2023 Chapter Excellence Award
We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.
Bronze Winner - California Northern
We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Bronze Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes chapters that achieve basics in chapter management. In order to achieve the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria. Criteria include such activities as being involved in advocacy activities, communicating with members, having a chapter/regional scientific meeting along with a planning committee, having a sound financial structure in place, recruiting and advancing members and having an awards committee that identifies candidates for local or national awards.
Gold Winners - Southern California Region 1, Southern California Region 2, Southern California Region 3
We are pleased to announce that our regions are in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 54 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria, seventeen Silver criteria and multiple Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians.
The DEI Scholars Program for Visiting Medical Students
(August 2023) The DEI Scholars Program aims to provide financial support and mentorship for underrepresented and historically marginalized medical students completing an Internal Medicine (IM) elective in San Diego hospitals or clinical settings. This grant program seeks students committed to upholding and expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion within health care. Students will also be eligible to access mentors in San Diego.
Grant and Eligibility Information and link to application can be found here
We Request Your Feedback on the Proposed Fall 2023 Board of Governors Resolutions
(August 2023) We would like to request your feedback regarding resolutions that will be considered at the Fall 2023 Board of Governors Meeting. With the exception of Resolution 3-F23 which was accepted as a reaffirmation and will not be debated, please review the balance of the slate and then indicate your support or opposition by completing the resolutions electronic response form by August 30th.
After considering the intent of each resolution and how it fits with the College’s Mission and Goals, please provide your feedback on each resolution and indicate your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by August 30. Your input will be used as part of testimony on behalf of the chapter.
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to provide comments regarding these resolutions. By providing your feedback on the Board of Governors resolutions, you have helped to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.
Congratulations New Chapter Fellows
California Northern
- Abhishek Gulati, MD FACP
- Umer Hayyat, MD FACP
- Matthew R Sakumoto, MD FACP
- Mark G Shapiro, MD FACP
California Southern 1
- Haris Ali, MD FACP
- Utibe R Essien, MD FACP
- Meghana K Frenchman, MD FACP
- George Ishak, MD FACP
- Nitya A Nathwani, MD FACP
- Sharif Tarazi, MD FACP
California Southern 2
- Joan M Fishman, MD FACP
California Southern 3
- Sean Kenmore, MD FACP
- William Mobley, MD
(July 2023) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.
Call for Spring 2024 BOG Resolutions
(July 2023) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you'd like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.
Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Participating in the Board of Governors resolutions process provides the ACP grassroots member a voice and allows you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.
Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The recently released ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is now available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.
Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval to move resolutions forward to ACP national is required. A resolution becomes a resolution of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Spring 2024 Board of Governors Meeting is October 16, 2023.
Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution.
BOR Action on Spring 2023 BOG Resolutions
(June 2023) summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Spring 2023 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.
California Southern III Region Receives the Mary Bieter Evergreen All Stars Award
(May 2023) The Mary Bieter Evergreen All-Star Awards recognized exceptional and sustained chapter-initiated programs that supported and adapted to the Internal Medicine landscape in the United States and around the world. ACP Members were asked to review and select All-Star nominations they believed were worth of recognition. The California Southern III Region received the Mary Bieter Evergreen All-Star Award for their initiative, The DEI Shift Podcast, Changing the Way We Think, Talk and Practice Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
The DEI Shift Podcast, Changing the Way We Think, Talk and Practice Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The DEI Shift podcast was created to change the practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion within medicine. It is intentionally led and produced by an extremely diverse team from pre-medical students to attending physicians from various racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic, geographic, and specialty backgrounds. Monthly team meetings facilitate educational and professional development opportunities as well as sense of belonging and inclusion.
Over four seasons, a global audience has downloaded over 18,250 podcast episodes across 6 continents, in 81 countries and nearly 2000 cities. A wide range of topics and guests have been featured in enduring learning materials increasing awareness, advocacy, cultural humility, and empathy. This innovative educational platform has led to multi-Chapter, cross-specialty, and interdisciplinary collaborations as well as increased member engagement, mentorship, connections, and leadership development. It has successfully promoted the goals, core values, and DEI-related strategic priorities of the American College of Physicians and the ACP Southern California Region III Chapter.
California Southern III Region Receives the 2023 John Tooker Evergreen Award
(May 2023) The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. The California Southern III Region received the 2023 John Tooker Evergreen Award for their initiative, Wellness Wave.
Wellness Wave
It empowered the students to connect with mentors, experts, and their colleagues locally and nationally and allowed the creation of a platform for them to share the fruits of their labor and hard work.
The Southern California Region III's Wellness Wave was a "for us, by us" student-driven initiative led by the Council of Medical Students to empower medical students to connect with mentors, experts, and their colleagues locally and nationally to develop 38 student-led interview videos and a separate Wellness Wave website. It was created to engage medical students/residents to decrease feelings of isolation, burn out, anxiety, depression, imposter syndrome, and perfectionism. Local and national faculty, leaders, and mentors were interviewed on their journeys in medicine, asked about career advice, and best practices on creating and maintaining wellness. The Chapter collaborated with three additional ACP chapter to accomplish the Wellness Wave strategy.
Chapter Members Elected to ACP Fellowship
(March 2023) We would like to congratulate our chapter members on election to Fellow of the American College of Physicians. The distinction recognizes achievements in internal medicine.
California Northern
Kathleen Doo, MD FACP
Babikir OMA Kheiri, MBBS MD FACP
Maria N Marmol, MD FACP
Tim Muldoon, MD FACP
Ahana Sandhu, MD FACP
Heather Nye, MD PhD SFHM FACP
Hongtao Wang, MD FACP
Lauren Yokomizo, MD FACP
Theresa Duong, MD FACP
Diane M McGrew, MD FACP
Amit Saini, MD FACP
Berhanu C Tesfaye, MD FACP
California Southern 1
Sarah Blake, DO MBA FACP
Starleen Frousiakis, MD FACP
Jason Gilbert, DO FACP
Swetha Gogineni, MD FACP
Nima Golzy, MD FACP
Sunita Hingorani, MD FACP
Randy Luu, MD FACP
Mia Mattioli, MD FACP
Arsen Osipov, MD FACP
Aram Srapyan, MD FACP
Matt Welzenbach, MD FACP
Anshu R Abhat, MD FACP
Christine I Bishop, MD FACP
Christopher Brown, MD FACP
Christopher Dagher, MD FACP
Nimy John, MD FACP
Marie I Montoya, MD FACP
Salim F Ahmed, MD FACP
Omar Aly, MD FACP
Michael F Ayoub, MD FACP BG
Wossen Belachew, MD FACP
Jeffrey Chung, MD FACP
Hripsime Gharibjanyan, MD FACP
Grace P Huang, MD FACP
Tyler B Larsen, MD FACP
Amit Levi, MD FACP
Julie E Magorien, MD FACP
California Southern 2
Nikhil Ghatnekar, DO FACP
Puja Gupta, MBBS MD FACP
Lucas Akihiko Puttock, DO FACP
Babak Gachpaz, MD FACP
Kathleen L Keating, DO FACP
California Southern 3
Aneesh Kuruvilla, DO FACP
Alan Sit, MD FACP
Andrew Busby, MD FACP
Susan D Heifetz, MD FACP
Arsenio I Jimenez, MD FACP
Bruce J Kimura, MD FACP
Siu Ming J Geary, MD FACP
Kenton O Smitherman, MD FACP
Fellowship is elected upon the recommendation of peers and the review of ACP’s Credentials Subcommittee. They may now use the letters “FACP” after their name in recognition of this honor. Please join me in congratulations!
Chapter Speakers at Internal Medicine Meeting 2023
(March 2023) We would like to draw your attention to our Internal Medicine Meeting 2023 local speakers.
| Paul | Aronowitz | Napa | California Northern | Clinical Workshop | Clinical Images to Improve Your Knowledge Base and Refine Your Clinical Reasoning Skills | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Paul | Aronowitz | Napa | California Northern | Clinical Workshop | Clinical Images to Improve Your Knowledge Base and Refine Your Clinical Reasoning Skills | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Jonathan | Chen | Palo Alto | California Northern | Panel | Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning: Practical Applications in Medicine | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Helen | Chew | Davis | California Northern | Update | Update in Oncology | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Eliza | Chin | Piedmont | California Northern | Panel | Harnessing Mentoring Relationships for Women | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Gurpreet | Dhaliwal | San Francisco | California Northern | Workshop | Stump the Professor | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Randall | Edson | Larkspur | California Northern | Clinical Pearls | Clinical Pearls: Women's Health & Infectious Diseases | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Kimberly | Hardin | Sacramento | California Northern | Meet the Professor | Sleep Disorders in Primary Care: This Lecture Is a Snoozer | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Nazia | Hasan | Oakland | California Northern | Meet the Professor | Pancreatobiliary Disease for the Internist | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Michelle | Hauser | Sunnyvale | California Northern | Meet the Professor | Food for Thought: What Should I Eat and When? | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Manu | Hegde | Belmont | California Northern | Meet the Professor | Seizures and Epilepsy Management Basics for the Hospitalist | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Steven | Lane | Palo Alto | California Northern | Panel | Caring About Sharing: Maintaining Patient Privacy While Improving Communication through the Electronic Health Record | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Sei | Lee | San Francisco | California Northern | Clinical Triad | Clinical Triad: Prognosis, Cancer Screening, and Deprescribing: When Should We Stop? | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Bernard | Lo | Berkeley | California Northern | Meet the Professor | Reducing Disparities in the Care of Patients With Critical Illness | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Samuel | Louie | Davis | California Northern | Meet the Professor | Newer Biologics for Patients With Severe Asthma | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Heather | Nye | San Francisco | California Northern | Meet the Professor | Hospitalists as Consultants: Best Communication Practices in a Team-Based Care Approach | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Douglas | Owens | Palo Alto | California Northern | Panel | News You Can Use: Current Clinical Guidelines In Treatments for Depression and COVID-19 | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Matthew | Sakumoto | San Francisco | California Northern | Panel | Optimizing EHRs: How to Make the EHR Work for You and Your Patients | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Jorge | Salinas | Palo Alto | California Northern | Clinical Triad | Clinical Triad: Infectious Diseases: Clostridium difficile, Positive Blood Cultures, and Urinary Tract Infections | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Christian | Sandrock | Sacramento | California Northern | Meet the Professor | COVID-19 Vaccination on the National and Global Scale | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Urmimala | Sarkar | San Francisco | California Northern | Panel | Leveraging Digital Health Tools to Support Equity | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Eleanor | Schwarz | Sacramento | California Northern | Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind | Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Infectious Diseases, Women’s Health, General Internal Medicine | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Bradley | Sharpe | San Francisco | California Northern | Update | Update in Hospital Medicine | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Louise | Walter | San Francisco | California Northern | Clinical Triad | Clinical Triad: Prognosis, Cancer Screening, and Deprescribing: When Should We Stop? | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Eric | Widera | San Francisco | California Northern | Clinical Triad | Clinical Triad: Prognosis, Cancer Screening, and Deprescribing: When Should We Stop? | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Theodore | Wun | Sacramento | California Northern | Update | Update in Hematology | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Natalie | Bello | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Meet the Professor | Hypertension in Women: Special Considerations Across a Woman's Lifespan | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Rachel | Brook | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind | Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Cardiology, Pulmonary Medicine, Neurology | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| William | Carroll | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind | Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Infectious Diseases, Women’s Health, General Internal Medicine | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Chidinma | Chima-Melton | Palos Verdes Estates | California Southern 1 | Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind | Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Cardiology, Pulmonary Medicine, Neurology | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Carolyn | Crandall | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Panel | More News You Can Use: Current Clinical Guidelines in Treatments for Osteoporosis and Acute Pain | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Obidiugwu | Duru | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Meet the Professor | High-Value Management of Back Pain: Lumbar-ing Along | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Kari | Franson | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Meet the Professor | Getting Into the Weeds on Cannabis | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Kim | Gregory | West Hollywood | California Southern 1 | Meet the Professor | The Well-Woman Exam: Update From the Women's Preventive Services Initiative | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Brian | Hurley | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Clinical Workshop | Motivational Interviewing for the Busy Clinician | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Peter | Marshall | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Meet the Professor | Acute Dyspnea: Etiology, Evaluation, and Management | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Peter | Marshall | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Meet the Professor | Shock: Approaches to Diagnosis and Management | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Jason | Napolitano | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Meet the Professor | In-Flight Emergencies: Is There a Doctor on the Plane? | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| David | Reuben | Los Angeles | California Southern 1 | Meet the Professor | Managing Older Adults With Frailty and Multimorbidity | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Zaldy | Tan | LOS ANGELES | California Southern 1 | Meet the Professor | Dementia Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Scott | Allen | Riverside | California Southern 2 | Panel | Caring and Advocating for Patients Involved in the Justice System: The Internal Medicine Physician's Many Roles | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Danielle | Belardo | Newport Beach | California Southern 2 | Workshop | Food as Medicine | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Diana | Ramos | Laguna Beach | California Southern 2 | Panel | Providing Women’s Healthcare in a Post-Dobbs America: What Internal Medicine Needs to Know | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Timothy | Fernandes | San Diego | California Southern 3 | Meet the Professor | Pulmonary Embolism for the Hospitalist | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| Andrea | Kossoudji | San Diego | California Southern 3 | Clinical Workshop | A Brief Military History: The Key to Good Health Care for Veterans in Your Practice | Thursday, April 27, 2023 |
| Brett | Lindgren | San Diego | California Southern 3 | Meet the Professor | Shock: Approaches to Diagnosis and Management | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| John-Michael | Maury | San Diego | California Southern 3 | Clinical Workshop | Medical Improv: Novel Method to Improve Communication Skills with Empathy | Saturday, April 29, 2023 |
| David | Wetherhold | La Jolla | California Southern 3 | Panel | Optimizing EHRs: How to Make the EHR Work for You and Your Patients | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
| Tony | Yaksh | LA Jolla | California Southern 3 | Meet the Professor | Dr. Ananda Prasad Lecture in Physiology: The Physiology of Pain (Note: This session is not designated for CME credit.) | Friday, April 28, 2023 |
If you’re attending IMM23, please join us at our ACP California/Arizona and Hawaii Chapters Reception, Friday, April 28, 2023 from 6:00-7:30pm at the Half Door Brewery. Please RSVP to IM 2023 Reception.
Member Feedback is Requested on Spring 2023 Resolutions
(March 2023) Fourteen (14) resolutions will be considered at the Spring 2023 Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting. Please review each resolution and then indicate your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by the deadline your ACP Chapter Governor has requested or by March 22, whichever comes first.
Your comments will be forwarded to the Chapter Governor to be used as part of their testimony on behalf of the chapter. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Giampietro, BOG Administrator, at chapter@acpmembership.org. Thank you for your input.
(NOTE: Proposed resolutions should be considered confidential information and are intended to be viewed by ACP members only. Under no circumstances should proposed resolutions be shared with the news media or social networking media, nor should they be shared with other individuals and organizations. Proposed resolutions do not represent ACP policy.)
Call for Fall 2023 Resolutions
(February 2023) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you'd like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.
Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Participating in the Board of Governors resolutions process provides the ACP grassroots member a voice and allows you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.
Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The just released ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is now available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.
Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval to move resolutions forward to ACP national is required. A resolution becomes a resolution of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Fall 2023 Board of Governors Meeting is March 30, 2023.
Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution.
Board of Regents Action on Fall 2022 BOG Resolutions
(November 2022) A summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Fall 2022 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.
If you have an idea you'd like to suggest to ACP, consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or local ACP chapter. Visit your ACP chapter website for more information on how to contact your Governor or chapter staff about proposing a resolution.
Contracts: Everything You Wanted to Never and Never Thought to Ask
Here is the recording of our recent Zoom meeting on contracts.
New Advocacy Resources Available to ACP Members and Chapters
(August 2022) We would like to make you aware of two new advocacy resources available to ACP members and chapters.
Understanding Advocacy and Why We Do It - A Comprehensive Toolkit for Chapters
ACP has created an advocacy best practices toolkit to support engagement in and the efficacy of chapter-level advocacy at the state and federal level. This comprehensive toolkit breaks down the different methods and mediums for advocacy engagement and highlights all the programs and resources offered by ACP to make the most of chapters’ advocacy efforts. This toolkit is only accessible to ACP members.
Reproductive Health Toolkit Now Updated
ACP's toolkit for chapters to utilize in navigating issues surrounding abortion rights and related policies in their states following the overturning of Roe v. Wade has been updated. The toolkit now includes sample letters that chapters can use to advocate with state officials and information on recent federal activity.
For questions regarding these toolkits, please submit all requests through this questionnaire to ensure we can track inquiries and respond in the most timely and efficient manner."
Are you a member of the Advocates for Internal Medicine Network (AIMn)? Learn more here.
Chapter Members Elected to ACP Fellowship
(November 2022) We would like to congratulate our chapter members on election to Fellow of the American College of Physicians. The distinction recognizes achievements in internal medicine.
Northern California
- Kausalya N. Chennapragada, MBBS, FACP
- Anita Corradetti, MD, FACP
- Lindsay Mazotti, MD, FACP
- Alexandra E, Shawo, MD, FACP
Southern California Region I
- Jessica M. Adkins, MD, FACP
- Kelley Chuang, MD, FACP
- Linda K. Czypinski, MD, FACP
- Sean Delshad, MD, FACP
- Reece R. Doughty, MD, FACP
- Sonali L. Iyer, MD, FACP
- Ramzy Jandali, MD, FACP
- Matthew Jung, MD, FACP
- Khushboo Kaushal, MD, FACP
- Jane Ma, MD, FACP
- Yuri Matusov, MD, FACP
- Satya Patel, MD, FACP
- Jared T. Perrin, MD, FACP
- Amna A. Rizvi, MD, FACP
- Christopher J. Thrash, MD, FACP
- Huynh Tran, MD, FACP
- Kristopher K. Yoon, MD, FACP
Southern California Region II
- Faraz Afridi, MD, FACP
- Kanchana Keerthipala, MBBS, MD, FACP
- Scott Kubomoto, MD, FACP
- Michael T. Ulrich, Jr., MD, FACP
- Chit Su Wai, MBBS, MD, FACP
- Debralynne Zickafoose, MD, FACP
Southern California Region III
- Kelley L. Hagerich, MD, FACP
- Jennifer L. Poast, DO, FACP
Fellowship is elected upon the recommendation of peers and the review of ACP’s Credentials Subcommittee. They may now use the letters “FACP” after their name in recognition of this honor. Please join us in congratulations!
One of the goals of the American College of Physicians is to “recognize excellence and distinguished contributions to internal medicine.” As a way of achieving this goal, the College offers 21 awards and a number of Masterships each year. Annually, awardees and Masters are honored at the Convocation ceremony held during the Internal Medicine meeting.
Congratulations to Chapter Members on Receiving National Awards or Mastership
(October 2022) We are excited to share that the Mastership and Awards Committees and the Board of Regents have approved the following chapter members to receive an award recognition during the 2023 Internal Medicine Meeting in San Diego, California.
Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teacher Award
Lawrence K. Loo, MD, MACP, Southern California Region II
The award is bestowed upon a Fellow or Master of the College who has demonstrated the ennobling qualities of a great teacher as judged by the accomplishments of former students. These students should have been inspired by the nominee and achieved positions of influence in the field of medical education, primarily as teachers. If the awardee has not previously been elected to Mastership, it will be awarded when elected.
Masterships
ACP Bylaws state that Masters shall be Fellows who have been selected because of “integrity, positions of honor, impact in practice or in medical research, or other attainments in science or in the art of medicine.” Masters must be highly accomplished persons demonstrating impact in practice, leadership, or in medical research. Evidence of their achievements can come from many types of endeavors, such as renown within their field and/or ACP chapter, research, education, health care initiatives, volunteerism, administrative positions, care of patients, and service to their community.
Daniel S. Anderson, MD, MACP, Southern California Region III
Robert H. Brook, MD, MACP, Southern California Region I
Joel C. Diamant, MD, MACP, Southern California Region III
Simerjot K. Jassal, MD, MACP, Southern California Region III
Shagufta Yasmeen, MBBS, MACP, Northern California