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Native American Child Health
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Native
American Child Health
Advocacy
Award
Each year, the AAP Committee
on Native American Child Health presents the Native American Child
Health Advocacy Award to recognize an individual who has made a
major contribution to Native American child health.
The AAP Committee on
Native American Child Health accepts nominations for the Native American Child Health Advocacy Award on a rolling basis. This award is given
to recognize an individual who has made a major contribution to
promoting Native American child health. To have your nominee considered for the 2008 Award, please submit your nomination by February 29, 2008. If you know of a physician
or non-physician who merits this recognition, please submit a letter
of nomination, along with the candidate's contact information to:
Committee
on Native American Child Health
American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Blvd
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Fax: 847/434-8729
indianhealth@aap.org
The 2008 Native
American Child Health Advocacy Award will be presented to Stephen A. Holve, MD on Sunday, October 12, 2008 in conjunction with the AAP National Conference and Exhibition
in Boston, MA. Dr. Steve Holve is a Captain in the United States Public Health Service and the Chief Clinical Consultant in Pediatrics for the Indian Health Service. He attended medical school at UCSD and completed his pediatric residency at the University of Colorado. He has worked in clinical pediatrics on the Navajo Nation in the Southwest for the past 23 years and is also Chief of Pediatrics at the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation. In his nomination letter, Dr Holve is described as "a consummate pediatrician" who "has set an exceptionally high standard and example for the practice of clinical and community pediatrics". Dr Holve has also been instrumental in establishing a new Reach Out and Read Coalition devoted to AI/AN children.
Congratulations Dr Holve!
Congratulations
to our previous award winners:
- 2007 - David C. Grossman, MD, MPH
- 2006
- William F. Green, MD
- 2005
- Lori Griffin Byron, MD
- 2004
- Peter Talbot, MD
- 2003
- J. Kenneth Petersen, MD, MPH
- 2002
- Lance Chilton, MD
- 2001 - J. Kenneth
Fleshman, MD, MPH
- 2000 - Diana Hu, MD
- 1999 - Dorothy Meyer,
CNM, MPH
- 1998 - James A. Lewis,
MD
- 1997 - Lawrence R.
Berger, MD, MPH
- 1996 - George Brenneman,
MD
- 1995 - Everett Ronald
Rhoades, MD
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