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ACPAMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANSI N T E R N A L M E D I C I N E | Doctors for Adults

District of Columbia Chapter

John F. Maher Memorial Laureate Award

Volunteerism andCommunity ServiceAward

Leadership Award

Walter Lester Henry, Jr.,MD Award for LifetimeTeaching Excellence

Sol Katz, MD Memorial Teaching Award

2012

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Moreover, Dr. Whelton has served on theMedical Scientific Committee of the GreaterWashington DC chapter of the Lupus Foundationof America, as well as a reviewer for MKSAP forStudents IV.

At the Georgetown University Medical Center,Dr. Whelton is a well-known lecturer giving yearlypresentations on subjects such as myositis, med-ication/hospital errors, lupus, medical studentabuse, Rheumatology, laboratory medicine, phar-macology (NSAIDs and DMARDs), and themusculoskeletal exam.

Dr. Whelton has also presented some thirtyinvited lectures over the past ten years including,among his more recent, “Living with Lupus” and“Overlap Syndromes and Lupus” for the LupusFoundation of Washington, “PreventingProfessional Burnout: Using Mindfulness-BasedStrategies” at the Georgetown University Schoolof Medicine, “Medical Education in the DigitalAge: The Use of the Electronic Health Record inEducation” for the Washington DC chapter of theACP, and “NSAIDs” at National Rehab HospitalGrand Rounds.

Despite a heavy teaching and clinical scheduleDr. Whelton makes time to serve as a staff physi-cian at the Arlington Free Clinic (which he hasdone since 1999). Additionally, he has worked asa volunteer physician for the Avon Breast CancerWalk from 2008-2011.

But, most of all, Dr. Whelton is recognized asa role model for and a superb educator of medicalstudents at the Georgetown University School ofMedicine. It is for this reason in particular thatthe DC Chapter of the American College ofPhysicians has selected Dr. Whelton as one of thisyear’s Sol Katz Teaching Awardees. This is appro-priate recognition for a clinical educator who hasreceived Golden Apple medical educator awardsin 2008, 2010, and 2011 from the classes of2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012, as well as GoldenApple medical educator nominations in 2005,2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010. Additionally, Dr. Whelton is a recipient of a Golden Orchardaward in 2012.

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Previous Laureate Awardees

1993 W. Proctor Harvey, MD, MACPSol Katz, MD, MACP

1994 Walter Lester Henry Jr., MD, MACPStephen N. Jones, MD, FACPJack J. Rheingold, MD, FACPJohn F. Stapleton, MD, MACP

1995 Thomas E. Curtin, MD, FACPWesley M. Oler III, MD, FACPRaymond Scalettar, MD, FACPGeorge E. Schreiner, MD, MACP

1996 James A. Curtin, MD, MACPMartin G. Dillard, MD, MACPVincent F. Garagusi, MD, FACPEugene P. Libre, MD, MACP

1997 James J. Leonard, MD, MACPRichard B. Perry, MD, MACP

1998 John M. Eisenberg, MD, MACPW. Tabb Moore, MD, FACP

1999 Harold Weiss, MD, FACPRobert S. Wilkinson, MD, MACP

2000 N. Thomas Connally, MD, MACPGary L. Simon, MD, MACPWerner F. Barth, MD, MACPCharles P. Duvall, MD, MACP

2001 Lawrence E. Klein, MD, MACPStephen Ray Mitchell, MD, MACP

2002 Michael S. Gold, MD, FACPJerry F. Meyer, MD, FACP

2003 Robert E. Goldstein, MD, MACP2004 Paul Schlein, MD, FACP2005 David G. Borenstein, MD, FACP

Victor F Scott, MD, MACP2006 Leonard Wartofsky, MD, MACP2007 Geraldine A. Schechter, MD, MACP2008 Alan G. Wasserman, MD, MACP2009 Andrew M. Umhau, MD, FACP2010 Alice Lawrenz Fuisz, MD, FACP2011 Lawrence S. Lessin, MD, MACP

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Sol Katz, MDMemorial Teaching AwardSean Whelton, MD

Sean A Whelton, MD,received his B.A. degree fromDuke University in 1992 and his MD degreefrom Tulane University in 1997. He served as aresident in Internal Medicine at the GeorgetownUniversity Hospital from 1997 to 2000.Following his internal medicine residency, he par-ticipated in the Georgetown University HospitalRheumatology Fellowship Program from 2000 to2002. He received Board Certification in InternalMedicine in 2001 and in Rheumatology in 2002.

On completion of his fellowship training inRheumatology, Dr. Whelton became a member ofthe Department of Medicine at the GeorgetownUniversity Hospital. He was appointed anAssistant Professor of Medicine in the Division ofRheumatology, Allergy, and Immunology in 2002and was promoted to Associate Professor ofMedicine in 2010.

In 2003, Dr. Whelton became ClerkshipDirector, Internal Medicine at the GeorgetownUniversity School of Medicine. He has held thisposition ever since.

Dr. Whelton also has served as AssociateDirector for Ambulatory Electronic HealthRecords at Georgetown University Hospital(Medstar Health) since 2010.

In addition to the formal positions notedabove, Dr. Whelton has been an active memberon a multitude of committees at the GeorgetownUniversity Medical Center. Some of the commit-tees on which he has held positions include theClerkship Director Committee (2004 to present),Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee (2005 topresent), Electronic Health Record PhysicianLiaison Committee (2009 to present), andAdvisory Council (2007-2009).

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John F. Maher MemorialLaureate Award

The John F. Maher Memorial Laureate Awardhonors those Fellows and Masters of the AmericanCollege of Physicians in the District of ColumbiaChapter who have shown by their lives and con-duct an abiding commitment to excellence in med-ical care and service to the College. Recipients ofthis award shall bear the title “Laureate inMedicine.”

Awards shall be presented at the AnnualScientific Meeting of the District of ColumbiaChapter on the recommendation of theNominating Committee with approval of theGovernor. An awardee may be nominated by theAwards Committee or any member of the Chapter.The nomination must document the qualities orpersonal attributes, recognition, awards, andaccomplishments the Chapter wishes to honor.

It is expected that the awardees will be seniorphysicians, Masters, or Fellows of the College, witha long history of excellence and peer approval oftheir accomplishments in the practice of internalmedicine, as well as continued participation inCollege affairs at any level. Exceptional circum-stances may modify these expectations.

For the past 19 years, the District of ColumbiaChapter has been honoring physicians for theirexemplary lives as internists. We are proud tohonor physicians who have made lifelong contribu-tions to the practice of internal medicine, to thecommunity, and to the American College ofPhysicians. They have set standards for professionalskill and ethical conduct, and serve as role modelsfor other generations of physicians. This year our chapter recognizes and thanks Louis N.Pangaro, MD, MACP for his many years of accom-plishments.

Alice Fuisz, MD, FACPGovernor ACPDistrict of Columbia Chapter

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Review of his evaluations, curriculum development,and teaching methods alone would make him a worthycandidate for this award, but there is more to the story.In the summer of 2011, Rob was asked to replace thedirector of the primary care clerkship from theDepartment of Medicine, who was stepping down.This was a major request to ask someone who had justfinished overhauling one major clerkship to start fromscratch with another. However, even being no-smalltask, Rob rolled up his sleeves and decided to take onthis new challenge and took responsibility for a secondmajor clerkship at the George Washington University.

Since the beginning of the last academic year, hehas been the primary care clerkship director. Rapidly,the evaluations and overall experience in the primarycare clerkship significantly improved. Rob undertookthis new assignment with the same amount of enthusi-asm as he entered GW in 2005.

Dr. Jablonover is an incredible, easy going, quiet,effective educator, and clinician. He inspires the stu-dents to learn by example and has shown excellence ineverything he has done. During his tenure as the medi-cine clerkship director, Rob effectively improved the useof our retired physicians with observing history andphysicals of third-year medical students. He arrangedfor a group of approximately eight retired physicians toprovide individual attention to each GW third-yearmedical student while they rotated through the clerk-ship. Rob made sure that he also had a personal inter-action with each one of these retired physicians andstarted the program to have them meet on a regularbasis at least once a year and arranges dinner for themto show the department’s appreciation for their work.This thoughtfulness is quite apparent in everything thatDr. Jablonover has done. Talk to any individual in theDepartment of Medicine and they will tell you what acaring and confident physician and educator Dr.Jablonover is and how well respected he is in thedepartment.

Therefore, because of Dr. Jablonover’s excellence inteaching, his unprecedented display in improving med-ical educational by being a Program Director for notone, but now two major clerkships in the School ofMedicine, he is extremely worthy and richly deservingof the Sol Katz Teaching Award. Finally, just to high-light the regard in which the George WashingtonUniversity holds Dr. Jablonover, at graduation this pastyear he received the Medical Center’s DistinguishedTeaching Award, a singular honor received by only oneclinician every year.

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John F. Maher, MD, FACPAugust 3, 1929 – September 13, 1992

Born and initially educated in Mineola, NewYork, Dr. Maher came toGeorgetown University forhis bachelor of science and medical degrees.After interning at Boston City Hospital andcompleting two years in the Air Force, he didhis residency and fellowship in renal disease atGeorgetown University, remaining on the facul-ty from 1960 to 1969. He then left for theUniversity of Missouri to become Professor ofMedicine and Director of the Division ofNephrology.

Dr. Maher moved to the University ofConnecticut in 1974 in the same capacity. He then moved back to Washington, DC asProfessor of Medicine and Director of theDivision of Nephrology at the UniformedServices University, where he remained until his untimely death on September 13, 1992.

Dr. Maher was on the National Council ofthe American Federation of Clinical Research,Past President of the American Society forArtificial Internal Organs, a member of theMKSAP Committee of the American College of Physicians, Chair and member of the Boardof Directors of the National Kidney Foundationof the Washington area, and President of theInternational Society for Peritoneal Dialysis. He received outstanding teaching awards fromGeorgetown University, the University ofMissouri, and the Uniformed ServicesUniversity. He was a Past Editor of the Journalof Clinical Research and was on the editorial


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Dr. Robert Jablonover is amember of the faculty of the Division of GeneralInternal Medicine, Department of Medicine, at theGeorge Washington University Medical Center. Hecompleted his undergraduate degree at Duke and thenwent on to the medical school at the University of theNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. After graduating, hecompleted an internal medicine residency at theUniversity of Maryland followed by a two-year fellow-ship in general internal medicine at the Johns HopkinsBayview Medical Center in Baltimore. During thattime, Dr. Jablonover received training in faculty devel-opment, facilitator training programs, teaching skills forclinician educators and curriculum development. Dr.Jablonover is board- certified in internal medicine.

After completing all of this training, Dr. Jablonoverjoined the Division of Internal Medicine at the SinaiHospital in Baltimore for approximately three years andthen moved over to the Johns Hopkins BayviewMedical Center. In 1999, Rob became the associateresidency program director in Internal Medicine atHahnemann University (now Drexel University) inPhiladelphia. In 2005, Dr. Jablonover moved fromDrexel to take over as an inpatient student clerkshipdirector in the Department of Medicine at the GeorgeWashington University. He remained in that positionuntil the end of the last academic year. Rob revolution-ized the clerkship training program at GW. He alsomade sure that the curriculum is spread throughout allthe GW major affiliates at various hospitals in theregion and within a short period of time developed anintegrated curriculum across all major teaching centers.Rob was a major addition to the George WashingtonUniversity teaching program. He received excellentevaluations from the students for his individual teach-ing and, most importantly, the overall clerkship experi-ence. These evaluations were so positive that at the endof 2007 having been at GW for just two years, Robreceived the Golden Apple Teaching Award from themedical students of the George Washington University.

Sol Katz, MDMemorial Teaching AwardRobert Jablonover,

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board of 13 peer-reviewed journals; he also pro-duced over 400 publications, including 50 bookchapters and four books.

Dr. Maher was a leader in the District ofColumbia Chapter of the American College ofPhysicians, a member of the Governor’s Counciland Scientific Program Committee, and Chairof the Nomination and Awards Committee,and he was responsible for initiating the Districtof Columbia’s Chapter’s Laureate Awards.

Jack was an outstanding friend, physician,teacher, and writer. He had an internationalreputation which, if possible exceeded hisnational reputation, and he was honored withprofessorships from universities in several coun-tries. His multiple talents, his ready Irish wit,and his friendship are sorely missed by all whoknew and cherished their association with him.

It is most fitting, then, that these awardswill serve as memorial to him and that theDistrict of Columbia Chapter of the ACP now presents the John F. Maher MemorialLaureate Award.


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Through his authorship of numerous med-ical journal articles and presentations at nationaland international conferences, he earned a repu-tation as one of the foremost investigators inthe field of Pulmonary Medicine.

However, to his countless students at allstages of their education, he was the consum-mate teacher and mentor. His rounds were thehighlight of the week: always patient oriented,documented by quotations from recent medicalliterature including journals obscure to even the most scholarly of his students. He quoted “evidence based medicine” before it was invogue. He was instrumental in the training ofnumerous investigators and physicians who roseto prestigious academic positions, but his great-est legacy affected the countless physicians whoelected to pursue private practice.

The Chapter is honored by having hisname attached to this Teaching Award.

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Laureate AwardLouis N. Pangaro,MD, MACP

Dr. Pangaro is Professorand Chairman of theDepartment of Medicineat the Unformed Services University. Hereceived AB and MD degrees fromGeorgetown University, where he also did aresidency in Medicine and fellowship inendocrinology. In 1978 he joined the Armyto do a research fellowship at Walter Reed,and he remained on active duty until 1998.Dr. Pangaro’s scholarly work is in the evalu-ation of the competence of trainees in med-icine. He created “standardized examinees”to calibrate the validity of the prototypeclinical skills examination of the USMedical Licensing Exam. He created a “synthetic” developmental framework fordefining expectations of students and resi-dents (the “RIME scheme,” for reporter-interpreter-manger-educator). This conceptual alternative to the traditionalknowledge-skills-attitudes paradigm is usedin many American medical schools. He hasrecently co-directed redesign of the USUmedical school curriculum. Since 2000, hehas directed a six-day course for militaryGME program directors in assessing com-petence. He co-directs the annual HarvardMacy International Program for a SystemsApproach to Assessment in the HealthSciences Education. He is on the editorialboards of Academic Medicine and Teachingand Learning in Medicine, and is past-chairof the Research in Medical EducationConference Committee of the GEA/


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Sol Katz, MD, MACP

The Washington DCChapter of the AmericanCollege of Physicians hasestablished an Award ofExcellence in Teaching which honors the memory of Sol Katz, MD, MACP.

Dr. Katz, born and raised in New YorkCity, received his undergraduate degree fromthe City College of New York, magna cum laudeand Phi Beta Kappa, in 1935. He graduatedfrom Georgetown University School ofMedicine, with similar high honors. This wasfollowed by post-graduate training in InternalMedicine and Pulmonary Diseases atGeorgetown University Hospital and DCGeneral (Gallinger) Hospital.

He was appointed Chief, Division ofPulmonary Disease at the Hospital in 1946 andfor the next 50 years remained in the District ofColumbia as Chief of the Medical Service at theVA Hospital and as Chief of the PulmonaryDivision of Georgetown University, where hewas appointed Professor of Medicine, a positionhe held until his passing in 1997.

Among the many honors he received, ofnote was his Mastership in the College and,along with Dr. W. Proctor Harvey, he was therecipient of the Chapter’s first Laureate Awardin 1993.

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AAMC. He has served as President of theClerkship Directors in Internal Medicine(CDIM), and of the Alliance for ClinicalEducation (ACE). He has been honored bythe AAMC with the Glaser DistinguishedTeacher Award (2005), by USU studentswith the Clements Awards for Excellence inEducation (1990) and by the USU Facultywith the inaugural Carol Johns TeachingMedal (2001). He has been recognized byCDIM with all three of their awards:Outstanding Program Development (1998,now titled the “CDIM Louis N. PangaroOutstanding Program DevelopmentAward”), the Outstanding EducationalResearch Award (2000), and theOutstanding Service Award (2005); and bythe British Embassy Players for his produc-tion of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. He was recog-nized by the Army Chapter of the AmericanCollege of Physicians with its inauguralMaster Teacher Award (1997) and by theDC Chapter of the College with its SolKatz Teaching Award (2005). This year hewill receive the Lifetime Achievement awardfrom the Association of Program Directorsin Internal Medicine. In 2010 he was ele-vated to Mastership in the College.


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Fellowship Program Director and the DivisionDirector of Infectious Diseases at WashingtonHospital Center. Dr. Smith is a most highlydedicated teacher, regularly serving as a mentorfor house staff, a preceptor for the juniors’introduction to Clinical Medicine, as well as anAttending Physician on the general medicalwards. As Associate Program Director for theinternal medicine residency, she has worked oncurriculum development, and has presentedworkshops at national meetings of theAssociation of Program Directors in InternalMedicine. In recognition of her devotion anddedication to the education of scores of medicalstudents, interns, residents, and fellows-in-training, the Washington, D.C. Chapter of theAmerican College of Physicians is pleased topresent her with the Lester B. Henry Award forLifetime Teaching Excellence.

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Elise Riley has always loved cultural interactionand diversity, and as an undergraduate in col-lege majored in anthropology at SUNY Albany.After college, she got a job working in a doctor’soffice and realized she was interested in medi-cine and could combine that interest with herdesire to work with and help others. Shereceived an MD degree from SUNY Buffaloand then completed her residency in InternalMedicine. In 1982 she was appointedAttending Physician at Washington HospitalCenter in Washington, DC and AssistantClinical Professor of Medicine at the GeorgeWashington University, and in 2009 she joinedthe faculty at USUHS. Since 1998 Dr. Rileyhas been at Holy Cross Hospital in SilverSpring, MD

For many years, starting in 1998, Dr. Riley alsoassisted in the management of the GeorgeWashington Medical School Internal MedicineResidency programs at Holy Cross Hospitalwhere she was responsible for hundreds of med-ical students and internal medicine residents.

In 2003 she was appointed Medical Director ofthe Holy Cross Hospital Health Center. Dr.Riley has been a leader in providing care to theindigent, homeless, and others lacking health-care, and in teaching interns, residents andnurse practitioners about the challenges andrewards of this work. Since its founding in

Volunteerism andCommunityService AwardElise Riley, MD


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Margo Smith was born inHartford, Connecticut, buthas been a Washington,D.C. resident for most ofher life. She attended Howard University where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa andgraduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS inZoology. Margo is a graduate of the Universityof Massachusetts School of Medicine inWorcester, Massachusetts, after which she cameto the Washington Hospital Center where shehas stayed ever since. After completing residen-cy in internal medicine under Dr. James Curtin,she completed fellowship training in InfectiousDiseases with Dr. Charles Levy, and then joinedthe teaching faculty with responsibilities at theVeterans Administration Hospital for severalyears as well as at Washington Hospital Center,with a faculty appointment at GeorgeWashington University School of Medicine.Margo has won numerous awards, includingteaching awards from her peers and trainees,and appreciation awards from her patients, andregularly appears each year on everyone’s TopDoctor lists. Her major clinical interest hasbeen HIV/AIDS and she has chaired varioustask forces and workshops, is a member of sev-eral advisory boards and has been the principalinvestigator on a major Ryan White CareProgram Grant for patients with HIV/AIDS.Margo is an accomplished educator with rigor-ous, high standards (as her residents and fellowscan attest to) and currently serves as the

Walter Lester Henry, Jr., MDAward for LIfetime TeachingExcellence Margo Smith,MD, FACP

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2003, the clinic has been instrumental in pro-viding access to quality healthcare for manywho cannot obtain medical care anywhere else.“In our clinic we have great diversity in culturesand language. I try to put myself in the shoesof the patient who doesn’t speak English andyou realize how difficult it is to communicateabout complex health issues.” The HealthCenter has also become a sought-after clinicalsite for students and residents who are eager tolearn under Dr. Riley’s mentorship.

In 2004 Dr. Riley was nominated as a “LocalLegend” by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD-8).The National Library of Medicine highlightsthese women physicians for their positive,enduring contributions to the health care oftheir community and our country. In additionto her work with Holy Cross Hospital HealthCenter, Dr. Riley has volunteered countlesshours to Mobile Medical Care, which providesprimary health care to low-income, workingpoor, homeless, uninsured residents ofMontgomery County.


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In addition to his membership in the AmericanCollege of Physicians, where he held leadershippositions for many years, he is a member of theAmerican Medical Association, the NationalMedical Association, National KidneyFoundation, American Society of Nephrology,and International Society of Nephrology. Hehas served on policy-making boards and com-mittees for most of these organizations.

In recognition of his professional achievementsand service to ACP, he received the ACP DCChapter Laureate Award in 1996 and he waselected to Mastership in the College in 2002. In view of his excellence as a role model and distinguished educator, the Washington, DCChapter is pleased to honor him by awardingthe Walter Lester Henry Award for LifetimeTeaching Excellence.

Leadership AwardJerry Meyer,MD, FACP

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For his persistent anduntiring interest and sup-port of the role of the prac-ticing physician in today’s medical environment,Dr. Jerry F. Meyer is the 2012 recipient ofACP’s Leadership Award.

Dr. Meyer received his early education in Joliet,Illinois, proceeded to the University of Illinoisat Urbana, and later received his medical degreeat the University of Chicago, where he alsocompleted a residency in internal medicine anda public health fellowship in cardiology.

In the military, he was a research officer for theUSAF School of Aerospace Medicine and had afellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at EmoryUniversity. After a Cardiology Fellowship atGrady Hospital (Emory U.), he was appointedAssistant Professor of Medicine at GeorgeWashington University (1971). At GWU hewas Associate Director of the Coronary CareUnit and Director of the CardiographicLaboratory. By 1979 he became Associate Chiefof Cardiology and Associate Director of theCCU at Providence Hospital. Since 1984 hehas held an appointment as Clinical Professorof Medicine at GWU. He became Chief ofCardiovascular Teaching at Providence Hospitaland was Chairman of the Department ofMedicine at Providence Hospital from 1993-1997.

Dr. Meyer continued his interest in, and contri-butions to, social aspects of medicine. As amember of the DC Medical Society he served


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Dr. Martin G. Dillard, anative of Chicago, IL,received his elementary andhigh school education in that city prior toattending the University of Chicago for hisundergraduate studies after which he receivedhis MD from Howard University. He returnedto Chicago for postgraduate training in internalmedicine and nephrology at the Michael ReeseHospital. After completing his training he wasrecruited by the Howard University College ofMedicine where he accepted an appointment tothe full-time faculty. He remained at Howardfor 32 years where he was active as a teacher ininternal medicine and nephrology. He led andparticipated in a full schedule of conferencesand seminars and took morning reports for 15 years. He was appointed Assistant thenAssociate Dean of the medical school, serving inthat capacity for 20 years and was Director ofMedical Education at the Howard UniversityHospital for 12 years. He was chief of thenephrology division for eleven years until heretired in 2003 at which time he held the posi-tion of professor of medicine.

He is a past Robert Wood Johnson HealthPolicy Fellow and a member of Alpha OmegaAlpha.

Walter Lester Henry, Jr., MD Award for LIfetime TeachingExcellenceMartin Dillard,MD. MACP

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on its Legislation Committee for six years andits Medical Reform Task Force. For theAmerican and Washington Heart Associationshe was chair of the Professional EducationCommittee and Board of Directors, eventuallybecoming its vice president and receiving itsDistinguished Achievement Award. He servedon the American Society of Internal Medicine DC Chapter board of directors and becamepresident-elect in 1996.

With the fusion of ASIM and ACP, he hasserved as Vice President of ACP’s DC Chaptersince 1999 and was nominee for Governor in2006. Dr. Meyer serves on the Governor’sCouncil, Health and Public Policy, BylawsCommittee and Program Committee. Hereceived the chapter’s Laureate Award in 2002.He has been a persistent supporter of many stu-dent teaching activities at Providence Hospitaland many of the DC ACP Associate Programs.He has been a recurrent moderator at theChapter’s Scientific meeting Town Hall sessionand has been a regular and outspoken voice atACP Legislative Days for over 12 years.

For his continued social interest, unswervingmonitoring of legislative impact on physicians’well-being, and for his continuing role as apracticing and teaching physician, we presentthe 2012 Chapter Leadership Award to Dr. Jerry Meyer.

When there is time, he pursues his hobby ofsailing.


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Medicine. In addition to his responsibilities as aclinician-educator, he served as vice dean of theCollege of Medicine for six years and as a facultyrepresentative on the Howard University Board ofTrustees for four years.

Dr. Henry’s skills as a celebrated endocrinolo-gist were recognized nationally. He was the firstAfrican-American member of the Board ofGovernors of the American Board of InternalMedicine and was the Board representative on theAmerican Board of Medical Specialties. He wasthe first African-American Master of the AmericanCollege of Physicians and the first African-American Regent of the College. He was inductedinto the prestigious Association of AmericanPhysicians. He was a Laureate of the WashingtonDC chapter of the ACP in 1994.

Dr. Henry’s guiding principle throughout hiscareer was the provision of the best possible med-ical education to physicians in all stages of theirdevelopment. His success in achieving his goalwas recognized several times by his alma mater.He received the Student Council Award of Meritfour times and the Student Council InspirationalLeadership Award on four other occasions. Finally,in 1997 he received the ACP DistinguishedTeacher Award for his exceptional contributions asa gifted clinician and educator. He strongly advo-cated a life-long learning effort for all physiciansas the only route to high quality and appropriatepatient care.

The Washington, DC ACP Chapter is proudto have established this award in Dr. Henry’sname to honor outstanding physicians who havedevoted their careers to the education of their colleagues and students.

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Walter Lester Henry, Jr., MD, MACPNovember 19, 1915 - April 21, 2009

In 2009, the WashingtonDC Chapter of the AmericanCollege of Physicians estab-lished the Walter LesterHenry, Jr., MD Award forLifetime Teaching Excellence to recognizeinternists who have devoted their lives to teachingstudents and physicians at all stages of theircareers

Dr. Walter Lester Henry has been describedas a master physician, mentor, esteemed professorand renowned internist. He was associated withthe Howard University College of Medicine foralmost fifty years. He was a native of Philadelphia.He received his undergraduate education atTemple University and his medical education atHoward University graduating first in his class in1941. His postgraduate training included intern-ship and residency in internal medicine atFreedmens Hospital, a year of advanced trainingat the University of Pennsylvania and two years ofadditional training in endocrinology at MichaelReese Hospital in Chicago under Dr. RachmielLevine. During World War II, his training wasinterrupted by assignment as a medical officerattached to the Buffalo Soldiers. He served in theItalian campaign earning a Bronze Star and aBronze Cluster.

Dr. Henry returned to Howard University asa faculty member in the Department of Medicinein 1953 and advanced to become departmentchairman by 1962. He then became the firstAfrican-American John and Mary MarkleFoundation Scholar in Medical Science, a distinc-tion he would hold for five years. In 1972 hebecame the first Vivian B. Allen Professor of


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