ACP Announces New Masters and Awardees for 2009

The Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the Board of Regents has approved the following individuals and institutions to receive College awards and Masterships at Internal Medicine 2009. (The 2010 Davies awardee was also selected this year and is included on the list.) If you would like to personally congratulate any of the new awardees or Masters, please contact Meghann Williams, Coordinator, Awards-Convocation and Diversity, by e-mail at mewilliams@acponline.org, 800-523-1546, ext. 2714 or 215-351-2714; or Martha Cornog, Manager of Membership Services, mcornog@acponline.org, ext. 2696, or 215-351-2696.

An additional notification is being sent to all who wrote supporting letters for nominations, announcing the winners and inviting supporters to enhance nominations for the next cycle plus submit new nominations. A general call for new nominations will be issued in January.

Please join us in congratulating the awardees and new Masters.

Awardees

John Phillips Memorial Award for Outstanding Work in Clinical Medicine
Robert O. Bonow, Chicago, Illinois

James D. Bruce Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions in Preventive Medicine
William Schaffner II, Nashville, Tennessee

Alfred Stengel Memorial Award for Outstanding Service to the American College of Physicians
Sara E. Walker, Las Cruces, New Mexico

American College of Physicians Award for Outstanding Work in Science as Related to Medicine
Elizabeth G. Nabel, Bethesda, Maryland
Peter C. Nowell, Media, Pennsylvania

Edward R. Loveland Memorial Award for a Distinguished Contribution to the Health Field
Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Institute of Catholic Community Services, Washington, DC

William C. Menninger Memorial Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Science of Mental Health
Dwight L. Evans, Haverford, Pennsylvania

Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teacher Award
John Michael Criley, Torrance, California

Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award #1 from The Rosenthal Family Foundation
Renu Weiss, Chennai, India

Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award #2 from The Rosenthal Family Foundation
FIMA Save Vision, Islamabad, Pakistan

Ralph O. Claypoole Sr. Memorial Award for Devotion of a Career in Internal Medicine to the Care of Patients
I. Jerome Flance, Saint Louis, Missouri

Nicholas E. Davies Memorial Scholar Award for Outstanding Contributions to Humanism in Medicine (2009 winner)
Rafael Campo, Boston, Massachusetts

Nicholas E. Davies Memorial Scholar Award for Outstanding Contributions to Humanism in Medicine (2010 winner)
Philip A. Mackowiak, Baltimore, Maryland

Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Teacher Award
Paul A. Bialas, Warren, Pennsylvania

Joseph F. Boyle Award for Distinguished Public Service
Senator Blanche L. Lincoln, Little Rock, Arkansas

Oscar E. Edwards Memorial Award for Volunteerism and Community Service
Howard E. Voss, Stuart, Florida

Alvan R. Feinstein Memorial Award for Major Contribution to Patient Care in the Field of Clinical Epidemiology
Jack M. Gwaltney Jr., Charlottesville, Virginia

Walter J. McDonald Award for Young Physicians
Vineet Arora, Chicago, Illinois

Joseph E. Johnson Leadership Award
Aleem M. Bharwani, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Herbert S. Waxman Award for Outstanding Medical Student Educator
Valerie J. Pronio-Stelluto, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Masterships

William B. Applegate, Winston Salem, North Carolina
Daniel E. Banks, Shreveport, Louisiana
John D. Barker Jr., Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Michael J. Barry, Boston, Massachusetts
Carl E. Bartecchi, Pueblo, Colorado
David W. Bates, Boston, Massachusetts
Kenneth L. Becker, Washington, DC
Alan L. Bisno, Miami, Florida
John K. Chamberlain, Rochester, New York
Chester Choi, Long Beach, California
Rody P. Cox, Dallas, Texas
Richard N. Dexter, Westfield, Indiana
Herbert S. Diamond, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Peter L. Elkin, Rochester, Minnesota
Jack Ende, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Luis R. Espinoza, New Orleans, Louisiana
Alan D. Forker, Kansas City, Missouri
Patricia A. Gabow, Denver, Colorado
Donald E. Girard, Portland, Oregon
Clicerio González Villalpando, Mexico City, Mexico
Anthony J. Grieco, New York, New York
Francis L. Griffin, Plainfield, New Jersey
Nortin M. Hadler, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
S. Paul Handa, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Jeffrey P. Harris, Millwood, Virginia
Ralph I. Horwitz, Stanford, California
Albert B. Hoskins III, Louisville, Kentucky
Hiromi Ishibashi, Nagasaki, Japan
Allen H. Johnson, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
Sandra Abadie Kemmerly, New Orleans, Louisiana
Elias Knobel, Sao Paulo, Brazil
M. Douglas Leahy, Knoxville, Tennessee
Alexandra M. Levine, La Canada Flintridge, California
Henry Masur, Bethesda, Maryland
John R. Middleton, Old Bridge, New Jersey
Tanveer P. Mir, Woodbury, New York
G. Richard Olds, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Douglas S. Paauw, Seattle, Washington
Stephen J. Peterson, Valhalla, New York
C. S. Pitchumoni, Somerset, New Jersey
Richard N. Redinger, Louisville, Kentucky
Wayne J. Riley, Nashville, Tennessee
Bernard P. Shagan, Jackson, New Jersey
Gary L. Simon, Washington, DC
Melvyn L. Sterling, Orange, California
Robert G. Strickland, Albuquerque, New Mexico
H. Kenneth Walker, Stone Mountain, Georgia
Clyde W. Yancy Jr., Dallas, Texas

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