In memory of Helen Dickie, MD, MACP, clinical and academic Pulmonologist and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the UW Medical School, the ACP Wisconsin Chapter proudly honors an outstanding woman physician with a distinguished career in areas of exceptional patient care, medical education and/or research. Dr. Joan Addington-White was presented with the 2011 Helen Dickie Award at the September meeting.

Throughout her career, Dr. Addington-White has shown a commitment to service and education. She has been instrumental in investigating innovative ways to combine teaching with comprehensive coordinated care in the general medical setting.

She worked in the UW University Health Services from 2000-2006 not only as an internist caring for the student population of 44,000, but also as an active teacher and mentor to the medical students and residents rotating through that site. She joined the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in 2006 as a Clinical Associate Professor. Since that time she has taken on major leadership roles and has become a role model for young women. She was hired as Clinical Service Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine, coordinating inpatient and outpatient care at five UW clinics including the teaching activities. She made significant changes and improvements in the delivery of medical care, as well as the teaching curriculum for residents' continuity clinics at these sites. She stepped down from this role to become Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency program at the University of Wisconsin in 2008. She continues in her role as Medical Director of University Station Internal Medicine Clinic to the present time.

Dr. Addington-White has shown a commitment to continuing medical education providing presentations at multiple conferences and workshops in Wisconsin and throughout the country. She continues to be a hospital attending on the ward services at University Hospital several times a year. She remains committed to developing the Residents' Clinic as well as the Primary Care Track within the residency program. She is known for her respectful and collaborative work with others, her enthusiasm for medicine and her skills as a diagnostician and clinician.