Chapter Awards
Recognize an outstanding physician colleague or mentor for their commitment to excellence in medicine and service to their community!
Nominations are open on a rolling basis for a deserving ACP Arizona member for an Arizona Chapter Award. Help us recognize the outstanding efforts of physicians in our state, and submit your nominations.
Deadline for consideration for the following chapter meeting: July 31
Example: If you submit a nomination on July 25, 2027, your nomination will be considered for presentation at the 2027 chapter meeting.
If you submit a nomination on August 3, 2027, your nomination will be considered for presentation at the 2028 chapter meeting.
Arizona Chapter Internal Medicine Physician of the Year is given to an ACP AZ Chapter Member, Fellow or Master who has an exemplary record in patient care. The awardee will also be a respected member of the physician community, dedicated to the practice of internal medicine and/or an internal medicine subspecialty and helpful to his/her colleagues.
The Volunteerism and Community Service Award recognizes a Master, Fellow, Member, or Resident of ACP who has provided volunteer service post-training. Self-nominations are not permitted. Performs services on a voluntary basis and not required for the completion of teaching, training, or position requirements. Volunteer work must have been done as a physician and be medically related. Awardees are eligible for the national award, Oscar E. Edwards Memorial Award for Volunteerism and Community Service.
Arizona Chapter Early Career Physician of the Year is given to an ACP AZ Chapter Member who meets the definition of an Early Career Physician, defined as a physician member of ACP who is within sixteen (16) years of medical school graduation and who is not a medical student or associate member of ACP and who had demonstrated energy and dedication both to their career and to the profession of medicine. The applicant will be considered based on recognition from colleagues, supervisors, residents and students.
Arizona Chapter Educator of the Year is given to an ACP AZ Chapter Member, Fellow or Master who has exhibited exceptional skill and dedication in undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education or continuing medical education. The applicant will be considered based on recognition from learners, scholarly accomplishments in education, and participation in educational administrative activities.
Women In Medicine Award is given to an individual who has furthered the careers of women medical students, residents and/or physicians through mentoring and leadership development for women’s career advancement.
Arizona Chapter Leader of the Year is given to an ACP-Arizona Chapter Member, Fellow or Master who is a recognized and respected leader in Arizona medicine. As an internal medicine specialist or subspecialist the nominee will have demonstrated vision, leadership and the capacity to negotiate, develop and implement creative solutions to health care problems, such as, innovative approaches towards novel health system delivery models.
Arizona Chapter Researcher of the Year is given to an ACP AZ Chapter Member, Fellow or Master who has devoted at least half of his/her professional career to clinical and/or basic research. The Award will recognize the awardees body of work which may include research publication in the medical literature and/or significant contributions to the body of scientific knowledge.
Arizona Chapter Resident of the Year is given to an ACP AZ Chapter Resident Member who demonstrates professionalism and leadership in his/her residency program, the medical profession and the community. The Awardee will be characterized by going above and beyond what is required of a resident. Successful nominations will be supported by the Resident’s Program Director.
Arizona Chapter Medical Student of the Year is given to an ACP AZ Chapter Student Member who has demonstrated excellence in scholarship, interest in Internal Medicine, community service and outreach, and who has participated in ACP AZ Chapter and other Internal Medicine-related activities.
Morton Fuchs Community-based Education Memorial is given to an ACP AZ Chapter member physician working outside of the large Arizona metropolitan areas who strives to establish working and learning partnerships among rural physicians, rural communities and students.
Arizona Chapter Hospitalist of the Year is given to an ACP AZ Chapter Member, Fellow or Master who has performed the duties of a full-time inpatient internal Medicine specialist, or “hospitalist”, with expertise and dedication, as demonstrated leadership in quality improvement and education, has consistently delivered high-value and evidence-based care, provided in a patient-focused manner, exemplifying the highest standards of professionalism. The nominee will be considered based on recognition from colleagues, supervisors, residents and/or students.
Arizona Chapter Past Award Winners
Medical Student of the Year
Excellence in scholarship, interest in internal medicine and outstanding leadership in medical student activities.
| 2025 | Karolina Perez |
| 2024 | Joseph Gunderson |
Resident/Fellow of the Year
Demonstrating professionalism within the residency program, the ACP community and the medical profession.
| 2025 | Emily Tishkoff MD |
| 2024 | Alexis Bailey, MD |
| 2024 | Sharmiram Benjamin, MD, MBA, BS |
Early Career Physician of the Year
Outstanding achievement in the areas of leadership, academics, teaching and mentoring and/or volunteerism.
| 2025 | Aman Verma DO FACP |
| 2024 | Krystal Renszel, MS, DO, FACP |
Educator of the Year
Exhibited exceptional skill and dedication in undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education or continuing medical education.
| 2025 | Amy Sussman MD |
| 2024 | Joy Bulger-Beck, MD |
Internal Physician of the Year
For an exemplary record in patient care and dedication to the practice of Internal Medicine.
| 2025 | Mehtab Siddiky MD |
| 2024 | Vijay Hari Chandiramani, MD FACP |
Hospitalist of the Year
For significant contributions in the field of Hospital Medicine in the areas of critical care, patient safety, quality improvement and leadership.
| 2025 | Ashini Shah MBBS FACP |
| 2024 | Leigh Ann Goodman, DO FACP |
Volunteerism/Community Service Award
Willingly and freely provides their time and medical services to their communities that are not required for the completion of teaching, training or position requirement.
| 2023 | Syamala Darira, MD |
Women in Medicine
In recognition of an individual who has furthered the careers of women medical students, residents and/or physicians through mentoring and leadership development for women’s career development.
| 2025 | Julia Files MD FACP |
| 2024 | Mira Keddis, MD |
| 2024 | Irene Alexandraki, MD, PhD, MPH, FACP |
Leader of the Year
For creatively and courageously inspiring and directing colleagues to a more enriched professional life while demonstrating outstanding dedication tp the practice of Internal Medicine.
| 2025 | Karen Nichols DO MACP |
| 2024 | Umesh Sharma, MD FACP |
RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR
Presented to an ACP AZ Chapter member who has devoted at least half of his/her professional career to clinical and/or basic research.
| 2025 | Sunil Sharma MD |
| 2024 | Jinendra Satiya, MD, FACP |
Morton Fuchs Community-based Education Memorial
Presented to an ACP AZ Chapter member physician working outside of the large Arizona metropolitan areas who strives to establish working and learning partnerships among rural physicians, rural communities and students.
| 2024 | Judy Hunt, MD |
PAST LAUREATE AWARD WINNERS
| 1986 | Hayes W. Caldwell, FACP |
| 1986 | Arie C. Van Ravenswaay, FACP |
| 1986 | Ashton B. Taylor, ACP Member |
| 1986 | Charles A. L. Stephens, FACP |
| 1986 | Alan L. Gordon, FACP |
| 1987 | Frank I. Marcus, FACP |
| 1987 | Charles Trahern, FACP |
| 1988 | Rubin Bressler, FACP |
| 1988 | Bob Sommerville, FACP |
| 1989 | Robert E. Westfall, FACP |
| 1990 | William F. Denny, FACP |
| 1990 | Edward B. Waldmann |
| 1991 | Donald K Buffmire, FACP |
| 1991 | Morton Fuchs, FACP |
| 1992 | Jay W. Smith, FACP |
| 1993 | Thomas F. Disney, FACP |
| 1994 | David John Gullen, FACP |
| 1998 | John Carl Peirce, MD, MS, FACP |
| 1998 | Brendan Phibbs, MD, FACP |
| 1999 | David R. Sanderson, MD, FACP |
| 2001 | Michael Grossman, MD, FACP |
| 2002 | Pasquale J Palumbo, MD, MACP |
| 2004 | Lawrence J. Shapiro |
| 2006 | Jayendra H. Shah, MD, FACP |
| 2007 | Richard W. Carlson, MD, PhD, FACP |
| 2008 | Robert M. Aaronson, MD, FACP |
| 2009 | Anita C. Murcko, MD, FACP |
| 2010 | Bruce A. Bethancourt, MD, FACP |
| 2011 | John Hensing, MD, FACP |
| 2012 | Eric P. Gall, MD, MACP, MACR |
| 2013 |
Paul F. Howard, MD, FACP Ana Maria Lopez, MD, FACP |
| 2014 | James Felicetta, MD, FACP |
| 2015 | Timothy C. Fagan, MD, FACP |
| 2016 | Helene Labonte, DO, FACP |
| 2017 | Kevin F. Moynahan, MD, FACP |
| 2018 | Cheryl W. O’Malley, MD, FACP |
| 2019 | Shakaib (Shak) Rehman, MD, CSH, FACP, FACH |
| 2020 | Allan Markus, MD, MS, MBA, FACP |
| 2021 | Mark Zubriski, MD, PhD, FACP |
| 2022 | Priya Radhakrishnan, MD, FACP |
| 2023 | Jayne Peterson, MD, FACP |
| 2024 | Eladio Pereira, MD, MBA, MACP |
| 2025 | Bijin Thajudeen MD MACP |