It’s our pleasure to announce the lengthy checklist of nominees for the 2025 ACAMH Awards.
Congratulations to all nominees for making it on the longlist. To be nominated for an ACAMH Award is a prestigious recognition of those that are on the forefront of the development of kid and adolescent psychological well being analysis and observe.
The usual of this yr’s nominations was very good and will probably be narrowed right down to a shortlist by a panel of specialists within the subject of kid and adolescent psychological well being. The shortlist will probably be introduced within the coming months. The Awards will probably be introduced at a digital ceremony in October 2025.
Congratulations to all of the 2025 nominees.
Educator Award
David Cottrell ‘Training of CAMH Professionals’
Nomination standards: Somebody who has had a major influence upon the training or coaching of kid and adolescent psychological well being professionals. That is open to all disciplines, however training or coaching should relate to youngsters’s psychological well being.
- Mrs. Susie Grady, Chartered Society of Physiotherapists in Psychological Healthcare
Committee - Dr. Bettina Hohnen, Non-public observe and UCL
- Tomas Miño Landon, Hablemos de TOC
- Mrs. Lauren Macfarlane And Mrs. Kirsten Malcolm, NHS Higher Glasgow and Clyde
- Professor Roopesh Nagaraj, Nationwide Institute of Psychological Well being and Neuro Sciences
- Mr. Kenneth Nathan, Interventions Plus
- Dr. Kiran Nijabat, Household Wellness Apply
- Dr. Brett J. Novick, Rutgers College/College of Phoenix
- Mrs. Bosede Oyelakin, Blaze Well being Basis
- Dr. Victor Pereira-Sanchez, Columbia College
- Ms. Angela Taylor, Supporting Group Collectively
Digital Innovation Awards
Analysis on Digital Influence
Nomination standards: A researcher who has revealed one of the best paper on an data/information/IT/digital subject referring to baby and adolescent psychological well being, which might embody on-line evaluation improvements.
- Bach Le, Excessive Schooler Tells Excessive Schoolers
- The Co-CAT Examine Staff, College of Oxford
- Professor Harriet Over, College of York
- Dr. Gabriela Pavarini, College of Oxford
- Professor Kapil Sayal, Psychological Well being and Scientific Neurosciences, College of Medication, College of Nottingham
Digital Intervention
Nomination standards: A clinician who has put proof base into observe throughout the data/information/IT/digital fields of kid and adolescent psychological well being. This may very well be the usage of data or applied sciences within the supply of care or service design and so forth.
- Mr. John Campbell-O’Brien, ANP ADHD Pathway, HSE CAMHS, Built-in Well being Areas of Dublin North County and Dublin North Metropolis and West
- Dr. Eleanor Leigh, College of Oxford
- Mrs. Helen McGlinchey, Northpoint
- Professor John Weisz, Harvard Lab for Youth Psychological Well being
Analysis Into Apply
Eric Taylor ‘Translational Analysis Into Apply’
Nomination standards: A person with a sustained contribution to translating analysis into observe over quite a few years, whose work includes each analysis, and both scientific or academic involvement in observe. And/or a researcher or clinician who has revealed translational science (proof base into observe) with proof of influence on scientific service provision. This might contain the institution of recent interventions, or enchancment of current ones, with proof of influence on scientific service provision.
- Dr. Anna Basu, Newcastle College and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Basis Belief
- Professor Cathy Creswell, College of Oxford
- Professor David Daley, Nottingham Trent College
- Dr. Hanni Flaherty, Yeshiva College & Hanni Flaherty, LCSW PC
- Dr. Nicky Greaves, Hillingdon Manor College
- Professor Charles Hulme, Oxford Brookes College
- RN, PMHCNS, BC Michael Laferny, Healthdrive
- Prof. Dr. Andrea Pousada-Fitzpatrick, Omnia Psychological Well being Clinic
- Professor Sinead Rhodes, College of Edinburgh
Rising Star Award
Kathy Sylva ‘Rising Star’ Award
Nomination standards: Please observe that this award can’t be self nominated. Open to any one who has made a major scientific contribution to baby and adolescent psychological well being literature, inside 10 years of their first peer reviewed journal publication.
- Dr. Anka Berhard, Technical College Dresden
- Dr. Josefien Breedvelt, King’s School London
- Dr. Chloe Chessell, College of Oxford
- Mr. Charles Ganaprakasam, Ministry of Training
- Prof. Dr. Diego Gomez-Baya, College of Huelva (Spain)
- Dr. Anna Gui, College of Rome Tor Vergata
- Dr. Thornhildur Hallsdorsdottir, Reykjavik College
- Dr. Nagina Khan, College of Kent
- Dr. Alex Kwong, College of Edinburgh
- Dr. Gonzalo Salazar De Pablo, King’s School London
- Dr. Xinxin Zhu, College of Edinburgh
Trainee Awards
Postgraduate Analysis Trainee of the 12 months
Nomination standards: Trainee or pupil who’s lower than two years put up PhD who has proven initiative or made a major contribution to baby and adolescent psychological well being.
- Dr. Amelia Austin, College of Calgary
- Dr. Zarah Eve, Pennine Care NHS Basis Belief
- Dr. Nina Higson-Sweeney, College of Tub / College of Oxford
- Ms. Sylvia Lin, Murdoch Youngsters’s Analysis Institute; Deakin College
- Dr. Miriam Martini, Institute of Environmental Medication, Karolinska Institutet
- Ms. Thida Soun, Jayavaraman VII Hospital
- Dr. Nora Trompeter, UCL
- Ms Arushee Wahi, Division of Scientific Psychology, NIMHANS
- Dr. Afreen Waseem, GITAM College
- Dr. Valerio Zaccaria, Sapienza College of Rome
Analysis Trainee of the 12 months
Nomination standards: Open to any particular person enterprise postgraduate coaching as a practitioner working with youngsters in relation to psychological well being from any background (e.g. scientific psychology, academic psychology, baby and adolescent psychiatry). This might embody candidates presently in a scientific coaching working in the direction of an expert qualification, or educating, for instance, a person enterprise an MEd who is ready to display a transparent dedication to evidence-based scientific observe.
- Dr. Victor Pereira-Sanchez, Columbia College
- Katherine Venturo-Conerly, Harvard College
Scientific Trainee of the 12 months
Nomination standards: Open to a person enterprise their first qualification as a practitioner working with youngsters in relation to psychological well being from any background (e.g. nursing, social work, occupational remedy, physio) and dealing in the direction of a scientific qualification and who demonstrates a transparent dedication to proof based mostly scientific observe.
- Mr. Harry Barker, College of Cambridge
- Mr. Lauren Hitchcock, ChARM Staff, College of Cambridge
- Mr. Sangwoo Richard Jung, King’s School London
- Ms. Holly Platt, ChARM Staff, College of Cambridge
- Ms. Mereena Varghese, RaK’s Pallikkoodam
Staff Awards
Lionel Hersov Memorial Award
Nomination standards: A observe crew that has demonstrated the usage of proof base (analysis, audit or service analysis) into scientific observe. Or a crew that has evaluated the result or measures both the scientific influence or demonstrated high quality enchancment (may be efficiencies of time, cash or diminished ‘waste’). The nominations will probably be accepted from researchers, investigators, clinicians, and educationalists.
- Plymouth Multi-Company Ecotherapy Collective, Plymouth Metropolis Council
- RE-STAR Educational Researchers (Ars) and its Youth Researcher Panel (Y-RP), Kings, UCL, Anna Freud and Central
- Little Warriors, Be Courageous Ranch, Canada
- Younger Individuals’s Psychological Well being Analysis Centre, Pennine Care NHS Basis Belief
- The Academic Psychology Service, States of Guernsey
Revolutionary Analysis, Coaching or Apply in Low and Center Revenue International locations (LMICs)
Nomination standards: Staff based mostly in a rustic categorized by the World Financial institution as LMICs* within the previous yr, and whose work contain analysis, scientific or academic actions in that nation. The work reveals innovation in analysis, coaching, or observe/service supply in baby and adolescent psychological well being.
- Pakistan Affiliation of Cognitive Therapists and DilKiBaat
- The Social Smarts Staff, DevHub Heart for Intervention, Philippines
- Nambikai Nilayam, Little one and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, Division of Psychiatry, Christian Medical School Vellore India
- Ndinewe Basis, Harare, Zimbabwe
- Psychological Wellbeing and Sports activities (MeWeSports), Sangath, India
- The College Initiative for Psychological Well being Advocacy (SIMHA), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
- RCPsych & GCPS CAP Module Staff, Royal School of Psychiatrists, Glasgow and Ghana
* Eligible nations; Afghanistan, Angola, Algeria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Micronesia, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vietnam, West Financial institution and Gaza, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Different awards to be introduced on the digital ceremony
- Little one and Adolescent Psychological Well being Journal Finest Paper
- Journal of Little one Psychology and Psychiatry Journal Finest Paper
- JCPP Advances Finest Paper
