2007 marks Dr. Clark Denniston's 20th year as a clinician-educator. Throughout his career in medical education, his passion for clinical teaching and patient care, and his devotion to the belief that providing quality Family Medicine residency training and education is critically important to the future of health care in our country has been unwavering. His work as a teacher has been recognized with 6 different teaching awards and clearly reflects his dedication to and personal interest in residency education. He is committed to providing residency training that will prepare graduates for practice in any setting one might find family physicians. Dr. Denniston joined the UNC Department of Family Medicine faculty in August, 1996, and has served in the role of Program Director since September 1997. He completed his medical school training at Georgetown University in 1983 and graduated from his residency training at Ft. Ord, CA in 1986. After residency, he served 4 years as a family physician in military service, the last two of which he was a junior faculty physician in the Army's Family Medicine residency at Ft. Gordon, GA. Dr. Denniston's civilian career then began in 1990 in the Family Medicine department at Duke University where he taught and practiced medicine until taking his current position at UNC. In addition to his administrative and leadership roles in the residency, he continues to be clinically active in full-spectrum family medicine, including hospital-based care, outpatient procedures and family-centered prenatal and intrapartum care. You will still find him shoulder-to-shoulder at 3 am with our residents on labor and delivery, the Emergency Department, or the hospital wards.