The 2017 British Medical Association (BMA) Awards took place September 11^th  in London. A panel of doctors and educators select the winning publications based on their applicability to audience, production quality and originality. This year, Elsevier received four first place prizes and 24 Highly Commended honors. In addition, the BMA Illustrated Book Award was presented to Auerbach’s Wilderness Medicine by Drs. Paul S. Auerbach, Tracy A. Cushing and N. Stuart Harris.

First Place Prize Winners: 

• Basic and Clinical Sciences – Gosling, Harris, Humpherson, Whitmore, and Willan: Human Anatomy, Color Atlas and Textbook, 6^th Edition
• Psychiatry – Shea: Psychiatric Interviewing: The Art of Understanding: A Practical Guide for Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Nurses, and Other Mental Health Professionals, 3^rd Edition
• Radiology – Norton, Scoutt, and Feldstein: Callen’s Ultrasonography in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 6^th Edition
• Surgery – Wei and Mardini: Flaps and Reconstructive Surgery, 2^nd Edition

Highly Commended Honors:

Basic and Clinical Sciences

• Marshall, Lapsley, and Day: Clinical Chemistry, 8^th Edition
• Kumar and Antonarakis: Medical and Health Genomics
• Tollefsbol: Medical Epigenetics
• Spratt, Salkowski, Loukas, Turmezei, Weir, Abrahams: Weir & Abrahams’ Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy, 5^th Edition

Basis of Medicine – Ayala: Evolution, Explanation, Ethics and Aesthetics: Towards a Philosophy of Biology

Cardiology

• Ellenbogen, Wilkoff, Kay, Lau, Auricchio: Clinical Cardiac Pacing, Defibrillation and Resynchonization Therapy, 5^th Edition
• Herrmann: Clinical Cardio-oncology

Digital and Online Resources – Elsevier: STATdx, Elsevier Digital Radiology Reference

Health and Social Care

• Fink: Stress: Concepts, Cognition, Emotion and Behavior: Handbook of Stress Vol. 1
• Hollis-Sawyer and Dykema-Engblade: Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective

Internal Medicine

• Gawkrodger and Ardern-Jones: Dermatology: An Illustrated Colour Text, 6^th Edition
• Hussain and Oliver: Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring Made Easy
• Freund, Sarraf, Mieler, and Yannuzzi: The Retinal Atlas, 2^nd Edition

Medicine

• Watson: Pharmaceutical Analysis: A Textbook for Pharmacy Students and Pharmaceutical Chemists, 4^th Edition
• Kryger, Roth, and Dement: Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 6^th Edition

Neurology

• Fornito, Zalesky, and Bullmore: Fundamentals of Brain Network Analysis
• Arnon and Miller: Translational Neuroimmunology in Multiple Sclerosis: From Disease Mechanisms to Clinical Applications

Oncology – Hesse, Ahern, and Beckjord: Oncology Informatics: Using Health Information Technology to Improve Processes and Outcomes in Cancer

Pathology – Jaffe, Arber, Campo, Harris, and Quintanilla-Martinez: Hematopathology, 2^nd Edition

Radiology

• Philpotts and Hooley: Breast Tomosynthesis
• Newton: Handbook of Neuro-Oncology Neuroimaging, 2^nd Edition

Surgery – Trumble, Rayan, Budoff, Baratz, and Slutsky: Principles of Hand Surgery and Therapy, 3^rd Edition

Surgical Specialties

• Wolfe, Hotchkiss, Pederson, Kozin, and Cohen: Green’s Operative Hand Surgery, 2 Volume Set, 7^th Edition
• Quiñones-Hinojosa: Video Atlas of Neurosurgery: Contemporary Tumor and Skull Base Surgery