Newman introduces her friend and colleague Dr. Linda P. Fried as the 2022 recipient of the Association of American Physicians (AAP) George M. Kober Medal. Dr. Fried is Dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Professor of Epidemiology and DeLamar Professor of Public Health Practice at the Mailman School, Professor of Medicine at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Senior Vice President of Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Dr. Fried is also a past president of the AAP. In fact, she understands that she is only the second AAP president who is a dean of a school of public health, the first being William Henry Welch. In her AAP presidential address in 2017, she noted that one of the founders of the AAP was William Henry Welch.