The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that Guillermo Umpierrez, MD, professor in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipids, has been selected for the 2021 Samuel Eichold II Memorial Award for Contributions in Diabetes. The award is presented by the Georgia Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP).
This national recognition was established in 2008 in honor of the late Samuel Eichold II, MD, whose lifelong passion was diabetes. The award is given to a member of the ACP or to an organization that has made important health care delivery innovations for diabetic patients resulting in improved clinical or economic outcomes, or a member of the ACP who has conducted research that significantly improves the quality of care or clinical management of diabetes.
Umpierrez was also elected a master of the ACP. Masters are fellows who have been selected because of integrity, positions of honor, impact in practice or in medical research, or other attainments in science or in the art of medicine. Masters must be highly accomplished persons demonstrating impact in practice, leadership, or in medical research.
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