CMA Trustee to Receive AMA Pride in the Profession Award
[Posted 12/21/06]

San Bernardino surgeon Appannagari “Dev” Gnanadev, M.D., is the 2007 recipient of AMA Foundation’s Pride in the Profession Award for his extraordinary efforts in the medical profession. The award is given to “recognize the contributions of exemplary physicians who work in underserved areas or sacrifice their time for volunteer or public service efforts.”

Dr. Gnanadev has dedicated over 23 years to the underserved. In the mid to late 1990s, his grassroots efforts helped replace a crumbling county hospital with a state-of-the-art 373-bed hospital for the people of San Bernardino. In 1996 he developed a free tattoo-removal program for former gang members and in 2003 he helped create the Inland Empire Burn Institute.

Dr. Gnanadev, a CMA trustee, will be honored at the AMA Foundation’s Excellence in Medicine Awards Banquet on February 12 in Washington, D.C.

Contact: Ginnie Yee, 415/882-5170 or gyee@cmanet.org.