The Board of Governors Practitioner Excellence Award recognizes the prototypical clinical otolaryngologist one wishes to emulate. Board of Governors Representatives will nominate individuals who, within the past 10 years, have practiced medicine in an exemplary manner and are sought out by other physicians because of their personal and effective care. The nominee should have, in addition to his or her clinical skills, one or more of the following attributes:
Recipients
2011: Marcy Bothwell, MD
2010: Sanjay K. Gupta, MD
2009: James L. Netterville, MD
2008: No award given
2007: No award given
2006: No award given
2005: Rick G. Love, MD
2004: Michael D. Seidman, MD
2003: Helen F. Krause, MD
2002: David W. Kennedy, MD
2001: M. Coye Shea, Jr., MD
2000: Neil O. Ward, MD
1999: Howard P. House, MD
1998: Jack L. Pulec, MD
1997: Fred D. Owens, MD
1996: John M. Conoyer, MD

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