The HIVMA Awards celebrate member contributions to advancing the field across the career trajectory and research, prevention, education, and care spectrum to help make it possible to envision ending HIV as an epidemic.
Members are nominated by their peers and awarded by the HIVMA Awards Committee and Board of Directors. Awards are presented at IDWeek. Awardees receive a $1,500 honorarium in addition to support for travel and one-night's lodging to attend.
Innovator Award
The Innovator Award recognizes HIVMA members in early or mid-career who have made outstanding and original contributions to HIV medicine in clinical care, provider education, research, or advocacy.
2024 HIVMA Innovator Award
Onyema Ogbuagu, MD, FACP, FIDSA
Dr. Ogbuagu—an associate professor of infectious diseases at Yale School of Medicine — is a prolific researcher who has conducted groundbreaking, investigator-initiated clinical trials and other research on HIV and COVID-19.
Dr. Ogbuagu oversaw an expansion of the research portfolio through the Yale HIV and Vaccines Clinical Trials Unit that led to more than $9 million in funding. He has been a principal investigator on several multinational clinical trials, where he studied novel treatments for viral and bacterial infections, including the DISCOVER trial, which is evaluating TAF/FTC vs. TDF/FTC for HIV prevention among men who have sex with men and transgender women.
In addition, Dr. Ogbuagu was principal investigator on multiple investigational therapeutic and preventive clinical trials in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He helped strengthen Africa’s COVID response when he chaired the logistics subgroup of the Africa Task Force on Coronavirus and has since led medical training initiatives in Rwanda and Liberia funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration. Dr. Ogbuagu also conducts capacity-building research focused on preventing HIV among adolescent girls and young women in Liberia. He also serves on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents (the Panel)—a working group of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council.
Transformative Leader Award
The Transformative Leader Award recognizes HIVMA members who have transformed the field with demonstrated significant achievement in HIV clinical care, provider education, research, or advocacy. Significant achievement will be based on overall achievement and contributions that transcend a single institution and that have impacted patient care within a city, region, state or nationally.
2024 HIVMA Transformative Leader Award Winner
Daniel R. Kuritzkes, MD, FIDSA
Dr. Kuritzkes—Harriet Ryan Albee Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, is a trailblazer in advancing knowledge of drug-resistant HIV who has had a transformative impact on the understanding and care of people with HIV and on countless trainees and colleagues.
He is a leading expert in drug-resistant HIV worldwide. Among his most significant contributions are his work to establish the significance of resistant mutations against nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, and his insight that certain drug-resistance mutations reduce viral fitness. Each of these research developments have proven fundamental to the field’s understanding of resistance to HIV medications and advanced clinical care with drug-resistance testing becoming a standard of HIV care.
Additionally, Dr. Kuritzkes is chair of the World Health Organization HIV Resistance Network Steering Group. He previously led the Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally group, where he conducted clinical trials that resulted in life-saving advances in HIV management. Included in his over 300-article repertoire are reports that have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine and other high-impact journals.
Adaora Adimora Citation Award
The Adaora Adimora Citation Award honors the late Adaora Adimora, MD, MPH, FIDSA. Dr. Adimora was a past chair of HIVMA and member of the IDSA Board of Directors who had an unwavering commitment to advancing health equity and improving HIV prevention and care for minoritized populations through research, education and advocacy.
In her honor - the award honors Dr. Adimora’s compassion, leadership and service to HIVMA and the field by recognizing exemplary contributions to advancing efforts to end the HIV epidemic, such as through social justice, public service or in service with HIVMA.
2024 HIVMA Adaora Adimora Citation Award Winner
Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS
Dr. Blackstock—a primary care and HIV physician, researcher and public health practitioner— has spent her career in the relentless pursuit of equity and justice in health care. She has conducted transformative research and championed policies that prioritize the needs of Black and Latinx people with HIV.
As founder and executive director of Health Justice, a consulting firm that helps health care organizations center antiracism and equity in the workplace, she serves as an expert consultant on HIV clinical research projects. Dr. Blackstock helps organizations implement practices that reduce health inequities in the communities that they serve.
Dr. Blackstock was previously the assistant commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. She led the city’s response to ending the HIV epidemic and established the first racial equity program, in addition to playing a crucial communications role for the department during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Blackstock was an assistant professor of medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and published editorials on diversity, equity and inclusion in esteemed journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA.
Past Awardees
Innovator Award
2023 – Nwora Lance Okeke, MD, MPH
Transformative Leader Award
2023 – Judith Feinberg, MD, FACP, FIDSA
Adaora Adimora Citation Award (formerly the HIVMA Citation Award)
2023 - Barbara Gripshover, MD
Clinical Educator Award Recipients
The Clinical Educator Award recognized HIVMA members that demonstrated significant achievement in HIV clinical care and provider education. Significant achievement based on overall achievement and referred to contributions in acquisition and dissemination of information on HIV disease that transcend a single institution.
2022-David H. Spach, MD
2021- Roger Bedimo, MD, MS
2020- Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2019- Carlos del Rio, MD, FIDSA
2018- Rajesh T. Gandhi, MD
2017- Monica Gandhi MD, MPH
2016- Elaine J. Abrams, MD
2015- Peter A. Selwyn, MD, MPH
2014- Judith S. Currier, MD, MSc, FIDSA
2013- Joseph Eron Jr., MD
2012- Roy M. Gulick, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2011- Kimberly Smith, MD, MPH
2010- Mark W. Kline, MD
2009- Paul E. Sax, MD
2008- Jeffrey L. Lennox, MD
2007- Alice Pau, PharmD
2006- Joel E. Gallant, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2005- Stephen Raffanti, MD
2004- Harold Henderson, MD
Research Award Winners
The Research Award recognized HIVMA members that made outstanding contributions to HIV medicine in clinical or basic research. Awardees actively engaged in HIV research at a junior to mid-career level, such as an associate professor or its equivalent for an institution without a formal academic rank. The award was based on innovation and originality and required demonstration of significant independent research (such as success in securing independent peer-reviewed grant funding) and productivity (such as publications in peer-reviewed journals).
2022- Sara Hurtado Bares, MD, FIDSA
2021- Colleen Kelley, MD, MPH
2020- Gabriel Chamie, M.D., MPH
2019- Andrea Ciaranello, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2018- Lisa Hightow-Weidman, MD, MPH
2017- Raphael J. Landovitz, MD, MSc
2016- Vincent Lo Re III, MD, MSc, FIDSA
2015- Ingrid V. Bassett, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2014- Deborah Persaud, MD
2013- Ighovwerha Ofotokun, MD, MSc, FIDSA
2012- Kelly Gebo, MD, MPH, FIDSA
2011- Marshall Glesby, MD, PhD, FIDSA, & Michael Mugavero, MD, MHSc
2010- Peter W. Hunt, MD, & David M. Smith, MD
2009- Benigno Rodriguez, MD
2008- Rochelle Walensky, MD
2007- Grace McComsey, MD
2006- Susan J. Little, MD
2005- Steven Deeks, MD
2004- Diane Havlir, MD
How to Submit a Nomination
The nomination period is currently closed and will reopen in 2025.
Eligibility
1. Award nominees, primary nominators, and at least one secondary nominator must be active members of HIVMA or IDSA in good standing with the exception of the Citation Award*.
2. Members currently serving on the IDSA or HIVMA Boards of Directors or the IDSA Society or HIVMA Awards Committees are not eligible to be nominated.
3. Individuals who have previously won a particular award are not eligible to win that award again. They may, however, be nominated in a different award category or for an IDSA Award.
4. Self-nominations are not permitted.
*Non-members who have made extraordinary acts to end HIV as an epidemic, such as through social justice or public service may be considered for the Citation Award.