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 two selected winners 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 during a session on the final day of the meeting.
Award finalists will be notified in mid-June. Monetary awards are provided to the first place winner and to the runner up presenter of the JNC award, and to the first-place presenters of the NI award in Research and Clinical categories. 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 2024, 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 session during the 2025 HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
Nursing Investigator Awards
- Nursing Investigator Award – Research: This award recognizes outstanding and innovative research in the field of heart failure by a nurse researcher. A review committee will choose up to five finalists.
- Nursing Investigator Award – Clinical: This award recognizes outstanding and innovative nurses in the field of heart failure by that are active in clinical nursing research. Up to five finalists are chosen.
Eligibility: Candidates must be a nurse investigator or a student in an accredited nursing program and 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 the two winners to be determined before the meeting. Instructions will be sent via email. The two winners will be notified by mid-August and will present their submissions in an oral presentation during a special nursing focused session during the 2025 HFSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
