BMJ Group Awards- who won last year- could you win this year?

We want to know if you think you could win one of our BMJ Group Awards. To help you decide, here's a list of our 2010 BMJ Group Awards winners and finalists. If you want to ask them any questions about their work we can do that for you- just post them here:

Research Paper of the Year

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Champion: Trish Groves, Deputy Editor, BMJ   

Recognising original clinical research that has contributed significantly to improving health and health care

Gomes MF, Faiz MA, Gyapong JO, Warsame M, Agbenyega T, Babiker A, Baiden F, Yunus EB, Binka F, Clerk C, Folb P, Hassan R, Hossain MA, Kimbute O, Kitua A, Krishna S, Makasi C, Mensah N, Mrango Z, Olliaro P, Peto R, Peto TJ, Rahman MR, Ribeiro I, Samad R, White NJ for the World Health Organization. 

• Cals JWL and the IMPAC ³T trial team: Butler CC, Hopstaken RM, Hood K, Dinant GJ for the CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre. Effect of point of care testing for C reactive protein and training in communication skills on antibiotic use in lower respiratory tract infections: cluster randomised trial. BMJ 2009;338:b1374: The Netherlands
• Pre-referral rectal artesunate to prevent death and disability in severe malaria: a placebo-controlled trial. Lancet, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 2009;373:557-66. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61734-1: Switzerland
• Infante M, Cavuto S, Lutman FR, Brambilla G, Chiesa G, Ceresoli G, Passera E, Angeli E, Chiarenza M, Aranzulla G, Cariboni U, Errico V, Inzirillo F, Bottoni E, Voulaz E, Alloisio M, Destro A, Roncalli M, Santoro A, Ravasi G for the DANTE Study Group. A Randomized Study of Lung Cancer Screening with Spiral Computed Tomography. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2009;180: 445–53: Italy
• Volpp KG, Troxel AB, Pauly MV, Glick HA, Puig A, Asch DA, Galvin R, Zhu J, Wan F, DeGuzman J, Corbett E, Weiner J, Audrain-McGovern JA for the Leonard Davis Institute Of Health Economics Centre For Health Incentives. Randomized, Controlled Trial of Financial Incentives for Smoking Cessation. New England Journal of Medicine 2009;360:699-709: USA

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Getting Research into Practice (GRiP)

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Champions: Rubin Minhas, Clinical Director, and Karen Pettersen, Deputy Editor, Clinical Evidence

Recognising those who have successfully introduced evidence based improvements into patient care.

Dr Kevin Volpp and his team at Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics Centre for Health Incentives (USA) created a partnership with the General Electric Corporation to test financial incentives to reduce smoking cessation.

• Professor Ebenezer Ellen Benjamin (India) implemented an evidence-based initiative to reduce episiotomy rates in a Dubai hospital.
• Sexual Health and HIV Evidence into Practice (SHHEP) Group (England). A collaboration between UK, African, and Asian research organisations that has used research to influence government policy on sexual health and HIV.
• The Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (USA) developed a Guided Care model for chronic care in the elderly involving specially-trained nurses that has reduced hospital stay and improved patient safety.

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Primary Care Team of the Year

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Champion: Domhnall Macauley, Primary Care Editor, BMJ

Recognising practices that demonstrate improved outcomes in disease management.

Lonsdale Medical Centre. London, England

• Charter Medical Centre. Hove, England
• James Wigg Practice. London, England 
• The University of Nottingham Health Service. Nottingham, England
  

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Secondary Care Team of the Year

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Champion: Tony Delamothe, Deputy Editor, BMJ

Recognising hospital teams that demonstrate improved outcomes of medical and surgical conditions.

Emergency Medical Retrieval Service (EMRS), Glasgow, Scotland

• 56 Dean Street, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, England
  
• Integrated Care of Diabetic Retinopathy, Cornwall, England
• Royal Free Heart Attack and Stroke (HAS) Team, London, England
  

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Junior Doctor of the Year

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Champion: Edward Davies, Editor, BMJ Careers

Rewarding the doctor in training who has done most to improve the world we live in or to inspire others.

Evan Wood, Internal Medicine Resident, University of British Columbia, Canada

• Yannick Bejot, Neurologist, Stroke Registry of Dijon, France
• Vivian Elwell, Specialist Registrar in Neurosurgery, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, England
• Cristian Gragnaniello, Neurosurgeon, Second University of Naples, Italy
• Philip Hyde, Specialist Registrar in Paediatric Intensive Care, Birmingham Children's Hospital, England
• Richard M Lyon, Specialty Registrar in Emergency Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Douglas J Noble, Public Health Registrar, NHS London, England
• Philip J Smith, ST4 Academic Clinical Fellow in Gastroenterology, UCLH, London, England
• Oliver Warren, Specialist Registrar in General Surgery, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust/NHS London, England
  

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Excellence in Healthcare Education

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Champion: Edward Briffa, Head of BMJ Learning

Recognising an individual or team who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and/or innovation in healthcare education and performance improvement.

Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner, Directors of Pilgrim Projects and founders of the Patient Voices Programme, Pilgrim Projects. Cambridge, England

• Enhancing Engagement in Medical Leadership project, jointly led by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) and the NHS Institute.. London, England
• King's Health Partners Simulation Centre. London, England
• Mr PK Sarkar, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Sheffield, England
  
• Simulation & Technology-enhanced Learning Initiative, London Deanery. London, England

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Best Quality Improvement

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Champion: Jane Smith, Deputy Editor, BMJ

Recognising teams making measurable improvements to the quality and safety of health care.

Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland for its work in collecting and publishing detailed accurate data on outcomes. London, England

• Combined Stroke Unit (Ward 9) and Facilitated Discharge Team, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for redesigning the stroke service to include a hyperacute service and early supported discharge. Northumberland, England
• County Durham and Darlington Primary Care Trust for its model for improving safe, cost effective, and equitable use of medicines. Spennymoor, England
• Pressure Ulcer Prevention Project Team, Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board for adopting a zero tolerance approach to pressure ulcers. Port Talbot, Wales
  

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Clinical Leadership                                                                    

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Champions: Cath McDermott and Helen Morant, Clinical Editors, BMJ Learning

Recognising motivational and inspirational leaders who have led a clinical team with vision and clarity. 

Adrian Hopper and Mark Kinirons - Associate Medical Director and Clinical Lead for Patient & Drug Safety. Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, England

• Dr Julie Andrews - Consultant Microbiologist and Director of Infection Prevention and Control. Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, London, England
• Marie Connor - Director of Mildmay UK, specialist unit for people with HIV related neuro-cognitive impairment. London, England
• Dr Alex Crowe - Consultant Nephrologist, Clinical Lead for Renal Services and Wirral and Chester Clinical Lead for Cheshire and Merseyside Kidney Care Network. Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Wirral, England

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Champion: Peter Ashman,  Publishing Director BMJ and BMJ Journals

Recognising a healthcare organisation that has shown outstanding and effective commitment to the greater good of society.

St Michael's Hospital for the Greening Initiative, Canada

• Milena, University of L’Aquila for A heart for Ethiopia, Italy
  
• Southern Health for Our Healthcare for Our Environment, Australia
• University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust for the Healthcare Careers and Skills Academy, England
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Health Communicator of the Year

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Champion: Trevor Jackson, Magazine Editor, BMJ

Celebrating an individual who has shown excellence in promoting understanding of medicine and health through the media.

Sarah Boseley - Health Editor, The Guardian. London, England

• Madeleine Brindley - Health Editor, Western Mail. Cardiff, Wales
• Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner - Directors of Pilgrim Projects and founders of the Patient Voices Programme, Pilgrim Projects. Cambridge, England
• Fergus Walsh - Medical Correspondent, BBC. London, England

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BMJ Group Award for Lifetime Achievement

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Champion: Annabel Ferriman, News Editor, BMJ

For the individual who has, over his or her working lifetime, made a unique and substantial contribution to improving health care, whether in clinical practice, health services, public health, health policy, medical education, or medical research.

Professor Marleen Temmerman - Professor and Senator, University Ghent/ICRH, Belgium
Professor Marleen Temmerman is an expert in women’s health and has managed to successfully combine politics and medicine to make a significant impact on health care. She is currently professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University Hospital in Belgium, head of the obstetrics and gynaecology department at the Ghent University Hospital and a senator in the Belgian Parliament.

Professor Douglas G Altman - Professor of Statistics in Medicine, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, England

Professor Altman has been the director of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine in Oxford since it was established in 1995, and has directed the Medical Statistics Group of Cancer Research UK since 1988.

Professor Michael Baum - Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University College London, England

Professor Baum pioneered the strategy of lumpectomy combined with radiotherapy rather than radical mastectomy, which was considered heretical when he began. He established the first nurse counselling service at Kings College Hospital in 1981 and the first psychosocial oncology research team in the UK.

Professor  D G Harendra De Silva- Professor of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka

Professor de Silva is a public campaigner, researcher, and dedicated teacher. He is currently professor and head of the University of Kelaniya’s Department of Paediatrics in Sri Lanka.

Professor Lesley Fallowfield - Professor of Psycho-Oncology, Cancer Research UK Psychosocial Oncology Group, England

Professor Fallowfield joined the Clinical Trials Unit at King’s College London where she pioneered quality of life (QoL) assessment in breast cancer trials, and quickly established herself as one of the world’s leading exponents of psycho-oncology research, developing and validating numerous instruments to measure the (QoL) in cancer trials.

Professor Gordon Guyatt - McMaster University, Canada

Professor Guyatt, currently professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, has made a huge contribution to the evidence base for EBM practice. He has led the way in developing the methodology for randomised trials and systematic reviews, and taken a leading role in more than 20 randomised trials, and published over 70 systematic reviews in the field.

Professor Jerome Kassirer - Tufts University School of Medicine, United States of America

Jerry Kassirer’s career has been dedicated to promoting rationality and integrity in clinical research and medicine. His groundbreaking work on clinical reasoning and decision analysis formed the rational basis of the judgements that physicians now make on a daily basis about the benefits and risks of tests and treatments.

Professor Michael Kew - Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Michael Kew, now emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, has devoted 40 years of his career as a doctor and scientist to finding the cause of liver cancer, which accounts for the greatest number of cancer deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, and how to prevent it.

Professor Wendy Savage - Honorary professor, Middlesex University Department of Health and Social Science, Middlesex University, England

Professor Wendy Savage is an inspirational leader in the field of women’s health. As an obstetrician and gynaecologist, campaigner and academic, she has a lifetime of contributions and achievements in women-centred care and continues to be a champion of women’s rights in childbirth and fertility.

Professor Alimuddin Zumla - University College London Medical School, UK/Zambia

Professor Alimuddin Zumla trained in Zambia, UK and the USA, and is one of a new emerging breed of “clinician scientists”, dually qualified in medicine (FRCP) and science (PhD). He is a recognized as a global figure in infectious diseases and international health.