The AAMC Champion of Academic Medicine Award recognizes members of Congress and their staff for extraordinary leadership in strengthening the health workforce, advancing life-saving medical research, promoting the nation’s public health, and supporting federal programs – particularly those critical to the nation’s academic health systems and teaching hospitals, medical schools, learners, physician faculty, researchers, and the patients and communities they serve.
Awardees
- Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
- Congressman Tom Cole (R-Okla.)
- Laura Friedel, Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS & Education
- Alex Keenan, Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS & Education
- Rachel Dolin, House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health
- Dr. Melanie Egorin, House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health
- Amy Hall, House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health
- Sarah Levin, House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health
- Orriel Richardson, House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Health
- Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
- Congressman Richard Neal (D-Mass.)