Call for Internist Award Nominations

We seek to honor a community-based internist considered to be a role model by his or her peers. Nominees should possess excellent clinical skills, dedication to patients, enthusiasm for medical practice, leadership, and the ability to maintain humanity and a healthy balance between professional and personal interests that we can all strive to emulate. Internists who have championed innovations in practice to promote healthy patient behaviors will be given special consideration.

We seek to recognize an internist or group of internists who have an exceptionally positive impact on their community through volunteer activities. Previous Winners 2004 Richard A. Kirkpatrick, MD – Longview 2005 Arch H. Logan, MD – Spokane 2006 Grant E. Deger, MD – Bellingham 2007 Roderick S. Coler, MD – Kennewick 2008 No Award Presented 2009 No Award Presented 2010 Richard A. Kirkpatrick MD FACP – Longview 2011 Robert L. Coffey MD – Mount Vernon 2012 Paul Bunge MD FACP – Tacoma 2013 Christopher Smith MD, FACP – Seattle 2014 Ann Dreyer MD – Everett 2015 Richard Arnold MD FACP – Seattle Catherine Bree Johnston, MD, FACP – Bellingham 2016 No Award Presented 2017 Genevieve Pagalilauan – Seattle 2018 Rachel Safran – Spokane 2019 Anita Chopra – Seattle 2019 Majd Isreb – Longview 2020 Natalia Usoltseva, MD FACP – Seattle 2021 Sundance Rogers – Bainbridge; Anne Grossman – Spokane

We seek to honor volunteer teachers who have made a substantial contribution to the education of medical or other health profession students in his/her community. Balancing teaching with all the other demands of our profession is an important contribution to the future of internal medicine. Previous Winners 2004 Emily R. Transue, MD – Seattle 2005 Timothy H. Troeh, MD – Aberdeen 2006 Mohammad Saleem Memon, MD – Aberdeen 2007 John H. Addison, MD, FACP – Mercer Island 2008 John Y. Peng, MD – Seattle 2009 T. Vyn Reese, MD – Seattle 2010 Michael Lippman, MD – Seattle 2011 Henry Mroch MD – Spokane 2012 Jeff Peterson MD – Seattle 2013 Joseph Saitta MD – Seattle 2014 LTC George Mount MD – Tacoma 2015 Stephanie Fosback, MD – Pullman, WA, Gemma O’Keefe, MD – Seattle, WA 2016 Tara Nysoe MD – Everett, WA, Stephen Weinberger MD – Seattle 2017 Chuong H. Nguyen – Olympia, Margaret Adam – Seattle 2018 Scott Stuart – Kirkland 2019 – Evan Michael Graham – Wenatchee 2020 – Lexie Graham, MD – Wenatchee 2021 – Greg Nakamoto – Seattle

We seek to honor an academic-based internist considered to be a role model by his or her peers. Nominees should possess excellent clinical skills, dedication to patients, enthusiasm for medical practice, leadership, exceptional teaching and mentoring skills, and the ability to maintain humanity and a healthy balance between professional and personal interests that we can all strive to emulate. A commitment to developing/disseminating academic work, regional and national recognition for teaching, publishing scientific research, and/or curriculum development will be given special consideration. Previous Winners 2018 Anne Eacker – Seattle 2019 Elizabeth Kaplan – Seattle 2020 Christopher Knight, MD FACP – Seattle 2021 – Molly Blakely Jackson – Kirkland; Kang X Zhang – Spokane

We seek to honor a hospitalist considered to be a role model by his or her peers. Nominees should possess excellent clinical skills, dedication to patients, enthusiasm for medical practice, leadership, and the ability to maintain humanity and a healthy balance between professional and personal interests that we can all strive to emulate. Hospitalists that have championed quality improvement projects and innovations in practice which promote hospital improvement will be given special consideration. Previous Winners 2018 Alice Ding – Seattle 2019 Joey Parker – Seattle 2020 Nancy Marshall, MD FACP – Kirkland 2021 Rachel Reeg – Wenatchee

In recognition of the member who has made significant contributions in volunteer service on behalf of the Washington ACP Chapter, we offer this annual award. Significant contributions include both the length and magnitude of service to the chapter as well as new, valuable chapter initiatives that a member advances. Nominees should be Members or Fellows of the Chapter. Previous Winners 2020 Kemi Nakabayashi – Seattle; 2021 – Ananth Shenoy – Lynnwood