Well, it is hard to believe that it has been four days since I said hello on Tuesday, no, I guess it was Wednesday. What a great meeting. Can we please give a round of applause to our chair, our vice chair, and our ACPM staff? What a wonderful opportunity for us to all be back together in person celebrating science, celebrating network, and celebrating the achievements for public health and preventive medicine. But not only what we have done, but what we see we can do in the future. And what a better way to celebrate and to sort of wrap up the end of the meeting than with an awards ceremony. We have so many of our individuals who give of their lifeblood, their time, their effort, their enthusiasm and their commitment to move the field of preventive medicine and public health forward. And it is by doing this that we are able to do the tremendous amount of work that we need to do to help advance the health of our communities and the populations that we serve. So it is such an honor to be here on the final day of an outstanding conference, but also to recognize those who have given so much time, so much effort, and can be recognized today. We'll also be thanking many of the contributors who have made the awards possible. As you know, several of them carry cash prizes, and that's always nice, especially for our residents. So we have a wonderful opportunity this morning to recognize so many of the group. And I really have to offer a special recognition and a shout out to the awards subcommittee. So Dr. Miriam Alexander is our chair of this subcommittee, and she's going to come forward and introduce and, of course, recognize all the members of this subcommittee who, again, give of their time, their effort, their passion to select the best of the best and make sure that we have an opportunity to recognize people and celebrate their success. So with that, again, thank you all for being here. Wonderful opportunity for us all. And let's welcome Dr. Miriam Alexander to the stage to start with the next set of awards. Thank you. Hi. It's wonderful to be here. It's wonderful to be asked to chair this committee. It's so exciting to be able to recognize so many of our members for their contributions, both in the last few years and for the many, many years that they've been working with us. So what I'd like to do is walk you through the winners, and what we're doing winner-wise is we're starting with the most junior member of our awards and going towards our most senior. So the first award is for the Don Gimson Resident Award. And for those of us who have been in private med for a long time, we remember Don very fondly, and he really does and did exemplify what we're looking for in our future physicians. This year's first award, and if she'd please come forward, is Esiosa Fernandez. Dr. Fernandez is the co-chief of the Preventive Medicine Residency at the University of Maryland, where she is earning her master's in clinical research. She also holds an MPH from Harvard. She was a presidential scholar there. She's passionate about serving underserved communities and is co-chair of the University of Maryland Medical Center Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Council. Her work in health equity, excuse me, has been recognized through a Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity Award from the University of Maryland and the Renee Royak Scheller Memorial Endowment Award. She has significant research experience, even for one so junior, and she's held post-doctoral research fellows. She aspires to a long-term career that combines her interest in clinical medicine, academic research, community engagement, and patient advocacy cohesively. She will follow in the steps of our president, Tornette. And Dr. Fernandez, would you please come to receive your award? Oh. Well, she'll receive her award in absentia. Oh. I'm losing my edge. I need another cup of coffee, I do. I'm sorry? I can do whatever you want. You want to wait? Wait. Okay. Okay. So, now I'd like to talk to you about the William McCain Rising Star Award. And this year's winner is Yuri Jado. Yuri is an assistant professor and associate program director of PrevMed at Stony Brook, a board-certified preventive medicine physician duly trained as a social scientist. Dr. Jado's research centers on health equity, interprofessional collaboration, cancer prevention, and evidence synthesis methodology. He's already served as a PI for an R03 methods research study on developing novel meta-analytic methods to measure the impact of having multiple chronic conditions, and is co-investigator for a five-year HRSA training grant award for the PM residency program. He's the founding editor-in-chief of AJPM Focus, the official fully open-access journal of ACPM. He practices clinical PrevMed in the SVU Hospital Employee Health and Wellness Service, and he co-directs their telepreventive medicine service. His long-term professional goal is to continue working in academic PrevMed and advanced population health through research, training, clinical practice, and policymaking. Dr. Jado. Thank you. The next award named for one of the most special people who was tragically taken from us, Ron Davis, is an award that recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of preventive medicine. It gives me great pleasure to award this to Linda Hill. This year's recipient is a distinguished professor and founding faculty of the School of Public Health, and she is the interim associate dean. She received her M.D. from the University of Ottawa. She completed her residency in UCSD, and smart woman that she was, she stayed in San Diego for her career. She's obviously a fellow of our college. She's the founding medical director of the Exercise Physical Activity Resource Center, and is faculty and director of the GPMR since 1989. She also is involved in their San Diego Family Care, which is FQHC, which is where she was the clinical director for over 20 years. She's the medical director of the UCSD Training Research Education for Driving Safety, and she's the executive director of the Asylum Seeking Shelter Health. She's engaged in prevention research and teaching with current past support from the NIH, California Office of Traffic Safety, RWJ, ACS, HRSA, FMCSA, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, and many others. She's written over almost 100 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters. She's an amazingly nice person, and deserves this award greatly. Linda. I just have to give a hug. Thank you. Okay. Our next award is our Distinguished Federal Preventive Medicine Medical Officer Award. It recognizes a physician who, while in federal service, has distinguished himself or herself in the profession through his or her contribution to one or more of the fields of preventive medicine, resulting in significant and enduring improvement in the health of the populations he or she serves. This year's award recipient is Dr. Leith States. Dr. States is the CMO to the Assistant Secretary for Health, Rachel Levine, at the Department of Health and Human Services. He leads that office and supports the HHS leadership regarding issues of national public health importance through collaboration with interagency and external stakeholders. Before HHS, he was nine years on active duty in the Navy, serving in roles including battalion surgeon, public health emergency officer, and officer in charge of a forward-deployed preventive medicine unit. Best PrevMed ever. A native of California, he received his MD from San Diego, completed his PrevMed and MPH at Loma Linda, and got an MBA from GW. He's board-certified in PrevMed, a fellow of our college, and he's won numerous personal awards for his service to the Navy. He serves on the ACPM Science and Translation Committee. Congratulations, Dr. States. Thank you. And the last award that I'm privileged to announce also goes to a colleague and dear friend, to Matthew Bolton. This is the Distinguished Service Award winner. And this year's Distinguished Service Award winner, Dr. Matthew Bolton, is a senior associate dean and a collegiate professor of global health at the University of Michigan School of Health. He's professor of EPI, and he's also got an appointment in the Department of Internal Medicine. But importantly to all of us, he served as the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and a senior editor for the most recent edition of Maxi Rosenau, that textbook that we all love to hate, which was published in November of 2021. He's PI of numerous grants, and he's the author of almost 200 peer-reviewed publications. He's a member of the CDC MMWR Editorial Board, and he served six years on the CDC's Board of Scientific Counselors. I want to thank Matt for really bringing our journal into the, bringing it to the superb place that it now sits. Dr. Bolton, Matt. Thank you. Another hug. Thank you. An amazing group of awardees, and again, another round of applause for these distinguished families. Whoops. Maybe a moment too soon. Okay, so the next award that I would like to announce is the Jacob and Heather Adams Scholarship Award. This is done by generous donation of one of our current board members, Dr. Jacob Adams. This recognizes his strong commitment and compassion to preparing the next generation of physician leaders and in preventive medicine. And so by doing this, the funds that he provides, I guess it's not you, Dr. Bolton, so, that this provides gives us the opportunity to provide funding for residents to attend the Preventive Medicine Annual Meeting and allow them to network and intermingle and to provide that opportunity. So it is with distinct pleasure that this year's awardee and winner of the Jacob and Heather Adams Resident Scholarship is Dr. Scott Keel. Just a moment. Dr. Keel is currently a resident and serves as chief resident at the University of Kentucky. He has been actively engaged in the practice of learning about preventive medicine as a resident. He's already won numerous awards as an outstanding student. He's been recognized for other travel scholarship awards to attend meetings with the CDC and the EIS. He serves on multiple committees and adds multiple contributions to our field. So with no further ado, we would like to congratulate Dr. Scott Keel as this year's recipient of the Jacob and Heather Adams Resident Scholarship Award. Well, let's congratulate you. Yes, I do. Here we go. Congratulations. Congratulations. All right. So next, we want to recognize the future leaders in preventive medicine. And they're listed here. This is also just an incredibly important opportunity that we show recognition and do respect for those who are going to contribute to the future of our field. And so this year's winners that I think they please stand and be recognized, Dr. Sylvia Caswell, Dr. Jacob Van Hooten, Dr. Joshua Mousali, and Dr. Alan Archer. Please stand and be recognized. And then, of course, these are only possible because of the number of individuals and organizations who have provided funding and support of our scholarship and our other awards. So although I'm not going to read them all, which I know you're very pleased to know that, we've gone through these just to give you the idea of the depth and breadth of the people who are providing that support. So thank you from the bottom of our hearts for providing that support. Let's give them a round of applause, please. Now, as I mentioned at the opening session, we have the first, the inaugural Board of Regents Scientific Excellence Awards. And these awards were to be selected amongst the best of the abstracts, the posters that were submitted and presented at this year's meeting. We had a large number of entries into this review. We had nine that were selected as semifinalists and three finalists. And through a very rigorous process of review, we were able to select the winners of this year's award. And I have to say, you know, we have a strong commitment to our pledge to evidence-based, as you all heard me say at the opening session. And to see the quality and the rigor at which our residents and others contributed to the poster sessions is really just very heartwarming and amazing. So it is with great pleasure that I inform you of the winners of this year's inaugural Board of Regents Scientific Excellence Award. I believe, I know that there will be a check, because there's a monetary prize, thanks to the 100% participation by the Board of Regents, and also a certificate. Are those on stage? No. So the good news is you get to stand and be recognized. The check is in the mail, I promise. I promise. Along with your certificate. But given we didn't know who the winners would be, you know, you have to give us just a little bit of time to process this. So I would like to announce, well, our first place winner is Dr. Eunice Neely, explaining black-white differences in maternal hypertension disorders, findings from the Louisiana Pregnancy Risk Monitoring System. Thank you, Dr. Neely, and congratulations. Our second place winner is Dr. Christopher Schnitzler on the poster, sepsis hospitalization among active component service members from the U.S. Armed Services. Congratulations, Dr. Schnitzler. And our third place winner is Dr. Erin Winkler, length of maternity leave and maternal health in the U.S. military. Again, congratulations to all of you. I have to say it was not an easy selection among all of them, and again, to all of the residents, all the posters that were submitted, outstanding job. Next, I would like to welcome to the stage Dr. Maria Mora Pinzon, who will give the next round of awards. Thank you so much, and Dr. Pinzon. Hello, everybody. So good to see so many of you this morning, so early on a Saturday after four days of a lot of excitement. So I'm here to present the new fellows. The election as a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine is an honor bestowed upon the qualified candidates by the peers of the membership committee and approved by the Board of Regents. Fellowship or being a fellow reminds us of still being a trainee. But in this case, the fellows exemplify significant efforts to advance the field of preventive medicine and also their contributions to the college. It is my pleasure to recognize the last three classes. We couldn't meet in person the last couple years, so we're going to read their names because it's an achievement, and we want to make sure that everybody knows how amazing they are. First of class of 2020, if you are here, please stand up, and we want to recognize you. Dr. Todd Wagner, Dr. Elizabeth Tong, Michael Shusko, Dr. Philip Haddad, Dr. Ankush Bansal, and Dr. Andres Perez. Thank you for the class of 2020 for all your work and recognition. The class of 2021, it's my pleasure to now recognize Dr. Prentice Taylor, Dr. Amy Rogers, Dr. Patrick Remington, Dr. Emily Pratt, Dr. Anthony Neri. I'm a new fellow too. Applause for everybody. Hold on. Dr. Messi Walla, Dr. Arianne Marie Mitchell, Dr. Keck, Dr. Katherine Lichtenberg, Dr. Simon Kapacz, Dr. Richard Bruno, Dr. Mary Carol Jennings, and Dr. Ifeoma Achebe. Please, a round of applause for our fellows of 2021. And now we're going to welcome the class of 2022. As I read your name, please come up to the stand so you can receive your certificate and your medallion. It's a huge honor to be able to be part of the membership committee and the chair of the membership committee that have revised all of this amazing application, and it makes me super proud every time that I see all of your achievements. Please welcome to the stage, Dr. Aristotle Sun. Applause. Dr. Krista Maria Singleton. Applause. Dr. Christina Holt. Applause. Dr. Daryl Singer. Applause. Dr. Eric Smith. Applause. Dr. Heidi Glett. Applause. One of our earlier recipients of the night, Dr. Leith States. Applause. Dr. Dr. Maria Micas. Dr. Olavisi Bathmus. Dr. Ryan Lang. Dr. Sridhar Rajupet. Dr. Warren Silberman. And another of our earlier recipients of the night, Dr. Jury Jadot. If you have ever even looked at the application process to become a fellow, I have good news for you. We changed a little bit the process this year and it's easier to apply. The only thing that you need for sure, time-wise, is you have to be a member for three years. If you don't know if you're eligible to become a fellow, please send me an email. Let's have a conversation. I want to give you this recognition to highlight how amazing you are and all the work you do to advance the field of preventive medicine. And I hope to see you in 2023 and welcome the largest class ever. Thank you very much to everybody and thank you to all the fellows. Please, if you have any questions about the fellowship process, let me know. Well, it has certainly been heartwarming to see the number of attendees this morning, to see these fantastic awards, and to see the largest class of fellows ever. So many thanks again to Dr. Maria Pinzon and Dr. Miriam Alexander for their efforts in making so much of this possible, as well as the Board of Regents and the others who participated in selecting awards this year. Again, it's an honor, it's a pleasure, it's a privilege to be able to have and recognize so many wonderful accomplishments and to see the future of preventive medicine blazing so brightly as we move into the rest of 2022 and into 2023. So, I'm going to go ahead and not talk for another hour. I will close the session. We're going to take a 10-minute short break to get the room prepared for the next session, which we are anticipating that everyone will stay and listen to our outstanding speakers for the final session. Again, thank you. Another round of applause to all of you. Congratulations.

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