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Thomas A. Hazinski Distinguished Service Award

Established by the SPR Council in 2002, the Thomas A. Hazinski Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has provided exceptional, long-term service to the Society for Pediatric Research® (SPR). This award celebrates dedicated leadership, commitment, and contributions that have advanced SPR’s mission and strengthened the pediatric research community.

Selection Process

Nominees are identified and recipients are selected by the SPR Council
This award is presented annually at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Meeting

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Current Recipient

SPR is pleased to announce that Todd Florin, MD, MSCE, has been named the 2026 Thomas A. Hazinski Distinguished Service Award recipient. This prestigious award recognizes Dr. Florin’s outstanding service to SPR. Dr. Florin is Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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Todd Florin, MD, MSCE
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

2025 | Shetal Shah, Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital, New York Medical College
2024 | Hannah C. Glass, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital
2023 | David Hunstad, Washington University School of Medicine
2022 | Michelle A. Gill, Washington University
2021 | Anna Penn, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2020 | No awardee: PAS 2020 was cancelled.
2019 | Carlton Bates, University of Pittsburgh
2018 |Kate Ackerman, University of Rochester
2017 | Vivek Balasubramanian, University of Wisconsin/American Family Children’s Hospital
2016 | Kate Culliton, APS/SPR Central Office
2015 | Catherine Gordon, Hasbro Children’s Hospital and Brown University
and Barbara Anagnostelis, APS/SPR Central Office
2014 | Thomas P. Shanley, MICHR
2013 | Elena Fuentes-Afflick, University of California, San Francisco
2012 | Jana M. Wells, SPR Central Office
2011 | Charles V. (Skip) Smith, Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute
2010 | Alan H. Jobe, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
2009 | Gail Demmler-Harrison, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital
2008 | Karen Hendricks
2007 | Kathy A. Cannon, APS/SPR Central Office
2006 | Thomas Hazinski, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
2005 | Samuel Hawgood, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco
2004 | Thomas N. Hansen, Children’s Hospital
2003 | Myron Genel, Yale University
2002 | Debbie Anagnostelis, APS/SPR Central Office