Annual CMER Award Winners

Date 

Physician Faculty Award 

Advanced Practice Clinician Faculty Award 

Operational Leader Award 

2008 

John Allcott, MD 

Rural Primary Care 

2009 

William Maier, MD 

Internal Medicine/Rheumatology 

2010 

Lorne Bigley, MD 

Family Medicine 

2011 

Daniel Kranitz, DO 

Rural Family/Emergency Medicine 

2012 

Tom Bascom, MD 

Surgery 

2013 

Colleen Kersh, MD 

Internal Medicine 

2014 

Chris Hammond, MD 

Pediatrics 

2015 

Thomas Roe, MD 

Pediatrics/Leadership 

2016 

Robert Schauer, MD 

General Surgery 

2017 

Cristin Babcock, MD 

OB/GYN 

2018 

Robert Callahan, MD 

Emergency Medicine 

2019 

David DeHaas, MD, Surgery 

Mary Fey, NP 

Chris Traver 

2020 

Arturo Salazar, MD, IM/Hospitalist 

Nominees: Mark Lyon, MD, 

William Foster, MD 

Amanda Dutton PA-C 

Kim Krause, NWSS 

2021 

Mark Lyon, MD 

Family Medicine 

Rebecca McBride, NP 

CG PHMG Family Medicine 

Michele Barnhart 

Radiology Associates PC 

2022 

Audrey Garrett, MD 

Willamette Valley Cancer Institute 

James Sims, DNP 

Sr. Health & Wellness Center, Barger Clinic 

Ashley Wrightington, NW Anesthesia 

2023 

Dan Paulson, MD 

NW Medical Homes, LLC 

Kathy Kernan, NP 

UD PHMG Unified Care Clinic 

Natalie Horner 

Pediatrics 

2024 

Katelyn Clark, MD 

PHMG Surgical Specialties 

Tricia Schroffner, NP 

PHMG Pediatrics 

Shauna Lake and Casey Smith 

OR Neurology