IAFP Seeking Nominations for 2024 Family Physician of the Year Award

Is your Family Physician the best of the best? Do they go above and beyond to care for their patients? Are they active in the community? Do you think they deserve the 2024 Family Physician of the Year Award? If so, we want to hear about them! 

The Iowa Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP) is seeking nominations for the 2024 Family Physician of the Year. Each year the IAFP awards one family physician the title “Family Physician of the Year” based on outstanding service to patients and community, and devotion to Family Medicine.

If you would like to nominate your family physician, please nominate them online at: https://iaafp.org/awards/ or send letters of nomination to the Iowa Academy describing why your family physician should receive the Family Physician of the Year Award. Letters can be sent by to the Iowa Academy of Family Physicians, 6500 University Avenue, Ste 100, PMB 123, Windsor Heights, IA 50324 or emailed to kcox@iaafp.org. Nomination deadline is September 3, 2024.

 The 2024 Iowa Family Physician of Year will be honored during the IAFP Annual Conference on November 7, 2024 at the Meadows Event Center in Altoona.

Previous recipients have been: Scott Helmers, MD; Dale Christensen, MD; James R. Paulson, MD; Rodney Miller, MD; Marion Barnes, MD; Francis Pisney, MD; Kelly D. Ross, MD; David Paulus, MD; Alan Vasher, DO; John W. Barnes, MD; Ronald Zoutendam, MD; Donald Skinner, MD; Richard A. Jongewaard, MD; Cynthia Wolff, MD; David Crippin, MD; Michael Gimbell, III, MD; Kenton Moss, MD; David Carlson, MD; Sharon Bertroche, MD; Dale Nystrom, MD; Subhash Sahai, MD; Craig Thompson, DO; Michael AbouAssaly, MD; Douglas Peters, MD; Ried Boom, MD; Patrick Edwards, MD; Gerard Stanley, MD; MarkHaganman, DO; Chris VandeLune, DO; Esgar Guarin, MD, Noreen O’Shea, DO, David Nystrom, DO; Jeffrey Hoffmann, DO and John Thurman, DO.