Program Awards, Core Faculty Distinction and Resident Honors

Program Highlights: 

Our people truly believe in and are committed to serving the underserved; while many of our faculty and residents would do this work unrecognized, we are proud of the awards and recognitions that celebrate the innovation, leadership, and contributions of our incredible people. We are dedicated to being a place where our faculty and residents can thrive and continue to make a difference. 

2024 California Academy of Family Physicians Educator of the Year Award: Congratulations Toussaint Mears-Clarke, MD (Faculty Physician, OB Fellowship Director) on being awarded Educator of the Year at the 2024 CAFP POP Conference! This award recognizes educational excellence in the field of family medicine. Criteria for the award include advances in education in the field of family medicine; excellence in family medicine teaching in medical schools, residency programs, or postgraduate CME.

2024 Special Designation for LGBTQ+ Expansive Primary Care: Ronald Chambers, MD (Program Director) completed an intensive year-long training and development process to obtain Special Designation for Comprehensive Primary Care for LGBTQ+ from CommonSpirit Health. By extension this designation applies to our clinic Mercy Family Health Center under Methodist Hospital. This will allow for our providers to further collaborate with community agencies and provide exceptional expansive care to our patient population . 

2024 AAFP Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education: Chief Resident Andrew Antes, MD was selected as a 2024 American Academy of Family Physicians Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Antes was selected due to their outstanding leadership, civic involvement, and exemplary patient care during residency training and was one of only ten family medicine residents in the nation selected. Congratulations to Dr. Antes, who joins 2 graduates from our program who have also recently received this prestigious award: Kiersten Kelly, MD (2023) and Ashley Rubin, DO, MS (2021).

National and Local Recognition and Program Awards:

2023 CommonSpirit National Research in Equity Award
Trauma Informed Care: Trafficking Out-Comes (TIC TOC Study). Journal of Primary Care & Community Health.

2022 CommonSpirit National Mission and Vision Award
Trauma-coerced Attachment and Complex PTSD: Informed Care for Survivors of Human Trafficking, Journal of Human Trafficking  

2022 STFM CERA Best Paper of the Year Award
“Assessing Family Medicine Residency Programs’ Training on Human Trafficking: A National Survey of Program Directors." Journal of Human Trafficking

2021 FMX Best Presentation of the Conference
"The Intersection of Human Trafficking and LGBTQ+, The Need For Medical Education"

2021 District Attorney Sacramento County Council Award
For commitment and years of service to the Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence

2020 STFM Innovative Program of the Year Award, Medical Safe Haven Program 
STFM (Society of Teachers in Family Medicine) “Innovative Program of the Year” 

2020 Service Award, Domestic Violence Coordinating Council of Sacramento County
District Attorney’s Office