Dr. Benjamin Shimberg, widely considered the father of accountability in professional and occupational licensing, was the first chair of CACs Board of Directors until his death in September 2003. The Board named Ben Chairman Emeritus of CAC and created an annual Ben Shimberg Public Service Award. Each year, the Board asks the award recipient to deliver a lecture.
Past recipients of the award were:
2020 | Cynthia Miller Murphy, Executive Director, ONCC |
2019 | Zeno St. Cyr, Public Member, Maryland Board of Examiners of Psychologists |
2018 | Denise Roosendaal, Executive Director, Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE) |
2017 | Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation (CLEAR) |
2016 | Kathleen Haley, Executive Director, Oregon Medical Board |
2015 | Lisa McGiffert, Director, Safe Patient Project, Consumers Union |
2014 | PROPUBLICA |
2013 | Kathy Apple, CEO, National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) |
2012 | Paul Grace, President and CEO, National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy |
2011 | Catherine Dower, Associate Director for Research, Center for the Health Professions, UCSF |
2010 | Art Levin, Director, Center for Medical Consumers |
2009 | Sidney Wolfe, Director, Public Citizens Health Research Group |
2008 | Polly Johnson, former Executive Director of the North Carolina Board of Nursing |
2007 | Barbara Safriet, former Public Member on the Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy |
2006 | John Rother, former Policy and Strategy Director for AARP |
2005 | Julie DAngelo Fellmeth, Administrative Director, Center for Public Interest Law, University of San Diego School of Law, and former Enforcement Monitor for the Medical Board of California |
2004 | Mark Yessian, Former Regional Inspector General for Evaluation and Inspections, Boston Region, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
All of the above lectures can be accessed here: Ben Shimberg Memorial Lectures
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