ACP Awards and Masterships
Congratulations to the following PA-ACP members for being honored with ACP awards for 2022-23. More information about ACP awards and Masterships can be found here.
Alfred Stengel Memorial Award for Outstanding Service to the American College of Physicians
Charles Cutler, MD, MACP
Merion Station, Pennsylania
MASTERSHIPS:
Amy L. Davis, DO, MACP
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Thomas C. Grau, MD, MACP
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Louis E. Leff, MD, MACP
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Darren B. Taichman, MD, PhD, MACP
Penn Valley, Pennsylvania
Congratulations to Our 2023 Regional Award Winners!
Congratulations to Our 2023 Overall PA Chapter Doctors Dilemma Winner - Albert Einstein Medical Center!
PA-ACP Chapter Awards
Dr. Ann Preston Women in Medicine Award
Started in 2019, the Pennsylvania ACP Chapter Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine recognizes a Chapter member, male or female, whose outstanding efforts and achievements have promoted the career success, leadership, and overall quality of life for women in medicine. This member deserves recognition for their accomplishments and dedication to fostering tomorrow’s women leaders in medicine. The award is named after Ann Preston (1813-1872). She lived her whole life in Philadelphia and was a true medical pioneer. She was in the first class of women who enrolled in the Female (later Women's) Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1850. She was appointed a professor of Physiology and Hygiene in 1853. After the Board of Censors of the Philadelphia Medical Society effectively banned women physicians from the public teaching clinics of the city, she raised funds to start a new hospital where teaching could occur. The Womens Hospital opened in 1858. She later created a school of nursing and she was named the first woman dean of the Women's Medical College in 1866. Read more about Dr. Ann Preston here:
https://cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/biography_256.html
2022 Winners
Shaden Eldaker-Hein, MD, MS, FACP (Eastern Region)
Elizabeth Leilani Lee, MD, MBS, FACP (Southeastern Region)
Saba Waseem, MD, FACP (Western Region)
2021 Winner
Margot I. Boigon, MD FACP (Southeastern Region)
2020
Linda Thomas-Hemak, MD, FAAP, FACP (Eastern Region)
Ana Maria Lopez, MD, MPH, MACP (Southeastern Region)
2019
Edith Mitchell, MD, MACP (Southeastern Region)
Laureate Award
The Laureate Award honors those Fellows or Masters of the College who have demonstrated by their example and conduct an abiding commitment to excellence in medical care, education, or research, and in service to their community, their Chapter, and the American College of Physicians.
The awardees shall be senior physicians who are Fellows or Masters of long-standing, with acknowledged excellence and peer approval in the field of internal medicine. In addition, the awardees should have served the Chapter with distinction. Exceptional circumstances may modify these requirements.
2023 Winners
Navneet Dang, MD, MBA, MS, CPE, FACP (Eastern Region)
Amy L. Davis, DO, MACP (Southeastern Region)
Jennifer A Corbelli, MD, FACP (Western Region)
2021 Winners
Anthony Donato, MD, MACP (Eastern Region)
William D. Surkis, MD, FACP (Southeastern Region)
Anastasios Kapetanos, MD, FACP (Western Region)
2020
Thomas Fekete, MD, MACP (Southeastern Region)
2019
Thomas Olenginski, MD (Eastern Region)
Judith Black, MD, FACP (Western Region)
Lia Logio, MD, MACP (Southeastern Region)
Clinical Practice Award
This award was created to recognize a senior member internist for service as an excellent clinical practitioner for patients, the community and the profession. Qualities that might be recognized include long-time excellence in a practice setting providing patient-centered care, being known for collaboration with colleagues, serving as an excellent consultant to colleagues, being known as a leader in her/his medical community or community of residence, and serving as an excellent role model for colleagues.
Any active member who meets these or similar criteria can be nominated for this award.
2023 Winners
David D. Reynolds. MD, AGAF (Eastern Region)
Robert K Cato, MD FACP (Southeastern Region)
2022 Winners
Richard L. Weinberger, DO, FACP (Eastern Region)
Kevin Zakrzewski, MD, FACP (Southeastern Region)
Erika Hoffman, MD, FACP (Western Region)
2021 Winners
Saurabh Sharma, MD, FACP, FACC, FASE (Eastern Region)
John M. Spandorfer, MD, FACP (Southeastern Region)
2019
Raghavendra Tirupathi Govindaraju, MBBS, FACP (Western Region)
Jerome Santoro, MD, FACP (Southeastern Region)
Pressman Award
The Pressman Award is considered the highest honor Pennsylvania internists could bestow on a member for socioeconomic and political leadership in organized medicine, government relations, politics, and advocacy.
It honors lifetime accomplishments by a PA internist-leader who 1) excels in advocacy for internal medicine with government and health care organizations, 2) is a leader within organized medicine, 3) embodies extraordinary dedication to the specialty of internal medicine, and 4) demonstrates a commitment to patients and the community.
2020
Darren Taichman, MD, PhD, FACP
Christine Laine, MD, MPH, FACP
Waxman Award
The Herbert S. Waxman Voluntary Faculty Teaching Award recognizes the most effective and committed internist who has distinguished himself or herself as a member of the voluntary faculty at a teaching hospital or medical school in Pennsylvania.
To be eligible for the award, nominees must meet the following criteria:
- Be a board-certified internal medicine physician;
- Be active in teaching as a voluntary faculty member for 5 consecutive years or for 8 of 10 years; and
- Be nominated by an internal medicine department chairman or residency program director at the institution where he or she teaches, or by a medical student clerkship director at such an institution.
2023 Winner
Wasique Mirza, MBBS, FACP, FASH (Eastern Region)
2022 Winners
Samir Bipin Pancholy, MD (Eastern Region)
Lawrence Mass, MD, FACP (Southeastern Region)
2021 Winner
John Hippen, MD, FACP (Eastern Region)
2020
Dipti S Pancholy, MD (Eastern Region)
Joseph A Rigotti, DO, FACP (Southeastern Region)
2019
Armen Sevag, DO (Southeastern Region)
Special Recognition Award
Occasionally, members are recognized for special contributions which may not fit into one of the specific award categories identified above.
2023 Winners
Richard L. Weinberger, DO, FACP (Eastern Region)
Dimple Patel, MD, FACP (Southeastern Region)
2021 Winners
Mina Makary, MD, MBA, FACP, FHM, BCMAS (Eastern Region)
Brittany MacDonald (Southeastern Region)
Allison S. DeKosky, MD (Western Region)
2020
Joseph Vadakara, MD, FACP (Eastern Region)
2018
David Aizenberg, MD, FACP (Southeastern Region)
Mehrshid Kiazand, MD, FACP (Western Region)
Kristian Feterik, MD, FACP (Western Region)
Yan Leyfman (Eastern Region)
2017
Aleesha Shaik (Southeastern Region)
Robert C. Aber, MD, MACP (Eastern Region)
Jennifer G. McComb, MD, FACP (Western Region)
John Derrickson Early Career Physician Service Excellence Award
The Derrickson Award recognizes an early career physician of the Chapter whose volunteerism, energy, and initiative advanced the mission and goals of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Physicians.
2023 Winners
Don Mathew, MD (Western Region)
Rehan Saeed, MD (Southeastern Region)
Syed Moez Shah Bukhari, MBBS, MD, MHA (Western Region)
2022 Winners
Sarah Al-Obaydi, MD, MPH (Eastern Region)
Dustin Pardo, MD (Southeastern Region)
Maggie Benson, MD, MS, FACP (Western Region)
2021 Winners
Alia Chisty, MD, FACP (Eastern Region)
Lily Ackermann, MD (Southeastern Region)
Syed Arsalan Akhter Zaidi, MD, MBBS (Western Region)
2020
Eliana V Hempel, MD, FACP (Eastern Region)
Jillian Zavodnick, MD, FACP (Southeastern Region)
2019
David Aizenberg, MD, FACP (Southeastern Region)
Gaetan Sgro, MD (Western Region)