RONALD DAVIS SPECIAL
RECOGNITION AWARD:
Marcel Salive, MD, MPH, FACPM

Marcel Salive, MD, MPH, FACPM, is Mid-Atlantic
Regent of the American College of Preventive Medicine and has been a Fellow of
ACPM for more than two decades. He
serves as Trustee of the American Board of Preventive Medicine, and has been
Vice Chair for General Preventive Medicine and Public Health since 2009. He is a Captain in the US Public Health
Service (PHS), and during his 23-year career he has held leadership positions
with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Salive serves as a medical officer in the
National Institute on Aging, and administers the research portfolio on
prevention and treatment of multiple chronic conditions. From 2003-2010 he was Director
of the Division of Medical and Surgical Services within the Coverage and
Analysis Group of CMS and was responsible for developing and maintaining evidence-based
national coverage decisions for all Medicare beneficiaries in various clinical
areas including preventive medicine, surgery, and cardiology. He developed Medicare coverage of new and
innovative preventive services, which was recognized with the PHS Outstanding
Service Medal. He previously served as
acting deputy leader of the prevention scientific research group in the
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH, where he was project officer of the clinical trial demonstrating lives saved by
public access defibrillation in community settings. He has developed and
led research initiatives in several areas including outcomes research,
Alzheimer disease etiology, vaccine safety, and translation of clinical
research into primary care practice. He earned
undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan and completed
his preventive medicine residency and MPH at Johns Hopkins University.
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD:
Erica Frank, MD, MPH, FACPM

Erica Frank, MD, MPH, FACPM, is Professor/Canada Research Chair at the University of British
Columbia, Founder and PI of Healthy Doc = Healthy Patient (building on
relationships between physicians’ personal and clinical practices), and Founder
and Executive Director of Next Generation University (www.NextGenU.org, the world’s first free university). She has
actively participated in ACPM activities since 1986.
WILLIAM KANE RISING
STAR AWARD:
Jean Paul Chretien, MD, PhD, MHS

Jean-Paul Chretien, MD, PhD, MHS, is a Navy medical
officer deployed in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, where he leads force health
protection for the NATO International Security Assistance Force. Previously, he coordinated Department of
Defense (DoD) international public health partnerships at the DoD Global
Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System. Dr. Chretien graduated with a BS in Political
Science from the United States Naval Academy, where he was a Truman
Scholar. He received his MD from the
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and PhD (Epidemiology) and MHS
(Biostatistics) from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in
Health Science Informatics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
and Preventive Medicine residency at the Walter Reed Army Institute of
Research. Jean-Paul is Adjunct
Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the Uniformed
Services University, a Fellow of the Truman National Security Project, and a
Term Member in the Council on Foreign Relations.
DONALD
GEMSON RESIDENT
AWARD:
Karsten Lunze, MD, MPH
Karsten
Lunze, MD, MPH, received his medical
degree and a subsequent doctorate in genetic epidemiology from Charité Medical
School in Berlin, Germany, and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.
He trained in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology at Charité and Hopkins
University, and in Preventive Medicine at Boston University, directed by Jane
Liebschutz, MD, FACPM. Dr. Lunze is involved in global public health research,
practice, and advocacy, particularly in newborn health, addiction medicine, and
health and human rights. He practices clinically in Boston. Within the American
College of Preventive Medicine, he advocates for breastfeeding as an effective
intervention for mother and child health.