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Each year at the Annual Meeting, AAHCM presents the following prestigious awards: House Call Provider awards, the Dan Gilden Creative Investigator award, and the Lifetime Achievement award. In 2022 we replaced the Lifetime Achievement award with the Bob Sowislo Person of the Year Award; in 2023 the Academy added the House Call Interdisciplinary Team of the Year Award to highlight the changing focus in the field of home-based medicine from individual work to a team approach.

 

House Call Physician of the Year

The House Call Physician of the Year recognizes a home care physician who provides the highest quality of services and innovative programs and who demonstrates excellent and continued dedication to the field of home care medicine.

 

2023 Matthew Richards, MD

Other recent winners include:
2021 Meng Zhang, MD
2020 Danielle Anderson, MD
2019 Paul Chiang, MD FACP
2018 Monica Vandivort, MD
2017 Joseph Milano, MD

 

 

House Call Educator of the Year

The House Call Educator of the Year recognizes an educator who mirrors the highest standards of excellence in teaching home care medicine, has made significant educational impacts on the academic advancement of students studying home care medicine, and has made long-standing contributions to the profession in the academic setting. The recipient must be an AAHCM member.

 

2023 Melissa Morgan-Gouveia, MD
Other recent winners include:
2022 Rachel Miller, MD, MSEd
2020 Katherine Wang, MD
2018 Konstantinos Deligiannidis, MD MPH FAAFP
2017 Yasmin Meah, MD

 

 

House Call Clinician of the Year

The House Call Clinician of the Year recognizes an outstanding clinician who has made significant contributions to the delivery of quality healthcare to homebound patients, and demonstrates the important value of clinicians in the field of home care medicine. A clinician may be defined to include nurse practitioners, social workers, and physician’s assistants.

 

2023 Megan Graeser, DNP
Other recent winners include:
2022 Sarah Paez, MS, GNP-BC, ACHPN
2020 Tammy Browning, PA-C
2019 Jean Yudin, MSN GNP-BC

 

 

Dan Gilden Creative Investigator Award

The Dan Gilden Creative Investigator Award is given to an exceptional investigator for their innovative body of work advancing the field of home care medicine. This award recognizes an investigator who has made great contributions to the field of home care medicine. 

 

2023 Orla Sheehan, MD, PhD
Recent winners include:
2022 David Levine, MD, MPH, MA
2021 Jennifer Reckrey, MD
2020 Karen Abrashkin, MD, FACP
2019 Aaron Yao, PhD
2018 Katherine Ornstein, PhD MPH
2017 Sam Edwards, MD MPH

 

 

Bob Sowislo Person of the Year Award

Formerly named the Lifetime Achievement Award, this award will be presented annually to a person who embodies qualities that Bob showed every day: Humility, Persistence and Dedication to Human Potential.


2023 Hank Ross
Other recent winners include:
2022 Bruce Kinosian, MD
2020 Robert Sowislo, MBA
AAHCM delivers on the promise of interdisciplinary, high-value health care in the home for all people in need by promoting the art, science, and practice of home care medicine. The AAHCM House Call Interdisciplinary Team of the Year Award recognizes an outstanding interdisciplinary team that has made significant contributions to the delivery of quality healthcare to homebound patients, and demonstrates the important value of a team in the field of home care medicine. 
2023 Housecall Providers: Ashley Schumacher, NP Crystal Delatorre, MA Gillian Beck van Heemstra, RN Cheryl Zechmann, LCSW