Awards

The OAFP Foundation (Foundation) is pleased to sponsor the following awards:

Family Physician Mentorship Award

The Foundation is pleased to announce that Saba Qureshi, MD, of Sugarcreek Township, OH, is the recipient of its 2024 Family Physician Mentorship Award.

The Foundation annually presents the Family Physician Mentorship Award to recognize a community-based Ohio family physician who, as a preceptor, has exhibited exemplary qualities and characteristics of mentorship excellence.

Dr. Qureshi completed her undergraduate through residency training through Wright State University and now practices full-time family medicine care in her local town of Sugarcreek Township.

Upon hearing of this honor, Dr. Qureshi shared, “I am grateful to the Foundation Executive Committee for choosing me as the recipient of the Foundation’s Family Physician Mentorship Award.  I also appreciate their recognition of family medicine preceptors through the state of Ohio. I am very humbled to have been chosen this year, especially when I know I have so many others in my company who would be just as qualified to receive this award. Teaching while seeing patients is not an easy task, but it is certainly a rewarding experience. As amazing as it is to have this honor, it is more fulfilling when a student tells me that I impacted their own growth, either personally or professionally. I hope my preceptorship can continue to enrich the lives of many more students to come.”

Dr. Qureshi’s story consists of many full-circle moments, from practicing in the Dayton, OH, area she grew up in to being nominated for this award by a medical student participating in the same program she participated in during medical school. The threads created through community, mentorship, and education are evident.

Learn more about Dr. Qureshi, including quotes from award supporters.

Congratulations, Dr. Qureshi!

• A nominee must be a community-based Ohio family physician preceptor who is not a fully affiliated, paid faculty member of a medical school
• The Foundation’s Leroy A. Rodgers, MD, Preceptorship Program family physician preceptors are eligible for nomination, but nominations are not limited to those program preceptors
• Has been in practice more than three years
• Preference given to OAFP members.

• Is an outstanding community-based Ohio family physician mentor/preceptor role model
• Provided encouragement and constructive feedback
• Provided guidance for individual’s career goals, career planning, and growth
• Helped individual through personal exploration and identification of core values
• Provided a close, supportive, and collaborative relationship
• Provided advice and skills development.

Ohio medical school departments of family medicine, family medicine interest group advisors, medical students, and residents are encouraged to nominate preceptors who have demonstrated exemplary precepting skills.

Individuals who have been nominated but not selected in the past can be nominated in subsequent years. The top three physicians who were nominated but not selected for the current year’s award will automatically be considered as candidates the following year. Those candidates can only rollover once, but can be re-nominated for consideration beginning the process anew.

Nominations for the 2025 award will open in the spring. To nominate an individual, please send a letter of nomination that addresses award criterion to:
Foundation Family Physician Mentorship Award
4075 North High St.
Columbus, OH 43214-3296
Fax: 614.267.9191
Email: kmcguffie@ohioafp.org

2009 – Linda Stone, MD
2010 – Rob Crane, MD
2015 – Stephen Ulrich, MD
2016 – Shelley Blackburn, MD
2017 – Chad Garven, MD
2018 – Jaividhya Dasarathy, MD
2019 – Scott J. Anzalone, MD
2020 – Mary E. Krebs, MD, FAAFP
2021 – Anna L. Nelson, MD
2022 – Lisa Johns, MD
2023 – Anna McMaster, MD, FAAFP
2024 – Saba Qureshi, MD.

Ohio Philanthropist of the Year

The Philanthropist of the Year Award was established in December 1997 by the Board of Trustees to recognize an individual or individuals with a proven record of exceptional generosity who, through direct financial support, has demonstrated outstanding civic and charitable responsibility, and whose generosity encourages others to take philanthropic leadership roles on a community, national, or international level.

• Evidence of direct gift support to the specialty of family medicine, either through the Foundation or through the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation
• Description of the impact of this gift on the Foundation or the AAFP Foundation
• Evidence of encouragement and motivation given to others to take leadership roles in philanthropy and community involvement
• Description of participation in and gift support of other not-for-profit organizations in the community or internationally
• Evidence of philanthropic support of innovative approaches to solving problems.

Based on the nomination criteria for this award, candidates are typically chosen by the Foundation Board of Trustees. However, if you have a candidate in mind, please contact Deputy Executive Vice President Kaitlin McGuffie or call 800.742.7327.