April 17, 2008 Lynne Lillie, M.D., president of the Minnesota Academy of 
Family Physicians today named James Boulger, Ph.D. the recipient of her President’s Award at the Minnesota Academy of Family Practitioners Spring Refresher held at the St. Paul River Centre. This is the second time in his career that MAFP has bestowed Jim the President’s Award. A graduate of the Duluth Campus, Dr. Lillie praised Boulger for being a personal mentor and the person who most inspired her, and others, to embrace family medicine. Boulger’s plaque recognizes him for making family medicine his “labor of love.”
Boulger is the Duluth Campus director of the Family Medicine Preceptorship Program, director of alumni relations, and director of the Center for Rural Mental Health, and interim director of the Department of Behavioral Sciences.
Also at the MAFP Spring Refresher, Joanna Burns, who began her medical education in Duluth, received the Medical Student Award for Contributions to Family Medicine. The Medical Student Award recognizes a fourth-year medical student for family medicine activities on a local, community, medical school, state or national level. Candidates are typically nominated by fellow students and/or teachers.
Those who nominated Joanna describe her as a creative person with high ethical standards.
While in Cloquet for her RPAP program, Joanna made herself available for nearly every delivery, took extra call shifts and spent extra time with local services such as the public health nursing group. Even more exemplary, nominators said was the depth of compassion she showed for her patients. Referring to her knowledge, nominators said she was able to quickly and easily find new information, as well as apply it to clinic situations. For example, last spring she identified the first region wide case of Anaplasmosis.
The MAFP is a professional association of approximately 3,000 family physicians, family medicine residents and medical students organized to assist family physicians in providing quality medical care in Minnesota. The MAFP is the largest medical specialty organization in Minnesota and is a state chapter of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
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