Physician Recognition
The 2010 Outstanding Physician and Citizen Award recipients were honored at the June 23, 2010 SBCMS Installation of Officers dinner. Criteria for awards include:
- Made a significant contribution to the healthcare field.
- Displayed extraordinary professional competence.
- Been active within SBCMS.
- Been Active in health promotion and disease prevention through public speaking presentations and/or involvement with community organizations; or
- Made charitable, benevolent and humane gifts or paticipated in acts demonstrating a desire to help mankind.
Nicholas P. Krikes, M.D. Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Medical Society - This award is given for sustained interest and participation in one or more activities of the Society over and above that expected by the membership at large.
2010 Recipient: Guillermo Valenzuela, M.D.
William L. Cover, M.D. Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medicine - This award is bestowed upon a physician member who has displayed forward-looking, pioneering ideas, enterprise, enthusiasm and prolonged professional stature and abilities.
2010 Recipients: Javed Siddiqi, M.D. and Peggy Fritzsche, M.D. (Posthumously)
Merlin A. Hendrickson, M.D. Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Community - This award is given to the outstanding member who has displayed sustained interest and participation in one or more community activities over and above that expected of the membership at large.
2010 Recipient: Manmohan Nayyar, M.D.
Outstanding Citizen Award - This award is presented to a lay person who has:
- exhibited sustained interest and participation in one or more medically related activities which has benefited the members of the community, and/or
- who has demonstrated outstanding devotion to community work, and/or
- who has devoted a career of service to the Inland Empire.
2010 Recipient: Brenda Brennan, RN, MS
Presidential Award - This award is granted to an individual selected by the medical society's president, who exhibits exemplary character and commitment to the mission and purpose of the SBCMS, with unique abilities to transition impossible ideas into reality, while rising to new levels of creativity and innovation.
2010 Recipient: Linda Stratton, SBCMS Executive Director
