2008 Award Recipient

Past award recipients

 

S. Edwards Dismuke, MD, MSPH 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.

Dr. S. Edwards Dismuke, MD, MSPH is Dean of the University of Kansas School of Medicine—Wichita, a regional medical school campus in Wichita.  He is a professor of Preventive Medicine/Public Health and of Internal Medicine.  After college at Brown University, Dr. Dismuke completed medical school at the University of Tennessee, Memphis.  After four years in an internal medicine residency in Memphis, he spent two years as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he also obtained a master’s degree in epidemiology.  He completed a five year NIH Career Development Award in Preventive Cardiology.  For 10 years, he served as chair of the department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health on the Kansas City and Wichita campuses.  He also held the position of Kansas Health Foundation Distinguished Endowed Professor of Public Health.  Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Kansas in 1991, he spent 13 years on the faculty at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis, Tennessee.

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