FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 24, 2017
MAG HONORS RETIRED ATLANTA INTERNIST FOR HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS
ATLANTA – Teresa E. Clark, M.D., was honored with the Jack A. Raines Humanitarian Award during a ceremony that took place in conjunction with the Medical Association of Georgia’s (MAG) 163rd House of Delegates meeting in Savannah on October 21. The MAG award is given to a physician for their outstanding humanitarian contributions beyond the normal practice of medicine.
In nominating Dr. Clark for the award, Sandra Fryhofer, M.D., emphasized that, “Dr. Clark has always loved her patients. She is a champion for the elderly, the disabled, and the underserved.”
Dr. Fryhofer added that, “Dr. Clark’s community service goes back to her early years in practice. While many doctors went on vacation in their free time, Dr. Clark spent her free time volunteering her time and services to others.”
Early in her career, Dr. Clark cared for the homeless as volunteer at the Techwood Baptist Center, the Medical Association of Atlanta Homeless Clinic, and the Georgia Nurses’ Foundation Homeless Clinic.
In practice for nearly 40 years, Dr. Clark has also been involved with the Baptist Medical-Dental Fellowship and its ministries. She is a Baptist Mobile Health Ministry founder, an immediate past president, and a member of its Board of Directors. Dr. Fryhofer explains that, “What began as a converted Blue Bird school bus serving migrant and/or indigent patients is now two working dental mobile vans, each with three working dental chairs, serving needy patients state-wide.”
It is also worth noting that Dr. Clark has participated in medical missions to Liberia (before Ebola), Haiti (after the earthquake), Honduras (this summer with first-year medical students from the Mercer University School of Medicine), and Ghana – where she has provided care at a bush hospital on multiple occasions, with plans to do so again early next year.
Upon “retiring” from her practice at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta in 2016, Dr. Clark became a volunteer physician at the Good Samaritan Health Center of Gwinnett – becoming its unpaid medical director early in 2017.
Dr. Clark has a medical degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.
Dr. Clark and her husband, Michael Fowler, live in Buford. They have one daughter, a student at the Mercer University School of Medicine.
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