Past Award Winners

Nicholas A Cummings | Interprofessional Group Recognition | Creativity in Practice & EducationPatient Advocacy Award | Emerging Interprofessional National Academies of Practice Member of the Year Award  | Senator Daniel K. InouyeNAPO James A. Boucher Award of Excellence (Optometry)

Named for NAP's Founder, this award is presented annually to a Distinguished Fellow of NAP who has demonstrated outstanding or extraordinary contributions to the National Academies of Practice and Interprofessional healthcare.

2023 - Jody S. Frost, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA, FNAP
2022 - Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, FNAP, FAAN
2021 - Barbara Maxwell, P.T., PhD., DPT., MSc., Cert THE, FNAP
2020 - David Itzkoff, DDS, FADPD, DABSCD, SFNAP

2019 - Satya Verma, OD, FAAO, DPNAP, Diplomate
2018 - Gail Jensen, PT, PhD, FAPTA, FNAP
2017 - Bonnie Wesorick, RN
2016 - John Herbold, DVM
2015 - Madeline Schmitt, PhD, RN, FAAN
2014 - Allen Du Mont, LCSW, BCD
2013 - Karen Anne Wolf, PhD, ANP-BC
2012 - Elizabeth A. Rider, MSW, MD
2011 - Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, MPH
2010 - Adele Webb, PhD, RN
2009 - Marie DiCowden, PhD
2007 - Carlton V. Horbelt, DDS, FADPD, FACD
2006 - Joellen W. Hawkins, RN, PhD
2004 - Chet Evans, MS, DPM
2002 - Judith Lewis, PhD, RN
2000 - Arol Augsburger, OD
1999 - Nicholas Cummings, PhD