The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) has recognized Henry Tulgan, MD, clinical professor of medicine, with the 2015 Rutledge W. Howard, MD, Award. Given in two categories, this award recognizes state medical societies, their staff and volunteers for their contributions and commitment to advancing community-based continuing medical education programs and the intrastate accreditation system. Dr. Tulgan will receive the award during a ceremony at the ACCME State/Territory Medical Society Conference, to be held in December in Chicago.
Tulgan was nominated for the award by the Massachusetts Medical Society. A member of MMS for more than 40 years, Tulgan has been a major supporter of and advocate for the MMS Recognized Accreditor program and has served for 40 years as a surveyor for MMS, participating in more than 100 surveys.
He was also the founding chairman of the MMS Committee on Sponsored Programs from 1997 to 2006 and continues to volunteer on the committee. Tulgan is currently director of continuing medical education and chief quality officer at Baystate Wing Hospital; previously, he was director of medical education at Berkshire Medical Center. He was a member of the ACCME Accreditation Review Committee from 2001 to 2006, serving as vice chair in 2006.
“Dr. Tulgan has been a long-standing MMS member and major contributor to graduate and continuing medical education. His ongoing mentoring of directors of medical education throughout the state, his passion for quality continuing medical education, and his leadership role at the MMS Recognized Accreditor program as a Committee on Accreditation member, former vice chair, and surveyor are instrumental to the success and effectiveness of the accreditation system at MMS,” said Dennis M. Dimitri, MD, FAAFP, vice chair and clinical associate professor of family medicine & community health and president of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
