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The American Academy of Disaster Medicine (AADM) Requesting Nominations for Distinguished Service Award

The American Academy of Disaster Medicine (AADM)
Requesting Nominations for Distinguished Service Award

Tampa, FL – Do you know an individual, organization or community making a positive difference in emergency preparedness and disaster health care response?  The American Academy of Disaster Medicine (AADM) is seeking nominations for the Distinguished Service Award, honoring deserving individuals, organizations and communities positively affecting public health care in the disaster life cycle – preparation, planning, response and recovery.

“It is a privilege for the Academy of Disaster Medicine to present the Distinguished Service Award since this new physician specialty plays a vital role in public health preparedness,” said Academy President Karl Kelley, M.D. of Springfield, TN. “Promoting the building of disaster resilient communities is a national priority.”

AADM is seeking nominees that meet one or more of the following criteria:

  1. Individuals that successfully served as leader of a disaster preparedness and/or response organization with positive outcomes.
  2. Organizations, governmental or non-governmental, that have demonstrated the ability to affect change in the practice of disaster preparedness and/or management response.
  3. Communities that have educated, organized and assembled a cohesive team of leaders in community preparedness of disaster medicine and/or management response.

For submission details, visit https://www.aapsus.org/aadm-award-nomination.  The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2011.  Recipient(s) will be announced at the June 25, 2011 American Association of Physician Specialists House of Delegates and Annual Scientific Meeting in McLean, VA. The conference focus is “What Every Physician Should Know About Disasters”.

The American Academy of Disaster Medicine was founded to promote the practice of disaster health care, ensuring that all physicians are aware and prepared to effectively respond to future disasters either natural or man-made.  AADM is an affiliate academy of the American Association of Physician Specialists, Inc., the governing body of the American Board of Physician Specialties which certifies allopathic and osteopathic physicians in 17 specialties including disaster medicine.