Outstanding Clinician Award
Each year, the ATS honors an exemplary clinician through its Outstanding Clinician Award (OCA). Thoracic Society Chapters (TSC) also may nominate an individual for their chapter OCA award. A recipient of the national and chapter awards will be:
- A pulmonary, critical care or sleep clinician who spends 75 percent or more of his/her time providing direct patient care.
- Recognized by patients and families as a caring and dedicated healthcare provider and by his/her peers as having made substantial contributions to the clinical care of patients with respiratory disease. Nominations must reflect excellence in this area above all else.
- A member of the thoracic society chapter (TSC) for which they are being nominated as well as a resident of that state - to be considered for the TSC award.
- A member of the ATS - to be considered for the national level award.
Call for Nominations for 2012
Nominee applications are due by Friday, January 27, 2012 for the 2012 Awards.
Past nominees are:
| 2011 | Michelle Sue Harkins, MD | New Mexico Thoracic Society |
| 2010 | Richard A. Helmers, MD | Arizona Thoracic Society |
| 2009 | Walter Donat, MD | Rhode Island Thoracic Society |
| 2008 | Jeffrey S. Wagener, MD | Colorado Thoracic Society |
| 2007 | Louis S. Libby, MD | Oregon Thoracic Society |
| 2006 | Christine S. Fukui, MD | Hawaii Thoracic Society |
| 2005 | Eloise M. Harman, MD | Florida Thoracic Society |
| 2004 | Anthony M. Marinelli, MD | Chicago Thoracic Society |
| 2003 | Paul A. Selecky, MD | California Thoracic Society |
