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Scaling What Works for Better Health – PCC Conference 2025

Barbara Starfield Awards Dinner

June 4  |  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm  |  Presidential Ballroom - Capital Hilton

Headshot of Dawna Ballard
Anna Flattau headshot
Barbra Rabson headshot
Alan Caroll

At the 2025 Barbara Starfield Awards Dinner, the PCC celebrated passionate, outstanding leaders who are helping to improve the nation’s health by advancing and strengthening high-quality primary care.

The PCC is pleased to recognize leaders in the primary care community who have shown such a commitment at three key levels: national; state or community; and practice level. 

Below are the 2025 awardees and photos from the dinner and reception. 

Dinner and Reception Photos

Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award

Alan Caroll

Presented to: Allan Goroll, MD
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Goroll is considered one of the pioneers of modern primary care internal medicine. He graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University and cum laude from Harvard Medical School. With help from collaborating MGH faculty and while still in medical school, he designed and initiated the nation’s first dedicated primary care internal medicine residency program, which set the national standard for subsequent program certification and federal funding under HRSA.
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About the Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award

The PCC established the Barbara Starfield Primary Care Leadership Award in 2012 to honor Dr. Starfield, recognizing her enduring commitment to the philosophy that all individuals should receive comprehensive, coordinated and person-focused care. The award is presented annually to an individual or organization that demonstrates exceptional work toward advancing the goals of primary care and a strong commitment to person-focused care.

Past awardees include: Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH; Richard J. Baron, MD; Debra Ness; Calvin C.J. Sia, MD, FAAP; Paul Grundy, MD; Michael Fine, MD; Karen DeSalvo, MD, MPH; Christopher Koller; Rebecca S. Etz, PhD; Maria Portela Martinez, MD; Carolyn Clancy, MD, MACP; and Asaf Bitton, MD.

Primary Care Community Leadership Award

Barbra Rabson headshot

Presented to: Barbra G. Rabson, MPH
President and CEO
Massachusetts Health Quality Partners

Barbra G. Rabson is the President and CEO of the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP). Under her leadership, MHQP has become a national leader in the measurement and public reporting of health care information, with a particular focus on measuring and improving patients’ experiences of care. In the past few years, Ms. Rabson has focused the organization’s work around three main areas of impact: improving patient experiences, advancing health equity and strengthening primary care.
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About the Primary Care Community Leadership Award

The Primary Care Community Leadership Award honors an individual or organization that has demonstrated remarkable leadership to ensure that primary care is foundational to community or state health care reform efforts. Such efforts are critical to developing and understanding what works to strengthen primary care and to inform broader national efforts to improve the nation’s health by making primary care more robust.

Past awardees include: Ted Wymyslo, MD; The Commonwealth Fund; Ed Wagner, MD, MPH; The Health Wagon (Virginia); Scharmaine Lawson, DNP, FAANP, FAAN; Matt Probst, PA-C, Chris Ruge, FNP, and Leslie Hayes, MD; Tom Leyden, MBA; Sue Scher Bornstein, MD, FACP; Eboni Winford, PhD; Margaret Flinter, PhD, APRN, C-FNP.

Advanced Primary Care Practice Award

Anna Flattau headshot

Presented to: Anna Flattau, MD, MSc, MS
in recognition of Jefferson Health

Anna Flattau, MD, MSc, MS is a physician leader who links vision, strategy, systems design, and implementation to drive sustainable, mission-driven care within complex health systems.Dr. Flattau is currently Enterprise Chief of Primary Care at Jefferson Health, and Alumni Professor and Chair of Family and Community Medicine at Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University. In this role, she leads a nationally renowned academic family medicine department, and is the health system leader for population-based clinical care of over 1,000,000 people in Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, including traditional primary care; interprofessional care; telehealth primary care services; integrated behavioral health; medical weight management; complex care models; and community-based care.
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About the Advanced Primary Care Practice Award

This award is presented to an organization that is an extraordinary primary care practice. This practice serves as a model for transformation through innovation and demonstrates a commitment to the Shared Principles of Primary Care by delivering patient- and family-centered, team-based and high value care. Over 380 organizations across the country have signed on to PCC’S Shared Principles of Primary Care.

Past awardees include: Texas Medical Home Associates, LLP; Medical Associates Clinic & Health Plans (IA); Salvatore Volpe, MD (Staten Island, NY); Community Health and Social Services (CHASS) Center (Detroit, MI); 2018: AppleCare Medical Group (Orange County, CA); Primary Care Development Corporation; Share Our Selves (Orange County, CA); Westminster Medical Clinic (Westminster, CO);  Winding Waters Community Health Center (Enterprise, OR); and Palm Beach Pediatrics (Palm Beach County, FL).

David Meyers Research Award

Dawna Ballard Headshot

Presented to: Dawna I. Ballard, PhD
University of Texas, Austin
in recognition of the piece
"Unhurried Conversations..."

Dawna I. Ballard (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara) is associate professor of organizational communication and technology in the Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. An expert in chronemics—i.e., the study of time as it is bound to human communication—she researches what drives our pace of life and its impact on the communication practices and long-term vitality of organizations, communities, and individuals.
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About the David Meyers Research Award

The award was established in 2023 to honor and advance the legacy of Dr. David Meyers, a primary care physician and leader in health policy research. Dr. Meyers’ work and influence extends across many sectors within health care and is most notable for its interdisciplinary nature, humanism, policy relevance and leadership in the field of primary care. This award is presented to the individual whose research work in the previous year best exemplifies these commitments and Dr. Meyers’s impact.

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