APAO Lifetime Achievement Award 

The APAO Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an exemplary PA serving in the field of oncology.  The recipient is presented with the award at the annual APAO Oncology Symposium.

The recipient of the award will receive the following:

  • Lifetime Membership to APAO;
  • Complimentary registration to the APAO Oncology Symposium where the award will be presented;
  • Three nights' stay at the conference hotel; and
  • Travel reimbursement of up to $500.00 to attend the Symposium.

Colleagues are welcome to nominate a PA in Oncology who have met the following qualifications:

  • PA in Hematology/Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, or another related subspecialty for at least 10 years
  • Nominee must be a member of APAO
  • Current Members of the APAO Board of Directors are not eligible for nomination

Nominators will be required to submit:

  • A completed Nomination Form
  • A copy of the Nominee's CV

CLICK HERE to access the award nomination form.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT:  April 30, 2025.

2024 Recipient 
David Johnson, PA-C

David Johnson, PA-C, is a board-certified Physician Assistant in Orthopaedic Oncology Surgery in the Sarcoma Program at the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida. He serves as Moffitt’s Senior Director of Advanced Practice Professional (APP) Services, having dedicated more than 12 years of outstanding leadership and advocacy in establishing a highly successful program. With only 120 APPs on board when he stepped into his leadership role at Moffitt in 2012, David worked diligently and tirelessly to build a program to accommodate the body of APPs that now exceeds 450. Moffitt’s APPs, among them PAs, APRNs, CRNAs, and AAs, enjoy a cohesive APP-centered program for which David oversees utilization, governance, credentialing and privileging, regulation, policy and procedures, budget and strategic operations.

 David has been in clinical practice since 1993 encompassing General Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Oncology. His last 20 years of clinical practice have focused on the care of patients with bone and soft tissue sarcomas and metastatic bone disease. He has been associated with research projects involving the treatment of sarcomas and with the development of medical instruments to assist in sarcoma surgeries. He has co-authored several peer-reviewed journal articles and has conducted presentations at numerous medical conferences across the country. He is also an adjunct Faculty member in the PA program at South University. David obtained his Physician Assistant education at the University of Florida in Gainesville and graduated in 1993. He is board certified by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants and is licensed by the State of Florida Board of Medicine.

 

Past Recipients Include:

Steven Wei, EdD, MPH, MS, PA-C, DFAAPA (2023)

Cindy Koutz, PA-C (2022)

Alisha T. DeTroye, MMS, PA-C, DFAAPA (2021)

Risa Zimmerman, MBA, MPAS, PA-C, DFAAPA (2021)

Heather Hylton, PA-C (2020)

Jeremy Heinerich, PA-C (2019)

Todd Pickard, PA-C (2018)

JJ Mahany, Jr., PA-C (2017)