Two clerkship faculty members of the College of Medicine’s Tallahassee Regional Campus were honored March 28 by the Capital Medical Society. Andrew Wong, M.D., received the I.B. Harrison, M.D., Humanitarian Award, and John Katopodis, M.D., received the Outstanding Physician Award.
“[Wong] is one of the people in the group that constantly pushes to improve our practice and meet the community needs,” said Mark Fahey, M.D., his colleague/introducer at the awards dinner. “Andy has always been there to pitch in and help fix things and make things better for patients, colleagues, community, and the up-and-coming future of medicine – our students. As orthopedists we fix things!”
Here is an excerpt from Katopodis’ introduction by Doug Murphy, M.D.: “Being FMA president is essentially a full-time job, yet John was able to perform his duties as president while handling a busy cardiology practice and a new son at the same time! ... John is a physician’s physician.... He is well read and respected throughout Florida. However, don’t ask him an in-depth question on cardiology unless you have an extra 20 minutes!”