Congratulations to our Award winners!

ACPE and Modern Physician magazine are pleased to announce the winners of the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award and the Award of Excellence.

Gary Robert Yates, MD, chief medical officer of Sentara Healthcare in Norfolk, Va., is the recipient of the 2005 Award of Excellence. Yates, 48, oversees teams at Sentara that have made great strides in quality improvements including:

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* A 42 percent reduction in patient falls with injury

* A 38 percent reduction in hospital-acquired pressure ulcers

* A 51 percent decline in ventilator-associated pneumonias in the intensive care unit

Yates, a graduate of Duke University and the University of Texas Medical School, held positions at Maricopa Health Plan and Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix before joining Sentara in 1997.

John D. Stobo, MD, is the recipient of the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award. Stobo is president of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston where he's credited with:

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* Putting the school on solid financial footing

* Raising employee satisfaction scores from 55 percent to 66 percent

* Reducing turnover from 25 percent to 12 percent

Stobo earned his medicall degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo and interned at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He then moved to Rochester, Minn., where he was assistant professor in the department of immunology at the Mayo clinic. Later, he was head of the section of rheumatology and clinical immunology at the University of California and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In the mid 1980s, Stobo returned to Johns Hopkins and eventually became chairman and CEO. He took charge at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1997.