By Duke Medicine News and Communications

DURHAM, N.C. -- Victor J. Dzau, M.D., chancellor for health affairs at Duke University and president/CEO of Duke University Health System, will receive the prestigious Robert H. Williams, M.D. Award at a Feb. 17 awards banquet honoring him and past recipients.

The award is presented annually by the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM), the national organization of departments of internal medicine at U.S. medical schools and affiliated teaching hospitals. It is given to a distinguished physician who has demonstrated outstanding leadership as a current or former chair of a department of internal medicine. The award is named in honor of APM's first president.

Before coming to Duke in 2004, Dzau chaired the Departments of Internal Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and the Stanford University School of Medicine. Eugene Braunwald, M.D., a world-renowned cardiologist and Dzau's mentor at Harvard, will present the award at the annual APM meeting in Dana Point, Calif. Dzau was nominated for the award by Pascal Goldschmidt, M.D., chair of Duke's Department of Medicine.

Dzau joins two other Duke faculty members as recipients of this award: James Wyngaarden, M.D., who served the Duke Department of Medicine as chair from 1967-1983, and Eugene Stead Jr., M.D., who served as chair of the department from 1946 - 1967.