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The James Spence Medal is presented to persons working in the UK or in any country of the British Commonwealth within the field of clinical or social paediatrics, public health, clinical science, epidemiology or family practice.

The award is made on the recommendation of RCPCH Council on the advice of the Nominations Committee, and presented at the RCPCH Conference along with a volume of the collected writings of Sir James Spence.

Further information for Nominators can be found in the guidance below. 

Nominations

Nominations for our James Spence Medal 2026 are now open and will close at 17:00 Friday 20th June 2025.

Nominations for the James Spence Medal can only be proposed and seconded by RCPCH members (any category).

The outcome for 2025 will be announced at RCPCH Conference in March 2025. 

Make your nomination for 2026

Recent winners

2024 - Professor Andrew Bush

2023 - Professor David Edwards

2022 - Professor Imtiaz Choonara and Professor Sir Andrew Pollard

2021 - Professor Henry Halliday

2020 - Professor Catherine Law

2019 - Professor Alan Emond

2018 - Professor Frances Cowan

2017 - Professor Anne Greenough

2016 - Professor Kate Costeloe and Professor Sir Terence Stephenson

2015 - Professor David Dunger

2014 - Emeritus Professor Ieuan Hughes

2013 - Professor Sir Albert Aynsley Green

2012 - Dr Sheila Shribman

2011 - Professor Anthony Costello and Professor Andrew Wilkinson

2010 - Emeritus Professor Malcolm Levene

See former James Spence Medallists

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