The Indiana Public Health Founda

George T. Lukemeyer, M.D. In recognition of distinguished and exemplary leadership in establishing the Artificial Kidney Laboratory at the Indiana University School of Medicine. For chairing the academic committee that drafted the “Indiana Plan for Statewide Medical Education.” For outstanding contributions as associate dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine and executive associate dean and medical director of the University hospitals; and chairman of the Accreditation Council on Medical Education, and for serving six years as Commissioner on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations; for contributions to Indiana University School of Medicine in advancing the quality and quantity of medical education through leadership and expansion of medical education in the state of Indiana.

Individual Geriatrics and Gerontology

Kristine Marie Teodori, D.O.

Kristine Teodori, D.O., Indiana University Northwest, Crown Point. For compassionate care and distinguished leadership in end of life process: for recognition of the need to provide excellent care and asking “What should I do? What makes a good death?” For understanding this is accomplished by comfortably approaching the topics of end of life with patients and their family early on as part of the patient’s treatment and dying process; for early consultation with the Palliative Care Team and working side by side with the team to assure every patient’s wishes are respected and there is no delay in providing medications and therapy; for involving people important to the patient, family members, significant others, friends and caregivers; for helping the spouse of the patient passing to receive extra support to prevent further exacerbation of their own physical illnesses during bereavement. For understanding the patient’s needs and assuring respect to each patient.

Valerie Smith-Gamble, M.D.

Valerie Smith-Gamble, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine. For distinguished and exceptional leadership in Alzheimer’s epidemiology and care of Hoosiers. For collaboration with Hugh Hendrie and Kathleen Hall on the Indianapolis
Ibadan Dementia Project, a group working to find the causative aggravating factors associated with dementia; for serving as the Current Training Director for the Indiana University School of Medicine Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship. For personally being responsible for the education of more than a dozen Geriatric Psychiatrists now practicing in the state of Indiana and elsewhere around the United States. Without her expertise, teaching and leadership, Indiana would have fewer geriatric specialists; for staffing a geriatric psychiatry clinic at the Indianapolis Roudebush Veterans Medical Center, diagnosing and treating multiple veterans each week who suffer from psychiatric illnesses associated with aging. For dedication and exemplary service to veterans and other patients.

Business and Industry Geriatrics and Gerontology

Matt Gutwein and Lisa Harris, M.D.

Wishard Health Services. For distinguished and exemplary initiative in collaborating with the Indiana University School of Medicine in developing the most comprehensive clinical program for older adults in the State of Indiana: including inpatient consultation, out patient consultation and primary care, nursing home and home visits, care management, health education, and information and referral. For designing a system for care of older adults that provides unique training experiences in geriatric medicine for numerous medical students, residents and fellows of the I.U. School of Medicine each year. For conducting several landmark health services research studies that have made national contributions to improving health delivery and outcomes of care in vulnerable older adults. For supporting the career development of several academic geriatricians who have become local and national leaders in geriatric and gerontology.

Individual Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Kenneth Fife, M.D.

Kenneth Fife, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine. For exemplary leadership and distinguished research for the treatment of genital herpes for over thirty years; for pivotal trials leading to approval of current treatment drugs; for treatment strategy studies for genital herpes caused by herpes simplex virus 2 that have shown the long term safety and efficacy of chronic antiviral suppression. For studies using suppressive therapy to reduce transmission to a susceptible partner, including HSV 2 vaccine trials, for offering HSV 2 antibody testing allowing identification of persons at risk from unknowingly transmitting HSV 2, which has been shown to cause a 2-5 fold increase in HIV transmission. For instituting programs to prevent a common sexually transmitted infection that causes significant symptoms in many and occasionally leads to serious outcomes such as neonatal herpes.

Daryl Hershberger, M.D.

Daryl Hershberger, M.D., Manager, Redi-Care Clinic, LaGrange. For distinguished and exceptional leadership in providing immunizations for underinsured children; for recognizing that Rural Health Clinics or a Federally Qualified Health Center can receive VFC vaccine for underinsured children, but local health departments could not; for entering into a Memorandum of Understanding with numerous Indiana local health departments thus permitting these local health departments to receive VFC vaccine and improve access to immunization services for underinsured Hoosier children. For special initiative in extending underinsured immunization services over the state of Indiana, along with two other physicians, by obtaining support and cooperation from sixty-seven local health departments to participate in the underinsured immunization program, thus increasing the vaccination opportunities for underinsured children

James Kozarek, M.D.

American Health Network Immunization Clinic, Edinburg. For distinguished and exceptional leadership in providing immunizations for underinsured children; for recognizing that Rural Health Clinics or a Federally Qualified Health Center can receive VFC vaccine for underinsured children, but local health departments could not; for entering into a Memorandum of Understanding with numerous Indiana local health departments thus permitting these local health departments to receive VFC vaccine and improve access to immunization services for underinsured Hoosier children. For special initiative in extending underinsured immunization services over the state of Indiana, along with two other physicians, by obtaining support and cooperation from sixty-seven local health departments to participate in the underinsured immunization program, thus increasing the vaccination opportunities for underinsured children.

Lynn Bowers, M.D.

Lynn Bowers, M.D., New Castle Pediatrics. For distinguished and exceptional leadership in providing immunizations for underinsured children; for recognizing that Rural Health Clinics or a Federally Qualified Health Center can receive VFC vaccine for underinsured children, but local health departments could not; for entering into a Memorandum of Understanding with numerous Indiana local health departments thus permitting these local health departments to receive VFC vaccine and improve access to immunization services for underinsured Hoosier children. For special initiative in extending underinsured immunization services over the state of Indiana, along with two other physicians, by obtaining support and cooperation from sixty-seven local health departments to participate in the underinsured immunization program, thus increasing the vaccination opportunities for underinsured children.

Business and Industry Preventive Medicine and Public Health

Booker Thomas

HealthNet, Inc. For exemplary leadership in recognizing a growing population with no health insurance; for improving the health status in Indianapolis inner city neighborhoods through quality health services; for recognition as a Federally Qualified Health Center with 18 locations: five community-based comprehensive primary health care centers; one OB/GYN Care Center; a pediatric/adolescent care center; eight school-based clinics; and support services: for annual health services to more than 47,000 individuals with 75% living at or below the Federal poverty level; for collaboration with the Marion County Health Department; for conducting over 12,000 outpatient medical, dental, and mental health encounters each year; for serving as one of 56 sites for Healthy Families Indiana--promoting healthy families and children through child development, access to health care and parent education. For developing comprehensive programs to improve the health of families in Indiana.

St. Thomas More Clinic, Mooresville. For exceptional and exemplary leadership in recognition of the increase in individuals without insurance; for bringing together volunteer health care professionals and non-medical volunteers to provide services and care for the uninsured through the St. Thomas More Clinic; for offering diagnosis and treatment of minor acute illnesses, diabetes education, chronic disease management, consultation/counseling with a social worker, medications assistance, referral for health care and community resources; flexibility in scheduling patients, cooperation with the Morgan County Health Department to provide immunizations for children up to 18 years of age; and the YMCA to promote wellness programs.

Indiana University School of Medicine: Sound Medicine. For distinguished and exceptional initiative in addressing public health issues of the day via radio in Indiana and nine other states with emphasis on prevention and education; for bringing experts from around the world to provide the best information to the listening public; for helping solve the public’s need to know about best practices to prevent and treat health issues; for maintaining a website permitting on-line broadcasts of previous shows, research through its archives; offering podcasts of all shows; allowing the public to directly contact their team of experts and others at the I.U. School of Medicine to answer their questions about health concerns. For improving the public’s knowledge via education through the radio medium with discussions of issues and research that affect public health.