The award is given to an ACP member with outstanding accomplishments in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in the health care workforce, and/or improving health equity for people with historically marginalized group identities.
Nominating and supporting letters should address:
- Whether the nominee鈥檚 contributions have significantly advanced diversity, equity and inclusion in the health care workforce and/or have improved health equity.
- How people who have been historically underrepresented or marginalized have benefitted from the nominee鈥檚 contributions.
- The extent of the nominee鈥檚 local, national, or international contributions and how they have been sustained over time.
Established: 2008
In honor of Dr. W. Lester Henry, the first African American Regent and MACP. (Award named in his honor 2012.)