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Heidi Patriquin Fellowship Award for International Education

Introduction: This award is designed to subsidize the SPR meeting attendance expenses of Pediatric Radiologists who practice outside of North America. This Fellowship award was developed in recognition of Dr. Heidi Patriquin's commitment to international education. The first award was in 2003.
Award specifications: The annual Patriquin fellowship award will be capped at $3,000. Pediatric Radiologists who reside and practice outside of North America, who seek to attend the SPR Annual Meeting and need financial support to do so, are eligible candidates for the Patriquin Fellowship. One individual will be funded per year.
Priority is given to eligible applicants who have never attended an SPR meeting.
The annual application submission deadline is October 15th. Decisions are communicated the first week of December.
2020-21 UPDATE: Because of the cancellation of the 2020 SPR meeting, the 2020 Patriquin awardees will redeem their awards in 2021 at the IPR meeting in Rome. Therefore, there will be no call for applications for the 2021 award. The Foundation Board will consider applications for the 2022 award in 2021.

Application Process

As we welcome the 2020 Patriquin awardees to the IPR 2021 meeting in Rome, no new applications are called for for the 2021 awards. Applications will be accepted in the until the summer of 2021 for the 2022 SPR meeting.
The Fellowship application and award deadline is October 15th, the year prior to the applicable SPR meeting. The applicant shall complete the online form that includes the submission of his or her CV , a personal statement and a letter of support from department chair or other official from the home institution.

The application process is peer-reviewed by the Board of Trustees of the Foundation and the decisions announced in early December.

Applicants are encouraged to submit a poster or paper for presentation at the annual meeting in the established abstract submission process and deadline.

Materials are to be submitted by email to the SPR office via this online form.

Questions about the process can be addressed to:

Jennifer K. Boylan, MA, Managing Director, The SPR Research & Education Foundation
jboylan@acr.org

The Heidi Patriquin Fund

Dr. Heidi Patriquin's friends and colleagues, led by Dr. Diane Babcock at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, established the Fund for this award in her memory. The inaugural award was granted for the 2003 SPR meeting.

The SPR Research and Education Foundation Board encourages members interested in supporting international outreach to donate to the Heidi Patriquin Fund.

Patriquin Fellowship Awardees

Institutions listed were current at the time of the Fellowship. Printable list here.
		2019 Fathia Omer Salah, MD, Black Lion Hospital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	2019 Sundar Suwal, MD, University Teaching Hospital Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal
2018 Bernadette Wambui Muthee, MD Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi, Kenya	2017 Faizah Mohd Zaki, MD Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	2017 Hatíce Ariöz Habíbí, MD Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Istanbul University Turkey	2016 Daniel Zewdneh Solomon, MD Addis Ababa University Ethiopia	2016 Vikas Yadav, MD Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India	2015 Waseem Akhtar Mirza, MBBS Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan
2015 Nasreen Mahomed, MBBCh Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa	2014 Nneka Iloanusi, MBBS University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital	2014 Beatrice Mulama, MBChB Kenyatta National Hospital	2013 Regina Nava, MD, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines	2013 Olubukola A.Omidiji, MBBS University of Lagos Nigeria	2012 Yocabel Gorfu, MD The Black Lion Hospital, Addis Ababa University Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2012 Jeska Wambani Sidika MBchB Kenyatta National Hospital Nairobi, Kenya	2011 Kushaljit S. Sodhi, MD Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research Chandigarh, India	2010 Omolola Mojisola Atalabi, MD University of Ibadan Nigeria	2009 Ahmed Mussa Jusabani, MD Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre Moshi Town, Tanzania	2008 Rolando Reyna Lopez, MD Hospital Santo Tomas Panama City, Panama	2007 Nathan D. P. Concepcion, MD Marikina City, Philippines
2006 Pannee Visrutaratna, MD Chiang Mai, Thailand	2006 Juana Maria Vallejo, MD Bogota, Colombia	2006 Hakima Al-Hashimi, MD Manama, Bahrain	2005 Luy Lyda, MD Angkor Hospital for Children Siem Reap, Cambodia	2004 Berlin Melissa Go, MD Makati Medical Center Makati City, The Philippines	2003 Kassa Darge, MD, PhD University of Wurzburg Germany

2007 - Nathan D. P. Concepcion, MD
Marikina City, Philippines