archives collection - American Academy of Family Physicians ...

specified that “The [family practice] department shall be a full department coequal with all other
departments.”
Dr. Young’s collection contains reports, correspondence and articles relating to Dr. Young’s service
as AAFP treasurer during the period 1983 to 1987.
Zervanos, Nikitas J., M.D. (1936- )
(1987)
1 slim document case - See also: Audio-Visual Collection and Museum Collection
A native of Reading, Pennsylvania, Dr. Nikitas J. Zervanos graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1962. After completing an internship at Lancaster General
Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he served for three years (1963-1966) in the United States Army
Reserves as a Group Surgeon in Greece, and as a Medical Liaison between the U.S. and Greek
military. Following his release from military service, Dr. Zervanos served residencies in Internal
Medicine in Philadelphia and then from 1968 to 1969 was a Medicine Fellow in the Family Health
Care Program of the Harvard Medical School. In 1969, Dr. Zervanos returned to Lancaster, where
he has served as Director of the Family and Community Medicine Program at Lancaster General
Hospital and as a Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Pennsylvania State University in
Hershey, Pennsylvania. In 1996, he received the AAFP’s Thomas W. Johnson Award for
outstanding contributions to Family Practice education, and in 2009 he was also honored as the 2009
recipient of the Pennsylvania Medical Society’s Distinguished Service Award. Dr. Zervanos has also
been honored for his outstanding contributions to the specialty through the establishment of the
Nikitas J. Zervanos Outstanding Program Director Award, an award sponsored jointly by the AAFP
and AFMRD to recognize “a Family Medicine Director who has demonstrated leadership and
advancement of the specialty, service as a mentor to residents/medical students, and service to the
community as well as to the organizations of the family of Family Medicine.”
The Nikitas J. Zervanos, M.D. Collection consists of one published guidebook on the Greek island of
Kos (homeland of Hippocrates, traditionally recognized as the “Father of Medicine”), and a
certificate from the mayor of Kos to the AAFP congratulating the Academy on its 40 th anniversary in
1987. The Center also holds several medical instruments used by Dr. Zervanos in his medical
practice as part of its artifact collections.
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