2007 Award Recipient

Past award recipients

 

F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD is recognized for his achievement and outstanding contributions to the field of prevention and public health education.

The Duncan Clark Award is presented to a senior level person with a distinguished record of achievement in the areas of teaching, research, and/or advocacy in the field of public health and prevention.

F. Douglas Scutchfield received his MD degree from the University of Kentucky and completed internship and residency training at Northwestern University, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Kentucky. Dr. Scutchfield was certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in 1974 and the American Board of Family Practice from 1971 - 1985. He began his academic career at the University of Kentucky's Department of Community Medicine as an Assistant Professor and became the first Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Alabama's College of Community Health Sciences. He became the founding Professor and Director of the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University where he served for almost 20 years. He returned to the University of Kentucky as the inaugural Peter P. Bosomworth Professor of Health Services Research and Policy and Founding Director of the School of Public Health.

 

Dr. Scutchfield is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, served on its Board of Regents, and as President of the College. He received the College's Distinguished Service Award and its Special Recognition Award. He has served as a member of the Board and as President of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (now the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research-APTR). Dr. Scutchfield served as member of the American Medical Association House of Delegates, as Chair of the Section Council of the Accreditation Council on Preventive Medicine and on the AMA's Council on Medical Education. He represented the AMA as a member of the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education, the Liaison Committee on Specialty Boards, the American Board of Medical Specialties and the Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation.

 

He is also a member of the number of honorary societies, such as Phi Kappa Phi, Delta Omega and Phi Beta Delta. He has given several named lectures including the Baz-Wegman Lecture of the US Mexico Border Health Association, the Armstrong Lecture of the Aerospace Medical Association, the Waterloo Lecture of the Iowa Medical Society and the Graves Lecture of the University of Louisville School of Medicine. In 2004 he received the Balderson Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Public Health Leadership Network.

Dr. Scutchfield lives in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife Phyllis and married son Alex.

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