(L-R): AAMC Chief Public Policy Officer Danielle Turnipseed, JD, MHSA, MPP; AAMC President and CEO, David Skorton, MD; Senator John Boozman (R-Ark); UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, MD, MBA; Alice L. Walton School of Medicine Dean and CEO Sharmila Makhija, MD, MBA.
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.
(L-R): Richard P. Lofgren, MD, MPH, FACP, OU Health President and CEO, Erica Froyd, AAMC, Gary E. Raskob, PhD, Senior Vice President and Provost at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Congressman Tom Cole (R-Okla.), AAMC President, CEO David J. Skorton, MD, AAMC Chief Public Policy Officer Danielle Turnipseed, JD, MHSA, MPP, Tannaz Rasouli, AAMC
Awardees
2025
- Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.)
- Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D-Fla.)
2024
- Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.)
- Congressman Tom Cole (R-Okla.)
2022
- Laura Friedel, Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS & Education
- Alex Keenan, Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, HHS & Education
2021
- 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
2020
- Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
- Congressman Richard Neal (D-Mass.)