Amy Conley-Sallaz, MD, Recieves University of Kentucky Medical Student Education Voluntary Faculty Member of the Year Award

UK St. Claire is excited to announce Amy Conley-Sallaz, MD, has been awarded University of Kentucky’s (UK) first Medical Student Education Voluntary Faculty Member of the Year Award.

UK College of Medicine is dedicated to training future leaders of health in Kentucky for Kentucky. As a voluntary faculty member, Dr. Conley-Sallaz helps with instruction of the Rural Physician Leadership Program for students in Morehead, as well as rotating students from Lexington, expanding education beyond the walls of UK and into the greater regions of the Commonwealth and beyond.

Dr. Conley-Sallaz, an SCH family medicine physician, is a native of Eastern Kentucky and graduated from the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She completed her residency in family medicine through the University of Kentucky's Rural Training Track program in Hazard. Her interests include family-centered maternity care, women's health—including colposcopy, Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedures (LEEP), and office procedures.

Throughout her career, Dr. Conley-Sallaz has received a number of awards, including the 2010 Outstanding Community-Based Faculty Award presented by the Kentucky Primary Care Association; 2009 Family Medicine Preceptor of the Year Award presented by the Eastern Kentucky Area Health Education Center (AHEC); 2008 Family Medicine Resident Faculty Teaching Award; and the 2007 AAFP Pfizer Teacher Development Award. She is also a Cultural Medicine Fellow through White Memorial Medical Center.

“Dr. Conley-Sallaz was also recently awarded the Outstanding Mentorship Award during the Eastern Kentucky AHEC’s 2022 Preceptor Recognition Celebration last November,” said David A. Gross, SCH Administrative Director for Education and Research and Director of NE KY AHEC. “Her continued dedication to educate future healthcare professionals is truly inspiring and makes an enormous difference in the growth of healthcare in our area.”