Connolly one of two recipients of IAFP President’s Award

QUINCY — The Illinois Academy of Family Physicians (IAFP) members and leaders gathered near McCormick Place in Chicago to install the new board of directors and present awards. Timothy Ott of the SIU Faculty selected two members for the President’s Awards, including SIU’s Dr. Michael Connolly.

The IAFP president of the previous year chooses this award from among members or organizations that have had a profound impact on the president personally or advanced the academy’s mission in the past year. 

Connolly is the medical director of SIU Center for Family Medicine in Quincy and an associate professor of family medicine at SIU School of Medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical University of Chicago and completed his family medicine residency training at the SIU Center for Family Medicine in Springfield. 

In a press release, Ott said about Connolly, “Your dedication also ignited my own passion for addiction medicine.  Your mentoring is the reason that substance use disorder care has become a very rewarding part of my practice.”

Ott called out Connolly’s work in bringing medication-assisted treatment for substance use to the SIU Family Medicine residency programs and also to many rural central and southern Illinois areas, enabling access to crucial addiction treatment and recovery services to Illinoisans throughout the region.