Subcommittee on Awards and Recognition
Standard Submission and Selection Guidelines:
William Crosby: Superiority in Research Award
I. Establishment Date and Authority: The Army Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) established the William Crosby: Superiority in Research Award 1 July, 1998. It is fashioned after the American College of Physicians Award for Outstanding Work by the National ACP membership as listed in the publication ACP Awards and Masterships, 1998-99.
II. Name and Purpose of the Award:The Superiority in Research Award is designed to honor a member, fellow, or master of the Army Chapter of the ACP who has demonstrated excellence in the design, performance, and publication of peer reviewed research which exemplifies the characteristics displayed by COL William Cosby MC (Retired). Research and publications with a direct military relevance will receive additional weighting during the review process. The recipient should be recognized in both the military and civilian academic community as having made significant contributions to the scientific literature. This award recognizes research as a pivotal requirement of the Army Internist.
COL Cosby is internationally recognized as an expert in Hematology and was instrumental in establishing the Army Blood Banking Fellowship, the blood research Detachment as well as the specialty of hematology at both WRAMC and WRAIR. He has published over 300 manuscripts and patented a capsule to sample the gastrointestinal tract for sprue as an example of his diversity in medicine. He was a Regimental Surgeon in World War II and published a series of manuscripts regarding large volume transfusions during the Korean Conflict to establish a critical mechanism for resuscitation with group O whole blood. His publications appeared in superior peer reviewed specialty and general medicine journals. Thus, COL Cosby's career exemplifies superior research with keen operational relevance, broad academic interests and contributions, excellence in academic medicine and dedicated service to the troops and the Army as a deployed Regimental Surgeon.
III. Selection Committee: The committee will be chaired by a member of the subcommittee of the Governor's Council for Awards and Recognition. Two other voting members of this committee will be senior members of the Governor's Council who have been selected by the chair of this award and approved by the chair of the Awards and Recognition subcommittee and Governor of the Army Chapter ACP.
IV. Objective Selection Criteria: The recipient must at one time have been a member of the Army Chapter of the ACP, although he/she need not be a member at the time of the nomination. Military rank is immaterial for nomination. Objectively, the recipient must have shown excellence in research as evidenced by 1) Publications in peer reviewed journals as of 30 September of the year of consideration, 2) Recognition as a subject matter expert (membership in national committees, invited lectures, chapter authorship, reviewer for peer reviewed journals, receipt of extramural funding, national awards for research), and 3) Successfully functioning as a mentor for younger researchers (teaching research, training fellows/residents, success of researchers trained by the mentor). A matrix format has been established with these criteria.
V. Dates of Award Advertisement, Submission and Presentation: The award will be presented in the form of a plaque and $250 honorarium each year at the annual Army Chapter of the ACP meeting. The award will be announced each year in the ACP newsletter that will appear approximately six months before the meeting. Future methods of advertisement will include electronic advertisement on the Internet ACP Army Chapter Web Page. Submission documentation must be received by 15 September for the fall meeting.
VI. Submission Instructions: The person placing the nomination will forward 1) a nominating letter of no more than 500 words which describes the three items listed above in section IV, 2) a current curriculum vitae of the candidate, which includes all the candidates peer-reviewed publications, and 3) abstracts ONLY (print outs from PubMed are acceptable) for all publications, when possible. This packet must reach the Chair of this award no later than 15 September for consideration in the current year. Nominations should be in Microsoft Word for easy distribution to committee members. The reprints of abstracts may be mailed separately or scanned into an electronic file and attached to an e-mail message. The nominations should be submitted to LTC Lisa Zacher.
VII. Scoring Matrix ![[PDF]](/graphics/new/pdf.gif){kind=small}
for the William Crosby Superiority in Research Award
VIII. Recent Recipients of the Award:
2008 |
LTC Stephen Harrison |
2007 |
COL Jeffrey Jackson |
2005 |
LTC Patrick G. O'Malley |
2004 |
LTC Duane Hospenthal |
2003 |
LTC(P) Kevin Abbott |
2002 |
COL (Ret) John Hess |
2001 |
Allen J. Taylor, LTC, MC |
2000 |
John C. Byrd, MAJ, MC |
1999 |
George C. Tsokos, LTC, MC |
1998 |
Nancy A. Dawson, COL, MC |
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