F. Marian Bishop Award

Criteria:

Direct personal contributions to:

1. the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine;
2. organizations relating to family medicine, such as the Association of American Medical Colleges, American Medical Association, Institute of Medicine, Association of Departments of Family Medicine, American Board of Family Practice, American Academy of Family Physicians, etc;
3. a Department of Family Medicine in medical school settings;
4. a sustained, long-term commitment to the discipline of family medicine in academic setting.

To nominate someone, submit a letter of nomination and CV to the STFM office.

Biography of last year's winners:

The F. Marian Bishop Award of the STFM Foundation was established in 1990 to honor individuals who have significantly enhanced the academic credibility of family medicine by a sustained, long-term commitment to family medicine in an academic setting, The 2007 recipients were Robert Taylor, MD, and Ed Ciriacy, MD (posthumously).

Robert Taylor, MD, is professor emeritus of family medicine at Oregon Health & Science University.  A board-certified family physician, Dr Taylor is a 1961 graduate of the Temple University School of Medicine.  He trained in the United States Public Health Service Hospital at Norfolk, Virginia, and was in private family practice in New Paltz, New York for 14 years.  In 1978, he joined the faculty of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  In 1984, Dr Taylor moved to Oregon, where he served as chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University until 1998.  He is the author and editor of 24 medical reference books including Family Medicine: Principles and Practice and The Manual of Family Medicine.

Ed Ciriacy, MD, was STFM president from 1975–1977 and former STFM Foundation trustee. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II and was a graduate of Pennsylvania State College and Temple University School of Medicine. After 1 year of internship and 1 year of surgery residency at Frankford and Temple Hospitals in Philadelphia, he began private practice as a family physician in Ely, Minn in 1954 where he tirelessly served the community as a family physician for more than 20 years. He was professor and head of the Department of FamilyMedicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota from 1971–1995 and remained a professor in the department until he retired from the University in 1998. Under his leadership the department grew to include one of the largest family medicine residency programs in the country, educating a significant number of primary care physicians serving Minnesota and the nation. Under his leadership, in 1985 the department established UCare Minnesota, a very successful HMO. Dr Ciriacy was a powerful advocate for the specialty of family medicine. He was active in state and national medical associations, medical education organizations, and committees, and  served as president of the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians. Dr Ciriacy died June 21, 2006.

F. Marian Bishop Leadership Award Recipients
2007 Robert Taylor, MD
          Ed Ciriacy, MD (posthumously)
2006 John Frey, MD
2005 G. Gayle Stephens, MD
2004 John P. Geyman, MD
2003 Robert 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, MD