Celebrating Excellence in Healthcare Quality

ISQua’s awards spotlight the professionals and organisations driving progress in patient safety and healthcare improvement around the world.

Awarding the People Making Healthcare Better

Our awards honour individuals and institutions that have shown exceptional leadership, innovation, and dedication to quality improvement and patient safety. Whether through lifelong service, groundbreaking research, or outstanding contributions to our mission, we recognise their change-making efforts.

Life Membership Award

The ISQua Life Membership Award is reserved for those whose long-term service, expertise, and achievements have made a lasting impact on the field of healthcare quality – and on ISQua itself.

Name	Country
Brian Johnston	Australia
Bruce Barraclough	Australia
Chris Brook RIP	Australia
John Best	Australia
Lee Tregloan RIP	Australia
Peter Carter	Australia
Stephen Clark	Australia
Phil Hassen	Canada
Elma Heidemann	Canada
Triona Fortune	Ireland
Austin Leahy	Ireland
Roisin Boland RIP	Ireland
Evert Reerink	Netherlands
Rosa Sunol	Spain
Jacqui Stewart	South Africa
Ferdinand Siem Tjam	Switzerland
Charles D Shaw RIP	UK
David Bates	USA
Heather Palmer	USA
John Helfrick	USA
William Jessee	USA
Sheila Leatherman	USA
M. Rashad Massoud	USA
Hannu Vuori	Vietnam
Shin Ushiro	Japan

Presidential Citation for Distinguished Services

This award honours outstanding contributions to ISQua’s mission and the advancement of healthcare quality. Since 2019, it has united our two top recognitions – the Presidential Citation and the Distinguished Service Award – into one prestigious honour.

Name	Country	Year
Shelia Leatherman	USA	2019
Janne Lehmann Knudsen	Denmark	2019
Clifford Hughes	Australia	2020
Wendy Nicklin	Canada	2022
Health Care Accreditation Council (HCAC)	Jordan	2023
Eugene Nelson	USA	2024
Helen Haskell	UK	2025

Distinguished Service Award

Our Distinguished Services Award is bestowed on individuals for their contribution to the the achievement of ISQua’s mission.

Name	Country	Year
Barbara Donaldson	New Zealand	2008
Chris Brook RIP	Australia	2009
Thomas Perneger	Switzerland	2009
Helene Beaard	Netherlands	2013
Paul van Ostenberg	USA	2015
Rosa Sunol	Spain	2015
Bruce Barraclough	Australia	2016
Rene Amalberti	France	2018

Presidential Citation

Presented in recognition of valuable and dedicated contributions to ISQua.

Name	Country	Year
Eric Schneider	USA	2014
Duncan Inverarity	Ireland	2016

The ReizensteinAward

Named after ISQua’s first president and founding journal editor, the Reizenstein Award recognises the best research paper published annually in the International Journal for Quality in Health Care.

Paper Title	Authors	Published Year
Co-design of an intervention to improve patient participation in discharge medication communication Learn More	Georgia Tobiano, Sharon Latimer, Elizabeth Manias, Andrea P Marshall, Megan Rattray, Kim Jenkinson, Trudy Teasdale, Kellie Wren, and Wendy Chaboyer	2024
Is primary care a patient-safe setting? Prevalence, severity, nature, and causes of adverse events: numerous and mostly avoidable Learn More	Gerardo Garzón González, Tamara Alonso Safont, Ester Zamarrón Fraile, Asunción Cañada Dorado, Arancha Luaces Gayan, Dolores Conejos Míquel, Cristina Villanueva Sanz, Oscar Aguado Arroyo, Juan José Jurado Balbuena, Marta Castelo Jurado, Purificación Magán Tapia, Aurora Barberá Martín, María José Toribio Vicente, Mercedes Drake Canela, Diego San José Saras, and Inmaculada Mediavilla Herrera	2023
A regional approach to reduce postoperative opioid prescribing in Ontario, Canada Learn More	Mondher Letaief, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Sheila Leatherman, Alaa A. Sayed, Aziz Sheikh, and Sameen Siddiqi.	2022
Implementation research on measuring quality in primary care: balancing national needs with learning from the Eastern Mediterranean Region Learn More	Mondher Letaief, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Sheila Leatherman, Alaa A. Sayed, Aziz Sheikh, and Sameen Siddiqi.	2021
The 40 health systems, COVID-19 (40HS, C-19) study Learn More	Jeffrey Braithwaite, Yvonne Tran, Louise A. Ellis, and Johanna Westbrook.	2020
Quality of care in six sub-Saharan Africa countries: a provider-based study on adherence to WHO’s antenatal care guideline Learn More	Patrick Opiyo Owili, Miriam Adoyo Muga, Bomar Rojas Mendez, and Bradley Chen.	2019
Are root cause analyses recommendations effective and sustainable? Learn More	P. Hibbert, Matthew J.W. Thomas, Anita Deakin, William B. Runciman, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Stephanie Lomax, Jonathan Prescott, Glenda Gorrie, Amy Szczygielski, Tanja Surwald, and Catherine Fraser.	2018
Honourable Mention: Patient and hospital characteristics that influence incidence of adverse events in acute public hospitals in Portugal: a retrospective cohort study Learn More	Paulo Sousa, António Sousa Uva, Florentino Serranheira, Mafalda Sousa Uva, Carla Nunes	2018
A multifaceted quality improvement strategy reduces the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infection Learn More	Cecelia N. Theobald, Matthew J. Resnick, Thomas Spain, Robert S. Dittus, & Christianne L. Roumie	2017
Attitudes towards accreditation among hospital employees in Denmark: a cross-sectional survey Learn More	Lars Holger Ehlers, Morten Berg Jensen, Katherina Beltoft Simonsen, Gitte Sand Rasmussen, and Jeffrey Braithwaite	2017
The effect of peer review on mortality rates Learn More	W. Krahwinkel, E. Schuler, M. Liebetrau, A. Meier-Hellmann, J. Zacher, R. Kuhlen, for HELIOS Medical Board and HELIOS Working Group on Peer Reviewing	2016
Compliance with hospital accreditation and patient mortality: a Danish nationwide population‐based study Learn More	Anne Mette Falstie-Jensen, Heidi Larsson, Erik Hollnagel, Mette Nørgaard, Marie Louise Overgaard Svendsen, Søren Paaske Johnsen	2015
Is quality improvement sustainable? Findings of the American college of cardiology’s guidelines applied in practice Learn More	Adesuwa B. Olomu, Manfred Stommel, Margaret M. Holmes-Rovner, Andrew R. Prieto, William D. Corser, Venu Gourineni, Kim A. Eagle	2014
Associations of patient safety outcomes with models of nursing care organization at unit level in hospitals Learn More	Carl-Ardy Dubois, Danielle D’amour, Eric Tchouaket, Sean Clarke, Michèle Rivard, Régis Blais	2013

Get International Recognition for Your Work

ISQua Healthcare Quality Awards

Join ISQua and position yourself as a trusted voice in healthcare quality. Members gain access to exclusive journals, publish and present on global stages, and build the professional credibility needed to lead real change.

Dr Subhrojyoti Bhowmick

I am an MBBS graduate from Calcutta University with a Gold Medal in Gynecology & Obstetrics.

I have completed M.D in Pharmacology from IPGME& R, Kolkata and have over 12 years of experience in the field of Clinical Research, Pharmacovigilance and Medication management in Hospitals.

I have completed certification in Clinical Research Administration & Project Management from Stanford University, USA and in Patient Safety from Johns Hopkins University, USA.

I am an Assessor for National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Health care providers (NABH), India assessing hospitals for medication safety and clinical quality standards and NABH Assessor for Ethics Committee Accreditation program in India as well.

I serve as the Chairperson, Institutional Ethics Committee of Health Point Hospital, Kolkata and am associated with 2 other Hospital ethics committees as a member.

I finished my Fellowship in Healthcare Quality from the International Society of Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) from Ireland in 2017.

I have published several research articles and have also authored a chapter on “Regulations governing Clinical Trial” in the book “Fundamentals of Clinical Trial & Research”.

I am a peer reviewer for prestigious international journals like the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, CNS Drugs and Drug Safety case reports.

I am the recipient of the UK Seth Oration Award for Best Clinical Pharmacology paper by the Indian Pharmacological Society in 2009 and the “Most promising Healthcare professional in Patient Safety in India” award by the Asian African Chamber of Commerce and Industry in October 2018.

Recently in April 2019, I received the Young Quality Achiever award by Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organizations (CAHO), India for 2019 for my work in the field of medication safety and clinical research.

I have a keen interest in teaching and am visiting adjunct faculty of Pharmacology at KMC, Mangalore, India and for Healthcare technology at MAKAUT, Kolkata, India.

I was associated with Stanford University School of Medicine, in the USA as a Senior Clinical Research Associate from 2015 to 2017 and have certification in Biostatistics, Evidence-based Medicine and Medical Writing from Stanford University.

Currently, I am working as the Clinical Director of Academics, Medical Quality and Clinical Research at Peerless Hospital and B K Roy Research Centre, Kolkata.

I am very happy and thrilled to receive the prestigious ISQua Lucian Leape Patient safety Fellowship Award for 2019 and I look forward to honing my skills further in the field of healthcare quality and patient safety through my experiences during this fellowship.

I sincerely believe that successful completion of this fellowship will help me evolve as a more confident Patient safety leader in India who in turn can provide significant inputs on policy changes through NABH for the Indian healthcare system.

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Celebrating Excellence in Healthcare Quality

Awarding the People Making Healthcare Better

Life Membership Award

Presidential Citation for Distinguished Services

Distinguished Service Award

Presidential Citation

The ReizensteinAward

ISQua Healthcare Quality Awards

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Dr Subhrojyoti Bhowmick