<I>Contributed photo</B><BR>Mary Gonzales Lundy (left) presents the Lundy Award to 2008 recipient Jennifer Holliday, MD, MPH.

PORTLAND – Dr. Jennifer Holliday has been named the 2008 Lundy Award recipient by the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians Foundation.

The $3,000 award was presented at the annual Family Medicine Student/Mentor Luncheon, sponsored by the Oregon Academy of Family Physicians (OAFP), held on Sunday, June 1st at the Multnomah Athletic Club.

Her husband, Nate Ginzton, and two of her mentors, Drs. Kevin Johnston of Burns and Lisa Dodson from OHSU,were on hand at the luncheon, as were Richard and Mary Lundy.

Drs. Bob Holland from John Day and Valerie King from OHSU, two additional mentors, were unable to attend.

The Lundy Award was established in 2000 to honor Mary Gonzales Lundy upon her retirement after 21 years of service as executive director of the Academy. This fund provides a scholarship to a fourth-year OHSU medical student who is committed to family medicine as his/her specialty of choice.

In addition to the Lundy Award, Holliday also received the OAFP Outstanding Senior Student Award and the 2007 Family Medicine Clerkship Award. At graduation, she received both her MD and MPH degrees.

Holliday was born and raised in John Day and completed her undergraduate studies at Stanford University, where she majored in human biology and minored in German language and culture. Throughout her years at OHSU, she advocated for the health of rural communities and the underserved. Her extracurricular activities during medical school included forming a Rural Health Interest Group for medical students and serving on the Rural Scholars Program Advisory Board. She was also the student director of the OAFP.

Holliday recently moved to Boise to begin her residency in family medicine at the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho.

She is the daughter of Pat and Ken Holliday of John Day.