The Thomas W. Johnson Award for Career Contributions to Family Medicine Education
The Thomas W. Johnson Award for Career Contributions to Family Medicine Education honors outstanding contributions to family medicine education in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education.
What does the award recognize?
The AAFP created this award in 1973 to recognize educators whose lifetime contributions to family medicine education has strengthened the specialty.
The award is named for Tom Johnson, MD, a long-time AAFP member who actively served the Tennessee chapter and the AAFP before joining the education division staff in 1969. From 1971 until 1973, Dr. Johnson served as the director of the Division of Education.
Questions?
Please contact Heather Walter at hwalter@aafp.org.
Award details
The award is available to members who have been educators for at least 10 years and have demonstrated lifetime contribution to family medicine education through achievements such as:
- Developing and implementing innovative curriculum, teaching models or programs
- Engaging in local, regional and national or international educational initiatives
- Leading academic medical organizations
Current AAFP staff members are not eligible, but former staff members are eligible.
Nominees whose names have been submitted for two consecutive years must wait two more years before being re-nominated.
Past award recipients
2024: Grant Hoekzema, MD, FAAFP
2023: Deborah S. Clements, MD, FAAFP
2022: Shou-Ling Leong, MD
2021: Linda W. Prine, MD, FAAFP
2020: Barbara L. Thompson, MD
2019: Peter Carek, MD, MS, FAAFP
2018: Ted Epperly, MD, FAAFP
2017: John W. Saultz, MD, FAAFP
2016: John W. Beasley, MD, FAAFP
2015: Macaran A. Baird, MD, MS
2014: Perry A. Pugno, MD, FAAFP
2013: Daniel J. Ostergaard, MD, FAAFP
2012: Elizabeth A. Garrett, MD, MSPH
2011: Byron J. Crouse, MD
2010: Larry Green, MD
2009: Paul R. Young, MD
2008: Norman B. Kahn Jr., MD
2007: Edward T. Bope, MD
2006: L. Thomas Wolff, MD
2005: John L. Pfenninger, MD, BS
2004: Alfred O. Berg, MD, MPH
2003: Joseph Hobbs, MD
2002: Robert F. Avant, MD
2001: William E. Jacott, MD
2000: Marjorie A. Bowman, MD, MPA
1999: D. Melessa Phillips, MD
1998: Robert B. Taylor, MD
1997: Vincent R. Hunt, MD
1996: Walter Larimore, MD
1996: Nikitas J. Zervanos, MD
1995: James G. Jones, MD
1994: Joseph L. Scherger, MD
1993: William M. Rodney, MD
1993: Eugene Felmar, MD
1992: Deborah I. Allen, MD
1991: John E. Verby, MD
1990: Loren Amundson, MD
1989: Anthony F. Vuturo, MD, MPH
1988: James G. Price, MD
1987: Thomas Nicholas, MD
1986: Gerald Gehringer, MD
1985: Thomas L. Stern, MD
1984: William C. Allen, MD
1984: Gabriel Smilkstein, MD
1983: Herschel L. Douglas, MD
1982: Edward Donatelle, MD
1981: F. Marian Bishop, PhD
1980: John P. Geyman, MD
1979: Ross L. Egger, MD
1979: R. Neil Chisholm, MD
1979: Edward T. Shahady, MD
1978: William L. Stewart, MD
1977: Rafael C. Sanchez, MD
1977: Nicholas J. Pisacano, MD
1976: Theodore J. Phillips, MD
1976: Lynn P. Carmichael, MD
1976: B. Lewis Barnett Jr., MD
1975: G. Gayle Stephens, MD
1974: Fitzhugh Mayo, MD
1973: Robert Rakel, MD
1973: L.P. Johnson, MD
1973: Edward W. Ciriacy, MD