Group on Resident Affairs Outstanding Service Award

GRA Outstanding Service Award Awardees and Charter

Purpose

Recognition of an individual who exemplifies excellence and collegiality and has made innovative contributions over a significant period to colleagues in the DIO/ institutional GME community within the Group on Resident Affairs. This recognition can be for lifetime achievement in the field or significant organizational contributions to the GRA.

Criteria

The awardee must be or have been active in the GRA with demonstrated consistent leadership, sustained engagement, and tangible contributions to the GRA community. Current involvement is not essential, though will be considered as a positive factor. Contributions should have had substantive positive impact on the education, administrative processes, or public image of the GRA and its membership.

The awardee should be affiliated at the time of the award with an AAMC member institutional or stakeholder organization or retired from such. Consultants are not eligible.

GRA seated steering committee members are not eligible to be nominated until at least three years after the conclusion of their term.

Process

Prior award recipients are queried for prospects from the GRA Community. AAMC Director presents to the GRA Steering Committee for endorsement the recommended recipient. The award will be conferred during the GRA Spring Professional Development Conference.

Prior Awardees

2017 - Sharon A. Hall, MSM
Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC)
2018 - Lois L. Bready, MD
University of Texas Health - San Antonio
2019 - Ann M. Dohn, MA
Stanford Health Care
2020 - Lawrence Marshall Opas, MD
Keck School of Medicine of USC
2021 - Kathryn M. Andolsek, MD, MPH
Duke University School of Medicine
2022 - Marilane B. Bond, EdD, Med, MBA
Emory University School of Medicine
2023 - Karen Broquet, MD
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine