2026 Clinical Excellence Awards

Paralyzed Veterans of America’s Clinical Excellence Awards recognizes and honors peer-nominated Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Clinicians who demonstrate excellence among their professional peers.

Six award winners will receive an all-expenses-paid conference package (registration, hotel, and travel expense) to attend the 2026 PVA Healthcare Summit + Expo in Las Vegas, NV, where they will be presented with their award and celebrated for their exceptional care.

*Any clinician working with SCI/D patients can be nominated. Previous Nominees can resubmit. *

Nomination Instructions & Eligibility Criteria

Nominate your professional peer or clinician who has demonstrated excellence and success by measurably advancing care delivery and promoting change for people with SCI, ALS, and MS through clinical practice or scientific achievement.

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Explain why you are nominating this clinician!

Describe how the nominee’s training and experience supports coworkers, patients, and/or caregivers and enacts change in care delivery through clinical practice or scientific achievement (limit: 100 words).

Describe how the nominee’s leadership skills leads to improvement within the health care team or in the lives of people living with SCI/D and/or their caregivers (limit: 100 words).

Describe how the nominee’s innovation has led to new ideas and initiatives for the health care team, developed new programs, or delivered unconventional solutions to care delivery challenges (limit: 100 words).

Describe how the nominee’s dedication makes him or her readily accessible to patients, the health care team, and advocates or volunteers outside of their work place for those people living with SCI/D and/or their caregivers (limit: 100 words).

Describe how the nominee’s professional achievement has improved patient outcomes or patient safety by providing evidence-based practice education to other SCI/D professionals, the community, and/or patients (limit: 100 words).

If you have further information to share, please upload it in a Word Document or PDF here (optional).

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