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| A record 4,000 leaders
in academic medicine registered for the 2007 AAMC annual meeting
in Washington, D.C. |
The stage is set for the 2007 AAMC award winners. To learn more about the honorees, please visit the awards page. |
Richard Krugman, M.D., Dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine, and chair of the AAMC, presents the Herbert W. Nickens Award to M. Roy Wilson, M.D., chancellor of the University of Colorado Denver. |
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| Linda Hunt, president of St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center accepts the Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from Spencer “Spike” Foreman, M.D. (left), Montefiore Medical Center, and Richard Krugman, M.D. This is the first year the award has been presented in Dr. Foreman’s name. |
Yasmin S. Meah, M.D., of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, received the 2007 Humanism in Medicine Award. |
David C. Leach, M.D., former executive director of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, received the 2007 Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education. |
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| Robert H. Brook, M.D., Sc.D., of the RAND Corporation, received the 2007 David E. Rogers Award. |
Seymour J. Klebanoff, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington School of Medicine, received the 2007 Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences. |
Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award went to (from left) Robert M. Klein, Ph.D., University of Kansas School of Medicine; John Nolte, Ph.D., University of Arizona College of Medicine; Richard M. Schwartzstein, M.D., Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and James L. Sebastian, M.D., Medical College of Wisconsin. Rae-Ellen Kavey, M.D., (center) presented the awards |
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| Standing room only during
the Leadership Forum plenary session. Presenters included AAMC
Chair Richard D. Krugman, M.D.; AAMC President and CEO Darrell G.
Kirch, M.D.; and keynote speaker Cokie Roberts of ABC News and NPR. |
Members of the AAMC’s Group on Faculty Affairs gathered for their business meeting and reception. |
Students lined up for a Q & A session in a packed room during the GSA-MAS session. |
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| Tomorrow's doctors had an opportunity to experiment with high-tech simulators during the annual career fair, which attracted more than 1,000 participants. |
Annual meeting attendees had no shortage of networking opportunities at the dozens of special receptions, breakfasts, lunches, and dinners offered throughout the event. |
Vocalist Rosa Lamoreaux and pianist Stan Engebretson performed "Tale of the Oyster and Other Medical Insights of Cole Porter" during the Music and Medicine program. |
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| Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., president emeritus of Morehouse School of Medicine, delivered the Herbert W. Nickens Lecture on "Diversity in Health Professions: Challenges and Opportunities." |
More than 200 exhibitors displayed their products and services at the Marriott's exhibition hall
Sunday and Monday. The hall was also the site for the AAMC reception
on Sunday night. |
Christine Farrell played
Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman in the United States to graduate
from medical school in "A Lady Alone," an original one-woman play
written by former AAMC Chair N. Lynn Eckhert, M.D., Dr.P.H. |
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| U.S. Rep. Bob Etheridge of North
Carolina talks with AAMC constituents, including Nancy Andrews, M.D.,
Ph.D., dean of the Duke University School of Medicine (center), during
the Project Medical Education reception on Capitol Hill. |
Members of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems (COTH) gathered for their Administrative Board Breakfast. |
Fred Barnes, executive editor of the "Weekly Standard" (left), and syndicated columnist and political analyst Mark Shields, offered contrasting views on the prospects for Democrats and Republicans in the Political Spotlight session. |
