2008 Award Recipient

Past Award Recipients

 

David R. Garr, MD is honored for his exceptional dedication in educating future prevention and public health practitioners.

 

The F. Marian Bishop Outstanding Educator of the Year Award is presented to teachers who have displayed excellence in the instruction of students or residents in the field of public health and prevention.

Dr. David Garr is a professor of Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).  He has been on the faculty at MUSC since 1985 and has served as the Associate Dean for Community Medicine during the past seven years.  In 2003, he became Executive Director of the South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium (South Carolina AHEC), the mission of which is to connect students to health careers, health professionals to communities, and communities to better health.  He has been the principle investigator on a number of federal and foundation grants and has published manuscripts focusing primarily on prevention and population health topics.  Throughout his career, he has been involved in teaching health professions students and clinicians about preventive medicine, community-responsive health care, and primary care-related topics. 

 

Prior to relocating to Charleston, Dr. Garr worked for six years as a rural physician in Utah followed by four years as a member of the faculty of a family medicine residency training program in Denver, Colorado.

 

Dr. Garr is married to Deborah Williamson, DHA, CNM, the Associate Dean for Practice in the MUSC College of Nursing.  They have two adult children.

 

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