Awards Program

The NAPA Leadership Award honors an outstanding Navy physician assistant. Nominees must be 0-3 or above active duty, reserve or retiree. The NAPA Excellence Award honors an outstanding Navy physician assistant with less than four years commissioned service. Nominees must be a 0-1/0-2 on active duty or in the reserves. The NAPA Admiral Zimble Award honors the outstanding PA Preceptor. The Ensign Jerry "Buck" Pope Scholarship Award is for the best publication or ongoing research by an active duty, reserve or retiree Navy physician assistant who has had an article published in a regional or national medical periodical either as the sole author or one of a team of authors or is a named researcher in an approved research project.

For more information about the NAPA Awards, view our NAPA Awards Program description. We also have a sample Nomination For Award form detailing the format we would like for you to use. The last form, NAPA Award Score Card, is the score card our awards committee will use to finalize the winners. If you have any questions, please contact NAPA at napa@aapa.org.
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