FAMILY PHYSICIAN OF THE YEAR AWARD
The submission deadline for the 2025 Family Physician of the Year Award is April 1, 2025
The New Jersey Family Physician of the Year embodies the principles of excellence, combined with comprehensive and compassionate care, for which family physicians are known.
To be considered for the Family Physician of the Year Award, a nominee should demonstrate that they:
- Provide their patients with compassionate, comprehensive, and caring family medicine on a continuing basis
- Enhance the quality of their community by being directly and effectively involved in community affairs and activities
- Act as a credible role model professionally and personally in their community, to other health professionals, and residents and medical students.
- Stand out among their colleagues
The recipient of the NJAFP Family Physician of the Year Award is also presented for consideration for the AAFP Family Physician of the Year Award.
- Documents required for submission:
- Name, address and contact information for the family physician being nominated
- Nominee’s Curriculum Vitae
- Nominee’s headshot
- Letter of Nomination from the primary nominating individual
- Two letters of support for the nominee from professional colleagues
- At least one letter of support from a community member describing the physician’s impact in that community
- Any articles written about the nominee’s accomplishments in the last year (printed and/or digital)
For more information, please contact the NJAFP office at (609)394-1711 or email Candida@njafp.org
Jennifer Amico, MD
2024 NJAFP Family Physician of the Year Awarded to Dr. Jennifer Amico
Jenn is a NJ native, having been born and raised in Secaucus, where her Great Uncle served as Mayor for 28 years. After graduating from Harvard Community College , she came to RWJMS. Following residency, Jenn went Montefiore in Da Bronx to do a Reproductive Health Fellowship and develop a New Yorker accent. We were fortunate to get her back as faculty at RWJMS, where she continued to blossom into the influential national leader and role model for Reproductive Health Care that she is today.
Jenn embodies all the ideals of a Family Physician. She has been providing outstanding reproductive health care services both locally and nationally to some of the most vulnerable individuals. She serves as Medical Director at Planned Parenthood, Trenton and has overseen the expansion of clinical and training services and the addition of moderate sedation for patient comfort. For eight years, she traveled every two weeks to Dallas, Texas, at significant risk to her own personal safety, spending quality time away from her family and friends, to provide abortion services to desperate patients, until the clinic was forced to close due to the Texas Heartbeat Act (S.B. 8), followed by the overturning of Roe v Wade.
It is with great enthusiasm and pride that we introduce Dr. Jennifer Rose Amico, our NJ Family Physician of the Year. She is most deserving, now more than ever.