Awards
FOCUS awards recognize those that are paving the way in advocacy, structural change, mentorship, sponsorship, education, science, clinical care and administration.
Recent Honorees
About the Awards
The Jeane Ann Grisso Award
The Jeane Ann Grisso Award recognizes a faculty member at the associate or full professor ranks who has shown role model-level excellence in paving the way for women across the continuum in academic medicine at the PSOM or beyond in areas including any or all of the following aspects: advocacy, structural change, mentorship, sponsorship, education, science, clinical care and administration.
FOCUS Early Achievement Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine
The FOCUS Early Achievement Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine recognizes a faculty member at the assistant professor rank who has shown excellence in advancing women across the continuum in academic medicine at the PSOM or beyond in areas including any or all of the following domains: advocacy, structural change, mentorship, sponsorship, education, science, clinical care and administration.
History of the Awards
​In 2004, FOCUS introduced the "FOCUS Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine." The award recognizes a faculty member who has shown role model-level excellence in paving the way for women across the continuum in academic medicine at the PSOM or beyond in areas including any or all of the following aspects: advocacy, structural change, mentorship, sponsorship, education, science, clinical care and administration. Associate and Full professors, on any of the four full-time tracks (Tenure, Clinician-Educator, Research and Academic Clinician), are eligible for nomination, excluding those who comprise the FOCUS leadership.
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In 2023, FOCUS added a second award, the "FOCUS Early Achievement Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine." Eligibility includes faculty at the assistant professor rank at the time of nomination. ​
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The awards are presented during the annual FOCUS Fall Conference and announced afterwards via email to all PSOM faculty. In addition to the institutional honor that these awards bring, the recipient’s names will be added to the plaque that hangs alongside the PSOM Awards of Excellence.