STFM Northeast Region Meeting   Collaborative Projects   Innovations   Awards   Submission Info Award Winners   About Us Past Award Winners 2003 Mid-Career Award: Douglas M. Post Ph.D. Dr. Post is an Associate Professor in the tenure track in Department of Family Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. The award committee was very impressed with Dr. Post's accomplishments as a psychologist, a medical educator, and his contributions to faculty development through numerous publications, grants approved and funded, research awards received and dedicated professional service. Dr. Post has made significant contributions to the field of Family Medicine in the area of patient-centered medicine. He has more than 50 publications including monographs, chapters in edited books, and peer reviewed publications. Dr. Post has secured four grant projects as Principal Investigator, two as Co-Principal Investigator and four grants as Co-Investigator. He was the first faculty member in the OSU Department of Family Medicine to become funded by the Agency for Health Research and Quality. He currently has two applications pending to the National Institutes of Health. He serves as Director of Patient-centered Medicine for the College of Medicine at The Ohio State University and leads a curricular effort that serves the first two years of medical school. His efforts to rejuvenate the curriculum resulted in the use of innovative small group instruction methods addressing issues including professionalism, professional well-being and patient-centered medicine. Through his clinical work as a psychologist, Dr. Post has demonstrated a highly collaborative approach involving partnerships with Family Physicians in patient care as well as in the teaching of residents and students. His efforts led to the development of emergency service programs for patients seen in OSU's Family Medicine Model Unit as well as patients cared for in Family Medicine centers serving all of Columbus and Franklin County, Ohio.