The District of Columbia Chapter of the ACP is pleased to honor the following chapter award recipients for their dedication, demonstration of excellence, and support of the chapter and the science and humanity of medicine.

John F. Maher Memorial Laureate Award.  The John F. Maher Memorial Laureate Award is the highest award that the DC Chapter can bestow on any of its members. It was begun in 1993 in memory of a superb physician, friend, teacher and writer who had developed an international reputation in renal disease.

Past Winners
  • 2010 - Alice L. Fuisz, MD, FACP
  • 2011 - Lawrence Lessin, MD, MACP
  • 2012 - Louis Pangaro, MD, MACP
  • 2013 - Henry Masur, MD, MACP
  • 2014 - Laurie E. Duncan, MD, FACP
  • 2015 - Shmuel Shoham, MD, FACP
  • 2016 - Przemyslaw Hiszel, MD, FACP
  • 2016 - Kaldun Nossuli, MD, FACP
  • 2017 - Nazia Qazi, MD, FACP
  • 2018 - Patience White, MD, FACP
  • 2019 - Ashesh D. Patel, MD, FACP
  • 2020 - Sailaja Pindiprolu, MD, FACP
  • 2021 - Jennifer Mills, MD, FACP
  • 2022 - Arrel Olano, MD, FACP
  • 2023 - Peter Marks, MD, FACP
  • 2024 - Joseph Timpone Jr., MD

Leadership Award
Awarded to an outstanding member of the College who contributes his/her time with the local chapter.
Past Winners​
  • 2010 - Laurie E. Duncan, MBBS, FACP
  • 2011 - Shmuel Shoham, MD
  • 2012 - Jerry Meyer, MD, FACP
  • 2013 - Ashesh Patel, MD, FACP
  • 2014 - Lawrence E. Klein, MD, MACP
  • 2015 - Nazia Qazi, MD, FACP
  • 2016 - George Philips, MBBS, FACP
  • 2017 - Jennifer E. Mills, MD, FACP
  • 2018 - Katie Saulters, MD
  • 2019 - Robert S. Wilkinson, MD, MACP
  • 2020 - Alan G. Pocinki, MD, FACP
  • 2021 - Arrel S. Olano, MD, FACP 
  • 2022 - Patience H. White, MD, MA, MACP
  • 2023 - Sean Whelton, MD, FACP, FACR
  • 2024 - Rita Poon, MD
 
Sol Katz Teaching Award
Recognizes excellence in teaching.
Past Winners
  • 2010 - Leonard B. Seeff, MD, FACP
  • 2011 - Burton Lee, MD
  • 2011 - April Barber, MD
  • 2012 - Robert Jablonover, MD
  • 2012 - Sean Whelton, MD
  • 2013 - Charles Faselis, MD, FACP 
  • 2013 - LCDR Todd Gleeson MC
  • 2014 - Michael Adams, MD, MACP
  • 2015 - Sailaja Pindiprolu, MD, FACP
  • 2015 - Jalil Ahari, MD
  • 2016 - Andrew Shorr, MD
  • 2016 - Marc Siegel, MD
  • 2017 - COL Paul A. Hemmer, MC USAF FACP
  • 2017 - Matthew G. Tuck, MD, FACP
  • 2018 - Chavon Ohumah, MD, FACP
  • 2019 - Charles A. Read, Jr., MD
  • 2019 - Angelike Liappis, MD
  • 2020 - Jillian S Catalanotti, MD, FACP
  • 2020 - Christian Woods, MD, FACP
  • 2022 - Ronald J. Distajo, MD, FACP
  • 2022 - Erin Farrish, MD
  • 2022 - Juan C. Gea-Banacloche, MD
  • 2022 - William F. Kelly, MD, MACP, FCCP
  • 2022 - Sharat Kumar Narayanan, MD
  • 2022 - Gail Nunlee-Bland, MD 
  • 2022 - Samir S. Patel, MD 
  • 2022 - Courtney A. Paul, MD 
  • 2023 - Jessica Logan, MD (USUHS)
  • 2023 - Elizabeth Kramer, MD, FACP - Kaiser
  • 2023 - Gail Kerr, MD, FACP (Georgetown)
  • 2023 - Marijane Hynes, MD, ABOM (George Washington University)
  • 2023 - Amisha Barochia, MBBS, MHS, ATS
  • 2023 - Florina Constantinescu, MD, MS, Phd
  • 2023 - Ernest Fischer, MD
  • 2023 - Col. Joshua Hartzel, MD, MS-HPEd, FACP, FIDSA
  • 2023 - Amisha Barochia, MBBS, MHS, ATS
  • 2024 
    • Sunil Swami, MD​
    • Afsoon Roberts, MD
    • Alexander Papolos, MD
    • James Morton, MD
    • Stephen Migueles, MD
    • Virginia Malatak, MD
    • Anand Deonarine, MD
    • Alexander Dummett, MD, FACP, CPPS
    • Jess Edison, MD, FACP

Walter Lester Henry, Jr. Memorial Award for a Lifetime of Excellent Teaching
Recognizes an outstanding clinical educator.
  • 2010 - Vinod Mody, MD
  • 2010 - Charles E. Rath, MD, FACP
  • 2011 - John Bennett, MD, MACP 
  • 2011 - Charles Curry, MD
  • 2012 - Martin Dillard, MD, MACP 
  • 2012 -Margo Smith, MD, FACP
  • 2013 - Kenneth Burman, MD, MACP 
  • 2013 - Edward Tsou, MD
  • 2014 - James D. Finkelstein, MD, MACP
  • 2014 - Davis J. Nashel, MD, FACP
  • 2015 - Geraldine Schechter, MD, MACP
  • 2015 - Leonard Wartofsky, MD, MACP
  • 2016 - Ross Fletcher, MD
  • 2016 - Victor Scott, MD, MACP
  • 2017 - David M. Parenti, MD, FACP
  • 2018 - Samuel Spagnolo, MD
  • 2018 - Carmelita Tuazon, MD
  • 2019 - Robert E. Goldstein, MD, MACP
  • 2019 - Manual T. Velasquez, MD
  • 2020 - Daniel Ein, MD, FACP
  • 2021 - Morgan Delaney, MD
  • 2021 - Joseph Timpone, MD 
  • 2022 - Gary Simon, MD, PhD, MACP
  • 2022 - Jack Moore, Jr., MD
  • 2023 - Robert Siegel, MD
  • 2023 - Allen Roberts II, MD
  • 2024
    • Pamela Karasik, MD, FACC, FAHRS 
    • Richard Katz, MD, FACC
 
Volunteerism and Community Service Award
Awarded to a member of the College who exemplifies volunteering locally, nationally or internationally.
Past Winners
  • 2010 - Katalin E. Roth, MD, FACP
  • 2011 - Raymond L. Martins, MD
  • 2012 - Elise Riley, MD
  • 2013 - A. Janelle Goetcheus, MD
  • 2014 - James F. Duffy, SJ, MD
  • 2015 - Veronica Jenkins, MD
  • 2016 - Shelly McDonald-Pinkett, MD, FACP
  • 2016 - Joan Ritter, MD, FACP
  • 2017 - Kate Sugarman, MD
  • 2018 - N. Thomas Connally, MD, MACP
  • 2019 - Randi Abramson, MD
  • 2020 - Cynthia M. Tracy, MD
  • 2024 - Randall Wagner, MD, MPH

Community Based Teaching Award
  • 2018 - Raymond Martins, MD
  • 2020 - Deborah B. Horwitz, MD
  • 2022 - David Simon, MD
  • 2022 - Peter A. Vasquez, MD 
  • 2023 - Christopher Walsh, MD, FACP
  • 2024 - Stephanie Trifogio, MD, FACP

Advancing Careers for Minorities
  • 2019 - Pauline Titus-Dillon, MD, MACP
  • 2022 - David L. Taylor, M.Ed.
  • 2023 - Martin Dillard, MD, MACP
  • 2024 - Jamar Slocum, MD, MBA, MPH

Advocacy Award
  • 2024 - Lawrence Klein, MD, MACP​

Citation For Early Career
  • 2023 - Jennifer Tran, MD, MBA

Recipients Prior to 2010
John F. Maher Memorial Laureate Award
  • 1993 - W. Proctor Harvey, MD, MACP
  • 1993 - Sol Katz, FACP
  • 1994 - Walter Lester Henry Jr., MD, MACP
  • 1994 - Stephen N. Jones MD, FACP
  • 1994 - Jack J. Rheingold, MD, FACP
  • 1994 - John F. Stapleton, MD, FACP
  • 1995 - Thomas E. Curtin, MD, FACP
  • 1995 - Wesley M. Oler, III, MD, FACP
  • 1995 - Raymond Scalettar, MD, FACP
  • 1995 - George E. Schreiner, MD, MACP
  • 1996 - James A. Curtin, MD, MACP
  • 1996 - Martin G. Dillard, MD, MACP
  • 1996 - Vincent F. Garagusi, MD, FACP
  • 1996 - Eugene P. Libre, MD, FACP
  • 1997 - James J. Leonard, MD, MACP
  • 1997 - Richard B. Perry, MD, MACP
  • 1998 - John M. Eisenberg, MD, MACP
  • 1998 - W. Tabb Moore, MD, FACP
  • 1999 - Harold Weiss, MD, FACP
  • 1999 - Robert S. Wilkinson, MD, FACP
  • 2000 - N. Thomas Connally, MD, FACP
  • 2000 - Gary L. Simon, MD, FACP
  • 2000 - Werner F. Barth, MD, FACP
  • 2000 - Charles P. Duvall, MD, FACP
  • 2001 - Lawrence E. Klein, MD, FACP
  • 2001 - Stephen Ray Mitchell, MD, FACP
  • 2002 - Michael S. Gold, MD, FACP
  • 2002 - Jerry F. Meyer, MD, FACP
  • 2003 - Robert E. Goldstein, MD, MACP
  • 2004 - Paul Schlein, MD, MACP
  • 2005 - David G. Borenstein, MD, FACP and Victor F. Scott, MD, FACP
  • 2006 - Leonard Wartofsky, MD, MACP
  • 2007 - Geraldine P. Schechter, MD, MACP
  • 2008 - Alan G. Wasserman, MD, MACP
  • 2009 - Andrew N. Umhau, MD, FACP
  • 2010 - Alice L. Fuisz, MD, FACP
  • 2011 - Lawrence Lessin, MD, MACP
  • 2012 - Louis Pangaro, MD, MACP
  • 2013 - Henry Masur, MD, MACP
  • 2014 - Laurie E. Duncan, MD, FACP
  • 2015 - Shmuel Shoham, MD, FACP
  • 2016 - Przemyslaw Hiszel, MD, FACP
  • 2017 - Nazia Qazi, MD, FACP
  • 2018 - Patience White, MD, FACP
  • 2019 - Ashesh D. Patel, MD, FACP
  • 2020 - Sailaja Pindiprolu, MD, FACP
  • 2021 - Jennifer Mills, MD, FACP
  • 2022 - Arrel Olano, MD, FACP
  • 2023 - Peter Marks, MD, FACP


Sol Katz Teaching Award
  • 1998 - Debra L. White-Coleman, MD
  • 1998 - Charles P. Duvall, MD, FACP
  • 1998 - Steven Kariya, MD, Member
  • 1999 - Allen M. Monzac, MD
  • 1999 - Lewis Suskiewicz, MD, Member
  • 2000 - Prudence P. Kline, MD, FACP
  • 2000 - Randi C. Abramson, MD
  • 2001 - Karen R. Myers, MD, Member
  • 2001 - Paul Schlein, MD, FACP
  • 2002 - Melvin W. Gaskins, MD
  • 2002 - Beth Horowitz, MD, FACP
  • 2003 - Ramin Oskoui, MD
  • 2003 - Jack D. Summer, MD, Member
  • 2006 - Prashant K. Rohatgi, MD
  • 2007 - Carmella Cole, MD, MBA, FACP and Virginia Kan, MD, FACP
  • 2008 - Jehan El-Bayoumi, MD, FACP and Deborah A. Topol, MD, FACP
  • 2009 - Matthew L. Mintz, MD, FACP and Dragica K. Mrkoci, MD, FACP

Volunteerism and Community Service Award
  • 2000 - Elmer Huerta, MD
  • 2002 - John J. Lynch, MD, FACP
  • 2004 - N. Thomas Connally, MD, MACP
  • 2006 - Burton W. Lee, MD
  • 2007 - Richard B. Perry, MD, MACP
  • 2008 - Amy D. Kossoff, MD
  • 2009 - Joseph P. Swift, MD, FACP

Leadership
  • 2005 - Sharyn S. Horwitz, MD, FACP
  • 2006 - Steven J. Durning, MD, FACP
  • 2007 - A. Kaldun Nossuli, MD, FACP, FASN
  • 2008 - Alice L. Fuisz, MD, FACP
  • 2009 - Jeffrey S. La Rochelle, MD, FACP
  • 2010 - Laurie E. Duncan, MBBS, FACP
  • 2011 - Shmuel Shoham, MD
  • 2012 - Jerry Meyer, MD, FACP
  • 2013 - Ashesh Patel, MD, FACP
  • 2014 - Lawrence E. Klein, MD, MACP
  • 2015 - Nazia Qazi, MD, MACP
  • 2016 - George Philips, MBBS, FACP
  • 2017 - Jennifer E. Mills, MD, FACP
  • 2018 - Katie Saulters, MD
  • 2019 - Robert S. Wilkinson, MD, MACP
  • 2020 - Alan G. Pocinki, MD, FACP
  • 2021 - Arrel S. Olano, MD, FACP
  • 2022 - Patience H. White, MD, MA, MACP
  • 2023 - Sean Whelton, MD, FACP, FACR