Richard D. Feldman, M.D., director of Medical Education and Residency Training; and Michele Kuntz-Wood, R.N., manager of Women’s Health Services, were recognized at the 27th annual Tony and Mary Hulman Health Achievement Awards program, held Oct. 6 at the Indianapolis Westin Hotel.
Feldman received the Lifetime Award for Distinguished Service in Years of Health Advancement Award. Wood received the Preventive Medicine and Public Health Award.
Fittingly, both were introduced by dinner chairman Robert J. Brody, president and CEO of Franciscan St. Francis.
“In 1981, Richard was the youngest in the nation to become the director of a family medicine residency program when he assumed that position at St. Francis, one of the most respected of its kind in our region,” Brody said. “More than any other specialty, family doctors focus their attention on the person, not just the disease, and are driven by the need to make people whole. He has been a tireless advocate for the family medicine profession and, more important, an advocate for patients.”
The St. Francis chief executive was equally effusive with praise for Wood.
“She has been a member of our hospital family for nearly three decades,” he noted. “Her entire career has focused on caring for women and their families. There have no better champion than Michele.”
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