An Exceptional Teacher
Dr. Walter J. Moore, associate dean for graduate medical education, has received the Georgia Rural Health Association’s 2005 Distinguished Educator Award.
Dr. Moore, professor of medicine, director of medical education for MCG Medical Center and chief of the Section of Rheumatology at MCG and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Augusta, received the award during the association’s annual meeting Oct. 2-4 in Jekyll Island, Ga.
“He is so exceptional in that he is not just there to do his job, he is there to truly help the residents and students,” said Peggy Hensley Shull, program manager for the State Medical Education Board of Georgia and the Georgia Board for Physician Workforce, who nominated Dr. Moore. “Improving health care in Georgia is his ultimate goal,” she said, noting most of the state’s counties are medically underserved.
Dr. Moore was a key member of an advisory group on resident licensure to the
Composite State Board of Medical Examiners. He serves on the governor’s advisory
board of the Georgia Chapter of the American College of Physicians and received
the 2001 J. Willis Hurst Teaching Award from the college’s Georgia chapter in
recognition of outstanding bedside teaching.