How to Apply

Deadline has passed.

Nominations should include:

  • 500-1000 word justification for the nomination
  • Updated curriculum vitae

The Patricia R. Barchas Award in Sociophysiology was established in 1999. The purpose is to memorialize Patricia Barchas by furthering the field of sociophysiology, the study of the reciprocal relationships that could lead to long-term change both in social behavior and in physiology.

The Award:

  • $1,500
  • Complimentary meeting registration
  • A plaque, presented at the Annual Meeting

Criteria for Nominees:

  • The recipient has done interesting and exciting work that helps to expand our knowledge of the interface of the social and physiological worlds

2022 Lecture Recording 

Award Winners

2025: Bert Uchino, PhD
2024: Elissa Epel, PhD
2023: Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD
2022: Greg Miller, PhD
2020: Anna Marsland, PhD, RN
2019: Steve Cole, PhD
2018: Edith Chen, PhD
2017: Andrew Steptoe, DSc
2016: Elizabeth Brondolo, PhD
2015: Christine Heim, PhD
2014: Timothy W. Smith, PhD
2013: Karen Matthews, PhD
2012: Stephen Manuck, PhD
2011: Shelley E. Taylor, PhD
2010: George Davey Smith, PhD
2009: George A. Kaplan, PhD
2008: Christopher L. Coe, PhD
2007: Lennart Levi, MD
2006: Sheldon Cohen, PhD
2005: Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, PhD
2004: John T. Cacioppo, PhD
2003: John P. Capitanio, PhD
2002: Michael Marmot, MPH, PhD
2001: Charles B. Nemeroff, MD, PhD
2000: Michael Meaney, PhD
1999: Bernard T. Engel, PhD