External Relations Group Awards
Awards Programs
Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Service Award recognizes individual External Relations Group members for their significant and longstanding contributions to the group, to the AAMC, and to their profession.
2026 Winners:
- Claire Bassett, Baylor College of Medicine
- Jerry Kooiman, MPA, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
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Awards for Excellence
The Awards for Excellence is an annual, peer-reviewed competition that recognizes outstanding work by members of the External Relations Group and their staff. The awards honor the most creative and effective approaches used to promote academic medicine through alumni relations, communications, community relations, development, and marketing programs and projects.
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