Family Medicine Departmental Awards and Honors
2009 Departmental Awards
DFM Educator and Scholar Award (to academic faculty member):
Mark Huntington, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Sioux Falls
DFM Resident Teaching Award (to academic facility member):
Doug Bright, MD, Assistant Professor; Director, RCR FM Residency
Edward J Batt, MB Memorial Award (to clinical facility member):
Richard Hieb, MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Brookings
Merritt Warren, MD, Clinical Professor, Brookings
DFM Resident Teacher Award (to resident):
Leah Prestbo, MD, recent graduate of SFFMR, now in Madison, SD
Saba Awan, MD, recent graduate of RCFMR, now on faculty of RC FM Residency Program
Medical Student Awards
James E. Ryan Department of Family Medicine 4th Year Medical Student Award
Carissa Pietz, MD, now resident at the Sioux Falls FM Residency Program
Curtis Wait, MD, Memorial Award (SD Foundation of FM award)
Carissa Pietz, MD
“Oty” Kittelson Memorial Scholarship (Sanford Foundation award)
Susan Andersen, MD, now resident at the Sioux Falls FM Residency Program
Other Honors
Thomas Dean, MD, Clinical Professor, Wessington Springs, was named Rural Health Practitioner of the Year by the National Rural Health Association.
David A. Brechtelsbauer, MD, Professor, Sioux Falls, received the Class of 1954 Warren L., Jones, MD Faculty Award. This award is presented by the Sanford School of Medicine Alumni Relations Council.
David A. Brechtelsbauer, MD, Professor, Sioux Falls, is the President of the American Medical Directors’ Association.
Dr. H. Bruce Vogt, MD, Professor and Chair, DFM; Mr. Scot Graff, Instructor, DFM and Executive Director, Community Healthcare Association of the Dakotas; and Thomas Dean, MD, Clinical Professor, were invited presenters at the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services at their meeting in Rapid City this past June. The committee is chaired by the Honorable David M. Beasley, former Governor of South Carolina, and meet three times a year holding two of the meetings “in the field.”