Congratulating Dr. Joyce E. Wipf on Receiving the Worthen Career Achievement Award

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Mr. SMITH of Washington. Madam Speaker, it is my privilege to rise to congratulate Joyce E. Wipf, M.D. on receiving the 2020 Worthen Career Achievement Award, which recognizes her as an outstanding health professions trainee education champion whose lifetime contributions have profoundly advanced and impacted the educational mission of the Veterans Health Administration.

Dr. Wipf is a first-generation college graduate who always wanted to be a teacher. She found ways to integrate her passion for teaching with her career in medicine. While completing her medical residency she began developing the Resident to Teacher curriculum to help second-year residents become better educators. Now, nearly 30 years later, Resident to Teacher programs continue to help residents in hospitals across the country.

Dr. Wipf also led the effort to establish VA Puget Sound's Center of Excellence in Primary Care with the University of Washington School of Medicine and School of Nursing. The Center of Excellence takes an interdisciplinary approach to improving health care services for Veterans by creating a collaborative program that includes a range of fields and experience from internal medicine to social work and interns to fellows.

Veterans who receive their medical care from the VA Puget Sound Health Care System are very lucky to have someone who has dedicated their career to improving health care services for our nation's veterans, while simultaneously preparing the next generation of health professionals. It is truly remarkable that Dr. Wipf has combined her passion for teaching and medicine so effectively.

Madam Speaker, I congratulate Dr. Joyce Wipf on receiving the 2020 Worthen Career Achievement Award and thank her for improving health care for all Veterans.

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