2013 Recipient

Community Service AwardThe Community Service Award is bestowed upon an ACG Allied Health Member, ResidentMember, Trainee Member, Member, Fellow, or Master who has initiated or has beeninvolved in volunteer programs or has provided extensive volunteer service post-training.The service must have been performed on a completely voluntary basis and not for thecompletion of training or position requirements. Such service may include but is not limitedto the following: Community educational programs (e.g., Colon Cancer awareness); workingin free clinics; mentoring advocacy groups or local government committees; teaching inunder-served schools related to health education; and political work on committees forcomprehensive health insurance or other issues.2013 RecipientRichard T. McGlaughlin, MDDr. Richard McGlaughlin was born in Philadelphia, the sixth ofseven in a crowded house, and there he learned about India at thedinner table, from his father, who was based in Jorhat, where theystaged and flew over the Himalayas to resupply Chinese troops inWWII. Wanderlust started early.Dr. McGlaughlin went to La Salle University, and then to medicalschool at Penn State, where they allowed him to go work in Indiafor a few months before graduating in 1979.He trained in Internal Medicine at Baltimore City Hospitals, wherethey generously allowed him to work with the department ofGeographic Medicine, in Bangladesh, at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal DiseaseResearch (ICDDRB), where he learned about cholera.He trained in GI at the University of Pennsylvania until 1985, when it was abundantly clearhe was no researcher, so he then entered private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. Severalpartners came along, and they graciously allowed him to open a GI lab in Cochabomba,Bolivia in 1995, and later to run a Mexican Clinic in Birmingham in 2000.Since 2010, he has been a regular in Haiti, working in slum clinics, and at St. Luke’s Hospital,where he took care of cholera patients, and then opened a GI lab, again relying heavily onthe generosity of his partners.23