Awards & Honors
Last Updated on December 12, 2025
2023
2nd Place Design Value Award
from the Design Management Institute
Public LinkedIn Announcement about Award
“In March 2024, the Design Management Institute invited Novo Nordisk #FutureUX to their European Design Management Conference to share our work in UX Goals & Metrics for multi-touchpoint healthcare experiences.
The tools and frameworks shared in the presentation were based on a 24-month design operations and leadership effort, an initiative which was honoured with an International Design Value Award in 2023 https://lnkd.in/gvn6jRpG”
2022
“Outstanding Leadership In Healthcare”
Award from Health 2.0
Public LinkedIn Announcement about Award
”In December2022, I was honored with the “Outstanding Leadership in Healthcare” award at the Health 2.0 conference in Dubai. The kind folks on the awards committee let me share my gratitude on stage, but that gratitude really must also be shared with many of you. Here is what I said:
“Hi, I’m Alisan Atvur, principal UX researcher and design thinking catalyst at Novo Nordisk. I am a part of a massive effort to research and design increasingly better ways to treat chronic diseases. This work means the world to me.... Improving the quality of life by improving the quality of care is an immensely complex and immensely necessary pursuit, and it is my honour to play my part in this effort. I thank my colleagues at Novo Nordisk for their expertise and insight in this work. I thank my family for their support of this pursuit. And I thank the thousands of people who have let me into their lives (people living with chronic diseases, the HCPs, the policy makers, the experts) so that I may learn more about their challenges, their needs, and their hopes for better futures.”
2020
3rd Place Design Value Award
from the Design Management Institute
Public LinkedIn Announcement about Award
“Our recent generative research and design project was honored with a 2nd place Design Value Award from the Design Management Institute. A special thanks goes to the fellow leads on the project, including Maria Bjerregaard Andersen, Mark Guarraia, and Kristian Kolind. Thank you to the many colleagues within Novo Nordisk Device R&D and across the organization who contributed their expertise to the initiative, and a special thanks to Mia Bielecki and Kenneth Strømdahl for helping make it happen.”
2020
2nd Place Design Value Award
from the Design Management Institute
Public LinkedIn Announcement about Award
“We made more than 23 enhancements to our research and design team operations in the past 6 years, and we will continue for years to come. We were honoured to receive a 3rd place Design Value Award from the Design Management Institute for our case study in research and design operations enhancements. On behalf of all of the previous and current colleagues at Novo Nordisk Device R&D who helped make it happen, thank you.”
2015
Core 77 Runner Up Award
for the i60 Innovation Tool
Details from Awards Page
“In this project, we developed a digital tool that can easily distribute to all members of the organization, empowering every person to tap into the design process to contribute to the next wave of game- changing concepts. By embracing the idea that all people are naturally creative and tend toward collaboration, we conceived, designed, and developed a companion tool that acts as shepherd for both designers and non-designers alike to easily connect and produce meaningful concepts that add significant value to the organization and the consequent world. All this, while continuing to perform at a high level in their designated roles.”