2006 Job Lewis Smith Award Recipient

Stanley Fisch, MD, FAAP

The 2006 Job Lewis Smith Award was presented to Stanley Fisch, MD, FAAP on Sunday, October 8th at the COCP's annual awards luncheon.

Dr Fisch went to South Texas as an NHSC volunteer in 1973. He leads his own group practice and serves as clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio. Among many professional and community activities, Dr Fisch convened the region's first hospital bioethics committee in 1982, organized the region's first child fatality review team in 1994, and served in the Texas Medical Association as chair of the Council on Medical Education. He continues a 20-year collaboration with Mexican colleagues to organize bi-national professional education conferences.

Read Dr. Fisch's address from the Community Pediatrics Reception that was published in Pediatrics in July 2007.

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1. Go to http://www.aap.org/moc/indexEntry.cfm and login with your AAP ID and password.
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