Atlanta physician honored with Distinguished Service Award

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SAN DIEGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) presented Otis Webb Brawley, M.D., Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, with the Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the field of public health. Granted by the AMA Board of Trustees and endorsed by the AMA House of Delegates, this award honors a member of the AMA for meritorious service in the science and art of medicine.

With the Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship, Dr. Brawley is leading a broad interdisciplinary research effort of cancer health disparities at JHU’s Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, working to close racial, economic, and social disparities in the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer in the United States and worldwide.

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