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

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

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

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

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:
David Satcher, MD, PhD, FACPM

David Satcher, MD, PhD, FACPM, is Interim President of Morehouse School of Medicine, National Center for Primary Care. He served simultaneously as United States Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health from February 1998 through January 2001. While in these posts, he spearheaded the development of Healthy People 2010, which included the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities in health as one of its two goals. He also released 14 Surgeon General’s reports on topics including tobacco and health, mental health, suicide prevention, oral health, sexual health, youth violence prevention, and overweight and obesity. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Satcher served as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Dr. Satcher is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and Macy Faculty Fellow. He is the recipient of over 40 honorary degrees and numerous distinguished honors including the “Voice of Conscience Award” from Aetna in 2004 for his work toward eliminating health disparities and the “Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health” in 2002.

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD:
Halley Faust, MD, MPH, MA, FACPM

Halley S. Faust, MD, MPH, MA, FACPM, is the Clinical Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico; and Managing Member, Jerome Capital, LLC. Dr. Faust joined ACPM in 1977 and became a Fellow in 1981. He earned his MD from Jefferson Medical College in 1976, his MPH from the University of Michigan and his MA from Wesleyan University. Dr. Faust has long represented the College in a variety of positions including chairing the scientific session of the annual meeting in 1982. He is a founding member of the policy committee, chairing the committee during the Clinton Health Care Reform efforts and beyond from 1993–1996, as well as chairing the Health Care Access and Health Insurance Subcommittees. He was a founding member of the Guidelines and Development Committee (now the Prevention Practice Committee), and has been a contributor to the Preventive Medicine Leadership Fund for many years. He has served on the Preventive Medicine Annual Conference Planning Committee since 2000, chairing the Policy Track in 2004. In 2003 he joined the Finance Committee and was elected Treasurer-Secretary of the College from 2004–2008. Dr. Faust currently chairs the College’s Code of Ethics Development Committee.

WILLIAM KANE RISING STAR AWARD:

Prathibha Varkey, MD, MPH, MHPE, FACPM

Prathibha Varkey, MD, MPH, MHPE, FACPM, is Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine, Internal Medicine and Medical Education at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN and serves as one of the Associate Chairs for the Department of Medicine at Mayo Clinic. She is also the Program Director for the Preventive Medicine Fellowship at Mayo Clinic and practices clinical preventive medicine. Until recently she was the Director of the Quality Improvement Curriculum at Mayo Medical School and Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the American College of Medical Quality and is an expert in quality improvement, medical education and refugee health. She is a recipient of the 2004 AMA Foundation Leadership Award Program, the 2008 AMA Women Physicians’ Congress Mentor Award, and the 2009 American College of Medical Quality’s Service Award. She earned her MD from the Christian Medical College, Vellore, India, and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the Hospital of St. Raphael, New Haven, CT and Preventive Medicine fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

Lorraine F. Yeung, MD, MPH, FACPM

Lorraine F. Yeung, MD, MPH, FACPM, is a medical epidemiologist at the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her research focuses on birth defects epidemiology and folic acid use. Dr. Yeung has made numerous contributions to the field of public health and preventive medicine in the form of publications, presentations at national scientific conferences, and through managing a large international collaborative project between CDC and Peking University Health Science Center in China. Previously, Dr. Yeung was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer at CDC from 2002 to 2004. Dr. Yeung received her MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine. She then completed a combined internal medicine/pediatric residency at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and a preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she received her MPH and served as chief resident. Dr. Yeung is board certified in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. Since joining ACPM in 1999, Dr. Yeung has served in multiple capacities, including Association of Preventive Medicine Residents (APMR) President, Young Physicians Section (YPS) Chair, Preventive Medicine 2006 Conference Chair, and currently as the Young Physician Regent on the ACPM Board of Regents and member of the Membership Committee. Dr. Yeung was the recipient of the ACPM Resident Award in 2002.
 

DON GEMSON RESIDENT AWARD:
Sara Brenner, MD

Sara Brenner, MD, is a senior preventive medicine resident at SUNY–Albany and the New York State Department of Health. She has been a member of the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) since 2005 and has served as the President of the Medical Student Section and the President of the Resident Physician Section. She also serves on ACPM’s Code of Ethics Committee, the Graduate Medical Education Committee, and served on the planning committee for Preventive Medicine 2008. Her training has focused on health policy, and she is frequently in D.C. advancing federal health policy initiatives in preventive medicine and public health. Other areas of interest include cancer screening and prevention, global health, and health care systems analysis. Dr. Brenner is both personally and professionally dedicated to prevention and practices what she preaches by participating in local running clubs, racing distances from the 1km to 50-mile ultramarathons, and teaching swing and ballroom dance.