Alliance Awards Program

The Alliance Awards honor faculty and staff in academic internal medicine for their exceptional achievements. Recipients for the 2025 Alliance Awards have been notified and are posted online. View 2025 Alliance Awards recipients.

To view last year's winners, please click here.

For more information, please contact AAIM Member Services at (703) 341-4540 or awards@im.org.

• May: Call for nominations open
• July: Recipient selection process
• August: Recipient notification
• September: Recipient announcement to public

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award
• Special Recognition Award

• Distinguished Service Award

• Robert H. Williams, MD, Distinguished Chair of Medicine Award

• Eric G. Neilson, MD, Leadership in Specialty Internal Medicine Award

Administrators

• Program Administrator Excellence Award
• Program Administrator Rising Star Award

Physicians

• Dema C. Daley Founders Award 
• Distinguished Community Medical Educator Award
• Distinguished University Medical Educator Award
• Distinguished Community Associate Program Director/Core Faculty Award
• Distinguished University Associate Program Director/Core Faculty Award

Administrators

• Linda J. Marts Administrator Service Award

Physicians

• Charles H. Griffith, III, MD, Educational Research Award
• Early Career Medical Student Educator Award
• Louis N. Pangaro, MD, Educational Program Development Award
• Ruth-Marie E. Fincher, MD, Service Award

Administrators

• Program Administrator Award

Physicians

• Alex Djuricich, MD Award
• Brendan P. Kelly, MD, Award
• Leadership in Med-Peds Award
• Walter W. Tunnessen, Jr., MD, Award

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