APSR / J Patrick Barron Medical Education Young Investigator Award

This annual Award is offered for the best Medical Education paper accepted for presentation at the APSR Congress in Hanoi 14–17 November 2019.

This is a new APSR Award to honour the huge contribution made by the late Professor Barron, a founding member of the APSR, and hard worker in enabling the APTA and the APSR to fulfil their Mission and Vision.

Very sadly, J Patrick Barron passed away on Saturday 17 August 2019 at the age of 71.

He was Professor Emeritus at Tokyo Medical University and Adjunct Professor at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.

Professor Barron was also an editorial board member for Chest and an editor or an editorial consultant for a wide range of journals including Respirology, Secretary General of the World Association for Bronchology, Vice President of the World Bronchology Federation, Secretary General of the International Photodynamic Association which he had helped to found, Vice Chairman of the Board of the Japanese Society for Medical English Education, and founder of The Medical Interpreters and Translators Association.

He was a consultant for the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus for 32 years since its founding, and also a consultant to the International College of Surgeons Japan Chapter, director of several medical societies, and ex officio member of the Executive Committee of the APSR.

Award includes:

• $500 (funded by office bearers and friends of APSR and APTA)
• Invitation to the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) at the Congress
• Commemorative certificate

Eligibility:

The awardee must be:

• An APSR member (en bloc or individual)
• Aged ≤40 at the start of the Congress
• The First Author and able to present the paper in person at the Congress
• Not a winner of any other award for the same paper
• Registered for the Congress by the abstract submission deadline

Award presentation:

• The certificate will be presented during the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) at the Congress. Where the paper has more than one author, the certificate will be in the name of all the paper's authors.
• The US$500 award will be passed to the First Author by the APSR Secretariat.
• The awardee's name and photograph will appear on the APSR website, Bulletin and social media after the Congress.

Post-congress requirements:

• In accepting the award, the awardee is required to send their report (circa 500 words) of their experience at the Congress to the APSR Secretariat within one month after the Congress. The report may be published in the APSR Bulletin and/or Newsletter.