Award Categories
HFSA offers two investigator award competitions associated with its annual meeting. These awards are to recognize research excellence in young trainees and investigators. Finalists of the JNC Award and the selected winner and runner up of the Nursing Investigator Award will present their work orally in scientific sessions during the Annual Scientific Meeting. The winner and runner up of the JNC Award are announced live immediately after their presentation session.
Award finalists will be notified in June. Monetary awards are provided to the first place winner and to the runner up presenter of the JNC award, and to the winners of the Nursing Investigator award. All award finalists receive complimentary registration to the Annual Scientific Meeting.
Note: Case Studies and Performance Improvement Initiative abstracts are not eligible for awards.
Jay N. Cohn New Investigator Award – Basic Science/Clinical
Eligibility: Candidates must have completed training no earlier than 2025, be first author, and have played a major role in the research study being submitted. Finalists must present their research results in an oral presentation in the JNCNI award sessions during the 2026 HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
Nursing Investigator Award
Emerging Nursing Investigator Award: This award recognizes exceptional and innovative work in scientific research or quality improvement/evidence-based practice (QI/EBP) related to heart failure. Eligible applicants include nurse scientists, nurse researchers, and nurses engaged in clinical research. Up to five finalists will be selected.by that are active in clinical nursing research. Up to five finalists are chosen.
Eligibility: Candidates must be a nurse researcher or emerging nurse scholar within five years of the applicant’s terminal nursing degree (e.g., BSN, DNP, PhD, MSN, MS) or currently enrolled in an advanced (ie, DNP/PhD) nursing degree program, and the first author and presenter of the abstract submitted. Candidate cannot be a member of the HFSA Nursing Award Committee. Previous finalists for this award are ineligible. Individuals cannot apply for both the Clinical Excellence in Nursing and Nursing Research Awards in the same year. Finalists will record and submit their presentations in advance, with a winner and runner up to be determined before the meeting. Instructions will be sent via email. The winner and runner up will be notified by mid-August and will present their submissions in an oral presentation during a special nursing focused session during the 2026 HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
