NHMS Lifetime Achievement Award

This award recognizes a physician whose career contributions and leadership exemplify the integrity, courage, and commitment central to the mission of the New Hampshire Medical Society.

This year we honor a special physician, Dr, Oge Young, MD. Dr. Young was born and raised in Portland, OR and graduated from Stanford U. in 1970. After working as an orderly for 2 years at the old Mary Hitchcock Hospital in Hanover, NH, he attended Dartmouth Medical School (2 years) and then the U. of Minnesota to obtain his MD ’77. He completed a rotating internship at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, WA, and finally a 4 year Ob/Gyn residency at UVM. Oge and his spouse, Pam, moved with their three sons to Concord, NH where he lived and practiced for 40 years while teaching third year Ob/Gyn clerkship students. He was awarded the first annual Geisel Ob/Gyn teaching award 2015 which has been named in his honor. Also, he was the first recipient of the Lifetime Educator Award at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Dr. Young has been a past president of the NHMS and has served 20 years on the General Council representing NH Obstetricians/Gynecologists. Throughout his years of practice and in retirement he has been a staunch advocate for medicine- his colleagues and his patients. He successfully sought insurance coverage for infertility, medical malpractice tort reform, paid family and maternity leave, and, most recently, the protection of women’s reproductive rights.