Nominations for our 2025 James Spence Medal are now closed.
About
The James Spence Medal is presented to persons working in the UK or in any country of the British Commonwealth within the field of clinical or social paediatrics, public health, clinical science, epidemiology or family practice.
The award is made on the recommendation of RCPCH Council on the advice of the Nominations Committee, and presented at the RCPCH Conference along with a volume of the collected writings of Sir James Spence.
Nominations
Nominations for our James Spence Medal 2025 are now closed.
We thank all nominators for their submissions, and we will be in touch in due course.
Nominations for the James Spence Medal can only be proposed and seconded by RCPCH members (any category).
We thank all nominators for their submissions, and we will be in touch in due course.
Recent winners
2024 - Professor Andrew Bush
2023 - Professor David Edwards
2022 - Professor Imtiaz Choonara and Professor Sir Andrew Pollard
2021 - Professor Henry Halliday
2020 - Professor Catherine Law
2019 - Professor Alan Emond
2018 - Professor Frances Cowan
2017 - Professor Anne Greenough
2016 - Professor Kate Costeloe and Professor Sir Terence Stephenson
2015 - Professor David Dunger
2014 - Emeritus Professor Ieuan Hughes
2013 - Professor Sir Albert Aynsley Green
2012 - Dr Sheila Shribman
2011 - Professor Anthony Costello and Professor Andrew Wilkinson
2010 - Emeritus Professor Malcolm Levene