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The Merrel Flair Award in Medical Education

Purpose

To honor an individual who has made a major contribution over a significant time period to the process or administration or transmission of information regarding medical education in North America.

Criteria

The awardee must be or have been active in the Group on Educational Affairs and have been recognized by peers for a leadership role in the field of medical education as well as in the Group on Educational Affairs. Current involvement is not essential though will be considered as a positive factor. Previous participation is essential. The contributions made by the awardee to the field of medical education should have had a strong positive impact on the education, administrative process, or public image of the Group on Educational Affairs as an organization and the membership of the GEA. The awardee should be affiliated at the time of the award with an active organization within the AAMC or retired from such an organization. This institution should be represented within the Group on Educational Affairs.

Recipients of Merrel Flair Award

Christine McGuire	1988
George Miller, MD	1989
Loren Williams, PhD	1990
August Swanson, MD	1991
Stephen Abrahamson, PhD	1992
Paula Stillman, MD	1993
Murray Kappelman, MD	1994
Terrill A. Mast, PhD	1995
Thompson Bowles, MD	1996
Frank Stritter, PhD	1997
Ian Hart, MD	1998
Georges Bordage, MD, PhD	1999
Reed G. Williams, PhD	2000
Louise Arnold, PhD	2001
Alberto Galofre, MD	2002
S. Scott Obenshain, MD	2003
Linda Distlehorst, PhD	2004
LuAnn Wilkerson, EdD	2005
Ruth-Marie E. Fincher, MD	2006
Deborah Simpson, PhD	2007

For further information, contact M. Brownell Anderson, M.Ed., Senior Associate Vice President and Deputy Director, Division of Medical Education, at mbanderson@aamc.org, or Stuart Ruff, GEA Manager, at sruff@aamc.org.