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Shakeeb Chinoy, MD, received the American Medical Association’s Foundation 2010 Leadership award.
Award recipients are recognized for demonstrating outstanding clinical leadership skills in advocacy, community service and education. Those who receive the award are also given special training to develop their skills as future leaders in organized medicine and community affairs.
Chinoy is a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at Michigan State University College of Medicine in Lansing, Midwestern College of Medicine, Chicago, and Lake Erie College of Medicine in Erie, Pa., and Bradenton, Fla.
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Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin and Shakeeb
Chinoy, MD, at the awards ceremony. Photo courtesy of Shakeeb Chinoy, MD
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Chinoy has served as chair of the Texas Medical Association (TMA) Resident and Fellow Section, TMA board of counselors, Texas delegation to the AMA, board of directors of Bexar County Medical Society and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Committee of University of Texas. At the Michigan State Medical Society Young Physician Section, Chinoy served as chair-elect, delegate and secretary. He is also involved with the legislative and government affairs committee of the Michigan chapter of the AAP.
In addition, Larry K. Pickering, MD, recently received the 2010 AAP Lifetime Contribution to Infectious Diseases Education Award.
The award recognizes individuals with a long and distinguished history as infectious diseases educators of AAP members.
Pickering, a member of the Infectious Diseases in Children Editorial Board, has served as editor of the 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2009 editions of the AAP Red Book and is the senior adviser and executive secretariat to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.