AMAF honors Omaha physician with health education award

CHICAGO — The American Medical Association Foundation (AMAF) has honored Alena A. Balasanova, M.D. with the AMA Foundation Award for Health Education, made possible through the generous support of the John P. McGovern Foundation. Dr. Balasanova has spent her career as a physician, educator, and innovator, contributing to the development of addiction and psychiatric clinical service.

Recognized by the American Medical Association (AMA) and the AMAF for her substantial contribution to medical education, Dr. Balasanova has demonstrated leadership in addiction medicine and built a legacy at the University of Nebraska. While there, she has developed an outpatient addiction psychiatric clinic, an in-patient addiction psychiatric program, and wrote the curriculum for clinical rotations for medical students, residents, and fellows in addiction medicine.