Make Plans to Join Us October 14th at the Sheraton for the 2023 Golden Stethoscope Awards and Presidential Inauguration Gala
Be sure to mark your calendar now so that you don’t miss this event created exclusively for NCMS members, their guests and event sponsors.
Stay tuned for more details!
Interested in becoming a sponsor at the LEAD Conference and Golden Stethoscope Awards Gala?
Download the prospectus below or reach out to Pam Highsmith, CFRE, for more details.

Nominate an NCMS Member for a Golden Stethoscope Award
Do you know an outstanding North Carolina Medical Society physician or physician assistant member who has demonstrated excellence in leadership, dedication to patients, and stellar skills in motivating, inspiring, and leading a medical team? If yes, please nominate that person for the NCMS’s Golden Stethoscope Award!
This award will provide peer recognition based upon nominations submitted and final selection by the NCMS Awards Committee. Deadline to submit your nomination is August 31, 2023.* Please note: NCMS Board and Foundation Board members are ineligible for this award.
Eligible recipients must be members of the NCMS who meet the nomination criteria. Four awards will be presented in total — one recipient each from the NCMS’s four regions.
Nominees must:
- Be a current member of the North Carolina Medical Society.
- Be nominated by a peer or co-worker. The nominator does not have to be a member of NCMS.
- Have demonstrated outstanding leadership, exceptional dedication to patient care exemplified by caring, compassion and quality care, and stellar leadership skills leading, motivating, inspiring peers who are physicians or physician assistants and leading a medical team.
If you have any questions about this nomination process, please contact Michelle Laws, PhD, Chief Experience Officer with the NCMS, [email protected].