Past Award Winners

2025: Evelyn Figueroa, MD
2024: Jehni Robinson, MD
2023: Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, MPH, MBA
2022: Randall Longenecker, MD
2021: Rebecca Etz, PhD
2020: Melissa Stiles, MD
2019: Andrea Anderson, MD
2018: Keisha Fallin-Bennett, MD, MPH
2017: Anne L. Kittendorf, MD
2016: Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH
2015: Dennis Dimitri, MD
2014: Jack Westfall, MD, MPH
2013: Joseph Gravel, Jr., MD
2012: Kevin Grumbach, MD
2011: Russell Robertson, MD
2010: Elissa Palmer, MD
2009: Larry Green, MD; Perry Pugno, MD; Samuel Jones, MD
2008: Allen Hixon, MD
2007: WWAMI Network of Family Medicine Residencies
2006: Robert Crittenden, MD, MPH
2005: Daniel Onion, MD
2004: Jeffrey Cain, MD

2025: "Features of Effective Clinical Competency Committees"
Kathleen Rowland, MD, MS; Deborah Edberg, MD; Lauren Anderson, PhD, Med; Katherine Wright , PhD, MPH
2024: "Evaluating the Uptake of Antiracism Training, Policies, and Practices in Departments of Family Medicine"
Mechelle Sanders, PhD et al
2023: “Physician Attitudes and Self-reported Practices Toward Prostate Cancer Screening in Black and White Men”
Nicholas Shungu MD, MPH et al
2022: “Assessing Family Medicine Residency Programs’ Training on Human Trafficking: A National Survey of Program Directors"
Ranit Mishori,MD,MSPH; Katherine Stolarz, DO; Anita Ravi, MD, MPH; Valeriy R. Korostyshevskiy, PhD, MSc; Ronald Chambers, MD; Peter Cronholm MD, MS
2021: "Awareness of Meaning in Life is Protective Against Burnout Among Family Physicians: A CERA Study"
Stephanie A. Hooker, PhD, MPH; Robert E. Post, MD, MS; Michelle D. Sherman, PhD, ABPP
2020: "Perceptions of Parenting Residents Among Family Medicine Residency Directors"
Laura E. Morris, MD, MSPH; Erik Lindbloom, MD, MSPH; Robin L. Kruse, PhD, MSPH; Karla T. Washington, PhD, LCSW; Nikole J. Cronk, PhD; Heather L. Paladine, MD, MEd
2019: "Institutional NIH Research Funding and a Culture of Support for Family Medicine—Their Relationship to Family Medicine Specialty Choice"
Arch G. Mainous III, PhD; Maribeth Porter, MD, MS; Denny Fe Agana, MPH; Alexander W. Chessman, MD

2025: Peter F. Cronholm, MD, MSCE, CAQHPM, DABFM
2024: Mark Ebell, MD, MS
2023: Michael Fetters, MD, MPH, MA
2022: Magdalena Pasarica, MD, PhD
2021: Kola Okuyemi, MD, MPH
2020: Fern Hauck, MD, MS
2019: Caroline Richardson, MD
2018: W. Perry Dickinson, MD
2017: Mack Ruffin, IV, MD, MPH
2016: Richard Zimmerman, MD, MPH, MA, MS
2015: Diane Harper, MD, MPH, MS
2014: Benjamin Crabtree, PhD, and William Miller, MD
2013: Kevin Fiscella, MD
2012: Kurt Stange, MD
2011: Thomas Rosenthal, MD
2010: Alfred Berg, MD, MPH
2009: Lillian Gelberg, MD, MSPH
2008: Howard Rabinowitz, MD
2007: Peter Franks, MD
2006: Jack M. Colwill, MD
2005: Allen Dietrich, MD
2004: Stephen Zyzanski, PhD
2003: Paul Nutting, MD, MSPH
2002: Julian Tudor Hart, MD
2001: Lorne Becker, MD
2000: Klea Bertakis, MD, MPH
1999: Carole Bland, PhD
1998: Larry Green, MD
1997: Larry Culpepper, MD
1996: Roger Rosenblatt, MD, MPH
1995: Eugene Farley, Jr, MD, MPH
1994: Martin Bass, MD, MSc
1993: Paul Frame, MD
1992: Gerald Perkoff, MD
1991: George Parkerson, Jr, MD, MPH
1990: John P. Geyman, MD
1989: Ian R. McWhinney, MD, FCP, FRCP
1988: Jack H. Medalie, MD, MPH
1987: Jack Froom, MD
1986: Kerr White, MD
1985: Maurice Wood, MD

2025: Diana N. Carvajal, MD, MPH
2024: Joedrecka S. Brown Speights, MD
2023: Jennifer Edgoose, MD, MPH
2022: Kathryn Fraser, PhD

2025: Jennifer Edwards-Johnson, DO
2024: Shou Ling Leong, MD
2023: Patrice Eff, MD
2022: Donald Middleton, MD
2021: Larry Leeman, MD, MPH
2020: Alison Dobbie, MD, ChB
2019: Robert Hatch, MD, MPH
2018: Linda Prine, MD
2017: Stephen Ratcliffe, MD, MSPH
2016: Alexander Chessman, MD
2015: David Keegan, MD
2014: Carmen Domiguez-Rafer, MD, MPH
2013: Diane Harper, MD, MPH
2012: James Tysinger, PhD
2011: Randall Longenecker, MD
2010: Sam Cullison, MD, MPH
2009: Laurel Milberg, PhD
2008: Kent Sheets, PhD
2007: Anita Taylor, MEd
2006: Mark Quirk, EdD
2005: John (Jack) Pfenninger, MD
2004: William Anderson, PhD
2003: William K. Mygdal, EdD
2002: Cynthia Haq, MD
2001: Deborah Simpson, PhD
2000: Peter Curtis, MD
1999: Stephen Bogdewic, PhD
1998: Frank Hale, PhD
1997: Marian R. Stuart, PhD
1996: Norman B. Kahn, Jr, MD
1995: Robert L. Blake, Jr, MD
1994: Joel Merenstein, MD
1993: Lucy Candib, MD; Wm. MacMillan Rodney, MD
1992: Michael Gordon, PhD
1991: Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH; Dona L. Harris, PhD
1990: Jack Froom, MD; Gabriel Smilkstein, MD
1989: Carole J. Bland, PhD; Robert B. Taylor, MD
1988: Jack H. Medalie, MD, MPH; Katharine A. Munning, PhD
1987: Nikitas J. Zervanos, MD
1986: Jack M. Colwill, MD; William Reichel, MD
1985: Jorge Prieto, MD; Donald C. Ransom, PhD
1984: Robert C. Davidson, MD, MPH
1983: B. Lewis Barnett, Jr, MD; Arthur Kaufman, MD; Fitzhugh Mayo, MD
1982: Frank C. Snope, MD
1981: Hiram B. Curry, MD; Theodore J. Phillips, MD
1980: John P. Geyman, MD; G. Gayle Stephens, MD
1979: F. Marian Bishop, PhD, MSPH; Ian R. McWhinney, MD; Thomas L. Stern, MD
1978: Lynn P. Carmichael, MD

2021 Oregon Health & Sciences University Scappoose Primary Care Clinic
2020 Riverdale Family Practice, Bronx, NY
2019 Medstar Franklin Square Family Health Center
2018 Johnston Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency, Abingdon, VA
2017 Department of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
2016 A.F. Williams Family Medicine Center, University of Colorado School of Medicine
2015 Department of Community Health and Family Medicine, University of Florida
2014 CMC-Elizabeth Family Medicine
2013 SugarHouse Family Health Center
2012 Terry Riley Health Services
2011 Rose Family Medicine Residency
2010 PeaceHealth Medical Group

2025: Philip Zazove, MD
2024: CJ Peek, PhD
2023: John Saultz, MD
2022: Jeannette South-Paul, MD
2021: Viviana Martinez-Bianchi, MD
2020: Michael Magill, MD
2019: Stephen P. Bogdewic, PhD, MA
2018: Valerie Gilchrist, MD
2017: Peter Carek, MD
2016: Cynda A. Johnson, MD
2015: Carlos Moreno, MD, MSPH
2014: Perry A. Pugno, MD
2013: Thomas E. Norris, MD
2012: Joel Merenstein, MD
2011: Edward Shahady, MD
2010: Lucy Candib, MD
2009: Warren Heffron, MD
2008: Alfred Berg, MD, MPH
2007: Robert Taylor, MD & Ed Ciriacy, MD (posthumously)
2006: John J. Frey, MD
2005: G. Gayle Stephens, MD
2004: John P. Geyman, MD
2003: Robert F. 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, MDa

2025: Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) program
2024: Waco Guide to Psychopharmacology
2023: Primary Care Initiative (The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California)
2022: Lesotho-Boston Health Alliance
2021: Clinical Observation and Medical Transcription (COMET) Fellowship Program
2020: Medical Safe Haven Program
2019: UMASS Correctional Health Program
2018: AFP Podcast
2017: Adolescent Champion Model
2016: CAFM Educational Research Alliance (CERA)
2015: fmCASES
2014: The O'Connor-Stanford Leaders in Education Residency (OSLER)
2013: Targeted Rural Underserved Track (TRUST)
2012: Lawrence Family Medicine Residency
2011: The Integrative Medicine in Residency Online Curriculum, Patricia Lebensohn, MD, director
2010: No award given
2009: The Family Medicine Digital Resources Library: Helen Baker, PhD, MBA; Traci Nolte, CAE; Jacob Reider, MD; Richard Usatine, MD
2008: The Healer's Art Course, Rachel Remen, MD
2007: Smiles for Life Steering Committe: Alan Douglass, MD; Wanda Gonsalves, MD; Russell Maier, MD; Hugh Silk, MD; Nancy Stevens, MD, MPH; James Tysinger, PhD; and Steve Wrightson, MD
2006: Gurjeet Shokar, MD; Robert Bulik, PhD
2005: Richard Zimmerman, MD, MPH; Sanford Kimmel, MD, Donald Middleton, MD
2004: Ellen Beck, MD
2003: Marji Gold, MD
2002: Allen Shaughnessy, PharmD; David Slawson, MD
2001: Perry Pugno, MD, MPH, AAFP; Frank Dornfest, MD
2000: Kent J. Sheets, PhD
1999: Jeffrey Stearns, MD
1998: Richard Zimmerman, MD, MPH; Ilene Burns, MD, MPH
1997: Susan E. Skochelak, MD, MPH
1996: James R. Damos, MD
1995: Scott A. Fields, MD; William L. Toffler, MD
1994: Luis Samaniego, MD
1993: No award given
1992: Patrick McBride, MD
1991: Franklyn Dornfest, MD
1990: H. John Blossom, MD; Diane Plorde McCann, MD
1989: Peter Curtis, MD
1988: Thomas L. Campbell, MD; Susan McDaniel, PhD
1987: Norman B. Kahn, Jr, MD

2025: Arch Mainous III, PhD
2024: Stan Kozakowski, MD
2023: Rick Kellerman, MD
2022: Allen Shaughnessy, PharmD, MMedEd and David C Slawson, MD
2021: Kola Okuyemi, MD, MPH
2020: Philip Zazove, MD
2019: Kathleen Klink, MD
2018: Deborah Taylor, PhD
2017: Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH
2016: William Shore, MD
2015: Macaran Baird, MD, MS
2014: Jeannette South-Paul, MD
2013: Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, MPH
2012: Joseph Scherger, MD, MPH
2011: Susan McDaniel, PhD
2010: Elizabeth Garrett, MD, MSPH
2009: Denise Rodgers, MD
2008: Laurence Bauer, MSW, MEd
2007: Joseph Hobbs, MD
2006: Josh Freeman, MD
2005: Dona Harris, PhD
2004: Paul Paulman, MD
2003: Thomas L. Schwenk, MD
2002: David Swee, MD
2001: Jay Siwek, MD
2000: Katherine C. Krause, MD
1999: Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD; Jane Westberg, PhD
1998: Howard Stein, PhD
1997: Donald L. Fink, MD
1996: Anthony F. Vuturo, MD, MPH
1995: Joseph W. Tollison, MD
1994: Peter Coggan, MD, MSEd; Robert Massad, MD
1993: Robert L. Van Citters, MD; John Lein, MD
1992: Annie Lea Shuster
1991: James G. Jones, MD
1990: Rosemarie Sweeney, MPA
1989: Eugene S. Farley, Jr, MD, MPH
1987: Thomas L. Leaman, MD; Rafael C. Sanchez, MD
1986: Julio Ceitlin, MD; John J. Frey, MD
1985: David N. Sundwall, MD; William H. Burnett, MA
1984: Edward J. Shahady, MD; Nicholas J. Pisacano, MD
1981: Richard H. Moy, MD
1978: Robert F. Knouss, MD

2025: "Rapid Detection of Influenza Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Facilities Reduces Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalization: A Randomized Trial"
Jonathan L. Temte MD, PhD; Mary M. Checovich MS; Shari Barlow, BA; Peter A. Shult, PhD; Erik Reisdorf, MPH; Thomas E. Haupt, MS; Irene Hamrick,MD; Marlon P. Mundt,PhD and accepted by: Alison N. Huffstetler, MD
2024:

"An Estimate of Severe Harms Due to Screening Colonoscopy: A Systematic Review"
Joseph Fraiman, MD, Shannon Brownlee, MSc, Michael A. Stoto, PhD, Kenneth W. Lin, MD, MPH and accepted by: Alison N. Huffstetler, MD
2023: “Curricular Recommendations for a National Family Medicine Subinternship: A Qualitative Analysis From Multiple Stakeholders”
Mariasyl de la Cruz, MD et al
2022: "Use of Patient Identifiers at the University of Washington School of Medicine: Building Institutional Consensus to Reduce Bias and Stigma"
Amanda Kost, MD, MEd; Tokunbo Akande, MD, MPH, MS; Robert Jones, MD; Rose Gabert; Margaret Isaac, MD; Nicole S. Dettmar, MSIS, MS
2021: "Contributions of US Medical Schools to Primary Care (2003-2014): Determining and Predicting Who Really Goes Into Primary Care"
Mark Deutchman, MD; Francesca Macaluso, MPH; Jason Chao, MD; Christopher Duffrin, PhD; Karim Hanna, MD; Daniel M. Avery, Jr, MD; Emily Onello, MD; Kathleen Quinn, PhD; Mary Tabor Griswold, PhD; Mustafa Alavi, MD; James Boulger, PhD; Patrick Bright, MA; Benjamin Schneider, MD; Jana Porter, MS; Shanon Luke, MS; James Durham, MS; Memoona Hasnain, MD, PhD, MHPE; Katherine A. James, PhD, MS, MSPH
2020: "The Family Medicine Attitudes Questionnaire: A Valid Instrument to Assess Student Attitudes Toward Family Medicine"
Julie P. Phillips, MD, MPH; Jacob Prunuske, MD, MSPH; Laurie Fitzpatrick; Brian Mavis, PhD
2019: "Delivering Interconception Care During Well-Child Visits: An IMPLICIT Network Study"
Sukanya Srinivasan, Lisa Schlar, Stephanie E. Rosener, Daniel J. Frayne, Scott G. Hartman, Michael A. Horst, Jessica L. Brubach and Stephen Ratcliffe
2018: "U.S. Medical Schools' Compliance With the Americans With Disabilities Act: Findings From a National Study"
Philip Zazove; Benjamin Case; Christopher Moreland; Melissa A. Plegue; Anne Hoekstra; Alicia Ouellette; Ananda Sen; Michael D. Fetters
2017: "Practical Opportunities for Healthy Diet and Physical Activity: Relationship to Intentions, Behaviors, and Body Mass Index"
Robert L. Ferrer, MD, MPH, Sandra K. Burge, PhD, Raymond F. Palmer, PhD, Inez Cruz, PhD, MSW, The RRNeT Investigators
2016: "More Comprehensive Care Among Family Physicians Is Associated With Lower Costs and Fewer Hospitalizations"
Andrew Bazemore, MD, MPH, Stephen Petterson, PhD, Lars E. Peterson, MD, PhD, and Robert L. Phillips Jr, MD, MSPH
2015: "Prescription Opioid Analgesics Increase the Risk of Depression"
Jeffery F. Scherrer, PhD; Dragan M. Svrakic, MD, PhD; Kenneth E. Freedland, PhD; Timothy Chrusciel, MPH; Sumitra Balasubramanian, MS; Kathleen K. Bucholz, PhD; Elizabeth V. Lawler, DSc, MPH; and Patrick Lustman, PHD
2014: "Interactive Preventive Health Record to Enhance Delivery of Recommended Care: A Randomized Trial"
Alex Krist MD, MPH, Steven Wolf, MD, MPH, Stephen Rothernich, MD, MS, Robert Johnson, PhD, J. Eric Peele, BA, Tina D. Cunningham, PhD, Daniel Longo, ScD, Ghalib A. Bello, BS and Gary R. Matzke, PharmD (Ann Fam Med. 2012 July-Aug;312-9)
2013: Jeanne Ferrante, MD, MPH; Ellen McCarthy, PhD; Ji-Hyun Lee, DrPH; Eduardo Gonzalez, MD; Ren Chen, MD, MPH; Kymia Love-Jackson, MBA, MS; Richard Roetzheim, MD, MSPH
2012: Kimberly G. Harmon, MD; Irfan M. Asif, MD; David Klossner, ATC, PhD; Jonathan A. Drezner, MD
2011: Carlos Jaen, MD, PhD; William Miller, MD, MA; Marivel Davila, MPH; Benjamin Crabtree, PhD; Paul Nutting, MD, MSPH; Kurt Stange, MD, PhD; Raymond Palmer, PhD; Robert Wood, DrPH; Elizabeth Stewart, PhD; Elizabeth Stewart, PhD
2010: Brian Jack, MD; Veerappa Chetty, PhD; David Anthony, MD, MSc; Jeffrey Greenwald, MD; Gail Sanchez, PharmD, BCPS; Anna Johnson, RN; Shaula Forsthe, MA, MPH; Julie O’Connell, MPH; Michael Paasche-Orlow, MD, MA, MPH; Christopher Manasseh, MD; Stephen Mar
2009: Alex Kirst, MD, MS; Resa Jones, MPH, PhD; Steven Woolf, MD, MPH; Sara Woessner, MD; Daniel Merenstein, MD; J. William Kerns, MD; Walter Foliaco, MD; Paul Jackson, MD
2008: Dan Merenstein, MD; Marie Diener-West, PhD; Ann Halbower, MD; Alex Krist, MD; Haya Rubin, MD, PhD
2007: William Ventres, MD, MA; Sarah Kooienga, FNP; Ryan Marlin, MD, MPH; Peggy Nygren, MA: and Valerie Stewart, PhD
2006: Allen Dietrich, MD; Thomas Oxman MD, John Williams Jr, MD, MHS, Herbert Schulberg, PhD, Martha Bruce, PhD, MPH, Pamela Lee, PhD, Sheila Barry, Patrick Raue, PhD, Jean Lefever, MS, Moonseong Heo, PhD, Kathryn Rost, PhD, Kurt Kroenke, Martha Gerrity, MD, PhD, Paul Nutting, MD, MSPH
2005: Charles Mouton, MD, MS; Rebecca Rodabough, MS; Susan Rovi, PhD; Julie Hunt, PhD; Melissa Talamantes, MA; Robert Brzyski, MD, PhD; Sandra Burge, PhD
2004: Joseph DiFranza, MD; Judith Savageau, MPH; Nancy Igotti, MD; Kenneth Fletcher, PhD; Judith Ockene, PhD; Ann McNeill, PhD; Mardia Coleman, BS; Connie Wood, BS
2003: David Mehr, MD; Ellen Binder, MD; Robin Kruse, PhD; Steven Zweig, MD, MSPH; Richard Madsen, PhD; Lori Popejoy, MSN, RN; Ralph B. D’Agostino, PhD
2002: Kurt Stange, MD, PhD; Susan Flocke, PhD; Meredith Goodwin, MS; Robert Kelly, MD, MS; Stephen Zyzanski, PhD
2001: Kevin Grumbach, MD; Joe Selby, MD, MPH; Cheryl Damberg, PhD; Andrew Bindman, MD; Charles Quesenberry, PhD; Alison Truman, MA; Connie Uratsu, MA
2000: Allen Dietrich, MD; Ardis Olson, MD; Carol Hill Sox, Engr; et al
1999: Kurt Stange, MD, PhD; Stephen Zyzanski, PhD; Carlos Jaen, MD, PhD
1998: Michael F. Fleming, MD, MPH; Kristen Barry, PhD; Linda Manwell; Kristen Johnson, MA; Richard London, MD; et al
1997: Daniel Longo, ScD; Ross Brownson, PhD; Jane Johnson, MA, et al
1996: Alfred Tallia, MD, MPH; David Swee, MD; Robin Winter, MD; et al
1995: Bernard Ewigman, MD; James Crane, MD; Fredric Frigoletto, MD, et al
1994: Michael Klein, MD; Robert Gautheir, MD; Sally Jorgenson, MB, et al
1993: Paul Fischer, MD; Meyer Schwartz, MD; John Richards, Jr, MD; Adam Goldstein, MD; Tina Rojas
1992: Thomas Nesbitt, MD, MPH; Frederick Connell, MD, MPH; L. Gary Hart, PhD; Roger Rosenblatt, MD, MPH
1991: William Wadland, MD, MS; Dennis Plante, MD
1990: Paul Fischer, MD; John Richards, Jr, MD; Earl Berman, MD; Dean Krugman, PhD
1989: Allen Dietrich, MD; Eugene Nelson, DSc; John Kirk, MD; Michael Zubkoff, PhD; Gerald O'Connor, PhD, DSc