Academy Bestows Honors, Awards

By News Staff • AAFP Assembly, Washington, D.C.
10/3/2006

Each year at the AAFP Assembly, the Academy recognizes members and others for their outstanding contributions to family medicine. The following persons were honored during this year’s Assembly, Sept. 27-Oct 1 in Washington, D.C.

2007 Family Physician of the Year — Steven Levin, M.D., of New Brunswick, N.J.
Honorary Membership — Reg Perkin, M.D., of Mississauga, Ontario, former executive director of the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and Sandra Panther, C.F.R.E., executive director of the AAFP Foundation
John G. Walsh Award for Lifetime Contributions to Family Medicine — James Martin, M.D., of San Antonio
Thomas W. Johnson Award for Career Contributions to Family Medicine Education — L. Thomas Wolff, M.D., of Liverpool, N.Y.
Exemplary Teaching Awards — Philip Diller, M.D., Ph.D., of Cincinnati (full-time faculty); Ann Aring, M.D., of Columbus, Ohio (part-time faculty); Martha Illige, M.D., of Denver (part-time faculty); and George Mogill, M.D., of Detroit (volunteer faculty)
AAFP Public Health Award — Susan Schooley, M.D., of Detroit
Robert Graham Family Physician Executive Award — Roland Goertz, M.D., M.B.A., of Waco, Texas
Humanitarian Award — Kathleen Bliese, M.D., of Grand Island, Neb.