The AAMC is pleased to announce the 2024 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 2025 AAMC Awards are now open! Visit aamc.org/awards to learn more about the criteria and to submit a nomination.
Richard I. Levin, MD
2024 Special Recognition Award
Ensuring that patients remain at the center of all care interactions is a fundamental aspect of humanism in medicine, and Richard I. Levin, MD, has dedicated much of his career to furthering that noble aim.
William W. Pinsky, MD
2024 Special Recognition Award
As president and CEO of the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) and board chair of the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) from 2016 through 2023, William W. Pinsky, MD, provided strategic leadership that reimagined the structure of ECFMG and FAIMER, transforming and uniting these organizations to promote better health care for all.
Will Ross, MD, MPH
2024 Louis W. Sullivan, MD, Award
Over the past nearly three decades, Will Ross, MD, MPH, associate dean for diversity, principal officer for community partnerships, and professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSTL School of Medicine), has focused his career on eliminating health care disparities and diversifying the health care workforce.
Louis W. Sullivan, MD
2024 Herbert W. Nickens Award
Throughout his 40-plus-year career, Louis W. Sullivan, MD, has proven himself a trailblazer in academic medicine, public service, and national leadership organization, and has become renowned for his efforts to increase diversity in medicine.
Lily M. Belfi, MD
2024 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award
For all its astonishing revelations — allowing students to literally peer into the human body to see what’s working and what’s not — radiology as a specialty is often underrepresented in medical school curricula. But at Weill Cornell Medicine (WCMC), students now have access to more robust radiology teaching throughout their medical education, thanks to Lily M. Belfi, MD, who has served as the director of medical student education in the department of radiology at WCMC in New York City for nearly 15 years.
Kent Vrana, PhD
2024 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award
As the Elliot S. Vesell professor and past-chair in the department of pharmacology at Penn State College of Medicine (PSCM), Kent Vrana, PhD, has more than 35 years of research experience in molecular neuropharmacology, and has been actively involved in research to help unravel the mysteries of health conditions ranging from Parkinson’s disease to substance use disorders.
Daniel M. Clinchot, MD
2024 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards
During his more than 35 years with The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine, physiatrist Daniel M. Clinchot, MD, vice dean for education and inaugural chair of the department of biomedical education and anatomy at OSU College of Medicine, has served on virtually every major committee related to resident and student training in foundational and clinical disciplines.
Garret A. FitzGerald, MD
2024 Award for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences
Throughout his career, Garret A. FitzGerald, the Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Professor in Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (PSOM) in Philadelphia, has worked to bring cutting-edge, scientific findings into clinical practice with novel therapeutics.
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Caroline N. Harada, MD
2024 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award
Improving equity in health care is a humanistic pursuit and has long been a focal point for Caroline Harada, MD, associate dean for strategic initiatives and director of Project Advancing Health Equity through Alabama’s Doctors (AHEAD), the longitudinal health equity curriculum at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine (UAB Heersink SOM).
Abbas A. Hyderi, MD, MPH
2024 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards
Abbas A. Hyderi, MD, MPH, vice dean for education at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Pitt Med) and former founding senior associate dean for medical education at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine (KPSOM), has been instrumental throughout his career in ensuring excellence in medical education.
Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD
2024 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. Rogers Award
Lisa I. Iezzoni, MD, a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School based at the Health Policy Research Center at the Mongan Institute at Massachusetts General Hospital, has dedicated her career to shining a light on inequities in health care that affect people with disabilities.
Louis N. Pangaro, MD
2024 Excellence in Medical Education Award
During his distinguished career, Louis N. Pangaro, MD, MACP, professor of medicine and health professions education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hébert (USUHS) School of Medicine, has had a lasting impact on medical education through his development of innovative assessment tools and advancement of career development for clinician-educators.
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and UChicago Medicine
2024 AAMC Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Engagement
By embedding community engagement into every aspect of medical education, research, and clinical care, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (Pritzker) and UChicago Medicine (UCM) have demonstrated profound commitments to improving the health and well-being of all individuals who call the South Side of Chicago home.