The Annual Awards of the Association of American Medical Colleges

Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education The Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education was established in 1958 by the Association to recognized extraordinary individual contributions to medical schools and to the medical education community as a whole. Joseph Boyd Martin, MD, PhD Dean, Harvard Medical School Joseph B. Martin has built an international reputation both as a visionary researcher in the field of neurologic sciences and as an outstanding leader in academic medicine and medical education. His colleagues laud him as the ultimate physician—scientist, a healer and teacher who has never let his vast range of commitments as a dean and administrator keep him from a continued presence on the wards as an educator and mentor.JOSEPH BOYD MARTIN, MD, PHDSince 1997, Dr. Martin has served as the dean of Harvard Medical School. He arrived at Harvard during a time of great strain in the relationships between Harvard's 17 affiliated hospitals and between the hospitals and the medical school. Through what Harvard President Neil Rudenstine terms “absolute integrity, wisdom, and practical skill,” Dr. Martin has succeeded in healing many institutional rifts, initiating new research across a variety of units, and promoting a genuinely common effort to address systematic problems. Collaborations that have been initiated or are planned under his leadership include the Dana Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, the Harvard Clinical Research Initiative, and the development of a National Center for Excellence in Women's Health, which was awarded to a consortium led by Harvard. Prior to joining Harvard, Dr. Martin served as dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for eight years, and as chancellor of UCSF from 1993 to 1997. During his tenure as dean, he solidified the position of UCSF as one of the premier public biomedical research institutions in the United States. He established the W. M. Keck Foundation for Integrative Neurosciences, dedicated to combining studies of the brain and behavior, and the Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology, dedicated to AIDS research. He also began laying the groundwork for UCSF's Comprehensive Cancer Center. Colleagues at both UCSF and Harvard also praise Dr. Martin for his passionate commitment to crucial issues such as the need for comprehensive changes in clinical research training and the importance of diversity among medical students, residents, and faculty. Dr. Martin's 40-year career spans a variety of roles and venues within academic medicine, including professorships at the University of Connecticut, McGill University, and Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. He served as chairman of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill, and as chief of the Neurology Service at Mass General. During the past decade, in addition to a wide array of publications on subjects in the neurosciences, Dr. Martin has published on a variety of topics in medical education and academic medicine, including a number of articles on how academic medical centers can survive and maintain their excellence in today's changing health care delivery system. After receiving his MD from the University of Alberta, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Martin completed his residency in Neurology at Case Western Reserve University Hospital. His scholarly publications include more than 20 books and over 200 peer-reviewed original articles. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Institute of Medicine, and a past president of the American Neurological Association. David E. Rogers Award The David E. Rogers Award, jointly sponsored by the AAMC and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is presented this year for the fifth time. The award honors David E. Rogers, MD, a former president of the RWJ Foundation and an examplar of academic medicine's commitment to meeting the health needs of our country. In honor of Dr. Rogers' efforts, the Rogers Award recognizes a medical school faculty member who has made major contributions to improving the health and health care of the American people. William N. Kelley, MD Chief executive officer, University of Pennsylvania Health System, and dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Much of the shape and direction of today's academic medical centers can be traced to the influence of William N. Kelley, MD. As CEO of the University of Pennsylvania Health System and dean of the school of medicine, Dr. Kelley has led the development of one of the first academic, fully integrated delivery systems in the nation, building and promoting a model for strengthening the future of academic medicine. Many other institutions around the country have since built large and successful clinical enterprises, closely based on Dr. Kelley's model, demonstrating that even in these difficult times academic medical centers can remain true to their education and research missions while still remaining competitive in the delivery of high-quality care.WILLIAM N. KELLEY, MDThe integrated delivery system is only one aspect of Dr. Kelley's vision for the future of academic medicine. He has also built and implemented the largest health and disease management program in the country, with over 500 physicians and staff and 60 separate clinical sites engaged in carrying out the program. This visionary new system of health care creates evidence-based best practices that form the basis of a clinical integration strategy across the full continuum of care, uniting the community with the academic medical center and eliminating the need for strict primary care gatekeeping. Under Dr. Kelley's leadership, Penn's new research space has more than doubled, and the institution has climbed to third in the country in NIH funding rankings from its position of tenth on his arrival. He has also initiated and supervised Curriculum 2000, a major revision of the medical school curriculum that integrates clinical experiences with lectures early in the educational experience. This groundbreaking new curriculum, like so many of Dr. Kelley's innovations, is now serving as a model for others around the country. Dr. Kelley received his MD from the Emory University School of Medicine and completed his residency in internal medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. In 1968, after a fellowship at the NIH and a teaching fellowship at Harvard Medical School, he began his academic career as an assistant professor of medicine at Duke. Within a few years he rose to head the Division of Rheumatic and Genetic Diseases, before moving on to become chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Michigan. During his nearly 15-year tenure at Michigan, Dr. Kelley built one of the finest departments of medicine in the country. He joined the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, and since that time has served as the CEO of the health system, dean of the school of medicine, and executive VP of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Kelley has over 250 peer-reviewed publications and 19 books to his credit, and has served on numerous editorial boards and scientific committees. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Merck and Co., Inc., Beckman Coulter Inc., and Emory University, among others. Dr. Kelley also holds a patent on a frequently used genetransfer technique that has made possible numerous advancements in gene therapy applications. Humanism in Medical Education Award The Humanism in Medical Education Award, sponsored by Pfizer, Inc., annually honors a medical school faculty physician who is a caring and compassionate mentor and a practitioner of patient-centered care, who teaches ethics, empathy, and service by example. Andrew Hsi, MD, MPH Associate professor of pediatrics and clinical education, University of New Mexico School of Medicine Dr. Andrew Hsi's academic activities and accomplishments are myriad. He directs the Newborn Nursery at the University of New Mexico's University Hospital, as well as the Division of General Pediatrics. He lectures worldwide on maternal substance abuse and subsequent health effects on neonates, and co-chairs the university and county Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect. But perhaps his most important work stems from the Los Pasos (Steps) program, which he designed to provide a multidisciplinary approach to mothers and children living with substance abuse, crime, violence, and neglect.ANDREW HSI, MD, MPHHe has also helped to design the Milagro (Miracle) program, which serves drug-addicted pregnant women. “This remarkable man has patience rarely demonstrated by the public when it comes to issues regarding pregnant women who abuse drugs,” wrote the residents who nominated Dr. Hsi. “His fairness, sensitivity, and nonjudgmental attitude have enabled him to work with this most demonized of patient populations.” “There are no ‘crack babies,’” Dr. Hsi tells his students. To Dr. Hsi, the term is a label, and like any other stereotype, it prevents medical professionals from being objective. Dr. Hsi teaches, and models, an approach to the patient in which that individual's humanity is always uppermost in the physician's mind. Since 1990, he and the Los Pasos team have been rewarded for this compassionate approach with over 1,300 healthier babies and healthier mothers, and one recovered mother has joined the Los Pasos team as a patient advocate. Dr. Hsi, like many other medical school faculty members, serves as a mentor and advisor for many students. He is not assigned to them in an official capacity, however; students seek him out, having heard of his honesty and compassion. One of Dr. Hsi's former students, hearing of his possible nomination for the Humanism award, wrote, “Not only do I take my daughter to him for health care, I often seek his advice on career choices, parenting challenges, case management, and ethical dilemmas. I feel that he embodies what we are striving to become: humanistic physicians.” Dr. Hsi's nomination also stated, “It is the true test of a humanist to be humable in the face of overwhelming success. Dr. Hsi will not rest on the merits of his success—he will always have another patient to help, another student to educate, another public policy battle to fight, another mother who needs an advocate.” Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences The AAMC Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences was established in 1981 and is funded by the Baxter Allegiance Foundation. The award recognizes outstanding clinical or laboratory research conducted by a member of the faculty of a medical school that is an AAMC member. Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, MD Professor and chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine Elizabeth Helen Blackburn, MD, is lauded by many colleagues as one of the nation's—indeed, the world's—most distinguished scientists in the biological disciplines. Scientists had made little progress in understanding the unique properties of chromosomal ends, called telomeres, until Dr. Blackburn began her brilliant work in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Her discoveries have created an entirely new field in molecular biology—the molecular description of telomeres—offering outstanding implications for the study of disease and aging.ELIZABETH HELEN BLACKBURN, MDFrom her original, tour-de-force identification of the DNA sequence of telomeres—at a time when DNA sequencing and cloning technologies were far from fully developed—Dr. Blackburn moved on to establish the structures of telomeres and the properties of telomerase, the enzyme that manufactures them. Her fundamental work has made possible an entirely new understanding of how the life span of normal cells is regulated and of how that regulation goes astray in cancer cells, offering a rich new avenue of exploration for cancer therapies. “It is rare in this day and age that a single individual can lay claim to findings of such wide ranging and deep importance,” writes Haile T. Debas, MD, dean and chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. Dr. Blackburn received her MD from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and her PhD in molecular biology from the University of Cambridge, England. Following postdoctoral work with Dr. Joseph Gall at Yale University, where she began her seminal work on telomeres, Dr. Blackburn moved to the University of California system, where she has spent over 20 years as a faculty member and department chair in molecular biology, microbiology, and immunology. Dr. Blackburn has received the rare double honor of being elected to both the British Royal Society and the American National Academy of Sciences. She was elected president of the American Society for Cell Biology in 1998, and has received a host of other accolades, including the 1999 California Scientist of the Year Award, the Rosenstiel Award and Passano Award for 1999, and le Grand Priz Charles-Leopold Mayer Award in 1998. Service Award The Service Award was established in 1993 to a member institution with a major institutional commitment to community The award recognizes that well the of academic medicine and needs are not being the health delivery system. School of Medicine community service one aspect of what School of Medicine community service is what and it the The of is to and and other students as biomedical and public health to meeting the primary health care needs of the service at is not a it is to the of our writes E. 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