2025 Faculty & Staff Awards Day will take place on
Tuesday, June 24 at 8 AM on the CAM Courtyard

The Annual Pediatrics Awards Day will honor our faculty and staff whose work and dedication help make Stanford the great institution that it is today. Without their contributions, the advances of our Department would not be possible.

2025 Faculty & Staff Awards Nominations

Nominations will close on Friday, May 30, 2025

Criteria for Faculty Awards

Fernando Mendoza DRIVE Award

Diversity, Respect, and Inclusion are Vital for Excellence in a thriving medical school community.  

Each year, the Fernando Mendoza DRIVE Award will recognize a faculty member who has made exceptional contributions and accomplishments in fostering a diverse and inclusive community in the Department of Pediatrics.  Such might include developing models to advance diversity, achieving outcomes, recruitment and retention efforts, supporting promotion, teaching, research, multi-cultural programming, cultural competency, community outreach activities, or other related initiatives or achievements.

Advocacy Award

Each year, the Stanford Department of Pediatrics Advocacy Award seeks to acknowledge the exemplary work of a faculty member who advocate for his/her patients and families.  

Examples include connecting patients with community resources, working to get needed services for patients, advocating for research funding and ensuring that essential medications are available to all patients. Advocacy activities can also include raising awareness about important pediatric health issues in the media, fighting to reduce health disparities through engagement in the community, and educating elected officials on child health topics.

Early Career Clinical Excellence Award

Each year the Department will recognize one of its faculty for early career clinical excellence. This is defined as achievements within five years of the completion of training. Criteria used to determine clinical excellence are broad, and examples include, but are not limited to, clinical excellence, clinical leadership in quality, safety, PI program development, leadership in innovative clinical program development and implementation or development of new approaches to clinical care.

Mid-Senior Career Clinical Excellence Award

Each year the Department will recognize one of its faculty for mid-senior career clinical excellence. Clinical excellence at this stage of a faculty career requires demonstrating leadership in clinical improvements above and beyond the faculty member's current role and responsibilities.

Basic Science Research Award

Each year the Department will recognize one of its faculty in an area of basic research for scientific achievement in the past year. Typically, this achievement will be a peer-reviewed publication, but other achievements may be recognized if they can be demonstrated to be pertinent to advancing biomedical research.

Clinical Science Research Award

Each year the Department will recognize one of its faculty in an area of clinical research for her/his scientific achievement in the past year. Typically, this achievement will be a peer-reviewed publication that has had widespread reach, national or international recognition for research, or other scholarly products that have had impact on advancing clinical or public health.

Laura Bachrach Faculty Mentor Award

Each year, the Department will recognize a faculty member for their role in mentoring the careers of early-career faculty.

Postdoc Mentor Award

Each year, the Department will recognize an individual for their role in mentoring the careers of postdoctoral scholars.

Education Scholarship Award

Each year the Department will recognize one of its faculty in an area of medical education scholarship for her/his scientific achievement in the past year. Typically, this achievement will be a peer-reviewed publication or novel intervention, but other achievements may be recognized if they can be demonstrated to be pertinent to advancing medical education.  

Fellowship Fuji Apple Teaching Award

Each year the Department will recognize a faculty member whom Pediatric Fellows nominate as the best teacher and/or mentor.


Criteria for Staff Awards

Staff Mentorship Award

Each year the Department will recognize a staff member who has made a positive impact on their colleagues through effective mentorship, coaching, or supervision. Staff members who have won a Department of Pediatrics Staff Award within the last 3 years will not be eligible.

Research Technical Staff Award

Each year, the Department will recognize a staff member for their distinguished service to the research community and celebrate exemplary leadership that positively impacted their colleagues and advance the mission of the Department of Pediatrics. Staff members who have won a Department of Pediatrics Staff Award within the last 3 years will not be eligible.

DRIVE Staff Award

Diversity, Respect, and Inclusion are Vital for Excellence in a thriving medical school community.  

Each year, the DRIVE Staff Award will recognize a staff member who has made exceptional contributions and accomplishments in fostering a diverse and inclusive community in the Department of Pediatrics. Staff members who have won a Department of Pediatrics Staff Award will not be eligible.

Collaboration Award

Each year the Department will recognize an outstanding staff member who contributed to team performance by providing encouragement and support, helped others overcome obstacles, and successfully accomplished goals; was an honest and dependable team player who contributed to group collaboration and consensual decision making and showed empathy and respect for others; and who built and maintained good working relationships. Staff members who have received a Department of Pediatrics Staff Award within the last 3 years will not be eligible. 

Donna Schurr Customer Service Award

Each year the Department will recognize a staff member who is motivated, shows initiative by going above and beyond to identify customers' need and/or expectations, establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with staff, faculty, stundent/trainees, or internal/external customers, and displays exemplary customer service. Staff members who have received a Department of Pediatrics Staff Award within the last 3 years will not be eligible.

Innovation Award

Each year the Department will recognize a staff member who has generated novel and valuable ideas and used these ideas to develop new or improved processes, methods, systems, programs or services. The award recognizes creative ideas that have improved the department and have made Stanford Medicine a better place to work. Staff members who have received a Department of Pediatrics Staff Award within the last 3 years will not be eligible.  

Rising Star Award

Each year the Department will recognize an outstanding staff member who demonstrates a quality of performance that indicates s/he will continue to develop into an exemplary employee. The employee shows passion for their work while exemplifying professionalism and dedication to the mission of their department and the University in the short time that s/he has been a part of the department.