Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research

Overview

The Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research is given annually to honor a researcher who has made outstanding contributions to primary care research over the course of a lifetime. Scientists from all nations, working in all professional fields and scientific disciplines, are eligible to receive the Wood Award, which is presented at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting. The award is named in honor of Maurice Wood, a pioneer in primary care research and founder of NAPCRG.

The 2023 Call for nominations closes on June 12, 2023.

New in 2022, in recognition of NAPCRG's 50th Anniversary, the selected recipient of this prestigious award will be recognized in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. The nomination speech will be adapted as a reflection on family medicine or special communication described here. The submission will appear in digital and print formats. The nominator will need to prepare the submission based on JABFM guidelines.

Published since 1988, the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine ( JABFM ) is the official peer-reviewed journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM). JABFM makes its articles available free of charge and without registration at www.jabfm.org. JABFM is indexed by Medline, Index Medicus, and other services. JABFM publishes six bimonthly issues per year, comprising original material from authors with new knowledge to contribute to the understanding and advancement of family medicine research and clinical practice. JABFM also serves as an important forum for the specialty of family medicine, and as a source of news from the ABFM. Types of articles published by the JABFM are listed at Information for Authors. Approximately 900 print copies of each issue are in circulation. Online access average: 514,618 hits per month in 2019. Impact factor for 2019: 2.661.

The Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research is selected by NAPCRG's Past Presidents and Current President.

Recipients

2022 - Kevin Grumbach, MD, California, US (Presentation coming soon)

2021 - Arch G. Mainous III, PhD, Florida, US (Presentation)

2020 - Paul Stephen Little, MD, MSc, Southampton, UK (Presentation)

2019 - William R Phillips, MD, MPH, Washington, US (Presentation)

2018 - Kurt Stange, MD, PhD, Cleveland, Ohio

2017 - Moira Stewart, PhD, Ontario, Canada

2016 - Allen Dietrich, MD, New Hampshire, US

2015 - Leif Solberg, MD, Minnesota, US 

2014 - George (Ed) Fryer, Jr., PhD, Arkansas, US 

2013 - William Hogg, MD, Ottawa, Canada 

2012 - Stephen Zyzanski, PhD, Ohio, US 

2011 – David Katerndahl, MD, Texas, US 

2010 – Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH, Massachusetts, US

2009 – Ann C Macaulay CM, MD, FCFP, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

2008 – Chris van Weel MD, PhD, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 

2007 – Carol P Herbert, MD, CCFP, Ontario, Canada  

2006 - Ann-Louise Kinmonth, MD, Cambridge, UK 

2005 - Henk Lamberts, MD, PhD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

2004 - Larry Green, MD, Colorado, US 

2003 - Michael Klein, MD, Vancouver, British Columbia

2002 - Walter Rosser, MD, Kingston, Ontario 

2001 - Ian R McWhinney, MD, Ontario, Canada 

2000 - Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, FRCGP, Maryland, US 

1999 - Kerr White, MD, Virginia, US 

1998 - Jack Medalie, MD, MPH, Ohio, US  

1997 - Frans J A Huygen, MD, The Netherlands  

1996 - Martin Bass, MD, Ontario, Canada 

1995 - Curtis Hames, MD, Georgia, US 

Nominations
Nominee Criteria:

  • The nominee can be from any nation, profession or scientific discipline.
  • The nominee must be a primary care or family medicine researcher.
  • The nominee must be living at the time of nomination.

Nominations will be held for three years. Annual updates to nomination materials are solicited and highly encouraged.

Submit your nomination here!

Please note: Once you begin your submission, you will not be able to save and return.

If you have questions about the Maurice Wood Award, contact napcrgoffice@napcrg.org.

The Wood Award is supported by donations from friends of primary care research across North America and around the world, including NAPCRG members, the Department of Family Medicine in the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and the Medical College of Georgia Foundation Hames Endowment.

Selection
Nominees will be evaluated on:

  • Overall body of lifetime work
  • Personal research achievements
  • Contributions to building primary care research

Nominations will be held for three years. Annual updates to nomination materials are solicited and highly encouraged.

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If you have questions about the Maurice Wood Award, contact napcrgoffice@napcrg.org.

The Wood Award is supported by donations from friends of primary care research across North America and around the world, including NAPCRG members, the Department of Family Medicine in the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and the Medical College of Georgia Foundation Hames Endowment.

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