Clinician Champion Award

The Clinician Champion Award honors a person involved in patient care and who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas: ensuring newborns receive adequate screening and appropriate follow-up; assuring timely and effective communication of screening results to patients and families; and/or contributing to efforts to strengthen the impact of the public health newborn screening system by being directly involved in follow-up care, community affairs, newborn screening advocacy and/or community activities.

Formal recognition for this award takes place at the APHL Newborn Screening Symposium.