The Association of Medical Publications named Maureen Reichert of the Journal of the American Medical Association and Diane Carpenteri of Cliggott’s AIDS Reader and Infectious Medicine as the winners of the 2007 Nexus Awards.

Reichert won the award for sales on a primary care publication, while Carpenteri won for sales on a specialty publication.

Accepting her award, Reichert appealed to publishers to acknowledge the hard work of media planners and buyers and joked: “My family would be so excited [about the award], if they just knew what I did for a living.”

The Nexus Awards recognize excellence in ad sales for medical publications.