Chapter awardees

Chapters honor Members, Fellows, and Masters of ACP who have demonstrated by their example and conduct an abiding commitment to excellence in medical care, education, research, or service to their community, their chapter, and ACP. Awardees have a long history of excellence and peer approval in the specialty of internal medicine. In recognition of their outstanding service, these exceptional individuals received chapter awards in the summer/fall of 2016:

Arkansas

Laura Hutchins, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

California Southern Region 1

Robert I. Goodman, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

California Southern Region 2

Debra L. Stottlemyer, MD, MBA, FACP–Laureate Award

California Southern Region 3

David J. Shaw, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Connecticut

Ellen Nestler, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Zied Michael Taweh, MD–Volunteerism and Community Service Award

Stephen J. Huot, MD, PhD–Thornton Award

Joseph P. Cleary, MD, MACP–Distinguished Internist Award

Georgia

Clyde Watkins Jr., MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Spurgeon William Clark III, MD–Leadership Award

Ned Wilson Holland, MD, FACP–Mark Silverman Award

Edward Chin, MD, FACP–2016 J. Willis Hurst Bedside Teaching Award

Deep Shah, MD–2016 Outstanding Resident Volunteerism & Advocacy Award

Lavanya Viswanathan, MD, MS–2016 Outstanding Resident Volunteerism & Advocacy Award

Anna Sulimirski–2016 Outstanding Medical Student Volunteerism & Advocacy Award

Iowa

Manish Suneja, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Hendrik Schultz, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Kansas

Allan R. Fleming, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Matt W. Floersch, MD, FACP–Early Career Physician of the Year

Maine

Jane P. Pringle, MD FACP–Laureate Award

Christina Kapala, DO–Resident of the Year Award

Michigan

Suzanne Bradley, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Lawrence Crane, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Mark Zervos, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Francisco Davila, MD, FACP–Governor's Award

Khalid Zakaria, MD, FACP–Governor's Award

Lewis Rosenbaum, MD, FACP–Great Internist of Michigan Award

Henry Bone, MD, FACP–Great Internist of Michigan Award

Richard Roach, MD, FACP–Volunteerism and Community Service Award

Sandor Shoichet, MD, FACP–Lifetime Achievement Award

Fred Michael DO, FACP–Lifetime Achievement Award

Minnesota

Mary Miley, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Sarah M. Kesler, MD–Community Volunteer Award

Missouri

Elizabeth A. Andes, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Montana

Brett N. Kronenberger, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Ronald V. Loge, MD, MACP–Lifetime Teaching Award

Kathryn Borgenicht, MD, FACP–Lifetime Achievement Award

Pam Hiebert, MD, FACP–Woman Physician of the Year Award

Conrad Addison–William A. Reynolds Outstanding Medical Student Award

Nebraska

William A. Shiffermiller, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Regan Taylor, MD, FACP–Early Career Physician Award

Henry T. Lynch, MD, FACP–Walter J. Donahue, Jr. Award

Sehr Haroon, MD–Volunteerism and Community Service Award

Mark D. Omar, MD, FACP–Volunteer Faculty Award

New Hampshire

Michelle L’Heureux–Exceptional Chapter Service Award

Ohio

Mark R. Bibler, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Andrei C. Brateanu, MD, FACP–Evelyn V. Hess, MD, MACP Master Teacher Award

Suban M. Razack, MD, FACP–Evelyn V. Hess, MD, MACP Master Teacher Award

Gregory W. Rutecki, MD, FACP–Evelyn V. Hess, MD, MACP Master Teacher Award

K. Shashi Kant, MD, FACP–Internist of the Year Award

South Carolina

Robert T. Ball, Jr., MD, MPH, FACP–Laureate Award

Ernest B. Clyburn, MD, FACP–James McFarland Award

Vinod E. Nambudiri, MD–Early Career Physician Award

South Dakota

Catherine C. Gerrish, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Tim M. Ridgway, MD, FACP–Teacher of the Year

Josh B. Henderson, DO–Early Career Physician of the Year

West Virginia

Lynne J. Goebel, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Wisconsin

Jeffrey C. Whittle, MD, FACP–Laureate Award

Scott S. Erickson, MD–Volunteerism and Community Service Award

Kenneth I. Gold, MD, FACP–Lifetime Achievement Award

Paula J. Graf, MD, FACP–Helen Dickie Woman Physician Of the Year Award

Thomas D. Shiffler, MD, FACP–Young Internist of the Year Award

Michael J. Dolan, MD, FACP–Distinguished Internist of the Year Award

Tosha B. Wetterneck, MD, FACP–Addis Costello Internist of the Year Award

Rick A. Erdman, MD–Community Based Physician and Mentor Award