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Distinguished Clinician Awards
Nominations are closed for the year. We will announce the 2023 recipients in January.
Recognition Award nominations are open through Aug. 23, 2022.
Description
Created in 1995, the Distinguished Clinician Awards recognize two members of the practicing community who combine the art of medicine with the skills demanded by the scientific body of knowledge in service to their patients. One prize is awarded to an individual in private practice, and the other to an individual in an academic setting.
Eligibility
Nominees must be current AGA members and have demonstrated exemplary service to the AGA, such as committee service and/or AGA fellowship. Candidates for this prize will be clinicians in private practice or academic settings who have exemplified leadership and excellence in the practice of gastroenterology and whose time is spent primarily in the delivery of patient care.
Selection process
The recipients will be selected by an independent panel of AGA members. The following criteria are considered during the selection of recipients; however, review committees may consider other criteria as needed and based on a candidate’s strengths or accomplishments:
- Degree to which the candidate has directly impacted and enhanced patient care.
- Degree to which the candidate has demonstrated leadership in national, regional or local organizations.
- Development of patient-centered educational programs by the candidate that demonstrate excellence in education.
- Development of clinical programs by the candidate.
- The candidate’s national or regional reputation for excellence in clinical care.
- The candidate’s impact on the mentorship and development of other clinicians.
- The candidate’s record of service to AGA.
Recognition
The recipients are recognized at the AGA Awards Ceremony during Digestive Disease Week®.
Nomination and submission process
All nominations must be submitted online by a primary nominator who is an AGA member. The names of additional AGA members who support the nomination should be listed on the nomination form.
The following supporting materials must be uploaded with the nomination form in PDF format. Please title the files using the nominee’s last name, first initial and the type of file (i.e., DoeJ_Letter.pdf, DoeJ_CV.pdf).
- A nomination letter, not to exceed two pages, signed by the primary nominator and additional AGA members who support the nomination. If the letter has multiple signatures, additional signature pages beyond the two-page limit are allowed.
- Nominee’s curriculum vitae.
CONTACT
Please forward all questions about this and other AGA recognition prizes to 301-941-2619 or via email at awards@gastro.org.
Recipients (1996–2022)
2022 | Peter Higgins, MD; George Triadafilopoulos, MD, AGAF, FASGE, AGAF, FACG, FACP, DSc |
2021 | Peter H. R. Green, MD; Nimish B. Vakil, MD, AGAF, FASGE |
2020 | Kimberly Persley, MD, AGAF; Gary Lichtenstein, MD, AGAF |
2019 | Naresh T. Gunaratnam, MD, AGAF; Edward V. Loftus Jr., MD, AGAF |
2018 | Bertha (Nice’) E. Toriz, MD; Michael L. Kochman, MD, AGAF |
2017 | Steven Burdick, MD; David Metz, MD, AGAF |
2016 | Robert S. Bartolomeo, MD, AGAF; Kim L. Isaacs, MD, PhD, AGAF |
2015 | William D. Chey, MD, AGAF; Louis Y. Korman, MD |
2014 | Howard L. Taubin, MD; Gary W. Falk, MD, MS, AGAF |
2013 | Grace H. Elta, MD, AGAF; Lawrence R. Schiller, MD |
2012 | John I. Allen, MD, MBA, AGAF; Timothy T. Nostrant, MD, AGAF |
2011 | Ioannis C. Danielides, MD; William J. Tremaine, MD, AGAF |
2010 | David A. Katzka, MD; James F. Martin, MD, AGAF |
2009 | Damian H. Augustyn, MD, AGAF; Lin Chang, MD, AGAF; Robert M. Craig, MD; Stephen Goldfinger, MD |
2008 | Charles J. Lightdale, MD, AGAF; Ronald J. Vender, MD, AGAF |
2007 | Carla H. Ginsburg, MD; Albert J. Czaja, MD |
2006 | Alroy A. Chow, MD; Kenneth R. McQuaid, MD |
2005 | Simmy Bank, MD; George F. Longstreth, MD |
2004 | James E. Allison, MD; Theodore M. Bayless, MD; John H. Bond, Jr., MD; Cecil H. Chally, MD; William Y. Chey, MD; Julius J. Deren, MD; Thomas D. McCaffery, Jr., MD; Richard E. Sampliner, MD |
2003 | Atila Ertan, MD; Joseph F. Fitzgerald, MD; John C. Fletcher, MD; Michael R. Fogel, MD; Stanley B. Goldberg, MD; Paul A. Kantrowitz, MD; Mark A. Peppercorn, MD; Satish S. C. Rao, MD; Caroline A. Riely, MD; Charles S. Winans, MD. |
2002 | Marshall S. Bedine, MD, LLC; Ira S. Goldman, MD; Martin L. Greene, MD; John C. McKechnie, MD |
2001 | Richard R. Babb, MD; Charles M. Bliss, MD; Stuart H. Danovitch, MD |
2000 | Eugene M. Bozymski, MD; Douglas McGill, MD; Bergein Overholt, MD; John Singleton, MD; Frank Troncale, MD, MS |
1999 | James J. Cerda, MD; Joseph E. Geenen, MD; Stanley S. Shimoda, MD; Walter R. Thayer, Jr., MD; Alvin M. Zfass, MD |
1998 | Edgar Achkar, MD; James L. Borland, Jr., MD; Horacio H. Jinich, MD; Burton I. Korelitz, MD; Robert H. Schapiro, MD |
1997 | Alan J. Cameron, MD; Harvey J. Dworken, MD; L. Frederick Fenster, MD; David E. Langdon, MD; Joseph G. Sweeting, MD |
1996 | Arnold P. Kaplan, MD; C. Michael Knauer, MD; Daniel E. Polter, MD; Daniel H. Present, MD; Burton A. Shatz, MD |