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The Maurice Wood Award for Lifetime Contribution to Primary Care Research is given annually to honor a researcher who has made outstanding contributions to primary care research over the course of a lifetime. Scientists from all nations, working in all professional fields and scientific disciplines, are eligible to receive the Wood Award, which is presented at the NAPCRG Annual Meeting. Call for 2010 Wood Award Nominations The award is named in honor of Maurice Wood, an early leader in primary care research and a founder of NAPCRG. Previous recipients are: Curtis Hames, MD (1995), Martin Bass, MD, MSc (1996), Frans JA Huygen, MD (1997), Jack Medalie, MD, MPH (1998), Kerr White,MD (1999), Barbara Starfield, MD (2000), Ian McWhinney, MD (2001), Walter Rosser, MD (2002), Michael Klein, MD, CCFP (2003), Larry Green, MD (2004), Henk Lamberts, MD, PhD (2005), Ann-Louise Kinmonth, MD, FMedSci (2006), Carol Herbert, MD, CCFP, FCFP (2007), Chris van Weel, MD, PhD (2008), and Ann Macaulay CM, MD, FCFP (2009). The 2010 Wood Award winner is Larry Culpepper, MD, MPH. Larry was born in Santiago, Chile where his parents were teaching in a seminary, and came to the US in 1958 when he was 10. He did not see a television until then. On the way into the New Orlean’s harbor, his father, from Little Rock, tried to explain racism and bigotry. In 1968 his draft number was 189, and medical school seemed the best of 3 options. In his first year of med school at Baylor, volunteering for a migrant health fact finding trip with Senator Mondale to Harlingen, Texas, changed his career aspirations from neuroscience research to clinical medicine. Attending a visiting professor meeting with Gene Farley his junior year led to family medicine. Throughout his career he has kept one foot in CHCs and one in the academic world. In the early 70s he was a founding member of the Board of the Casa de Amigos NHC, one of the first in Houston, and wrote the OEO grant that established a 7 NHC network in Houston. During residency in the Social Medicine Program at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, he helped establish the FM practice at the Martin Luther King, Jr. NHC. He was on the faculty of the University of Rochester (1976-81) and Brown University (1981-97) before establishing the Boston University Department of Family Medicine. In each position, he developed programs engaging CHC physicians as faculty, and placing residents for their training in CHCs. Larry has conducted federally funded studies of depression and anxiety, diabetes, otitis media, and school-based and community interventions to improve pregnancy outcomes and to prevent teen pregnancies. He has chaired or been a member of grant review committees for five NIH and other federal agencies, and has served on 6 federal expert panels for consensus committees or evidence-based centers. Dr Culpepper co-chaired a guideline panel on Otitis Media for the AAFP, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. NAPCRG has been a key contributor to his career development. He chaired the NAPCRG program committee in 1978, and served on its board (1989-93) and as its President (1989-91).

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