ACGME honors residents and resident teams with 2011 David C. Leach, MD, Award
Awardees recognized for projects to improve residency programs

CHICAGO, November 1, 2010 –The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has chosen five residents and resident teams to receive the 2011 David C. Leach, MD, Award. The ACGME gives the award annually to residents and teams of residents who have helped improve residency programs by developing projects to foster innovation, improve communication, or advance humanism in patient care. The honorees were chosen from nominations submitted by people who work closely with residents, program directors, coordinators, faculty members and designated institutional officials. The award is named after Dr. David Leach, the ACGME's former chief executive officer, who retired in 2007.

The following residents and teams are the 2011 David C. Leach, MD, awardees.

Award Recipient:
Peter Fleischut, MD, anesthesiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell campus), New York, New York
Team Members: Adam S. Evans, MD, MBA; William C. Nugent III, MD, MBA; Susan L. Faggiani, RN, BA, CPHQ; Gregory E. Kerr, MD, MBA; Eliot J. Lazar, MD, MBA; Richard S. Liebowitz, MD, MHS; Laura Forese, MD, MPH

Award Recipient:
Jason Itri, MD, PhD, diagnostic radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Team Members: Sriyesh Krishnan, MD; Christine Kang, MD, PhD; Diane Li, MD; Michael Abdulhadi, MD

Award Recipients:
Andrew Miller, MD, emergency medicine/internal medicine,
SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

Rashid M. Rashid, MD, PhD, dermatology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas,
Co-founder, Morzak Research Initiative

Award Recipient:
Colleen Nugent, MD, MS, pediatrics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York

Award Recipient:
Claudia Reardon, MD, psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Team Members: Dean Krahn, MD, MS; Eric Heiligenstein, MD; Ken Loving, MD; Douglas Kirk, LCSW; Nicholas Stanek, MD

The awardees will receive $2,500 and a plaque, which will be presented at a luncheon held during the ACGME Annual Educational Conference. The 2011 conference will take place March 3-6 in Nashville, Tennessee.

###
The ACGME is a private, nonprofit organization that accredits approximately 8,800 residency programs in 133 specialties and subspecialties that educate 111,000 residents. Its mission is to improve the quality of health care in the United States by assessing and advancing the quality of resident physicians’ education.