandez International Clinical Engineering Award
International Organization Award

CE-HTM Champion Award

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Lifetime Achievement Award: This award is the highest award given by ACCE. It is presented annually to a single individual based on lifelong accomplishments and contributions to clinical engineering (CE) profession.

Patient Safety Award: This award will be bestowed on a single individual or team who has excelled in the "safety" area related to the CE field. Potential awardees could be a national investigator of accidents, an inventor of a safety device, or an author of books on medical device hazards, etc.

Challenge Award: Non-members of ACCE are eligible to be nominated for this award, provided they meet the criteria for membership. A single individual will be selected based on his/her achievements in the field of medical technology within the CE field, for example, an individual who has contributed to the design of a "safe" environment or has shown significant activities in technology management and assessment.

Tom O'Dea Advocacy Award: A single individual will be selected for this award, based on published articles, presentations given, and efforts led which have advanced the field of CE – especially in promoting the profession to people in other related fields.

Professional Achievement in Management / Managerial Excellence Award: Nominees for this award will be evaluated on their contributions to the CE profession of a managerial nature, such as a paper of significance, solving of a problem or issue for the profession, or the application of new techniques to CE with measurable positive results. Only a single awardee will be selected.

Professional Achievement in Technology / Professional Development Award: A single awardee will be selected for his/her contributions to the CE profession. These contributions must be of a professional or technical nature, such as research or development of a new technique or product, a paper of significance on a technical issue, or "trailblazing" work in a new application of clinical engineering.

Antonio Hernandez International Clinical Engineering Award: This award will be presented to one CE Professional or a group of CE professionals from a country in which CE is an emerging field in recognition of that person's or group of persons' extraordinary contributions to the advancement of CE in his/her/their own country or, to an individual or a group of professionals from another country/countries for his/her/their extraordinary efforts in supporting this advance.

International Organization Award: This Award is given to a professional organization outside of the United States and Canada that has enabled significant improvements in clinical engineering/healthcare technology management (CE/HTM) in its respective country after starting to collaborate with ACCE with the support from WHO, IFMBE, PAHO, and others.

CE-HTM Champion Award: This Award will be bestowed on a single individual, a health delivery system leader who has championed CE and Health Technology Management (HTM) in a manner that has significantly heightened the status of the HTM profession in the U.S. and/or around the world.