CREATE Awards

2025 CREATE AWARDS - MAY 13th!

The Society for Penn Clinical Research Professionals is thrilled to announce the second annual clinical research professional recognition awards, the CREATE Awards: Clinical Research Expertise & Advancement Through Excellence

This year, the award ceremony will be held virtually on May 13th, 2025 at 12pm. The ceremony can be accessed through this zoom link. 

The CREATE Awards reimagines award categories for broader inclusivity allowing for us to recognize all of the Clinical Research Professionals (CRPs) that contribute to the success of Penn Medicine’s Clinical Research Enterprise. Our colleagues contribute expertise across multiple roles, and we are excited to highlight their achievements. We encourage nominations of CRPs who continually exceed expectations and exemplify the values and mission of Penn Medicine.

CREATE Awards Information

  • Distinguished Performance in a Research Assistant Role – recognizes CRPs with varied responsibilities in facilitating clinical trials including working with patients
  • Distinguished Performance in a Clinical Research Coordinator Role – recognizes CRPs with varied responsibilities in coordinating clinical trials including working with patients
  • Distinguished Performance in a Research Role with Clinical Licensure – recognizes CRPs who apply their clinical expertise to promote safe data collection from patients
  • Distinguished Performance in a Regulatory or Monitoring & Compliance Role – recognizes CRPs who use expert knowledge of regulatory standards to promote patient safety and data integrity
  • Distinguished Performance in a Data Management and Informatics Role – recognizes CRPs who facilitate the collection, analysis, and security of clinical data
  • Distinguished Performance in a Research Administrative or Financial Officer Role – recognizes CRPs who manage the budgetary and/or logistical systems that facilitate clinical research
  • Excellence in Leadership of Clinical Research Professionals – recognizes mentors and leaders of CRPs who share knowledge and advocate for their colleagues
  • Clinical Research Professional Lifetime Achievement Award – recognizes CRPs who have dedicated their careers to the success of clinical research at Penn Medicine
  • Innovations in Clinical Research Operations Award – recognizes groups who build systems that improve how we conduct clinical research at Penn Medicine  

Previous CREATE Award Winners

​​​​​​​On behalf of the Society for Penn Clinical Research Professionals (SPCRP), we are proud to share the winners of the 2024 CREATE Awards. These exemplary clinical research professionals were nominated for excellence across multiple essential roles in clinical research conduct. The refined categories of awards for clinical research professional staff reflect the SPCRP’s commitment to inclusivity and representation of the skilled professionals who make the institution’s research advancements possible. The winners were honored at the first annual CREATE Award Ceremony on May 22, 2024 with accolades from their peers and a luncheon.

  • Distinguished Performance in a Clinical Research Coordinator or Research Assistant Role Award Recipient
    • Brittaney Bonhomme (Medicine/CCEB)
  • Distinguished Performance in a Research Role with Clinical Licensure Award Recipient
    • Jessica Savage Jones (HEM/ONC)
  • Distinguished Performance in a Regulatory or Monitoring & Compliance Role Award Recipient
    • Heather Madara (Lancaster General Health Research Institute)
  • Distinguished Performance in a Data Management and Informatics Role Award Recipient
    • Susan Ware (Center for Interdisciplinary research on nicotine addiction [CIRNAC])
  • Distinguished Performance in a Research Administrative or Financial Officer Award Recipient
    • Alexandria Oliver (Neurology)
  • Excellence in Leadership of Clinical Research Professionals Award Recipient
    • Lauren Southwick (Center for Insights to Outcomes, Center for Health Care Transformation and Innovation)
  • Innovations in Clinical Research Operations Award Recipient
    • Clinical Trials Unit, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies
  • Clinical Research Professional Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
    • Suzanne Rizio (Emergency Medicine)