This award is presented to any active member of AMWA who has made distinguished contributions to medical communication or rendered unusual and distinguished services to the medical profession. AMWA members may nominate qualified individuals for these awards. The Swanberg Award Committee considers all nominations and recommends the recipient to the AMWA Board of Directors for approval. The Swanberg Award is presentedduring the Recognition Dinner at AMWA's annual conference.

Nomination and deadline information.

2012 Recipient
Susan Aiello, DVM

2011 Recipient
Elizabeth L. Smith

2010 Recipient
Marianne Mallia, ELS

2009 Recipient
Art Gertel

2008 Recipient
Norman Grossblatt, ELS(D)

2007 Recipient
Elliott Churchill, MS, MA

2006 Recipient
Dale E. Hammerschmidt, MD

2005 Recipient
MaryAnn Foote, PhD

2004 Recipient
Guy Whitehead, PhD

2003 Recipient
Susan Eastwood, ELS(D)

2002 Recipient
Thomas A. Lang, MA

2001 Recipient
No Recipient this year.

2000 Recipient
Anne Hudson Jones, PhD

1999 Recipient
Howard M. Smith

1998 Recipient
Barbara Gastel, MD

1997 Recipient
Tod F. Forman, MD

1996 Recipient
Jane E. Hodgson, MD

1995 Recipient
Lottie B. Applewhite

1994 Recipient
Henrietta Aladjem

1993 Recipient
C. Kelley Williams

1992 Recipient
Martha M. Tacker, PhD

1991 Recipient
Elvira Stahl

1990 Recipient
Theodore Berland

1989 Recipient
Nicholas P. Christy, MD

1988 Recipient
John P. McGovern, MD

1987 Recipient
Jonathan E. Rhoads, MD

1986 Recipient
Edith Schwager

1985 Recipient
Robert F. Orsetti, MA

1984 Recipient
Frances O. Kelsey, MD, PhD

1983 Recipient
M. Coleman Harris, MD

1982 Recipient
Jerry McKee

1981 Recipient
Edward J. Huth MD

1980 Recipient
Karl A. Menninger, MD

1979 Recipient
Martin H. Cummings, MD

1978 Recipient
William D. Nelligan

1977 Recipient
Arnold Melnick, DO

1976 Recipient
Eric W. Martin, PhD

1975 Recipient
M.J. Schiffrin, PhD

1974 Recipient
Charles G. Roland, MD

1973 Recipient
Harold Laufman, MD, PhD

1972 Recipient
Eleanor E. Buckley

1971 Recipient
Edward C. Rosenow, Jr, MD

1970 Recipient
Lois DeBakey, PhD

1969 Recipient
William B. Bean, MD
Frank Netter, MD

1968 Recipient
No Award Given

1967 Recipient
C. Howard Ross, MD

1966 Recipient
Alexander Gode

1965 Recipient
Richard H. Orr, MD

1964 Recipient
Joseph Garland, MD

1963 Recipient
Walter Kahoe, PhD

1962 Recipient
W.D. Snively, Jr, MD

1961 Recipient
Charles E. Lyght, MD

1960 Recipient
Dean F. Smiley, MD

1959 Recipient
Jacques P. Gray, MD

1958 Recipient
Theodore R. Van Dellen, MD

1957 Recipient
Austin Smith, MD

1956 Recipient
Morris Fishbein, MD

1955 Recipient
Lee D. Van Antwerp, MD

1954 Recipient
Richard M. Hewitt, MD

1953 Recipient
Julius Jensen, MD

1952 Recipient
Harold Swanberg, MD

*Known as Distinguished Service Award before 1962.