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.
Recipients receive their choice of either:
Flight and accommodations for up to two nights to receive the award in person at the AAFP Congress of Delegates.
$2,000 monetary award to support their outstanding work.
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.
Questions?
Email awards@aafp.org.
About Thomas W. Johnson, MD
Created in 1973, the Thomas W. Johnson Award is named for Tom Johnson, MD, a long-time AAFP member who served the Tennessee AFP and the AAFP before joining the AAFP education division staff in 1969. From 1971 until 1973, Dr. Johnson served as the director of the Division of Education.
2026: Joseph Gravel, MD, FAAFP
2025: William Schwab, MD
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