On Wednesday, August 19, 2009, it was announced that Dr. Paul Nanda was chosen to receive a 2009 Pfizer Teacher Development Award based on competitive nominations to the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation (AAFP-F) of faculty new to departments of family medicine. In the announcement, it was noted that the AAFP Foundation presents the award annually "to a select group of outstanding community-based new physicians who combine clinical practice with part-time teaching of family medicine. Dr. Nanda is involved at the community level in two ways: as a family physician practicing at the Worthington Family Practice and as one who is committed to international medicine. He frequently takes both residents and students to many underserved places in the world to give them a an entirely different sense of what it means to practice community-based medicine!