This award honours doctors from any sector of the medical profession, who have made a significant contribution to medicine. The winner is presented with a fine bronze bust of Hippocrates, commonly referred to as “the Hippo”. Nominations have closed.
Each year the AMA (WA) President selects a recipient from the wider community for this award. The award goes to a non-doctor who has made an outstanding contribution to health and deserves to be acknowledged.
Congratulations to Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award)Dr Vaanitha Manickavasagar was named the 2020 AMA (WA) Junior Doctor of the Year (Dr Camille Michener Legacy Award). Dr Manickavasagar is a General Paediatric Fellow at Perth Children’s Hospital and was honoured for her work in doctor wellbeing and leadership during COVID-19.
Congratulations to the joint winners of the Hippocrates AwardGP Dr Olga Ward and fellow GP and Sports Medicine Physician Dr Rod Moore received prestigious AMA (WA) Hippocrates Awards. Both doctors were honoured for their unwavering commitment to the profession of medicine and their dedicated service to patients and the broader community.
Congratulations to the winner of the President’s AwardJune Oscar AO, a proud Bunuba woman, received the AMA (WA) President’s award for her pioneering work in Indigenous health and wellbeing, and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
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