2022 Association of American Physicians George M. Kober Medal Introduction of Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH

It is my honor and privilege to introduce my friend and colleague Dr. Linda P. Fried as the 2022 recipient of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Fried is also a past president of the AAP. In fact, I understand that she is only the second AAP president who is a dean of a school of public health, the first being William Henry Welch. In her AAP presidential address in 2017, she noted that one of the founders of the AAP was William Henry Welch. Welch started the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, including the recruitment of the initial faculty, and served as founding dean from 1893 to 1898. He was president of AAP in 1901. He subsequently served as founding dean of the first school of public health, at Johns Hopkins, from 1916 to 1926. So here we are 100 years later, a second AAP president who is a public health school dean. In researching Dr. Welch, I came to find that Dr. Welch was the first [...]