ACPM AWARDS

PAST WINNERS

The Ronald Davis Special Recognition Award honors outstanding achievement in or contribution to the field of preventive medicine. Recipients do not need to be working directly in the field of preventive medicine, but should be recognized as important contributors to the field.

The Distinguished Service Award recognizes a Fellow or Member of ACPM for outstanding service to ACPM.

The William Kane Rising Star Award honors a member of ACPM, who is within seven years of completion of residency training and who is certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. The recipient must have demonstrated a commitment to preventive medicine and the potential to make significant contributions to the field of preventive medicine and its organizations.

The Don Gemson Resident Award honors a resident member of ACPM, in any year of training including the practice year, for outstanding achievement in community service, scholarship, research, teaching and overall leadership. Evidence of a strong potential for future contributions to the field of preventive medicine is required. In addition, the recipient of the Resident Award will receive a check for $500.

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Past Winners

RONALD DAVIS SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD

William Schaffner, MD 2010
David Satcher, MD, PhD 2009
Ronald M. Davis, MD 2008
C. William Keck, MD 2007
Lloyd Novick, MD 2006
Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD 2005
Michael C. Fiore, MD 2004
Don Vickery, MD  2003
Barry Levy, MD 2002
Duncan Clark, MD 2001
F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD 2000
Kenneth Kizer, MD 1999
Alice Ring, MD 1998
Bill Foege, MD 1997
David A. Kessler, MD 1996
Philip R. Lee, MD 1995
Steven Woolf, MD 1994
David Rogers, MD 1993
D.A. Henderson, MD 1992
John Last, MD 1991
James O. Mason, MD 1990
J. Michael McGinnis, MD 1989
Robert S. Lawrence, MD 1988
C. Everett Koop, MD 1987
Alexander D. Langmuir, MD 1986
 

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

Jill Waalen, MD 2010
Halley Faust, MD 2009
Neal D. Kohatsu, MD 2008
Miriam Alexander, MD 2007
Judy Rubin, MD 2006
George Anderson, MD 2005
Arthur L. Frank, MD 2004
Michael Parkinson, MD 2003
Ronald Davis, MD 2002
Kevin Patrick, MD 2001
Jonathan Fielding, MD 2000
Marcel Salive, MD 1999
Roy DeHart, MD 1998
Eric Evenson, MD 1997
Gershon Bergeisen, MD 1997
Dorothy Lane, MD 1996
Suzanne Dandoy, MD 1995
David Harris, MD 1994
Fred Nobrega, MD 1993
F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD 1992
Hugh H. Tilson, MD 1991
Edward A. Lichter, MD 1990
M. Alfred Haynes, MD 1989
Joseph Stokes, III, MD 1989
Jacqueline Messite, MD 1988
Terence Collins, MD 1987
Frank L. Babbott, Jr., MD 1986
H. Bruce Dull, MD 1985
John M. Last, MD 1984
William Foege, MD 1984
William P. Richardson, MD 1980
Walter C. Barnes, MD 1977
Lester Breslow, MD 1976
Kurt W. Deuschle, MD 1975
Katharine Boucot Sturgis, MD 1973
Ernest L. Stebbins, MD 1972
 

WILLIAM KANE RISING STAR AWARD

Wendy Braund, MD 2010
Prathibha Varkey, MD and
Lorraine F. Yeung, MD 2009
Elizabeth Tilson, MD 2008
Paul D. Rockswold, MD 2007
Michael Compton, MD 2006
Joseph McLaughlin, MD 2005
Amber E. Barnato, MD 2004
E. Anne Peterson, MD  2003
James Tacci, MD and Mirza Rahman, MD 2002
David Katz, MD 2001
Eric France, MD 2000
Stephanie Zaza, MD 1999
John D. Meyer, MD 1998
Miriam Alexander, MD 1997
Michael Parkinson, MD 1996
Erica Frank, MD 1996
 

DON GEMSON RESIDENT AWARD

Jaspal Ahluwalia, MD 2010
Sara Brenner, MD 2009
Jennifer Espiritu, MD 2008
Kshamica S. Nimalasuriya, MD 2007
Ryung Suh, MD 2006
Jason Spangler, MD 2005
Matthew Allison, MD  2004
Greg Holzman, MD  2003
Lorraine Yeung, MD 2002
Caroline Volel, MD 2001
Anne Lang, MD 2000
J. Patrick Moulds, MD 1999
Elizabeth Kann, MD 1998
Rebecca Ferrini, MD 1997
Rika Maeshiro, MD 1996

RONALD DAVIS SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD:
William Schaffner, MD, FACPM

William Schaffner, MD, FACPM, is Chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine as well as Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee.  His primary interests are infectious diseases and their prevention.  He is a staunch proponent of collaboration between academic medical centers and public health institutions in order to advance the scientific basis of public health practice.  After graduation from Yale in 1957, Dr. Schaffner attended the University of Freiburg, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar.  He graduated from Cornell University Medical College in 1962, and did his residency training and a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt, and then was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the CDC.  He returned to join the Vanderbilt faculty and began a 40-year close association with the Tennessee Department of Health, where he has collaborated on investigations of communicable diseases and environmental hazards as well as supervising the training of 21 EIS Officers.  Dr. Schaffner has published nearly 400 scientific articles, textbook chapters and editorials and he is a consultant in public health policy to numerous local, national and international institutions including the World Health Organization (WHO). Currently, he is President-Elect of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and is a member of the Executive Council of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.  He has been associated in various roles with the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for nearly 28 years and has served on many expert advisory groups that promote prevention through vaccination.  Dr. Schaffner is an authoritative presence in the national and international media where he provides a knowledgeable perspective to educate the public on current communicable disease issues and is a constant advocate for prevention.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD:
Jill Waalen, MD, MS, MPH, FACPM

Jill Waalen, MD, MS, MPH, FACPM, has served as Director of ACPM’s In-Service Examination for Preventive Medicine residents since 2002 and as chair of the College’s Annual Board Review Course beginning in 2009. She is also currently serving as West Regent on the ACPM Board of Regents, a position she was appointed to in 2008.  She has been a member of the Graduate Medical Education Committee and was chair of the planning committee for Preventive Medicine 2007 in Miami.  Dr. Waalen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, specializing in Genetic Epidemiology.  She has published more than 35 articles on studies involving the genetic epidemiology of obesity, hemochromatosis, anemia and other hematologic diseases as well as screening for domestic violence and translational cancer research.  She also serves as Associate Director of the University of California San Diego-San Diego State University General Preventive Medicine Residency Program. 

WILLIAM KANE RISING STAR AWARD:
Wendy Elizabeth Braund, MD, MPH, MSEd

Wendy Elizabeth Braund, MD, MPH, MSEd, is Chair of the Planning Committee for the Preventive Medicine 2010 conference. She is also a member of ACPM’s Adolescent Health, CME, and Policy Committees, as well as serving as the Young Physician Regent on the ACPM Board of Regents. Dr. Braund is the Acting Prevention Science Team Lead in the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). She is a senior advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) and directs the team responsible for leadership and coordination within HHS on nutrition issues, including co-producing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans with the U.S. Department of Agriculture; review of materials relating to the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans; and oversight of ODPHP’s Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Scholarship Program.  She is a 2007 graduate of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Preventive Medicine Residency Program and is board certified in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Her degrees include a BA from Duke University, MSEd from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, MD from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, and MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management.

DON GEMSON RESIDENT AWARD:
Jaspal Singh Ahluwalia, MD, MPH

Jaspal Singh Ahluwalia, MD, MPH, a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, is currently completing an occupational and environmental medicine fellowship at Uniformed Services University after finishing a residency last year in general preventive medicine at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.  He received his MD from The Ohio State University and his MPH from Johns Hopkins University.  Over the past several years, his broad-ranging international interests have led him to engage in unique and exciting projects in Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Cameroon, Kenya, and Thailand.  Additional practicum experiences include an epidemiological investigation of increasing violent behaviors in certain military populations and a performance improvement project targeting usage of clinical preventive services in military treatment facilities.  He has served as the president of ACPM’s resident physician section and track chair of the career development track for Preventive Medicine 2009.  He was a recipient of the 2009 AMA Foundation Leadership Award and the 2009 ACMQ Quality Scholars Award.  His professional interests include infectious diseases, medical quality improvement, and public health advocacy.