Awards and Honors

NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS FOR 2021 AWARDS!

It is that time of year again to recognize our colleagues that have gone over and above to support and further the profession of FertilityCare. Please nominate your colleagues in the five AWARD categories below before April 15, 2021. They must meet certain criteria. 

Outstanding Medical Consultant

Must be certified by the AAFCP and a Voting member of the Academy. Has a current medical practice that is FertilityCare only and includes a substantial component of providing services in NaProTECHNOLOGY to patients using an accredited model of FertilityCare. Has made an outstanding contribution to FertilityCare through service, education and/or research in at least one of the following ways:

  • Actively served as a medical director or consultant to an accredited FertilityCare Service Program
  • Served as core faculty for an accredited FertilityCare Program
  • Is the principal investigator of practice-based FertilityCare research that has been published in a recognized professional journal
  • Has given extensive medical support to FertilityCare Practitioners either locally, or long-distance program
  • Has given talks promoting FertilityCare to health professionals
  • Maintains very active involvement in FertilityCare under adverse conditions

Anyone can nominate individuals for this award.

Outstanding FertilityCare Practitioner/Instructor

Individuals recommended for this award must meet the following criteria:

  • Is a Certified FertilityCare Practitioner or Instructor
  • Is a Voting member of the Academy
  • Has a current practice in FertilityCare, i.e. has taught Creighton Model FertilityCare to at least 10 couples in the past year
  • Has made an outstanding contribution to FertilityCare through service, education, and/or research
  • Examples of outstanding contributions are the following:
    • Developed and/or administrates an accredited FertilityCare service program
    • Developed and/or administrates an accredited FertilityCare education program
    • Is the principal investigator of practice based FertilityCare research that has been published in a recognized professional journal
    • Maintains a large FertilityCare practice under adverse conditions

Anyone can nominate individuals for this award.

FertilityCare Professionals of Excellence Award

Purpose: To formally recognize outstanding contributions made by a present or past Voting/Active member in the advancement of FertilityCare through service, education, and/or research. Individuals recommended for this award must:

  • Have been an Active/Voting member of the Academy for 10 or more years
  • Meet one or more of the following criteria:
    • Participated in public speaking, presenting public talks promoting the Creighton Model FertilityCare System
    • Been directly involved in outreach
    • Current or past AAFCP Committee Chairman
    • Current or past AAFCP Board Member
    • May be retired

Anyone can nominate individuals for this award.

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Hall of Fame Award

To honor deceased and/or retired persons who have made a major contribution to FertilityCare or NFP and to inform members of the historical background of NFP. Individuals recommended for this award must have made a major impact on the development, promotion, or understanding of NFP by one or more of the following:

  • Developed or refined a major method of NFP
  • Published books or articles on FertilityCare or NFP
  • Conducted and published significant research on FertilityCare or NFP
  • Made a significant contribution to the promotion of FertilityCare or NFP throughout the world
  • Is deceased, or has retired from his/her major professional career for at least five years
  • A Voting member of the Academy

Only Voting members can nominate individuals for this award. The link to submit this nomination is on the Member Portal Dashboard for Voting members within the rotating badge menu to the right of the screen.

Honorary Award

Purpose: To formally recognize an individual who has made a major impact on the field of FertilityCare or NFP through service, education, and/or research. Individuals recommended for this award must meet at least one of the following criteria:

  • Make an outstanding contribution to FertilityCare or NFP through national or international service, education, and/or research
  • Served as the principal investigator of practice based FertilityCare

Only Voting members can nominate individuals for this award. The link to submit this nomination is on the Member Portal Dashboard for Voting members within the rotating badge menu to the right of the screen.

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Outstanding FertilityCare

Practitioner/Instructor

Past Award Winners:

  • 2020 – Tammy Barbush, RN, CFCP
  • 2019 – Nancy Malo, CFCP
  • 2018 – Margaret Smith, CFCE
  • 2017 – Ayodele Shonubi, CFCP, CFCE
  • 2016 – Elizabeth Kauffeld, CFCP, CFCE
  • 2015 – Jeanice Vinduska, BS, CFCE
  • 2014 – LaDean Barnes, M.Ed., CFCP
  • 2013 – Christy Shoen, CFCE
  • 2011 – Barbara Rose, RN, MSN, CFCP
  • 2009 – Dorice Millar, RC, CFCE
  • 2008 – Kathy Hirkala, BSN, RN, CFCE
  • 2007 – Nancy McGrath, RN, BS, CFCE
  • 2006 – Angelique Garcia, LPN, BSE, CFCE
  • 2005 – Maureen Duhn, RN, CFCP
  • 2004 – Kathy Cerovsky, CFCS
  • 2003 – Diane Hale, RN, CFCP
  • 2001 – Jeanne Stoll, RN, CNFPP
  • 2000 – Patricia Wemuth, CNFPP
  • 1999 – Phyllis White, CNFPE
  • 1998 – Sister Marilyn Mangan, CNFPP, CNFPE
  • 1997 – Nancy Botkin, CNFPE
  • 1996 – Ann Nerbun, CNFPP
  • 1995- Judy Pittack, MS, CNFPE
  • 1994 – Pauline DuFour, CNFPS
  • 1993 – Anita Lucketti, CNFPP
  • 1992 – Sister Julianna Jervis, OP, RN, CNFPP
  • 1991 – Richard Fehring, DNSC, RN, CNFPE

Honorary Awards

 

Past Award Winners:

  • 2020 – Phyllis White, CFCE
  • 2015 – Joseph Stanford, MD, MSPH, CFCMC
  • 2013 – Janina Filipczuk, B.Sc. Phm., M. Sc., FACA, CFCP, CFCPhC
  • 2011 – Cardinal William J. Levada
  • 2010 – Chris Kahlenborn, MD
  • 2008 – Creighton University School of Medicine
  • 2004 – Margaret Howard, MAM, CFCE
  • 2001 – Reverend Daniel McCaffrey, STD
  • 2000 – Davey Weitzel, CNFPP
  • 1999 – Kathy Rivet, BS, CNFPE
  • 1998 – Ann M. Prebil, RN, CNFPE
  • 1997 – Susan K. Hilgers, CNFPE
  • 1996 – Shirley Hoefler, CNFPE
  • 1993 – Mother Teresa of Calcutta
  • 1991 – John J Billings, MD
  • 1991 – Evelyn Billings, MD
  • 1990 – K. Diane Daly, RN, CNFPE
  • 1988 – Ruth Taylor, MD, CNFPP, CNFPMC, NFPE
  • 1987 – Reverend Denis St. Marie
  • 1986 – Evelyn Eaton, CNFPP
  • 1985 – Thomas W. Hilgers, MD, CNFPE, CFCMC

Outstanding FertilityCare Medical Consultant

Past Award Winners:

  • 2019 – Susan Caldwell, MD, CFCMC
  • 2018 – Faith Daggs, MD, CFCMC
  • 2017 – Robert Chasuk, MD, CFCMC
  • 2016 – Elizabeth Tham, MD, CCFP, FCFP, CFCMC
  • 2012 – Debra Gramlich, MD, CFCMC
  • 2011 – Lynn Keenan, MD, CFCMC
  • 2010 – Michael Dixon, MD, CFCMC
  • 2009 – Mark Stegman, MD, CFCMC
  • 2007 – Peter Danis, MD, CFCMC
  • 2005 – Amanda LaMont, MD, CFCMC, CFCE
  • 2004 – Paul Carpentier, MD, CNFPMC
  • 2003 – Teresa Mc Kenna, MD, CNFPMC, CFCP
  • 2001 – Phil Boyle, MD, CNFPMC
  • 2000 – Joseph B. Stanford, MD, CNFPMC
  • 1999 – Thomas W. Hilgers, MD, CNFPE, CNFPMC

FertilityCare Professionals Excellence

Past Award Winners:

  • 2020 – Paul Kortz, RN, MSN, CFCE
  • 2019 – Angelique Garcia, LPN, BSE, CFCE
  • 2017 – Denise Seeger, BS, CFCP
  • 2016 – Jeanne Karnath, BS, CFCP
  • 2015 – Kathy Rivet, BS, CFCE
  • 2014 – Maria Perkins, CFCP
  • 2012 – Donna Vondrak, CFCP
  • 2011 – Diane Daly, RN, CFCE
  • 2010 – Michele Chambers, BA, CFCP
  • 2009 – Margaret Yates, BSN, MA, CFCP
  • 2008 – Becky Knapp, RN, BSN, CFCP
  • 2007 – Linda Cady, RN, BSN, CFCP
  • 2006 – Kathy Blascyk, CFCP
  • 2005 – Jean Packard, FCP

Hall of Fame Awards

Past Award Winners:

  • 2019 – Jean Packard, FCP
  • 2018 – Ann Prebil, BSN, RN, CFCE
  • 2016 – Rev. Wilhelm Hillebrand
  • 2011 – Professor James Boyer Brown
  • 2009 – Pope John Paul II
  • 2008 – Bernando Colombo, PhD
  • 2006 – Nancy Botkin, CFCE
  • 2004 – Erik Odeblad, MD
  • 2001 – Bishop Glennon P. Flavin
  • 1997 – Herbert Ratner, MD
  • 1996 – His Holiness Pope Paul VI
  • 1991 – Jane Beam, CNFPP

Science and Research Committee – Annual Research Paper Awards

2019 | “Effectiveness of Fertility Awareness–Based Methods for Pregnancy Prevention: A Systematic Review” Peragallo Urrutia, Rachel, MD, MS; Polis, Chelsea B., PhD; Jensen, Elizabeth T., PhD; Greene, Margaret E., PhD; Kennedy, Emily, MA; Stanford, Joseph B., MD, MSPH

2018 | “Peri-conceptional Progesterone Treatment in Women with Unexplained Recurrent Miscarriage: A Randomized Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial” Alaa M. Ismail, Ahmed M. Abbas, Mohammed K. Ali, Ahmed F. Amin The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 2016; 31:3, 388-394 – This paper has been retracted.

2017 | “The Performance of Fertility Awareness-based Method Apps Marketed to Avoid Pregnancy”
Marguerite Duane, MD, MHA, FAAFP, Alison Contreras, PhD, FCP, Elizabeth T. Jensen, MPH, PhD, Amina White, MD, MA J Am Board Fam Med 2016; 29:508-511

2016 | “Self-identification of the Clinical Fertile Window and the Ovulation Period”
Rene Ecochard MD, PhD, Olivia Duterque MD, Rene Leiva MD, Thomas Bouchard MD, and Pilar Vigil MD Fertility and Sterility 103(5):1319-1325

2015 | “Pilot test and validation of the Peak Day method of prospective determination of ovulation against a handheld urine hormone monitor“
Christina Porucznik, Kyley Cox, Karen Schliep, & Joseph Stanford BMC Women’s Health 2014; 14:4 www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6874/14/4

2014 | “Fertility Awareness-based Methods of Family Planning: A Review of Effectiveness for Avoiding Pregnancy Using SORT” Manhart D, Duane M, Lind A, Sinai I, Golden-Tevald J. Osteopathic Family Physician 2013; 5:2-8

2013 | “Natural Procreative Technology for Infertility and Recurrent Miscarriage: Outcomes in a Canadian Family Practice” Elizabeth Tham, MD, CCFP, FCFP, Karen Schliep, PhD, MSPH, Joseph Stanford, MD, MSPH Canadian Family Physician 2012; 58:267-74

2012 | The New Women’s Health Science of NaProTechnology
Thoman W.Hilgers, MD Archives of Perinatal Medicine 17(4) 191-198, 2011

2011 | Types of Ovarian Activity in Women and Their Significance: The Continuum (a reinterpretation of early findings)
James B. Brown Human Reproductive Update 2010, 00(0) 1-18

2010 | Near Adhesion-Free Reconstructive Pelvic Surgury: Thee Distinct Phases of Progress Over 23 Years
Thomas W. Hilgers, M.D., Dip. ABOG, ABLS, SRS Journal of Gynecologic Surgery Vol 26

2009 | “Outcomes From Treatment of Infertility with Natural Procreative Technology in and Irish General Practice“
Joseph B. Stanford, MD, MSPH, Tracey A. Parnell, MD and Phil C. Boyle, MB Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (doi: 10.3122/jabfm.2008.05.070239)

2007 | “Normalization of Hyperinsulinemia by Chronic Opiod Receptor Blockade in Hyperandrogenemic Women“
Dijana Hadziomrtpvic, MD et al. Fertility and Sterility 2006; Vol. 86: 651-657

2007 | “17 – Hydroxyprogesterone Caproate for the Prevention of Preterm Delivery“
Anthony O. Odibo, MD et al. Obstetrics and Gynecology 2006; Vol. 108: 492-498

2002 | “Changes with Age in the Level and Duration of Fertility in the Menstrual Cycle“
David B. Dunson, Bernardo Colombo, Donna B. Baird Human Reproduction 2002; 17: 1399-1403

2001 | “Nurse-Midwives’ Knowledge and Promotion of Lactational Amenorrhea and Other Natural Family Planning Methods for Child Spacing“
Richard Fehring, RN, DNSc, Lisa Manson, CNM, DNSc and Jesoph B. Stanford, MD Journal of Midwifery and Woman’s Health 2001; 46: 68-73

2000 | “Characteristics of Women Associated with Continueing Instruction in the Creighton Model FertilityCare System“
Joseph B. Stanford, MD and Ken R. Smith Contraception 2000; 61: 121-129

1999 | “Pregnancy Probabilities During Use of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System“
Margaret P. Howard, CNFPE and Joseph B. Stanford, MD Archives of Family Medicine 1999; 8: 391-402

1998 | “Creighton Model NaProEducation Technology for Avoiding Pregnancy: Use Effectiveness“
Thomas W. Hilgers, MD and Joseph B. Stanford, MD Journal of Reproductive Medicine 1998; 43: 495-502

1997 | “Cervical Mucus and Their Functions“
Erik Odeblad Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons 1997; 26: 27-32

1996 | “Effectiveness of Lactational Amenorrhea in Prevention of Pregnancy in Manila, the Philippines: Non-Comparative Prospective Trial“
Rebecca Ramos, Kathy Irene Kennedy, Cynthia M. Visness British Medical Journal 1996; 313: 909-912

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