The American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) Foundation supports several honors.
James A. Stockman Lectureship
This lectureship was established in 2014 to honor former ABP President and CEO James A. Stockman III, MD, and his tremendous contributions to pediatrics. Dr. Stockman led the ABP through a considerable number of advancements from 1992 until his retirement in 2012. Nominations for this lectureship are put forward by the ABP and reviewed by the Executive Committees of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the ABP.
Recipients speak on a topic of their choice at the AAP annual National Conference and Exhibition. Since 2016, the ABP and AAP have prioritized parents, family members, and young adult patients as speakers to share patient and family members’ perspectives about pediatric health care needs, access, experiences, and delivery.
Previous Stockman Lecturers include:
- 2023: Jonathan and Jackson Webb, father and adult child with a rare chronic condition (Read their story or watch their presentation.)
- 2022: Johanna Bergan, a young adult with lived experience navigating the mental health care system and advocacy
(Read her story or watch her presentation.) - 2021: Christian Lawson, a young patient with Crohn’s disease
(Read his blog post or watch his presentation.) - 2020: Tom Glenn, a cardiac patient with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and a cardiology fellow
(Read his story or watch his presentation.) - 2019: LaToshia Rouse, mother of 6-year-old triplets, born at 26 weeks, and a 9-year-old son with autism
(Read her story or watch her presentation.) - 2018: Tamela Milan-Alexander, mother of six and parent advocate
(Read her story or watch her presentation.) - 2017: Robyn and Kevin Kinebrew, parents of twins with a congenital disease
(Read their story or watch their presentation.) - 2016: Sami Kennedy, medical trainee and patient
(Read her story or watch her presentation.) - 2015: Julia McMillan, program director, Johns Hopkins
- 2014: James Stockman, prior President and CEO of ABP
David G. Nichols Health Equity Award
In 2021, the ABP Foundation awarded the American Pediatric Society a one-time restricted gift for the purposes of managing the David G. Nichols Health Equity Award. This award was established to honor the career of Dr. Nichols, MD, MBA, who served as the ABP President and CEO from 2012 to 2021. The award is distributed annually to recognize an individual or group of pediatricians who demonstrate excellence in advancing child and adolescent health, well-being, and equity through quality improvement, advocacy, research, or practice.
Award recipients are honored at the annual Pediatrics Academic Societies’ (PAS) Meeting and invited to present on a topic of their choice. At the conclusion of the meeting, their presentation is published in Pediatric Research, the official journal of the APS.
In 2022, Dr. Nichols was the inaugural recipient of this award.
- APS Selects Dr. Glenn Flores as 2024 David G. Nichols Health Equity Award Recipient
- APS Selects Dr. Nadine Burke Harris as Recipient of 2023 David G. Nichols Health Equity Award
- The American Pediatric Society Honors Dr. David G. Nichols with the 2022 David G. Nichols Health Equity Award
David G. Nichols Educational Symposium
In 2021, the ABP Foundation awarded the National Medical Association (NMA) Pediatric Section a grant in honor of Dr. David G. Nichols, MD, MBA. The grant provides funds to NMA to host the David G. Nichols Educational Symposium at the NMA’s annual conference. The symposium is focused on topics critical to the pediatric workforce, with an emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Symposium speaker(s) are identified and awarded a small honorarium by the NMA to put toward travel and are awarded Category 1 CME and MOC Part 2 credit by the ABP.
Paul V. Miles Fellowship
This fellowship, which ended in 2021, was established in 2013 to honor Paul V. Miles, MD, for his years of service as Senior Vice President for Maintenance of Certification and Quality at the ABP until his retirement in 2013. The fellowship was awarded annually to an individual who demonstrated excellence in improving the quality of care for children through published research or through leadership in quality improvement efforts. Nominations of early-to-mid career individuals were solicited by the ABP Maintenance of Certification Committee.
The fellowship included a cash award, a trip to the ABP offices in Chapel Hill, NC, to help inform the ABP’s work in continuing certification, and Grand Rounds at neighboring academic medical centers.
PVM Fellows from 2013-2021 were:
- 2021: Keila N. Lopez, MD
- 2020: Ulfat Shaikh, MD, MPH, MS
- 2019: Gary Frank, MD, MS
- 2018: Elizabeth (Cason) Benton, MD
- 2017: Matthew D. Garber, MD, FHM, FAAP
- 2016: Jeffrey B. Anderson, MD, MPH, MBA
- 2014/2015: Marlene Miller, MD, MSc and Brad C. Weselman, MD
- 2013: Paul Sharek, MD, MPH