Eleanor Mayfield: Awards

Individual

Eleanor Mayfield has received multiple awards for her work, including:

• Plain Language Awards, National Institutes of Health
  - Which Study Results are the Most Helpful in Making Cancer Care Decisions?
  - Sentinel-Node Biopsy Confirmed Effective in Detecting Spread of Breast Cancer


• American Medical Writers Association Mid-Atlantic Chapter Writing Awards
  - “Choosing a Treatment for Uterine Fibroids” (FDA Consumer, November 1993)
  - “Heart Disease—The Silent Epidemic Among Women” (Your Health, May 1991)

Team

For the NCI Cancer Bulletin, Eleanor Mayfield's group received the National Institutes of Health's Merit Award in 2009.

Additionally, as a part of a writing team for a series of plain-language brochures on sexually transmitted diseases, Eleanor Mayfield received two awards:

• 2008 MarCom Awards Platinum Award
• 2008 National Health Information Awards Silver Award