Dr. Burnett Receives Lifetime Achievement Award From the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL – Mary M. Burnett, DO, FACOFP dist. of Centennial, Colorado was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award on March 17 by the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians during the 2007 ACOFP Annual Convention in Kissimmee, Florida.
“Because you have served the profession of osteopathic family medicine over your entire professional career, the ACOFP proudly names you the first recipient of the ACOFP Lifetime Achievement Award,” stated ACOFP President Thomas N. Told, DO, FACOFP dist., ACOFP President.
Dr. Burnett was the 1972-1973 ACOFP President, and her signature is on Dr. Told’s Student Membership Certificate that he received from Dr. Burnett in 1973. She also served as President of the ACOFP Colorado chapter in 1967.
She received her designation as ACOFP Fellow in 1968 and her designation as a Distinguished Fellow in 2005. For many years, she served as Chair of the ACOFP Awards Committee and as Grand Marshall of the annual Fellows Ceremony.
Dr. Burnett currently serves as Treasurer for the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians, a certification board that she helped establish in the early 1970s with her late husband and ACOFP past president Dr. John Burnett. Mary and John are the only co-recipients of the ACOFP Osteopathic Family Physician of the Year Award, which they received together in 1973.
She was one of the first to achieve certification – her certificate number is nine – and she is credited with helping start the General Practice residency program. She is a 1949 graduate of the Kansas City College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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Founded in 1950, the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians is the national organization of more than 25,000 practicing osteopathic family physicians and physicians-in-training. The ACOFP’s mission is to promote excellence in osteopathic family medicine through quality education, visionary leadership and responsible advocacy.
