The Arthritis Foundation (Alabama Chapter) "Outstanding Speaker Award" is presented yearly following the meeting. In 2009, it was renamed the Congress of Clinical Rheumatology Outstanding Speaker Award. The recipient is selected by the participants.







Previous winners are:

1988	Michael Weinblatt, M.D., Harvard Medical School
1989	Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., UNC, Chapel Hill
1990	E. Nigel Harris, M.D., University of Louisville
1991	Darwin Prockop, M.D., Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson University
1992	Daniel Rahn, M.D., Medical College of Georgia, Augusta
1993	Michelle Petri, M.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
1994	James L. McGuire, M.D., Stanford Medical Center
1995	Gary W. Williams, M.D., Ph.D., Scripps Clinic/Research Foundation
1996	John S. Sergent, M.D., Vanderbilt
1997	Bevra H. Hahn, M.D., UCLA
1998	Nelson B. Watts, M.D., Emory
1999	Lee S. Simon, M.D., Harvard Medical School
2000	Michael Schwartz, M.D., Case Western Reserve U.
2001	Cancelled due to 9/11 terrorist attack
2002	Robert Kimberly, M.D., University of Alabama, Birmingham
2003	Daniel Brookoff, M.D., Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Memphis
2004	Cancelled due to Hurricane Ivan
2005	Muhhamad Asim Khan, M.D., Case Western Reserve U.
2006	Yehuda Shoenfeld, M.D., Tel-Aviv University, Israel
2007	Brian Feldman, M.D., M.Sc., University of Toronto
2008	Michael Holick, Ph.D., M.D., Boston University
2009	Yehuda Shoenfeld, M.D., Tel-Aviv University, Israel

The Dr. Charles Porter Lecture is named in honor of the former Director of
Medical Education and Research at Brookwood.  Charles was instrumental in the development of
Rheumatology on the Beach.  A cardiologist and former Director of the Internal Medicine training
program at Lloyd Noland Hospital in Birmingham, Charles received the Ira L. Myers Award from
the Medical Association of the State of Alabama for his lifelong commitment to physician education. 

The Charles Porter Lecturers are:
2002 Robert Kimberly, M.D., University of Alabama, Birmingham
2003 Charles Dinarello, M.D., University of Colorado, Denver
2004 Cancelled due to Hurricane Ivan
2005 David Dempster, Ph.D., Columbia University
2006 Cornelia Weyand, M.D., P.hD., Emory University
2007 Steffen Gay, M.D., University of Zurich
2008 Allen Steere, M.D., Harvard University
2009 David Isenberg, M.D., University College London

The Arthritis Foundation (Alabama Chapter) Rheumatologist of the Year Award
is awarded annually to an Alabama Physician who has contributed to
Arthritis Treatment or Education in the State.  The recipient is
selected by the patient members of the Arthritis Foundation and is sponsored by Pfizer.

The winners are:
1999  David A. McLain, M.D., Birmingham
2000 J. Michael Grelier, M.D., Birmingham
2001 Edmund LaCour, M.D., Dothan, AL
2002 Parks Winn Pratt, M.D., Dothan, AL
2003 W. Alan Paul, M.D., Birmingham
2004 Louis W. Heck, M.D., Birmingham