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    AAMC Champion of Academic Medicine Award

    (L-R): Omonigho Michael Bubu, MD, PhD, MPH, David J. Skorton, MD, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Danielle Turnipseed, JD, MHSA, MPP, Leonard Marquez.
    (L-R): Omonigho Michael Bubu, MD, PhD, MPH, David J. Skorton, MD, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Danielle Turnipseed, JD, MHSA, MPP, Leonard Marquez.

    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 teaching health systems and hospitals, medical schools, learners, physician faculty, scientists, and the patients and communities they serve.

    Past Awardees

    (L-R): Richard P. Lofgren, MD, MPH, FACP, Erica Froyd, Gary E. Raskob, PhD, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), David J. Skorton, MD, Danielle Turnipseed, JD, MHSA, MPP, Tannaz Rasouli.
    (L-R): Richard P. Lofgren, MD, MPH, FACP, Erica Froyd, Gary E. Raskob, PhD, Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), David J. Skorton, MD, Danielle Turnipseed, JD, MHSA, MPP, Tannaz Rasouli.
    • Senator Charles 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
    • Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
    • Congressman Richard Neal (D-Mass.)