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Awards and Masterships

Congratulations to the following Pennsylvania Chapter members who received national ACP awards at the 2013 Internal Medicine Meeting in San Francisco in April:

Bennett Lorber, MD, MACP has been awarded the Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teacher Award. 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 acclaim and accomplishments of former students who have been inspired and have achieved positions of leadership in the field of medical education, primarily as teachers.

The Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Teacher Award has been awarded to William H. Lipshutz, MD, FACP. The award is bestowed upon a Member, Fellow, or Master of the College who has consistently volunteered his or her services to teach medical students and residents. This individual should have demonstrated outstanding teaching prowess, displayed exemplary characteristics of care and concern for individual patients at the bedside, and served as a role model and mentor.

Richard J. Baron, MD, MACP is the awardee of the Joseph F. Boyle Award for Distinguished Public Service. The award is bestowed upon a current or former government official or a physician acting in an official capacity (state or federal, executive or legislative) who has provided outstanding public service toward improving the delivery of health care.

The Walter J. McDonald Award for Young Physicians has been awarded to Lawrence D. Ward, MD, FACP. The award recognizes outstanding achievement by a physician member who is within 16 years of graduating medical school and who is not an ACP Medical Student Member or Associate.

Also, we are pleased to announce that Geno J. Merli and Howard H. Weitz have been awarded Masterships. Masters are Fellows who have been selected because of “personal character, positions of honor, contributions towards furthering the purposes of the ACP, eminence in practice or in medical research, or other attainments in science or in the art of medicine.” Masters must be highly accomplished individuals. Evidence of their achievements can come from many types of endeavors such as research, education, health care initiatives, volunteerism, and administrative positions. The Master must be distinguished by the excellence and significance of his or her contributions to the field of medicine.

2013 Internal Medicine Abstract Presenters

We were honored to have 45 chapter members represent our chapter for the Associate and Medical Student Abstract Competition held during Internal Medicine 2013 in San Francisco.

Chinualumogu C Nwakile, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Research
Anitha Somasundaram;MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Research
Janghee Woo, MD,PhD, Associate Poster, Clinical Research
Yu Kuang Lai, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Research
Alyson S Quigley, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Anjum Gaba, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Anza Saleem, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Bhuvin Mukesh Buddhdev, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Carlos D Davila, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Daniel J Makowski, DO, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Ghazi Mirrani, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Jad G Sfeir, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Jonathan I Gotfried, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Joseph Armenia, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Julieta Gon, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Kameron S Ashker, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Kashmira Singh, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Leena Jalota, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Marlo D Bruno, DO, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Muhammad Tahseen, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Nneka I Nweke, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Nonihal Singh, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Prabhat Singh, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Ravi Y Desai, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Robert H Becker, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Robin Girdhar, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Ronald Maag, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Saveri Bhattacharya, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Seethal Tummala, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Sepehr Mesdaghinia, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Sivaranjani Penna, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Vishal Goyal, MD, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Wuqiang Fan, MBBS, Associate Poster, Clinical Vignette
Ahad Lodhi, MD, Associate Poster, QI/PS - HVCCC
Arvind Vasudevan, MD, Associate Poster, QI/PS - HVCCC
Ayodeji O Adegunsoye, MBBS, Associate Poster, QI/PS - HVCCC
Hyo Y Lee, DO, Associate Poster, QI/PS - HVCCC
Lemuel Benedict Robleza Non, MD, Associate Poster, QI/PS - HVCCC
Monish A Sheth, MBBS, Associate Poster, QI/PS - HVCCC
Tany Thaniyavarn, MD, Associate Poster, QI/PS - HVCCC
Stephanie E Dreifuss, Medical Student Oral Presentation, Clinical Vignette; Poster, Basic Research; Poster, Clinical Research; Poster, Clinical Vignette
Matthew Mansh, Medical Student Poster, Basic Research
Daniel Jacoby, Medical Student Poster, Clinical Vignette
Katherine A Zarroli, Medical Student Poster, Clinical Vignette
Lauryn A Benninger, Medical Student Poster, Clinical Vignette

Special congratulations to Shailendra Singh, MD who was a winner in the Associate Clinical Research Poster category, Shakira J Grant, MBBS who was a winner in the Associate Clinical Vignette Poster category, and Lolita S Nidadavolu who was a winner in the Medical Student Clinical Vignette Poster category.

The Pennsylvania Chapter recognizes and congratulates physicians who have been elected to Fellowship in the College in the past six months as well as welcomes their new members. Please view the list and join us in celebrating with them!