Awards and Honors
2020 Humanities Award, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
2018 American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor Award
2018 Health Care Achievement Award, Rochester Business Journal
2017 Gold Humanism Award, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
2014 “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014”, Thomson Reuters
2013 Steven Z. Miller Humanism in Medicine Award, New York Academy of Medicine
2006 Best Published Research Paper of the Year Award, Society of General Internal Medicine
2006 Article of the Year Award, Academy Health
2005 Lynn Payer Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Literature on the Theory, Practice and Teaching of Effective Healthcare Communication and Related Skills, American Academy on Communication in Healthcare
2004 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award in Public, Global Health, International Award, University of Córdoba, Spain
1997-1998 Fulbright Senior Lecturers Award, Institute for Health Studies, Barcelona, Spain
1995-1998 George L. Engel and John Romano Dean's Teaching Scholar, URSMD, Rochester, NY
1994-1998 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation