The Pollin Prize for Pediatric Research was an annual award given to

physician A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through th ...

s who contributed important advances to the field of pediatrics, and was the only existing international pediatric award. The prize was created in 2002 by Irene and Abe Pollin, and funded by the Linda and Kenneth Pollin Foundation. It was administered by the

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City affiliated with two Ivy League medical schools, Cornell University and Columbia University. The hospital comprises seven distinct campuses located in the New ...

, and as of 2003, Dr.

Rudolph Leibel Rudolph Leibel (born 1942) is the Christopher J. Murphy Professor of Diabetes Research, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, and Director of the Division of Molecular Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics ...

was chairman of the selection panel. The prize is no longer awarded.

Recipients

*2010 – Roscoe O. Brady and Charles R. Scriver *2009 – Basil S. Hetzel *2008 –

John Allen Clements John Allen Clements is a physician known for his role in the study of pulmonary surfactant. He graduated from Weill Cornell Medical College in 1947. He is a professor at University of California, San Francisco. Awards *1983 Gairdner Foundation I ...

*2007 – Samuel L. Katz *2006 – ''No award'' *2005 – Eric N. Olson, Abraham Rudolph *2004 –

Alfred Sommer Alfred (Al) Sommer (born October 2, 1942) is a prominent American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitami ...

*2003 – Emil Frei, Emil J. Freireich,

Donald Pinkel Donald Paul Pinkel (September 7, 1926 – March 9, 2022) was an American physician who specialized in pediatric hematology and oncology. Pinkel made contributions to cures for several forms of childhood cancer, including leukemia. He was the ...

, and James F. Holland *2002 – Dilip Mahalanabis,

Norbert Hirschhorn Norbert Hirschhorn (born 1938) is an Austrian-born American public health physician. He was one of the inventors and developers of the life-saving method called oral rehydration therapy for adults and children suffering fluid loss from cholera and ...

, David Nalin, and Nathaniel F. Pierce

References

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Recipients

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