Frank Speizer

Speizer and Willett were recognized for their collaborative work on the landmark Nurses’ Health Study. Beginning in 1976, Speizer was the principal investigator for the study, a longitudinal look at diet and lifestyle factors in relation to chronic disease. Based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and involving HMS and HSPH researchers, the Nurses’ Health Study is now the largest and longest-running women’s health study in the world. The project involves more than 120,000 female registered nurses who were between the ages of 30 and 55 years at the time of enrollment in the study.

	Walter Willett

The David E. Rogers Award, jointly sponsored by the AAMC and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is named for the foundation’s former president and recognizes a medical school faculty member who has made major contributions to improving the health and health care of the American people.

Previous recipients of the award include David Kessler, a former FDA commissioner who was dean of the Yale University School of Medicine at the time of the award, and Julius Richmond, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy Emeritus at Harvard University and former US Surgeon General.

AAMC represents the 126 accredited US medical schools; the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools; some 400 major teaching hospitals; more than 105,000 faculty in 96 academic and scientific societies; and the nation’s 66,000 medical students and 97,000 residents.