It’s time - shine a spotlight on excellence!
Nominations are now open for the 2026 Community Awards and 40 Under 40: Rising Leaders Awards. Each year, we celebrate the innovators, leaders, and changemakers shaping the future of emergency medical transport, with winners recognized on a national stage at the Air Medical Transport Conference.
Join us in honoring this year’s standouts
at AMTC26 in Fort Worth, Texas. |
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Recognizes an emergency medical transport service that has demonstrated a superior level of patient care, management prowess, high quality leadership through visionary and innovative approaches, customer service, safety consciousness, marketing ingenuity, community service, and a commitment to the medical transport community. |
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| Marriott-Carlson
Lifetime Achievement Award |
Recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the overall enhancement, development, leadership or promotion of the emergency medical transport community and has been actively involved or participated in an emergency medical transport organization. |
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Eileen Frazer "SPARK" Award |
Recognizes bold vision and transformative thinking in out-of-hospital patient care. It honors an emerging leader—either early in their career or just beginning their influence—who presents a compelling idea, project, or initiative with the potential to reshape the industry landscape. |
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| Jim Charlson Safety Award |
Recognizes a team, an organization, or an individual who has made significant contributions to the overall enhancement, development or promotion of safety within the air and critical care ground transport community. |
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Neonatal/Pediatric
Transport Award of Excellence |
Recognizes a team that has made an outstanding contribution to a neonatal/pediatric transport service in any of the following areas: enhancing safety, education, leadership, patient advocacy by developing or promoting the improvement of patient care in the medical transport community. |
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| Transport Mechanic
Award of Excellence |
Recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the safe operation of medical transport vehicles or the improvement of safe maintenance procedures of medical transport vehicles. |
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AAMS Excellence
in Transport Leadership Award |
Recognizes air and ground critical care transport leader who has demonstrated a superior level of knowledge and management prowess, high-quality leadership through visionary and innovative approaches, customer service, safety consciousness, marketing ingenuity, community service, commitment to the emergency medical community as a whole. |
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Do you know a rising star who's redefining what it means to lead in medical transport? |
From clinical care to communications to operations to safety to leadership, we’re looking for individuals across the entire medical transport community who embody excellence, innovation, and leadership in their work. |
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Award Nominations are due by
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2026. |
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