Wisconsin Receives the 2025 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 Wisconsin Chapter received the 2025 John Tooker Evergreen Award for their initiative, The Advocacy Corner: Promoting and Highlighting ACP - Wisconsin Advocacy at ACP - Wisconsin Annual Scientific Meeting.
The Advocacy Corner: Promoting and Highlighting ACP - Wisconsin Advocacy at ACP - Wisconsin Annual Scientific Meeting
HPPC members of all classes work collaboratively to become content experts on key issues impacting all Wisconsin residents and have become an invaluable resource to our Chapter.
The 2024 Advocacy Corner was an enhancement of efforts since 2022 to change the dynamic of advocacy work by our chapter, both to highlight accomplishments and to encourage increased engagement by all chapter members in advocacy at both the state and national level, through education on the work of our Health and Public Policy Committee as well as interactive activities. The Advocacy Table included several interactive games and activities highlighting voting, the AIM Network, Medicaid expansion, and resources highlighting “Period Poverty” and the regressive state tax on menstrual products. The cornerstone of the Advocacy Table was Issue Guides created by HPPC members to educate all chapter members on key topics related to state level policy and opportunities for advocacy. These guides were developed during the year by HPPC members who participate in HPPC advocacy work groups.
Special thanks to this program’s key contributors:
- Sophie Kramer MD, FACP, Health and Public Policy Committee Chair
- Jennifer Mackinnon, MD, FACP, Health and Public Policy Committee Vice-Chair
- Ann Maguire, MD, FACP, Wisconsin Chapter, Governor
- Richard Dart, MD, MACP, Health and Public Policy Committee Chair Emeritus, Climate and Health Advocacy Workgroup (AWG)
- Victoria Gillet, MD, Lead for Health and Public Policy Committee Climate and Health AWG
- Mara Terras, MD, FACP, Lead for Health and Public Policy Committee Gun Safety AWG
- Siobhan Wilson, MD, FACP, Health and Public Policy Committee Gun Safety AWG
- Apurva Popat, MD, PGY-3 Resident Marshfield Clinic, Health and Public Policy Committee Gun Safety AWG
- Lopa Kabir, MD, FACP, Health and Public Policy Committee Reproductive Health AWG
- Rachel Bernard, MD, Health and Public Policy Committee Reproductive Health AWG
- Leila Famouri, MD, Health and Public Policy Committee Medicaid Expansion AWG
- Barbara Horner-Ibler, MD, FACP, ACP-WI HPPC Medicaid Expansion AWG
- Jennifer Woodard, MD, Fellow in Geriatrics Medical College of Wisconsin, Social Media
- Andrew Norton, University of Wisconsin School, Medicine M4 Student
- Manlu Liu, University of Wisconsin School, Medicine M4 Student
- Sierra Auleta, University of Wisconsin School, Medicine M2 Student
- Kya Vaughn, University of Wisconsin, M3 Student
- Katarina Lungova, Medical College of Wisconsin, M2 Student
- Nathan Deep, Medical College of Wisconsin, M1 Student
- Emani Lei, Wisconsin Organizing Manager, Vot-ER
- Jenni Kilpatrick, ACP Wisconsin Chapter, Chapter Staff
Previous Evergreen Awards:
- 1993 - Medical Student Summer Program
- 1999 - Publication of Associates Abstracts; Reach out for Residents and Medical Students
- 2000 - A Course in Professionalism for Residents in Training
- 2008 - Women’s Initiative
- 2009 - A New Way of Running our Business
- 2013 - 25th Anniversary Evergreen All-Star Award
- 2016 - High Value Care Cases Module at Annual Scientific Meeting
- 2023 - Narrative Medicine: Celebrating Internal Medicine Physicians
- 2024 - New Multigenerational Scientific Program Session - Bridging the Gap for Student and Senior Chapter Members
2023 Chapter Excellence Award – Gold Winner
We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 54 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria, seventeen Silver criteria and multiple 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.