Delaware Chapter College Awards
The Delaware Chapter Receives the 2026 John Tooker Evergreen Award
The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. The Delaware Chapter received a 2026 John Tooker Evergreen Award for their innovative initiative.
Advancing Advocacy in Delaware
Annual planning ensures advocacy priorities remain relevant, while institutionalized partnerships and established event formats guarantee sustainability.
Over the past seven years, the Delaware Chapter established a durable physician advocacy program at the state level. The initiatives have focused on consistent policy engagement, resolution drafting, testimony submissions, and direct collaboration with policymakers and the Medical Society of Delaware. By switching to a virtual format with sessions held in informal environments, the chapter has been able to engage more individuals and elevate critical issues including primary care sustainability, patient access challenges, and prior authorization reforms. Their advocacy framework is now institutionalized and provides a replicable model for sustained physician engagement.
Special thanks to this program’s key contributors:
- Brayn Haimes, Immediate Past Chair, Health and Public Policy Committee (HPPC)
- James Reuther, Chair, HPPC
- Heather Ragozine, Co-Chair, HPPC
- Modupe Oluya, Committee Member, HPPC
- Justin Elridge, Chair, Early Career Physicians Committee
2025 Chapter Excellence Award – Gold Winner
We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2025 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 68 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet 22 Bronze criteria, 12 Silver criteria and 25 Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians. We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.
Delaware Wins a 25th Anniversary John Tooker Evergreen All-Star Award
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program, the Evergreen All-Star Awards recognizes the Delaware Chapter program, The Bakshi Fellowship for Global Health Rotations by Resident Members. The program has contributed to the strength and breadth of ACP and its chapters, and demonstrated sustainability through successive leadership terms.