PaACEP Chapter Awards

Emergency Physician of the Year

The PaACEP board of directors is seeking nominations for the Annual PaACEP Emergency Physician of the Year award. The award recognizes emergency clinicians of unusual merit who pursue the ideal of emergency medicine. In other words, the award seeks out those practitioners who try to be the best emergency doctors they can be. Selection criteria require that each nominee be a current member of PaACEP, an outstanding emergency physician role model, and an effective patient advocate who:
• Upholds high professional standards
• Maintains an active clinical practice of emergency medicine
• Practices and promotes high quality emergency medical care
• Promotes the public image of emergency medicine, and
• Is active in community service and education

Meritorious Award Nominations

The PaACEP board of directors has established a meritorious service award to be presented at the annual membership meeting for an individual who has made a significant contribution to emergency medicine in the Commonwealth.
The following are examples of significant contribution:
• Patient care, such as new or improved patient care delivery mode of modes, quality care improvements, or cost containment.
• EMS, such as an improved organization, new or improved service, public education disaster plan.
• Teachings, such as new or improved teaching method or methods, publication(s), educational program development, evaluation mechanism(s).
• Research, clinical or basic.
• PA chapter member, who has significantly helped to promote the purpose and objectives of the chapter.
• Personal leadership, an individual whose character has been exemplified in one or more of the following examples: inspirational, innovative, diplomatic, planner, organizer, manager/administrator, arbitrator, consensus maker, decision maker.

Outstanding Contribution to Emergency Medicine Award

The award was created in 2005 to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to the practice or body of knowledge of emergency medicine, or has provided exceptional advocacy to enhance the delivery of emergency care in Pennsylvania. It is not a requirement that the recipient be either a physician or a member of PaACEP.

You can submit Emergency Physician of the Year, Meritorious Award, and Outstanding Contribution to Emergency Medicine nominations via fax to (717) 558-7841 or email dblunk@pamedsoc.org. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2010.