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| Dr. Garr, pictured here with Educator of the Year Award winner Dr. Jennifer Ibrahim (left) and APTR President Dr. Laura Rudkin |
The Duncan Clark Award is presented by
the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) to a senior-level
professional with a distinguished record of achievement in the areas of
teaching, research and/or advocacy in the field of public health and
prevention. The award is named after the late Dr. Duncan William Clark, MD, a public
health expert and preventive
medicine specialist who was best known for
advocating the addition of fluoride to the New York City's water
supply to prevent tooth
decay. Dr. Clark was a past-president of APTR and the first
recipient of this award in 1974.
Dr. David Garr received the 2015 Duncan
Clark Award at the APTR annual meeting in March. He is the Executive Director of the South
Carolina AHEC and Associate Dean for Community Medicine and Professor of Family
Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Garr was a
rural family physician for several years and since 1981 has been a faculty
member of Departments of Family Medicine, first in Denver and now in
Charleston. Prevention, population health, and interprofessional
education and practice have been Dr. Garr’s areas of educational and
research focus.
He has served as the chair of the
interprofessional Healthy People Curriculum Task Force since 2002 which, among
other contributions, developed the Clinical
Prevention and Population Health Curriculum Framework for health
professions education. He recently completed a three-year term as a
member of the HRSA Advisory Committee on Interdisciplinary, Community-based
Linkages which, during his tenure, published reports on health behavior change,
professional development and lifelong learning, interprofessional education and
practice, and population health.
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