AdvaMed® Lifetime Achievement Award
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- May 2026
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Eligible organizations
- Outstanding and exemplary individuals who have made meaningful and prolonged contributions to the medical technology industry
Other requirements
- Must be retired from day-to-day medtech industry responsibilities for at least one full calendar year
- Must no longer be serving as board chair for their signature employer
Overview
AdvaMed®'s signature award for the medtech industry, recognizing an extraordinary individual who has had a noteworthy influence on medtech and the patients it serves.
Award Type: Honor/Recognition Award
Eligibility:
- Must be retired from day-to-day medtech industry responsibilities for at least one full calendar year
- Must no longer be serving as board chair for their signature employer
- Outstanding and exemplary individuals who have made meaningful and prolonged contributions to the medical technology industry
Judging Criteria:
- Philanthropy, community service, and community leadership
- Length of career and years of demonstrative industry leadership
- Contributions to AdvaMed® and/or the industry as an advocate for sound legislation, regulation, and public awareness of medical technology
- Impact on patient care
- Commitment to mentoring and career development
- Significant role in medical discovery/commercialization leading to introduction of medtech innovation
- History of entrepreneurship, supporting entrepreneurship, and/or supportive role in medtech capital formation and ecosystem
Award Presentation: Announced and presented at The MedTech Conference (October 18-21, 2026 in Boston, MA)
Previous Award Recipients (2013-2025):
- Michael A. Mussallem (2025)
- Caroll H. Neubauer (2024)
- William H. Longfield (2023)
- Lester B. Knight (2022)
- Edward Ludwig (2021)
- Ron Dollens (2020)
- Cathy Burzik (2019)
- Vernon Loucks, Jr. (2018)
- Jack Wareham (2017)
- John Abele and Peter Nicholas (2016)
- Dr. Thomas Fogarty (2015)
- Earl Bakken (2014)
- John Brown (2013)
Geographic Scope: International (recognizes individuals from across the medtech ecosystem)
What Advanced Medical Technology Association actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 23
- Total given
- $459K
- Median grant
- $15K
- Range
- $6,000–$50K
- By dollars: District of Columbia 42%, Virginia 21%, California 13%. Top recipient cities: Washington, DC; Arlington, VA; New York, NY.
- 0% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 32% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
National Italian American Foundation Inc · Washington, DC
Program support
$50K
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network · Washington, DC
Program support
$45K
Researchamerica · Arlington, VA
Program support
$35K
Alliance for Aging Research · Washington, DC
Program support
$35K
Fogarty Institute for Innovation · Mountain View, CA
Program support
$30K
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