The Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP) announced the winners of the organization’s annual physician awards, naming St. Luke’s Nguyet-Cam Vu Lam, MD, the 2026 Family Physician of the Year.
Dr. Lam is Program Director of the St. Luke’s Bethlehem Family Medicine Residency Program, Clinical Professor at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, and a Family Medicine Physician with Star Community Health.
“Dr. Lam epitomizes what is best about Family Medicine and St. Luke’s. She is an excellent physician, beloved by her patients, and an outstanding leader who inspires her colleagues and her residents,” said, Robert Langan, M.D., who also is a St. Luke’s physician and works alongside Dr. Lam.
“Throughout her time here, she has set high expectations for herself and those around her, and her enthusiasm, hard work, and genuine concern for others has allowed her team to thrive. I can think of few Family Physicians who are more deserving of this outstanding recognition than Dr. Lam and on behalf of all of the people whose lives have been touched by her, I offer my most heartfelt congratulations!”
The award was presented at the PAFP’s spring conference in Bethlehem on April 3. In recognition of outstanding patient care and dedication to the field of family medicine, the Family Physician of the Year award is given to a physician who:
- Demonstrates a commitment to comprehensive, compassionate care for patients
- Pursues excellence in medicine with integrity and the highest ethical standards
- Promotes trust in science
- Honors the physician-patient relationship; furthers the specialty of family medicine
- Serves as a role model and motivator to patients and colleagues
A graduate of Kigezi International School of Medicine (Cambridge, England, and Uganda), Dr. Lam completed her residency at St. Luke’s Bethlehem Campus.
The PAFP and its Foundation support its 5,500+ members through advocacy and education to ensure physician-coordinated and comprehensive quality health care. The Academy and its Foundation are a resource among family physicians and physicians in training in Pennsylvania; a voice on health care issues with state legislative and administrative branches of government, media and professional health organizations; and a leader on health care issues in the community.
About St. Luke’s
Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a fully integrated, regional, non-profit network with annual net revenue of more than $4.5 billion. With 23,000+ employees at 16 hospital campuses and 350+ outpatient sites, it is the Lehigh Valley’s biggest employer.
The Network’s service area includes 11 counties in two states: Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Montgomery, Monroe, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties in Pennsylvania and Warren and Hunterdon counties in New Jersey. St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital is based at the Bethlehem Campus.
Dedicated to advancing medical education, St. Luke’s is the preeminent teaching hospital in central-eastern Pennsylvania. In partnership with Temple University, the Network established the Lehigh Valley’s first and only four-year medical school. It also operates the nation’s oldest continuously operated School of Nursing, established in 1884, and 60+ fully accredited graduate medical educational programs with 550+ residents and fellows.
In 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ranked St. Luke’s #1 – ahead of Houston Methodist and Mayo Clinic, two of the nation’s most prestigious institutions – as the nation’s top health system for quality, safety and patient experience. This objective recognition, based on public data reported to the government, reaffirms St. Luke’s preeminent position as THE BEST OF THE BEST among the most respected health care systems in the United States.
St. Luke’s has been named a Leapfrog Group and Healthgrades Top Hospital and a Newsweek World’s Best Hospital. It is the only Lehigh Valley-based health care system to earn Medicare’s five-star ratings (the highest) for quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. In 2025, the Network earned straight A’s from Leapfrog across all of its acute care hospitals. It has earned 100 Top Hospital designations from Premier 11 years in a row, including in 2021 when its flagship University Hospital was identified as THE #1 TEACHING HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY. Utilizing the Epic electronic medical record (EMR) system for both inpatient and outpatient services, the Network is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of SLUHN’s information technology applications such as telehealth, online scheduling and online pricing information.
Information provided to TVL by:
Gary R. Blockus
