CPI2025 Awards
We are pleased to announce that this year there will be two awards for best oral presentation (1 nursing or allied health & 1 medical).
The award:
- AU$100 to the presenting author and
- AU$1000 to the presenting NICU team (to be used towards registration costs for attending CPI2026).
Eligibility:
- Be the presenter and first author of the submitted abstract oral presentation
- Not have received the award at the 2024 CPI Conference.
Selection criteria:
- Uses quality improvement processes (use of PDSA cycles and QI methodology)
- Impact and measurable outcomes (provide data to support findings and sustainability)
- Innovation and originality (introduction of new or creative solutions to improve practice, use of interdisciplinary collaboration to improve care)
- Clarity, organization and flow (the presentation is well structured and follows a logical structure)
- Visual design (effective use of colour, spacing, images and graphics)
- Time management.
Presentations will be judged by a CPI2025 panel during the conference.
We are pleased to announce that this year there will be two awards for best poster presentation (1 nursing or allied health & 1 medical).
The award:
- AU$100 to the presenting author.
Eligibility:
- Be the presenter and first author of the submitted abstract poster presentation
- Not have received the award at the 2024 CPI Conference.
Selection criteria:
- Uses quality improvement processes (use of PDSA cycles and QI methodology)
- Impact and measurable outcomes (provide data to support findings and sustainability)
- Innovation and originality (introduction of new or creative solutions to improve practice, use of interdisciplinary collaboration to improve care)
- Clarity, organization and flow (the presentation is well structured and follows a logical structure)
- Visual design (effective use of colour, spacing, images and graphics)
- Time management.
Presentations will be judged by a CPI2025 panel during the conference.
We are pleased to announce that this year there will be up to two Chiesi Sponsored Neonatal Research Awards.
The award:
- Up to 2 x AU$8,000 for travel, registration and accommodation to attend an international congress (sharing as determined by members of the winning research teams).
Eligibility:
- Individual/team of Neonatologist/paediatrician, fellow, senior clinical nurse or other reasearch staff who is a CPI2025 delegate from an ANZNN member unit/network.
- Must be available to attend an international congress during the calendar year 2026.
How to apply:
- Present the unit’s best research, real world experience, epidemiological, case series or clinical practice improvement studies in respiratory neonatology from the previous 12 months.
- This is to be presented as a one-page summary.
- 2.54 cm margins.
- Arial font, size 12, single spaced.
- Title should be in CAPITALS at the top of the page followed by the Author.
- Only one author to be listed and they must be a CPI2025 delegate and attend the conference on Tuesday 21st October 2025 to accept the award.
- Maximum of one small table or figure is allowed within the space of the one page.
- Submit in PDF format with file name as Surname_Chiesi_Award_Submission_2025.pdf
- Submitted with email subject line CHIESI HEALTH AWARD to anznn@unsw.edu.au by
5pm AEST Monday 30th June 2025 EXTENDED - NOW DUE MIDNIGHT [AEST] SUNDAY 6TH JULY 2025.
Please note:
- The submissions will be judged by a CPI2025 selection panel.
- The submissions will be separate and independent of the CPI2025 abstract process.
- Selected finalist abstracts will be invited to present at CPI 2025 conference for the judging of the Award.
- The judging panel will determine and inform authors whether the abstract will be presented as a plenary presentation or poster presentation at the conference.
- The work described in the submission can overlap with CPI2025 abstract submissions a delegate may have already made.
- Award fund will be transferred to reasearch team member(s) when proof of 2026 conference registration or attandance have been received.