The 2026 Awards form is now closed.
 Who do YOU know that should be nominated?
Family Physicians Changing Our World - Key requirement: a family physician who has developed innovative projects and programs that have had a positive impact on the world. Read More
Mid-Career Faculty Achievement - Key requirement: a faculty member with five to twelve years of academic experience who has demonstrated significant achievement and not yet been recognized or received tenure. Read More
Emerging Leader - Key requirement: family medicine senior residents, junior faculty and clinicians in practice (three years or less experience) who have the potential to be future leaders in family medicine academic and community service efforts. Read More
Do you have a story to share? Consider sharing your story through one of the creative expression categories:
This We Believe - Modeled on the successful “This I Believe” project, as heard on National Public Radio, the FMEC offers physicians, physicians-in-training, and medical students engaged in family medicine the opportunity to express their core beliefs about serving others. Read More
Creative Writing (prose, poetry, prose-poetry) - Stories and poems are powerful ways of sharing the vision and depth of family medicine, its philosophy of care and scope of practice. We invite submissions of written materials that derive from the experience of teaching/learning or practicing family medicine. Read More
Each year, the FMEC awards recognize individuals for their work to advance family
medicine and primary care in the region and nationally. Click below to learn more
about each award.
Congratulations the 2026 FMEC Award Winners! - View News Release
Champion of Family Medicine
William J. Warning, II, MD
Former Program Director
Crozer-Keystone FMRP and
Penn Chester County Hospital FMRP
Family Physicians Changing Our World
Stacy Potts, MD, MEd
Senior Dean of Graduate Medical Education and Clinical Affairs
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Mid-Career Faculty Achievement
Winfred Frazier, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Associate Professor of Family Medicine
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Department of Family Medicine
Emerging Leader
Kyle Flattery, MD
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Brown University
Brown Family Medicine / Care New England
This We Believe
Sarah Ines Ramirez, MD - "My Pride is Not Loud, It is Ancestral” - 1st place
Family and Community Medicine / Penn State College of Medicine
Maduka Gunasinghe, DO - "This We Believe" - 2nd place
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Sandhya Kumar, MD, MPH - "This We Believe”
Montefiore Medical Center, NYC Homeless Healthcare Fellowship
Creative Writing - Poetry
Shea Kelly-Buckley, mD – 1st place poem
"Awe of a Trainee"
University of Rochester
Kaitlin E. O'Malley, MD – 2nd place poem
“Primary Care”
Tempe and Drexel Department of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine
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