Pediatrician Wins Annual Dr. Dreyer Award of Excellence
| Tuesday, 01 July 2008 | |
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John N. Blair, M.D., a board certified Pediatrician who has practiced
at the Clinic since 1975, was named recipient of the 2007 Dr. John W.
Dreyer Award of Excellence. The official announcement came during the
June quarterly meeting of the physician group from Chairman of the
Board, Jon E. Christofersen, M.D.
Dr. Blair was chosen from individual nominations submitted to the Dreyer Medical Group board of directors, a governing group composed of seven practicing physicians. Their final selection was based on a global assessment of several key areas of physician performance.
“Dr. Blair clearly exemplifies the values and philosophy first espoused by our founder, Dr. John Dreyer, in the first half of the twentieth century,” noted Dr. Christofersen. “It’s very gratifying to see Dr. Dreyer’s outstanding example of compassionate service and clinical excellence carried on by the doctors like Dr. Blair here today.”
Dr. Blair currently sees patients at Batavia, Plainfield, and West Aurora with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder), and learning and behavioral problems. Dr. Blair received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and he earned a medical degree from Indianapolis University in Indianapolis. He completed an internship at Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, and a residency at Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis. Dr. Blair also completed a mini-fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dr. Blair was also responsible for developing the ADD Clinic. It was established to help children with developmental, learning, and/or behavioral problems, and has been expanded to also serve adults with ADD/ADHD. Dr. Blair has helped make the Center’s ADD program one of the leading diagnostic and treatment centers for children and adults with attention and learning problems in the area. He has also written ADD Children: A Handbook for Parents, which was published in 1999 and is presently working on an updated version.
At the Center, Dr. Blair, along with his dedicated colleagues, strive to enable every patient to realize their full potential. They also attempt to build and enhance self-esteem, develop personalized strategies and treatments to enable the patient to succeed, as well as involve families to help them understand and be a part of the solution.
Additionally, Dr. Blair helped bring the electronic medical record system to Dreyer and he now serves on the User's Group for the Advocate's Electronic Health Record.
The Dr. John W. Dreyer Award of Excellence is crafted of crystal and engraved with an image of Dr. Dreyer on his bicycle. The early area practitioner, who came to Aurora in 1905, had a reputation for making house calls on a bicycle. In 1914, he rode his bike to North Aurora during a blinding snowstorm to administer a desperately needed dose of diphtheria vaccine to a young boy. That “house call” saved the boy’s life.
The Dr. John W. Dreyer Award of Excellence was created in 2002 during the 80th anniversary of the Clinic. Dr. Blair is the sixth physician to receive this high honor. Previous winners were Fred V. Kemp, M.D.; Michael C. Loebach, M.D.; Steven J. Sapyta, M.D.; Richard I. Angell, M.D.; and Sheryl Pastryk Snyder, M.D. |
