The AAMC is pleased to announce the 2022 recipients of the association’s annual awards, which honor individuals and institutions making significant contributions to medical education, research, clinical care, and community engagement.
Do you know someone who exemplifies the best of academic medicine? Nominations for the 2023 AAMC Awards are now open! Visit aamc.org/awards to learn more about the criteria and to submit a nomination.
Lucinda L. Maine, PhD, RPh
2022 Special Recognition Award
Throughout her career as a pharmacist and educator, Dr. Maine’s passion for pharmacy fueled a desire to make the profession welcoming to students and to push them to succeed in the increasingly interdisciplinary environment of modern medicine.
Anthony “Tony” Mazzaschi
2022 Special Recognition Award
Until his retirement in December 2021, Mr. Mazzaschi had a long and distinguished career advancing and communicating public policy issues affecting academic medicine.
Learn more about Mr. Mazzaschi
Bonita “Bonnie” Stanton, MD
2022 Special Recognition Award (Posthumous)
Dr. Stanton was a pediatrician and founding dean of the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (Hackensack Meridian SOM) in New Jersey. Dr. Stanton spent significant time establishing the medical school, securing accreditation from five institutions and establishing Hackensack Meridian SOM as an independent institution of higher education.
Yvonne Steinert, PhD
2022 Excellence in Medical Education Award
A psychologist by training, Dr. Steinert, professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Institute of Health Sciences Education at McGill Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences in Canada, has brought a unique international perspective to medical education.
Guillermina “Gigi” Lozano, PhD
2022 Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences
Over the course of her highly distinguished research career, Dr. Lozano, professor and chair of the Department of Genetics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has made numerous groundbreaking contributions to the field of cancer research.
Flaura K. Winston, MD, PhD
2022 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award
Dr. Winston is an internationally recognized injury scientist, inventor, innovator, engineer, and behavioral scientist whose research and public policy recommendations have advanced regulations, laws, programs, and products that have saved thousands of lives. Dr. Winston is the distinguished chair in the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and a tenured professor of pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD
2022 Herbert W. Nickens Award
As dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University, Dr. LaVeist has devoted his extraordinary 30-year career to dismantling racism, promoting social justice, and fighting for equity in health care.
Maura George, MD
2022 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award
The practice of medicine and the training of future physicians are fundamentally humanistic pursuits and Dr. George, associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, excels at both.
The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center
2022 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Engagement
Located in the state’s capital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine (Ohio State) and Wexner Medical Center share a deep commitment to and rich history of partnering with the community to improve people’s lives through innovation in research, education, increased access to clinical care, and community engagement.
Learn more about The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Wexner Health Center
Rachel Marie E. Salas, MD
2022 Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award
Increasingly, science has determined that sleep is vital to all human activities, and Dr. Salas, sleep specialist and professor of neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been instrumental in ensuring that medical students are well-versed in the science of sleep medicine.
Richard A. Hoppmann, MD
2022 Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award
As the founder and past director of the Ultrasound Institute at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia, Dr. Hoppmann has introduced countless medical students to the power of ultrasound to peer inside the human body.
Rajesh S. Mangrulkar, MD
2022 Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award
As director of the Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education at the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School, Dr. Mangrulkar has had an enormous impact on medical education, not just for medical students but for all students in the 10 health professions schools across U-M’s three campuses.
Learn more about Dr. Mangrulkar
Kristina H. Petersen, PhD
2022 Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award
For Dr. Petersen, assistant dean of academic support programs at New York Medical College (NYMC), the key to excellence in academic medicine is ensuring equal access for all learners.