AAMI & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award

Nominations are open for 2025 awards! The deadline to nominate is January 16, 2025.

Questions? Contact awards@aami.org.

This award recognizes an individual or group who has demonstrated the vision and leadership necessary to solve some of the industry’s most critical medical device cybersecurity challenges. This individual’s contributions will have moved the industry forward, leading to improvements in our collective cybersecurity posture while continuing to ensure patient safety.


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Criteria

Candidates must demonstrate:

  • Leadership by identifying the larger challenges and mapping out a path on how to address them.
  • Strategic thinking and leadership among stakeholders in the medical device cybersecurity risk management space, combined with the ability to execute tactically on specific challenges.
  • The ability to work across stakeholders and constituencies in government, care delivery, security research, academia, and manufacturers.
  • Evidence provided through either:
    a body of work that reflects consistent and substantial contributions in reducing medical device cybersecurity risks, or
    breakthrough accomplishment(s) that substantially improve(s) critical aspects of the industry’s cybersecurity posture, or
    proposed solutions and blazed a way forward that led to reduction of the identified risks.

Candidates should demonstrate:

  • The ability to elevate the industry through research, education, publication, practice and/or mentorship
  • Evidence of leadership in the development of medical device cybersecurity risk management standards, guidances, and best practices.
  • Success within real world constraints and scaling of solutions that are implementable and lead to steady progress.
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Additional Information

Entries for the Cybersecurity Visionary Award must include:

  • Nominator’s cover letter that provides a rationale statement describing the nominee’s qualification for this award
  • This completed nomination form.
  • A current CV/Resume for the nominee
  • Two or more letters of recommendation from the past year supporting this nomination from supervisors, colleagues, and/or industry partners.

Award Winners

2024

VA HTM Medical Device Security Workgroup

Veterans Health Administration

AAMI & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award

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2023

Dr. Kevin Fu, PhD

Dr. Kevin Fu, PhD

Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University

AAMI & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award

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2022

Christian Dameff, MD

Christian Dameff, MD

University of California, San Diego

AAMI & MedCrypt Cybersecurity Visionary Award

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