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April 2024

Advocacy Award Nominations OPEN Now!
 
Doctors for America (DFA) was founded in 2009 to mobilize doctors and medical students in putting patients over politics to improve the health of our patients, communities and our nation. The National Physicians Alliance (NPA) started in 2005 to create research and education programs that promote health and foster active engagement of physicians with their communities to achieve high quality, affordable health care for all. To maximize synergy and outcomes, NPA merged with DFA in 2019.
 
The Founders Awards were established in 2021 to celebrate the two organizations that make up Doctors for America. These awards will honor excellence in patient advocacy, which is the basic tenant of each founding organization. There are five categories for this year's Founders Awards: 
1) Medical Student Advocate, 2) Resident/Fellow Advocate, 3) Physician Advocate, 4) Retired Physician Advocate, 5) a Copello Fellow and 6) a Health Advocate (non-physician). Note: There will be two Copello Fellows recognized from the following Cohorts: 2022/23 and 2023/24.
 
You may nominate yourself or another advocate for this honor. All nominees will be recognized at DFA’s National Leadership Conference at an awards ceremony on Friday, June 7, 2024.
2022 Founders Award Winners 
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(l-r)Bijoya Basu (Medical Student Advocate), Meena Bewtra (Physician Advocate) and Andrea Contreras (Resident Advocate)

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This 90 minute webinar will concentrate on strategies for sharing your narrative to champion gender health advocacy and other topics of interest to you. The skills gained in this session led by Copello Fellow Nicole Damari can be used for op-ed writing, letters to the editor, testimony and more. There will be a worksheet that participants will get to help craft their story along with additional resources that can be used.

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On April 8th, come join our presentation for medical students by medical students.
Alyssa, Itisha, and Anand are all medical students at different medical schools who are advocating alongside Doctors for America. You will hear from current medical students and their work and learn how to get involved in advocating for others.

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