WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Disease Management Association of America (DMAA) announced the recipients of its 6th Annual Recognizing Excellence Awards Program on October 21st at the Marriott World Center in Orlando, Florida. The Awards Banquet, sponsored by American Healthways, honors individuals and companies for their leadership in the field of disease management and was held in conjunction with DMAA’s 6th Annual Disease Management Leadership Forum. Two new awards categories were added this year - - Best DM Program Intervention for Co-Morbid Depression and the Matria Healthcare, Inc. Employer-Based Leadership Award. Awards were presented by The Recognizing Excellence Awards Program Committee Co-Chairs, Russell Ellison, M.D., Vice President of Medical Affairs at Sanofi-Aventis and Donald Fetterolf, M.D., MBA, Vice President & Senior Medical Officer of Highmark, Inc.
In addition, DMAA President, Samuel Nussbaum, MD of Anthem announced that Tommy Thompson, Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services was the recipient of the 2004 President’s Award. In presenting the Association’s top award to Secretary Thompson, during the opening ceremonies of the Summit Dr. Nussbaum noted the Secretary’s longstanding leadership and dedication to helping Americans suffering from chronic disease live better lives.
Also presented at the opening ceremonies was DMAA’s Pioneers in Excellence Award for disease management leadership outside of the United States. Last year this award was presented to the National Healthcare Group and the Ministry of Health of Singapore. The 2004 Pioneers in Excellence Award was presented by DMAA Executive Director, Warren E. Todd to the Australian Disease Management Association (ADMA) and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Disease Management (DGDM). These two organizations are recently formed DM associations that have a common mission as the DMAA and are affiliated with the DMAA. Accepting the awards were Dan Hook of the Australian Health Group and Board member of ADMA and Helmut Hildebrandt, principal of Hildebrandt GesundheitsConsult GmbH and Board member of DGDM.
Special sponsored awards were also presented by American Healthways, Health Management Corporation, Matria, Pfizer Health Solutions and Sanofi- Aventis.
The 2004 Recognizing Excellence Award Winners were: Award Categories Award Winners Karen Coughlin Individual Disease * Alfred Lewis, Disease Management Leadership Award Management Purchasing Consortium * Christobel Selecky, LifeMasters Supported SelfCare * Paul Wallace, Kaiser Permanente American Healthways Health Plan Aetna Disease Management Leadership Award Sanofi-Aventis Best Enabling Tool * Cardiocom for Disease Management * BioSignia Health Management Corporation Duke Prospective Health Program Best Provider Engagement Initiative Award Pfizer Health Solutions e-Health Providence Health System Leadership Award Matria Employer-Based Leadership IBM Award Best Disease Management Program - XLHealth Medicare Best Disease Management Program - Sentara Healthcare Medicaid Best Disease Management Program - Great-West Healthcare PPO Best Disease Management Program - * Blue Care Network of Michigan MCO * Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute Best Disease Management Program - HEALTHeFORCES Military Best DM Program Intervention for Health Integrated, Inc. Co-Morbid Depression Best Application of Behavior Healthtrac Corporation Change Principles to DM Best Pharma Industry DM Pfizer Health Solutions Leadership Award Best Collaboration in Disease Health Alliance Physician Management Hospital Organization Best Collaboration in Disease WellPoint Pharmacy Management Management Best International DM Program Managed Healthcare Systems (PTY) Ltd. Best Journal Article on DM * Etta Fanning, Sanofi-Aventis * Victor Villagra, MD Health & Technology, Inc & Tamim * Ahmed, MD, Cigna * Lee Goldberg, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Comprehensive DM Leadership LifeMasters Supported SelfCare, Inc. Pioneers in Excellence Award * The Australian Disease Management Association * Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Disease Management
Based in Washington, D.C., the Disease Management Association of America is a non-profit, voluntary membership organization, founded in March of 1999, which represents all aspects of the disease management community. For more information, please visit http://www.dmaa.org/.
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