Awards

Past Winners

  • 2023 Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, MPH, MBA
  • 2022 Randall Longenecker, MD
  • 2021 Rebecca Etz, PhD
  • 2020 Melissa Stiles, MD
  • 2019 Andrea Anderson, MD
  • 2018 Keisha Fallin-Bennett, MD, MPH
  • 2017 Anne L. Kittendorf, MD
  • 2016 Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH
  • 2015 Dennis Dimitri, MD
  • 2014 Jack Westfall, MD, MPH
  • 2013 Joseph Gravel, Jr., MD
  • 2012 Kevin Grumbach, MD
  • 2011 Russell Robertson, MD
  • 2010 Elissa Palmer, MD
  • 2009 Larry Green, MD; Perry Pugno, MD; Samuel Jones, MD
  • 2008 Allen Hixon, MD
  • 2007 WWAMI Network of Family Medicine Residencies
  • 2006 Robert Crittenden, MD, MPH
  • 2005 Daniel Onion, MD
  • 2004 Jeffrey Cain, MD
  • 2023
    “Physician Attitudes and Self-reported Practices Toward Prostate Cancer Screening in Black and White Men”

    Nicholas Shungu MD, MPH et al

  • 2022
    “Assessing Family Medicine Residency Programs’ Training on Human Trafficking:A National Survey of Program Directors.
    Ranit Mishori,MD,MSPH; Katherine Stolarz, DO; Anita Ravi, MD, MPH; Valeriy R. Korostyshevskiy, PhD, MSc; Ronald Chambers, MD; Peter Cronholm MD, MS
  • 2021
    Awareness of Meaning in Life is Protective Against Burnout Among Family Physicians: A CERA Study
    Stephanie A. Hooker, PhD, MPH; Robert E. Post, MD, MS; Michelle D. Sherman, PhD, ABPP
  • 2020
    Perceptions of Parenting Residents Among Family Medicine Residency Directors
    Laura E. Morris, MD, MSPH; Erik Lindbloom, MD, MSPH; Robin L. Kruse, PhD, MSPH; Karla T. Washington, PhD, LCSW; Nikole J. Cronk, PhD; Heather L. Paladine, MD, MEd

  • 2019
    Institutional NIH Research Funding and a Culture of Support for Family Medicine—Their Relationship to Family Medicine Specialty Choice
    Arch G. Mainous III, PhD; Maribeth Porter, MD, MS; Denny Fe Agana, MPH; Alexander W. Chessman, MD
  • 2023 Michael Fetters, MD, MPH, MA 
  • 2022 Magdalena Pasarica, MD, PhD
  • 2021 Kola Okuyemi, MD, MPH
  • 2020 Fern Hauck, MD, MS
  • 2019 Caroline Richardson, MD
  • 2018 W. Perry Dickinson, MD
  • 2017 Mack Ruffin, IV, MD, MPH
  • 2016 Richard Zimmerman, MD, MPH, MA, MS
  • 2015 Diane Harper, MD, MPH, MS
  • 2014 Benjamin Crabtree, PhD, and William Miller, MD
  • 2013 Kevin Fiscella, MD
  • 2012 Kurt Stange, MD
  • 2011 Thomas Rosenthal, MD
  • 2010 Alfred Berg, MD, MPH
  • 2009 Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH
  • 2008 Howard Rabinowitz, MD
  • 2007 Peter Franks, MD
  • 2006 Jack M. Colwill, MD
  • 2005 Allen Dietrich, MD
  • 2004 Stephen Zyzanski, PhD
  • 2003 Paul Nutting, MD, MSPH
  • 2002 Julian Tudor Hart, MD
  • 2001 Lorne Becker, MD
  • 2000 Klea Bertakis, MD, MPH
  • 1999 Carole Bland, PhD
  • 1998 Larry Green, MD
  • 1997 Larry Culpepper, MD
  • 1996 Roger Rosenblatt, MD, MPH
  • 1995 Eugene Farley, Jr, MD, MPH
  • 1994 Martin Bass, MD, MSc
  • 1993 Paul Frame, MD
  • 1992 Gerald Perkoff, MD
  • 1991 George Parkerson, Jr, MD, MPH
  • 1990 John P. Geyman, MD
  • 1989 Ian R. McWhinney, MD, FCP, FRCP
  • 1988 Jack H. Medalie, MD, MPH
  • 1987 Jack Froom, MD
  • 1986 Kerr White, MD
  • 1985 Maurice Wood, MD
  • 2023 Jennifer Edgoose, MD, MPH
  • 2022 Kathryn Fraser, PhD
  • 2023 Patrice Eff, MD
  • 2022 Donald Middleton, MD
  • 2021 Larry Leeman, MD, MPH
  • 2020 Alison Dobbie, MD, ChB
  • 2019 Robert Hatch, MD, MPH
  • 2018 Linda Prine, MD
  • 2017 Stephen Ratcliffe, MD, MSPH
  • 2016 Alexander Chessman, MD
  • 2015 David Keegan, MD
  • 2014 Carmen Domiguez-Rafer, MD, MPH
  • 2013 Diane Harper, MD, MPH
  • 2012 James Tysinger, PhD
  • 2011 Randall Longenecker, MD
  • 2010 Sam Cullison, MD, MPH
  • 2009 Laurel Milberg, PhD
  • 2008 Kent Sheets, PhD
  • 2007 Anita Taylor, MEd
  • 2006 Mark Quirk, EdD
  • 2005 John (Jack) Pfenninger, MD
  • 2004 William Anderson, PhD
  • 2003 William K. Mygdal, EdD
  • 2002 Cynthia Haq, MD
  • 2001 Deborah Simpson, PhD
  • 2000 Peter Curtis, MD
  • 1999 Stephen Bogdewic, PhD
  • 1998 Frank Hale, PhD
  • 1997 Marian R. Stuart, PhD
  • 1996 Norman B. Kahn, Jr, MD
  • 1995 Robert L. Blake, Jr, MD
  • 1994 Joel Merenstein, MD
  • 1993 Lucy Candib, MD; Wm. MacMillan Rodney, MD
  • 1992 Michael Gordon, PhD
  • 1991 Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH; Dona L. Harris, PhD
  • 1990 Jack Froom, MD; Gabriel Smilkstein, MD
  • 1989 Carole J. Bland, PhD; Robert B. Taylor, MD
  • 1988 Jack H. Medalie, MD, MPH; Katharine A. Munning, PhD
  • 1987 Nikitas J. Zervanos, MD
  • 1986 Jack M. Colwill, MD; William Reichel, MD
  • 1985 Jorge Prieto, MD; Donald C. Ransom, PhD
  • 1984 Robert C. Davidson, MD, MPH
  • 1983 B. Lewis Barnett, Jr, MD; Arthur Kaufman, MD; Fitzhugh Mayo, MD
  • 1982 Frank C. Snope, MD
  • 1981 Hiram B. Curry, MD; Theodore J. Phillips, MD
  • 1980 John P. Geyman, MD; G. Gayle Stephens, MD
  • 1979 F. Marian Bishop, PhD, MSPH; Ian R. McWhinney, MD; Thomas L. Stern, MD
  • 1978 Lynn P. Carmichael, MD
  • 2021 Oregon Health & Sciences University Scappoose Primary Care Clinic
  • 2020 Riverdale Family Practice, Bronx, NY
  • 2019 Medstar Franklin Square Family Health Center
  • 2018 Johnston Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency, Abingdon, VA
  • 2017 Department of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
  • 2016 A.F. Williams Family Medicine Center,  University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • 2015 Department of Community Health and Family Medicine, University of Florida
  • 2014  CMC-Elizabeth Family Medicine
  • 2013  SugarHouse Family Health Center
  • 2012  Terry Riley Health Services
  • 2011  Rose Family Medicine Residency
  • 2010  PeaceHealth Medical Group

     

  • 2023 John Saultz, MD
  • 2022 Jeannette South-Paul, MD
  • 2021 Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD
  • 2020 Michael Magill, MD
  • 2019 Stephen P. Bogdewic, PhD, MA
  • 2018 Valerie Gilchrist, MD
  • 2017 Peter Carek, MD
  • 2016 Cynda A. Johnson, MD
  • 2015 Carlos Moreno, MD, MSPH
  • 2014 Perry A. Pugno, MD
  • 2013 Thomas E. Norris, MD
  • 2012 Joel Merenstein, MD
  • 2011  Edward Shahady, MD
  • 2010  Lucy Candib, MD
  • 2009  Warren Heffron, MD
  • 2008  Alfred Berg, MD, MPH
  • 2007  Robert Taylor, MD & Ed Ciriacy, MD (posthumously)
  • 2006  John J. Frey, MD
  • 2005  G. Gayle Stephens, MD
  • 2004  John P. Geyman, MD
  • 2003  Robert F. Avant, MD
  • 2002  Jack M. Colwill, MD
  • 2001  Marjorie Bowman, MD, MPA
  • 2000  Robert Graham, MD
  • 1999  William Jacott, MD
  • 1998  Paul Young, MD
  • 1997  Paul Brucker, MD
  • 1996  B. Lewis Barnett, Jr, MD
  • 1995  Reginald Perkin, MD
  • 1994  Daniel J. Ostergaard, MD
  • 1993  David Satcher, MD, PhD
  • 1992  Robert Rakel, MD
  • 1991  Thomas Stern, MD
  • 1990  Nicholas Pisacano, MDa
  • 2023 Primary Care Initiative  (The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California)
  • 2022 Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance
  • 2021 Clinical Observation and Medical Transcription (COMET) Fellowship Program
  • 2020 Medical Safe Haven Program
  • 2019 UMASS Correctional Health Program
  • 2018 AFP Podcast
  • 2017 Adolescent Champion Model
  • 2016 CAFM Educational Research Alliance (CERA)
  • 2015 fmCASES
  • 2014 The O'Connor-Stanford Leaders in Education Residency (OSLER)
  • 2013 Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST)
  • 2012 Lawrence Family Medicine Residency
  • 2011 The Integrative Medicine in Residency Online Curriculum, Patricia Lebensohn, MD, director
  • 2010 No award given
  • 2009 The Family Medicine Digital Resources Library: Helen Baker, PhD, MBA; Traci Nolte, CAE; Jacob Reider, MD; Richard Usatine, MD
  • 2008 The Healer's Art Course, Rachel Remen, MD
  • 2007 Smiles for Life Steering Committe: Alan Douglass, MD; Wanda Gonsalves, MD; Russell Maier, MD; Hugh Silk, MD; Nancy Stevens, MD, MPH; James Tysinger, PhD; and Steve Wrightson, MD
  • 2006 Gurjeet Shokar, MD; Robert Bulik, PhD
  • 2005 Richard Zimmerman, MD, MPH; Sanford Kimmel, MD, Donald Middleton, MD
  • 2004 Ellen Beck, MD
  • 2003 Marji Gold, MD
  • 2002 Allen Shaughnessy, PharmD; David Slawson, MD
  • 2001 Perry Pugno, MD, MPH, AAFP; Frank Dornfest, MD
  • 2000 Kent J. Sheets, PhD
  • 1999 Jeffrey Stearns, MD
  • 1998 Richard Zimmerman, MD, MPH; Ilene Burns, MD, MPH
  • 1997 Susan E. Skochelak, MD, MPH
  • 1996 James R. Damos, MD
  • 1995 Scott A. Fields, MD; William L. Toffler, MD
  • 1994 Luis Samaniego, MD
  • 1993 No award given
  • 1992 Patrick McBride, MD
  • 1991 Franklyn Dornfest, MD
  • 1990 H. John Blossom, MD; Diane Plorde McCann, MD
  • 1989 Peter Curtis, MD
  • 1988 Thomas L. Campbell, MD; Susan McDaniel, PhD
  • 1987 Norman B. Kahn, Jr, MD
  • 2023 RIck Kellerman, MD
  • 2022 Allen Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd and David C Slawson, MD
  • 2021 Kola Okuyemi, MD, MPH
  • 2020 Philip Zazove, MD
  • 2019 Kathleen Klink, MD
  • 2018 Deborah Taylor, PhD
  • 2017 Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH
  • 2016 William Shore, MD
  • 2015 Macaran Baird, MD, MS
  • 2014 Jeannette South-Paul, MD
  • 2013 Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, MPH
  • 2012 Joseph Scherger, MD, MPH
  • 2011 Susan McDaniel, PhD
  • 2010 Elizabeth Garrett, MD, MSPH
  • 2009 Denise Rodgers, MD
  • 2008 Laurence Bauer, MSW, MEd
  • 2007 Joseph Hobbs, MD
  • 2006 Josh Freeman, MD
  • 2005 Dona Harris, PhD
  • 2004 Paul Paulman, MD
  • 2003 Thomas L. Schwenk, MD
  • 2002 David Swee, MD
  • 2001 Jay Siwek, MD
  • 2000 Katherine C. Krause, MD
  • 1999 Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD; Jane Westberg, PhD
  • 1998 Howard Stein, PhD
  • 1997 Donald L. Fink, MD
  • 1996 Anthony F. Vuturo, MD, MPH
  • 1995 Joseph W. Tollison, MD
  • 1994 Peter Coggan, MD, MSEd; Robert Massad, MD
  • 1993 Robert L. Van Citters, MD; John Lein, MD
  • 1992 Annie Lea Shuster
  • 1991 James G. Jones, MD
  • 1990 Rosemarie Sweeney, MPA
  • 1989 Eugene S. Farley, Jr, MD, MPH
  • 1987 Thomas L. Leaman, MD; Rafael C. Sanchez, MD
  • 1986 Julio Ceitlin, MD; John J. Frey, MD
  • 1985 David N. Sundwall, MD; William H. Burnett, MA
  • 1984 Edward J. Shahady, MD; Nicholas J. Pisacano, MD
  • 1981 Richard H. Moy, MD
  • 1978 Robert F. Knouss, MD
  • 2023
    “Curricular Recommendations for a National Family Medicine Subinternship: A Qualitative Analysis From Multiple Stakeholders”
    Mariasyl de la Cruz, MD et al
  • 2022
    Use of Patient Identifiers at the University of Washington School of Medicine: Building Institutional Consensus to Reduce Bias and Stigma
    Amanda Kost, MD, MEd; Tokunbo Akande, MD, MPH, MS; Robert Jones, MD; Rose Gabert; Margaret Isaac, MD; Nicole S. Dettmar, MSIS, MS
  • 2021
    Contributions of US Medical Schools to Primary Care (2003-2014): Determining and Predicting Who Really Goes Into Primary Care
    Mark Deutchman, MD; Francesca Macaluso, MPH; Jason Chao, MD; Christopher Duffrin, PhD; Karim Hanna, MD; Daniel M. Avery, Jr, MD; Emily Onello, MD; Kathleen Quinn, PhD; Mary Tabor Griswold, PhD; Mustafa Alavi, MD; James Boulger, PhD; Patrick Bright, MA; Benjamin Schneider, MD; Jana Porter, MS; Shanon Luke, MS; James Durham, MS; Memoona Hasnain, MD, PhD, MHPE; Katherine A. James, PhD, MS, MSPH
  • 2020
    The Family Medicine Attitudes Questionnaire: A Valid Instrument to Assess Student Attitudes Toward Family Medicine
    Julie P. Phillips, MD, MPH; Jacob Prunuske, MD, MSPH;  Laurie Fitzpatrick; Brian Mavis, PhD
  • 2019
    Delivering Interconception Care During Well-Child Visits: An IMPLICIT Network Study
    Sukanya Srinivasan, Lisa Schlar, Stephanie E. Rosener, Daniel J. Frayne, Scott G. Hartman, Michael A. Horst, Jessica L. Brubach and Stephen Ratcliffe
  • 2018 
    U.S. Medical Schools' Compliance With the Americans With Disabilities Act: Findings From a National Study
    Philip Zazove; Benjamin Case; Christopher Moreland; Melissa A. Plegue; Anne Hoekstra; Alicia Ouellette; Ananda Sen; Michael D. Fetters
  • 2017 
    Practical Opportunities for Healthy Diet and Physical Activity: Relationship to Intentions, Behaviors, and Body Mass Index
    Robert L. Ferrer, MD, MPH, Sandra K. Burge, PhD, Raymond F. Palmer, PhD, Inez Cruz, PhD, MSW, The RRNeT Investigators
  • 2016
    More Comprehensive Care Among Family Physicians Is Associated With Lower Costs and Fewer Hospitalizations
    Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH, Stephen Petterson, PhD, Lars E. Peterson, MD, PhD, and Robert L. Phillips Jr, MD, MSPH
  • 2015
    Prescription Opioid Analgesics Increase the Risk of Depression
    Jeffery F. Scherrer, PhD; Dragan M. Svrakic, MD, PhD; Kenneth E. Freedland, PhD; Timothy Chrusciel, MPH; Sumitra Balasubramanian, MS; Kathleen K. Bucholz, PhD; Elizabeth V. Lawler, DSc, MPH; and Patrick Lustman, PHD
  • 2014 
    Interactive Preventive Health Record to Enhance Delivery of Recommended Care: A Randomized Trial
    Alex Krist MD, MPH, Steven Wolf, MD, MPH, Stephen Rothernich, MD, MS, Robert Johnson, PhD, J. Eric Peele, BA, Tina D. Cunningham, PhD, Daniel Longo, ScD, Ghalib A. Bello, BS and Gary R. Matzke, PharmD (Ann Fam Med. 2012 July-Aug;312-9)
  • 2013
    Jeanne Ferrante, MD, MPH; Ellen McCarthy, PhD; Ji-Hyun Lee, DrPH; Eduardo Gonzalez, MD; Ren Chen, MD, MPH; Kymia Love-Jackson, MBA, MS; Richard Roetzheim, MD, MSPH
  • 2012
    Kimberly G. Harmon, MD; Irfan M. Asif, MD; David Klossner, ATC, PhD; Jonathan A. Drezner, MD
  • 2011
    Carlos Jaen, MD, PhD; William Miller, MD, MA; Marivel Davila, MPH; Benjamin Crabtree, PhD; Paul Nutting, MD, MSPH; Kurt Stange, MD, PhD; Raymond Palmer, PhD; Robert Wood, DrPH; Elizabeth Stewart, PhD; Elizabeth Stewart, PhD
  • 2010
    Brian Jack, MD; Veerappa Chetty, PhD; David Anthony, MD, MSc; Jeffrey Greenwald, MD; Gail Sanchez, PharmD, BCPS; Anna Johnson, RN; Shaula Forsthe, MA, MPH; Julie O’Connell, MPH; Michael Paasche-Orlow, MD, MA, MPH; Christopher Manasseh, MD; Stephen Mar
  • 2009
    Alex Kirst, MD, MS; Resa Jones, MPH, PhD; Steven Woolf, MD, MPH; Sara Woessner, MD; Daniel Merenstein, MD; J. William Kerns, MD; Walter Foliaco, MD; Paul Jackson, MD
  • 2008
    Dan Merenstein, MD; Marie Diener-West, PhD; Ann Halbower, MD; Alex Krist, MD; Haya Rubin, MD, PhD
  • 2007
    William Ventres, MD, MA; Sarah Kooienga, FNP; Ryan Marlin, MD, MPH; Peggy Nygren, MA: and Valerie Stewart, PhD
  • 2006
    Allen Dietrich, MD; Thomas Oxman MD, John Williams Jr, MD, MHS, Herbert Schulberg, PhD, Martha Bruce, PhD, MPH, Pamela Lee, PhD, Sheila Barry, Patrick Raue, PhD, Jean Lefever, MS, Moonseong Heo, PhD, Kathryn Rost, PhD, Kurt Kroenke, Martha Gerrity, MD, PhD, Paul Nutting, MD, MSPH
  • 2005
    Charles Mouton, MD, MS; Rebecca Rodabough, MS; Susan Rovi, PhD; Julie Hunt, PhD; Melissa Talamantes, MA; Robert Brzyski, MD, PhD; Sandra Burge, PhD
  • 2004
    Joseph DiFranza, MD; Judith Savageau, MPH; Nancy Igotti, MD; Kenneth Fletcher, PhD; Judith Ockene, PhD; Ann McNeill, PhD; Mardia Coleman, BS; Connie Wood, BS
  • 2003
    David Mehr, MD; Ellen Binder, MD; Robin Kruse, PhD; Steven Zweig, MD, MSPH; Richard Madsen, PhD; Lori Popejoy, MSN, RN; Ralph B. D’Agostino, PhD
  • 2002
    Kurt Stange, MD, PhD; Susan Flocke, PhD; Meredith Goodwin, MS; Robert Kelly, MD, MS; Stephen Zyzanski, PhD
  • 2001
    Kevin Grumbach, MD; Joe Selby, MD, MPH; Cheryl Damberg, PhD; Andrew Bindman, MD; Charles Quesenberry, PhD; Alison Truman, MA; Connie Uratsu, MA
  • 2000
    Allen Dietrich, MD; Ardis Olson, MD; Carol Hill Sox, Engr; et al
  • 1999
    Kurt Stange, MD, PhD; Stephen Zyzanski, PhD; Carlos Jaen, MD, PhD
  • 1998
    Michael F. Fleming, MD, MPH; Kristen Barry, PhD; Linda Manwell; Kristen Johnson, MA; Richard London, MD; et al
  • 1997
    Daniel Longo, ScD; Ross Brownson, PhD; Jane Johnson, MA, et al
  • 1996
    Alfred Tallia, MD, MPH; David Swee, MD; Robin Winter, MD; et al
  • 1995
    Bernard Ewigman, MD; James Crane, MD; Fredric Frigoletto, MD, et al
  • 1994
    Michael Klein, MD; Robert Gautheir, MD; Sally Jorgenson, MB, et al
  • 1993
    Paul Fischer, MD; Meyer Schwartz, MD; John Richards, Jr, MD; Adam Goldstein, MD; Tina Rojas
  • 1992
    Thomas Nesbitt, MD, MPH; Frederick Connell, MD, MPH; L. Gary Hart, PhD; Roger Rosenblatt, MD, MPH
  • 1991
    William Wadland, MD, MS; Dennis Plante, MD
  • 1990
    Paul Fischer, MD; John Richards, Jr, MD; Earl Berman, MD; Dean Krugman, PhD
  • 1989
    Allen Dietrich, MD; Eugene Nelson, DSc; John Kirk, MD; Michael Zubkoff, PhD; Gerald O'Connor, PhD, DSc

This award was sunsetted in 2022

  • 2021 Amy Davis, MD, MPH
  • 2020 Johanna Shapiro, PhD
  • 2019 Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH
  • 2018 Lucille Marchand, MD, BSN
  • 2017 Ronald Epstein, MD
  • 2016 Sharon Dobie, MD
  • 2015 William Schwab, MD

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