New Hampshire Chapter College Awards

The New Hampshire Chapter Receives the 2026 John Tooker Evergreen Award

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 New Hampshire Chapter received a 2026 John Tooker Evergreen Award for their innovative initiative.

JEDI Corner 

2026 Evergreen AwardsThis program is an innovative way to deliver teaching material to members without a specific program or meeting to do so. 

In collaboration with the New Hampshire DEI committee, the chapter identified lacking education and awareness of important JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) concepts. The “JEDI Corner” initially launched with in-person micro-teaching sessions with the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) which evolved into micro-teaching slides that were included in a standing section of the chapter’s newsletter. As a result, the newsletter open rates increased from 32% in 2024 to 58% in 2025. The increased focus on JEDI concepts also led to a keynote session on ageism in medicine at the chapter’s Annual Scientific Meeting.

Special thanks to this program’s key contributors:

  • Simrun Bal
  • Wendy Muello
  • Jan Fonseka
  • Pam Trio, Chair, DEI Committee, New Hampshire Chapter

 2025 Chapter Excellence Award-Gold Level Winner

(September 2025) We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2025 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 68 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet 22 Bronze criteria, 12 Silver criteria and 25 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. 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.

Chapter Excellence Award