JAOA • Vol 106 • No 1 • January 2006 • 8-
George W. Northup, DO, Medical Writing Award
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The George W. Northup, DO, Medical Writing Award, is an annual award
created in 1990 to honor George W. Northup, DO, who served as American
Osteopathic Association (AOA) editor in chief for 26 years. Thomas Wesley
Allen, DO, who succeeded Dr Northup as editor in chief, proposed the award in
honor of Dr Northup to recognize excellence in writing and scholarship in
articles published in THE JOURNAL.
Each year, the AOA editor in chief and JAOA associate editors
nominate the articles under consideration for the award. The JAOA
editorial advisory board then selects the winner from the nominees on the
basis of clinical significance, scientific validity, and osteopathic content.
Selection is also based on an article's contribution to changing the way
osteopathic physicians practice, think, and conduct research.
The award is presented in the year following publication at the AOA Annual
Convention and Scientific Seminar.
The latest Northup award-winning article, by Sandra L. Sleszynski, DO,
Thomas Glonek, PhD, and William A. Kuchera, DO, "Outpatient Osteopathic
Single Organ System Musculoskeletal Exam Form series: validation of the
Outpatient Osteopathic SOS Musculoskeletal Exam Form, a new standardized
medical record," was published in the October 2004 issue of
JAOA and appears at
http://www.jaoa.org/cgi/content/full/104/10/423.
All previous Northup award-winning articles are accessible online at
http://www.jaoa.org/misc/northup_2002.shtml.
