MAFP Announces 2023 ‘Academy’ Award Honorees

Registration for the 75^th Anniversary Celebration Dinner is Open

Michigan Academy of Family Physicians—the state’s largest specialty physician association, which is 4,300 members strong—is pleased to announce the honorees of this year’s “Academy” awards.

The awards will be presented at the Michigan Family Medicine Celebration Dinner on Monday, August 14, at Grand Traverse Resort near Traverse City.

“In keeping with the tradition of Michigan Academy of Family Physicians’ long-standing awards program, the 2023 honorees are exemplary family physician, family medicine resident physician, and medical student members of the Academy and the communities where they work, train, and serve,” said MAFP President Glenn Dregansky, DO, FAAFP.

Michigan Family Physician of the Year

Raymond Rion, MD
Executive Director and Family Physician
Packard Health (a federally qualified health center with three sites in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area)
Academy member since 1990

Michigan Family Medicine Educator of the Year

Juana Nicoll Capizzano, MD
Assistant Professor, Director of the Advanced Primary Care Ultrasound Fellowship, and Director of the Clinical Ultrasound Program
Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan
Academy member since 2014

Michigan Family Medicine Resident of the Year

Mikita Arora, MD
Class of 2023
McLaren Oakland Family Medicine Residency
Academy member since 2020

Outstanding Medical Student in Michigan

Julie Ngo
Class of 2023
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Academy member since 2019

The Michigan Family Medicine Celebration Dinner is a special event of the annual Michigan Family Medicine Conference & Expo; this year it will commemorate MAFP’s 75^th anniversary as a state chapter of American Academy of Family Physicians.

Registration for the Celebration Dinner is open to MAFP members, guests, and the awardees’ family, friends, and co-workers: bit.ly/2023MiFMCE. Come celebrate with us!