The 2026 Awards form is now open! Nominate or submit here (Deadline is April 17th)
 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 2025 FMEC Award Winners! - View News Release
Family Physicians Changing Our World
Novneet N. Sahu, MD, MPA, FAAEM, FAAFP, FACEP
Departments of Emergency Medicine and Family Medicine
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Interim Chair Department of Family Medicine Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Mid-Career Faculty Achievement
James Mercuri, LCSW
Director of Behavioral Science
UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency
Emerging Leader
Zachary Kosak, MD
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
This We Believe
Crystal M. Marquez, MD, FAAFP - "To Tell or Not to Tell: The Art of Human Connection in Family Medicine”
Montefiore/Albert Einstein
Creative Writing - Poetry
Mary Kristine Ellis, MD, FAAFP, ABOM – 1st place poem
"Underneath the Mask"
Mount Sinai South Nassau
Najya A. Williams, MD – 2nd place poem
“The Encounter”
UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency
Creative Writing - Prose
Samantha Williams, MD - 1st place prose (tie)
"Unlocking the Mirror to One's Soul"
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Phelps Hospital Program
Srijesa Khasnabish, DO - 1st place prose (tie)
“To Diagnose or Not to Diagnose: Reflections from A Home Visit in Urban India”
University of Massachusetts Medical Center Fitchburg Family Practice
Yuki Takeuchi, MD - Prose Honorable Mention
“Family Medicine Across the Oceans”
Geriatrics Fellow and Former Family Medicine Resident University of Rochester Medical Center
Creative Writing - Prose Poem
Brianna Moyer, MD – 1st -place prose poem
"Morning Rounds"
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Family Medicine Residency Program
Jessica Faraci, MD – 2nd place prose poem
"Your PCP"
Maine Health
Sarah M. Minney, MD - Prose Poem Honorable Mention
"Real Medicine"
University of Rochester Family Medicine
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