The GIA Awards for Excellence Competition is an annual, peer-reviewed competition that recognizes outstanding work by members of the Group on Institutional Advancement (GIA) and their staff. The awards honor the most creative and effective approaches used to promote academic medicine through alumni relations, communications, development, marketing, and public affairs/community relations programs and projects.
The 2024 GIA Awards for Excellence Competition is now closed. Please reach out to gia@aamc.org with any questions.
Interested in Submitting Your Work?
We want to recognize the outstanding work you’ve produced to help advance your institution to greatness. You’ve been responding to challenging times and, at the same time, creating innovative campaigns, writing articles, organizing alumni and community events, revamping your digital presence, and, most important, demonstrating the value of your institution to your community. Now is the time to show off your work and be recognized!
- Categories
- Entry Fee and Eligibility
- Components of an Entry
- 2024 Guidelines and Instructions (PDF)
- 2024 Frequently Asked Questions (PDF)
2023 GIA Awards for Excellence Winners
Best in Show Winner
- “UCLA In the Time of AIDS” by Dan Gordon, U Magazine; UCLA Health
Pandemic Pivot Winners
- “The Price” by Sandy Cohen, U Magazine; UCLA Health
- A Night at the Drive-In benefitting Levine Children's Hospital; Atrium Health
Crisis Management
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Bronze: UMMC Crisis Response to COVID-19 Delta Variant; University of Mississippi Medical Center
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
- Gold: Meeting the Healthcare Needs of Transgender People; Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Silver: University of Nebraska Medical Center - Wagaze: Empowering Ponca Youth Summit; University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Bronze: University of Utah Health – Marketing & Communications EDI Committee; University of Utah Health
Electronic Communications
Audio and Video
- Gold: A Little Help Goes a Long Way (A Video on Mental Health); Stanford University School of Medicine
- Silver: Match Day 2022: Back Together Again; Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
- Silver: Meet Me Where I Am; University of Utah Health
- Bronze: Lifesaving Transplant Leads to Transformative Gift; City of Hope
Websites
- Gold: Service in Action: Digital Storytelling about Penn Medicine’s Commitment to Equity; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Print and Digital Publishing
Single or Special Issues
- Gold: Winter 2022 Brigham Health Magazine: Standing Tall for Justice; Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Bronze: Facts & Figures 2022; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
External Audience
- Gold: Einstein Magazine, Summer/Fall 2021 and Winter/Spring 2022, Print and Digital Editions; Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Gold: Penn Medicine Magazine; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Bronze: Stanford Medicine Magazine; Stanford University School of Medicine
Internal Audience
- Gold: StanfordMed Pulse; Stanford University School of Medicine
- Silver: The PM Report; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Special Events, Projects, Programs, or Campaigns
- Silver: Pandemic Puzzle; Stanford University School of Medicine
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Bronze: MD: My Dream, My Decision – Ohio State; The Ohio State University College of Medicine
The Robert G. Fenley Writing Awards
Basic Science Staff Writing
- Bronze: “From angel to demon: Why some brain cells go ‘bad’” by Bruce Goldman; Stanford University School of Medicine
General Staff Writing
- Gold: “The Price” by Sandy Cohen, U Magazine; UCLA Health
- Silver: “The Good That Viruses Do” by Stephanie Dutchen; Harvard Medical School
- Bronze: “Bias Cut: The quest to dismantle race-based medicine” by Joy Howard; Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Bronze: “Tuesdays at the Love Lot” by Rachel Ewing and Daphne Sashin; Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Solicited Articles
- Gold: “UCLA In the Time of AIDS” by Dan Gordon, U Magazine; UCLA Health
- Gold: “Adventures of the Mind: Barbecue with Dad, dementia, and how our senses contribute to cognition” by Karl Lorenz; Stanford University School of Medicine
- Silver: "The Stradivari of Westwood" by Veronique de Turenne, U Magazine; UCLA Health
- Silver: “Timely Preservation” by Lacey Ann Johnson; Johns Hopkins Medicine
- Bronze: “Alzheimer’s Disease: Reasons for Hope” by Gary Goldenberg, Einstein Magazine, Winter/Spring 2022; Albert Einstein College of Medicine
News Releases
- Silver: “Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study” by Mandy Erickson; Stanford University School of Medicine
- Bronze: “Race of people given Alzheimer’s blood tests may affect interpretation of results” by Tamara Bhandari; Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
- Bronze: “The teen brain tunes in less to Mom’s voice, more to unfamiliar voices, study finds” by Erin Digitale; Stanford University School of Medicine
2023 Honorable Mention Winners
2023 Awards for Excellence Recap Videos
2023 GIA Awards for Excellence Judges