This week was held the tenth edition of the Castle Connolly National Physician of the Year Awards. These awards are an international reference in medicine.
John K. Castle, Chairman, and Dr. John J. Connolly, President and CEO of Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors presented the awards to the winners.
Top Doctors Spain and Top Doctors Mexico attended this emotional ceremony held at the Pierre Hotel in New York.
The National Physician of the Year Awards recognize doctors whose dedication, talent and skills have contributed to improving the lives and health of thousands of people around the world. It is a tribute to the winners but also to the excellence of all medical specialists practicing in the United States.
Three different categories are awarded: Lifetime Achievement, a lifetime dedicated to Medicine, Clinical Excellence, recognition of medical excellence and National Health Leadership, an award given to someone who is not a physician but who has contributed with his or her actions to Medicine. These are the recipients:
Lifetime Achievement
Michael M.E. Johns, MD – Professor, College of Medicine and Public Health.
John B. Mulliken, M.D. – Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Co-Director of the Vascular Anomalies Center and Chief of the Craniofacial Anomalies Service at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Clinical Excellence
Henry Brem, M.D. – Harvey Cushing Center Professor; Professor of Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Oncology and Biomedical Engineering; Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery; Director, Hunterian Neurosurgical Research Laboratory.
Kimberly Brown, M.D. – Chief of the Digestive and Hepatology Unit at Henry Ford Hospital Group
Fabrizio Michelassi, M.D., FACS – Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor and President of the Weill Cornell Medical College organization, Surgeon-in-Chief of the New York Presbyterian Department of Weill Cornell Medical College.
National Health Leadership
Anthony and Jeanette Senerchia – Founders of The Anthony Senerchia Jr. ALS non-profit organization. Promoters of the “Ice Bucket Challenge” charitable action to raise funds for ALS research.