Exemplary Teaching Award for Medical Education
The Exemplary Teaching Award for Medical Education recognizes members who demonstrate outstanding teaching skills, such as innovative curriculum design and instructional methods.
Winners receive $2,000 to support their work.
Award details
AAFP members who are full- or part-time faculty, as well as members who volunteer to teach outside an academic setting, may be nominated for the Exemplary Teaching Award for Medical Education.
Nominees are evaluated based on:
Recognition for exemplary teaching skills and outstanding progression of abilities over several years by medical students, residents or peers.
Development and implementation of innovative curriculum, teaching models or programs in a variety of medical education spheres.
The award is not available to members who have previously won this award or the Thomas W. Johnson Award for Career Contributions to Family Medicine Education.
Questions?
Email awards@aafp.org.
Past award recipients
| Year | Full time and/or part time | Volunteer |
| 2007 | Elizabeth G. Baxley, MD | Richard Levandowski, MD |
| 2008 | Reid B. Blackwelder, MD | Cathy Woodring, MD |
| 2009 | Randall L. Longenecker, MD | Barbara S. Coats, MD |
| 2010 | Gary I. Levine, MD | Larry B. Coleman, MD Betty DeLacey Coleman, MD |
| 2011 | Samuel W. Cullison, MD | David Netherton, MD |
| 2012 | Masahiro Morikawa, MD | Mary Beth Miller, MD |
| 2013 | W. Fred Miser, MD | Paul E. Van Gorp, MD |
| 2014 | Dennis L. Gingrich, MD | Randall V. Goering, MD |
| 2015 | Douglas C. Wooley, MD | Alisha T. Thomas, MD |
| 2016 | Cynthia L. Haq, MD | Adrian Billings, MD |
| 2017 | John R. Brill, MD | Stephen W. Hawks, DO |
| 2018 | Cynthia Waickus, MD | Todd A Miller, MD |
| 2019 | Jonathan L. Temte, MD | Chrisette M. Dharmagunaratne, MD |
| 2020 | Steven Brown, MD | Edward Lind, MD |
| 2021 | Andrea Anderson, MD | Shelly L. Gruenbacher, MD |
| 2022 | Frederick Anderson, MD | Donna Logan, MD |
| 2023 | Gretchen M. Irwin, MD | Mark Leiker, MD |
| 2024 | Phillip Brown, MD | Michael J. Petrizzi, MD |
| 2025 | Corey Lyon, DO |
| Year | Full time | Part time | Volunteer |
| 1997 | Ken Grauer, MD | Thomas M. Davis, MD | Paul R. Palmer, MD |
| 1998 | Jeanette E. South-Paul, MD | Eric R. Evans, MD | Charles Stephens, MD |
| 1999 | Kevin S. Ferentz, MD | Ellsworth C. Seeley, MD | Diane Nightengale, MD |
| 2000 | Mark Deutchman, MD | Mary K. Robinson, MD | Ronald Brown, MD Jonathan H. Rosen, MD |
| 2001 | Edward T. Bope, MD | Francesca Taylor, MD | Terry R. Lowe, MD C. Joseph O’Donnell, DO |
| 2002 | Janice E. Daugherty, MD | Pepi Granat, MD | Dennis L. Peterson, MD |
| 2003 | Penny Tenzer, MD | Cathy P. Carpenter, MD | Steven D. Penner, MD |
| 2004 | Wanda C. Gonsalves, MD | William N. Mebane III, MD | Daniel R. Spogen, MD |
| 2005 | Kathleen M. Macken, MD | Michael Machen, MD | David McRay, MD Larry Anderson, MD |
| 2006 | Phillip M. Diller, MD | Martha Illige, MD Ann M. Aring, MD |
George Mogill, MD |