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NEWS RELEASE
IAFP HONORS FAMILY PHYSICIAN OF THE YEAR AND FAMILY PRACTICE TEACHER OF THE YEAR.
LISLE, Illinois. The Illinois Academy of Family Physicians honored two of its finest family physicians at the IAFP annual awards dinner on June 20 in Rosemont. John W. Sage, M.D. of Metrodocs, S.C. in Glenview is the 2002 IAFP Family Physician of the Year and Stuart L. Goldman, M.D. of Lutheran General Hospital Family Practice Residency in Park Ridge is the Dr. Sage graduated from Loyola University à Stritch School of Medicine in 1973 and completed his residency training at Lutheran General Hospital Family Practice Residency Program. He opened a solo practice in Des Plaines in 1977 and now practices with four other family physicians at Metrodocs, S.C. in Glenview. The Family Physician of the Year is chosen from candidates nominated directly by patients, who send letters to IAFP describing their outstanding family physician. The IAFP Public Relations committee and Board of Directors select the winner. IAFP received a letter of support from one of Dr. Sage's earliest patients, who first visited his practice in 1978. "He's seen our family through broken bones, impending surgeries, colds, flu, annual checkups, and physicals. And when our youngest contracted meningitis before her first birthday, Doctor John handled my husband Jim and I with the intensity of a professional and the sensitivity of a parent." Donna Grady writes in her letter. In 1980 Dr. Sage hired his first partner. Dr. Lee Sacks, who is now Executive Vice President - Chief Medical Officer of Advocate Healthcare. "I saw first hand what a special family physician he was. He listened, he always had a sixth sense of what was really bothering the patient and the insights into social, family, and environmental factors," says Sacks. Dr. Sage also cares for the Sacks family, and has been their family doctor since 1979. Dr. Sage worked with Lutheran General, Resurrection and Holy Family Hospitals to create Rainbow Hospice, a home to provide compassionate and complete end of life care for those who are dying and the families that love them. Rainbow Hospice has cared for thousands in the past 21 years. Dr. Sage served as medical director for the first 16 years and is still an associate medical director. He's taken the mission of end of life care beyond the walls of Rainbow Hospice, educating residents and new physicians in end of life care through a program he created called EPEC à Educating Physicians in End of Life Care. "I saw this as a real need for family physicians. Without the ability to help families of dying patients, we have a gap in the delivery and provision of quality health care," says Sage. "Patients don't need to be in the hospital to die, but families need to help so the patient can die at home." Nine of Dr. Sage's ten brothers and sisters, along with their mother, attended the banquet in support of their favorite doctor. They were joined by his current partners, ten office staff from Metrodocs, S.D. and ten members of Rainbow Hospice, creating a cheering section of nearly 50 people supporting the new Family Physician of the Year. Stuart L. Goldman, M.D., associate director of Lutheran General Family Practice Residency program in Park Ridge is the IAFP 2002 Family Practice Teacher of the Year. Dr. Goldman is a 1976 graduate of Saint Louis University School of Medicine. This award is given to an educator who exemplifies the values and principles of family practice. The physician is a role model whose teaching inspires students and residents to become family physicians, providing the ultimate in comprehensive and compassionate healthcare to patients and families. Residents and students were asked to nominate family medicine teachers for consideration by the IAFP's Family Practice Educator's committee. The IAFP Board of Directors then finalized the committee's recommendations. Dr. Goldman was previously nominated for the Family Practice Teacher of the Year award in 1988. Dr. Goldman has been an integral part of Lutheran General's residency program for over 15 years. During that time he has twice been named the residency's Family Practice Teacher of the Year. He's been instrumental in not only shaping the residency program, but also shaping the residents who train at Lutheran General. One of his former residents described Dr. Goldman's impact saying, "his enthusiasm for family practice was contagious." That enthusiasm carries over into his dedication to improving the care that family physicians provide and in the many teaching opportunities he provides. His teaching responsibilities include everything from nursing home rounds, teaching physical diagnoses to M2s, hospital rounds, to home visits with residents and family practice grand rounds. Dr. Goldman is also the medical director at Nesset Family Practice Center, where he coordinates quality assurance, the 35 physicians, staffing issues and a newsletter. He also serves as chairman of Lutheran General Hospital's quality control committee and is a clinical associate professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. Coincidentally, he is also currently working with IAFP Family Physician of the year John Sage, M.D. on the end of life care education curriculum (EPEC) for family physicians. In his remarks at the IAFP awards dinner, Dr. Goldman shared his teaching philosophy using a very appropriate pneumonic device: the LEARN model. L à Listen
attentively to students and patients ###
EDITOR'S NOTE: For more information on any of the award winners, a digital photo or to set up an interview, please contact Ginnie Flynn at IAFP at 630-435-0356 ext. 118 |
