Awards and Recognition

Awards and Recognition History

  • A History of Winners of the Excellence in Health Psychology Awards

  • Year
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award
  • Year 1980
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award George C. Stone
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Patrick H. DeLeon, Judith Rodin
  • Year 1981
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Joseph D. Matarazzo
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award David S. Krantz
  • Year 1982
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Wilbert E. Fordyce
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Margaret A. Chesney
  • Year 1983
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award John J. Conger
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Karen A. Matthews
  • Year 1984
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Stephen M. Weiss
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Kelly D. Brownell
  • Year 1985
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Neal Miller
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Andrew S. Baum
  • Year 1986
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Jerome E. Singer
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award
  • Year 1987
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Howard Leventhal, Barbara Strudler Wallston*
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Sheldon A. Cohen, Robert M. Kaplan
  • Year 1988
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award David C. Glass, Paul Obrist
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
  • Year 1989
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Richard S. Lazarus
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Neil E. Grunberg, Alan G. Kraut
  • Year 1990
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Neil Schneiderman
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award
  • Year 1991
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Thomas J. Coates, John C. Linton
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Norman B. Anderson, Timothy W. Smith
  • Year 1992
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Richard I. Evans, Karen A. Matthews
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Robert Klesges
  • Year 1993
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Leonard H. Epstein, Dennis Turk
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award
  • Year 1994
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Shelley E. Taylor
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Abby C. King, James F. Sallis, Jr.
  • Year 1995
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Arthur Stone, Peter Vitaliano
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Caryn Lerman
  • Year 1996
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Rena R. Wing
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Karen M. Gil
  • Year 1997
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Andrew S. Baum
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Deborah Bowen
  • Year 1998
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Chuck Carver, Mike Scheier
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award
  • Year 1999
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Howard Friedman, Stephen Manuck
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Donavid Allis, Alan Christensen
  • Year 2000
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award David S. Krantz
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Susan Lutgendorf
  • Year 2001
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Robert Kaplan
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Shari Waldstein, Steven Lepore
  • Year 2002
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Annette Stanton, James Pennebaker
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Willem Kop
  • Year 2003
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Barbara Andersen, Rick Snyder
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award David Wetter
  • Year 2004
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Nancy Adler, Christine Dunkel Schetter
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Linda Gallo, Gary Foster
  • Year 2005
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award James Blumenthal
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Elissa Epel
  • Year 2006
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Francis J. Keefe
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Annmarie Cano, Lynn Martire
  • Year 2007
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Robert R. Edwards
  • Year 2008
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Sheldon Cohen
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Julienne E. Bower
  • Year 2009
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Howard Tennen
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Angela Grippo, Angela Fagerlin
  • Year 2010
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Richard Surwit
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Sherry Grace
  • Year 2011
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Robert Gatchel
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Jeanne McCaffery
  • Year 2012
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Jerry Suls
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Tene Lewis
  • Year 2013
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award James Prochaska
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Sally Dickerson
  • Year 2014
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Perry Halkitis, Dawn Wilson
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Sarah Pressman
  • Year 2015
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Peter Salovey
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Qian Lu
  • Year 2016
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Timothy Smith
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Richard B. Slatcher, and A. Janet Tomiyama
  • Year 2017
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Sue J. Curry
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award George M. Slavich
  • Year 2018
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Ken Resnicow, PhD
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Christopher P. Fagundes
  • Year 2019
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Sarah W. Feldstein Ewing
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Aric A. Prather
  • Year 2020
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research Award Christopher France
    Excellence in Health Psychology Research by an Early Career Professional Award Katherine B. Ehrlich
  • * Posthumously Awarded

  • Nathan W. Perry, Jr. Award for Career Service to Health Psychology

  • Year
    Recipient
  • Year 1998
    Recipient Len Mitnick
  • Year 1999
    Recipient Miriam Kelty
  • Year 2000
    Recipient Nate Perry
  • Year 2001
    Recipient Ken Wallston
  • Year 2002
    Recipient Peter Kaufmann
  • Year 2003
    Recipient Norman Anderson
  • Year 2004
    Recipient Ronald Abeles
  • Year 2005
    Recipient Karina Davidson
  • Year 2006
    Recipient Geoff Reed
  • Year 2007
    Recipient Cynthia Belar, Suzanne Bennett Johnson
  • Year 2008
    Recipient Perry Nicassio
  • Year 2009
    Recipient Robert Croyle
  • Year 2010
    Recipient Beverly Thorn
  • Year 2011
    Recipient Karen Matthews
  • Year 2012
    Recipient John Linton
  • Year 2013
    Recipient Tracey Revenson
  • Year 2014
    Recipient Ronald Rozensky
  • Year 2015
    Recipient John D. Robinson
  • Year 2016
    Recipient Robert D. Kerns
  • Year 2017
    Recipient Robert M. Kaplan
  • Year 2018
    Recipient Christine Dunkel Schetter
  • Year 2019
    Recipient Elizabeth A. Klonoff
  • Year 2020
    Recipient Jerry M. Suls

  • Excellence in Clinical Health Psychology Award**

  • Year
    Recipient
  • Year 2000
    Recipient Cynthia Belar
  • Year 2001
    Recipient
  • Year 2002
    Recipient Robert Allen
  • Year 2003
    Recipient Larry James
  • Year 2004
    Recipient Steven Tovian
  • Year 2005
    Recipient Helen Coons
  • Year 2006
    Recipient Mary Casey Jacob
  • Year 2007
    Recipient Anne K. Eshelman
  • Year 2008
    Recipient Scott Meit
  • Year 2009
    Recipient Tu Ngo
  • Year 2010
    Recipient Daniel Bruns
  • Year 2011
    Recipient Andrea Mechanick Braverman
  • Year 2012
    Recipient Jennifer Kelly
  • Year 2013
    Recipient Nancy Ruddy
  • Year 2014
    Recipient Barbara Cubic
  • Year 2015
    Recipient Mark Vogel
  • Year 2016
    Recipient Lloyd Berg
  • Year 2017
    Recipient Patricia Robinson
  • Year 2018
    Recipient Barbara Ward-Zimmerman
  • Year 2019
    Recipient James J. Annesi
  • Year 2020
    Recipient Lisa K. Kearney
  • ** 2000-2012: Timothy B. Jeffrey Memorial Award, presented in conjuction with the American Psychological Foundation

  • Division 38/Division 20 Joint Award in Developmental Health Psychology

  • Year
    Recipient
  • Year 1997
    Recipient Powell Lawton (38-H/20-S)
  • Year 1999
    Recipient Janice Kiecolt-Glaser(20-H/38-S)
  • Year 2001
    Recipient Howard Leventhal (38-H/20-S)
  • Year 2003
    Recipient Richard Schultz (20-H/38-S)
  • Year 2005
    Recipient Karen Rook (38-H/20-S)
  • Year 2007
    Recipient Ilene Siegler (20-H/38-S)
  • Year 2009
    Recipient Margaret Gatz (38-H/20-S)
  • Year 2011
    Recipient Carolyn Aldwin (20-H/38-S)

  • Cynthia D. Belar Award for Excellence in Health Psychology Education and Training

  • Year
    Recipient
  • Year 2014
    Recipient Cynthia Belar
  • Year 2015
    Recipient Kevin Larkin
  • Year 2016
    Recipient Christine Dunkel Schetter
  • Year 2017
    Recipient Elizabeth Klonoff
  • Year 2018
    Recipient Sharon L. Berry and Kevin S. Masters
  • Year 2019
    Recipient Willliam N. Robiner
  • Year 2020
    Recipient Traci Mann

  • Excellence in Clinical Health Psychology by an Early Career Professional Award

  • Year
    Recipient
  • Year 2018
    Recipient Dawn Jewell
  • Year 2019
    Recipient Cerissa Blaney
  • Year 2020
    Recipient Stacy A. Ogbeide
  • *Starting in 2018

  • Excellence in Health Psychology Mentoring Award

  • Year
    Recipient
  • Year 2018
    Recipient Mark A. Lumley
  • Year 2019
    Recipient Tracey A. Revenson
  • Year 2020
    Recipient Richard J. Contrada

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