The American Medical Association honored eight elected officials and government employees Tuesday with the 2016 Dr. Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding Government Service.
This prestigious award, named after the AMA's "founding father," recognizes those in government whose contributions promote medicine and public health. Among this year's recipients are House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and former House Speaker John Boehner for their work to repeal and replace the sustainable growth rate formula to pay physicians.
"For more than a quarter century of the Nathan Davis Awards, the AMA has sought to salute government officials who go above and beyond the call of duty to improve public health," AMA Board Chair Stephen Permut, MD, said in a statement. "Award winners have come from every branch of government service and confirm the important role public officials can have creating and implementing health policies that benefit Americans."
Other recipients of the award honored at Tuesday's ceremony include the following officials.
- Pennsylvania State Representative Gene DiGiroiamo
- West Virginia State Sen. Ron Stollings, MD
- Karen Midthun, MD, former director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
- Retired Lt. Gen. Thomas Travis, MD, former Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force
- Mary Currier, MD, state health officer, Mississippi State Department of Health
- Dileep Bal, MD, Kauai District health officer, Hawaii Department of Health
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