Summa Health Distinguished Physician Award

The Summa Health Distinguished Physician Award is the health system's highest physician honor, recognizing an exceptional clinician, educator and leader who has had tremendous impact on Summa Health and its patients.

Meet the physicians who have earned this prestigious honor:

2025: Linda Parenti, M.D. 

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2024: William D. Smucker, M.D.*

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2023: Thomas "Tom" M. File Jr., M.D.

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2022: Bill Bauman, M.D.

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2021: J. Patrick Flanagan, M.D.

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2019: Jay Williamson, M.D.

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2018: Ernest R. Estep, M.D.

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2017: Gary B. Williams, M.D.

2016: Robert A. Liebelt, Ph.D., M.D.*

2015: James S. Tan, M.D.*

*Deceased