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Fifty years ago, Manuel Guillermo Herrera-Acena, MD, graduated from Harvard Medical School and began his training in Endrocrinology at BWH. During his career, he has cared for thousands of patients, founded BWH’s Spanish Clinic and inspired hundreds of medical school students, interns and residents to care for patients in rural, Latin American settings.
With five decades of service and commitment to the hospital’s mission of research, education and patient care, Herrera-Acena topped the list of honorees during the annual Physician Recognition Dinner and Medical Staff Service Awards, sponsored by BWH, the BWPO and the Brigham and Women’s Physicians’ Council.
“You bring great honor to all of us,” Martin Samuels, MD, chair of Neurology, said to Herrera-Acena during the Nov. 3 gala at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel. Samuels, a 30-year honoree, and Herrera-Acena are among the 27 physicians and scientists recognized this year for 30 or more years of service to BWH. An additional 231 medical staff received Service Awards for five to 25 years at BWH.
BWH President Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA, thanked the service award honorees for their continued commitment to the hospital’s mission of clinical care, education and research. “You have made BWH among the most special places with your commitment to taking care of the sickest and neediest patients, leading the way with amazing new discovery and bringing it to the bedside to ease pain and cure illness,” he said.
The BWPO also recognized five physicians and scientists with the prestigious recognition awards for clinical collaboration, clinical innovation, clinical community service and leadership.
“All the nominees and this year’s recipients truly live the most ideal vision of what the Brigham is all about,” said Allen Smith, MD, MS, BWPO president. “Whenever physicians who are just starting out ask about being extraordinary, we should all point to our recognition award recipients.”
This year, there are two recipients of the James S. Winshall Leadership Award: Phillip M. Devlin, MD, of Radiation Oncology, and Hugh L. Flanagan, MD, of Anesthesia.
Flanagan, director of BWH Operating Rooms, has held several leadership posts in Anesthesia and BWH’s Surgical Intensive Care Service, and he has made tremendous contributions to systems and quality, ultimately improving patient care in many ways.
As the director of Brachytherapy for BWH, DFCI and Children’s Hospital Boston, Devlin has grown this service line to a world class service where patients receive directed radioactivity to organs affected by cancer.
Richard Zane, MD, vice chair of Emergency Medicine, received the Clinical Collaboration Award. Zane was the driving force behind newly-implemented hospital-wide guidelines for admission of patients from the ED to subspecialty service lines, and his efforts have been instrumental in facilitating the admission of BWH ED patients to Faulkner Hospital.
This year’s Clinical Community Service Award went to Heidi Behforouz, MD, founder and executive director of BWH’s Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment (PACT) program. She pioneers this program which fosters educational and clinical outreach to Boston’s sickest and most isolated AIDS patients.
Christopher Thompson, MD, MSc, received this year’s Clinical Innovation Award. Thompson focuses his interest in advanced endoscopy as it applies to post surgical complications, bariatric endoscopy, reflux and pancreatic disease.
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