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Alvarez Award

Fellowships 

McGovern Award

President’s Award

 

Swanberg Award

 

Golden Apple Award

 

Past Awards

 

 

All Award Recipients

 

 

Alvarez Award

 

2025 Recipient
Jen Gunter, MD, FRCS(C), FACOG, DABPM, ABPMR (pain)

OB/GYN, women's health advocate, and author of two NYT bestsellers

 

2024 Recipient

Otis W. Brawley, MD

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Oncology and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University

 

2023 Recipient
Katelyn Jetelina, PhD, MPH
Scientific Consultant, CDC

Author, Your Local Epidemiologist Newsletter

2022 Recipient
Lena Wen, MD, MSc, FAAEM
Emergency Physician and Public Health Professor, George Washington University

 

2021 Recipient
Harriet Washington
Author, Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Informed Consent in Medical Research and A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind

2020 Recipient
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Author, A Series of Catastrophes & Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer

 

2019 Recipient
Daniel J. Siegel, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine

2018 Recipient

Robert M. Califf, MD, MACC

Vice Chancellor for Health Data Science, Duke University

 

2017 Recipient
Helen Osborne M.Ed, OTR/L
President, Health Literacy Consulting

 

2016 Recipient
Roxanne Khamsi
Chief News Editor, Nature Medicine

2015 Recipient
Jay Ingram
Radio Science Program Host & Author

 

2014 Recipient
Rosemary Gibson, MSc
Senior Advisor to The Hastings Center 
Section Editor: the Less is More series in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

2013 Recipient
Gregory D. Curfman, MD
Medical Editor, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

2012 Recipient
Mary Roach
Author and Columnist on Scientific Topics

2011 Recipient
Perri E. Klass, MD
Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics
New York University
New York, NY

1982-2010 Recipients
Prerna Mona Khanna, MD (2010)
David Dary (2009)
T.L. (Tedd) Mitchell, MD (2008)
Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH (2007)
Neil Shulman, MD (2006)
Ruth Murphey Parker, MD (2005)
Loretta LaRoche (2004)
Joe Graedon, MS, and Terry Graedon, PhD (2003)
Carol K. Kasper, MD(2002)
Elmer Huerta, MD, PhD (2001)
Stephen M. Cohn, MD (2000)
Richard Harris (1999)
David T. Suzuki, PhD (1998)
Marcia Angell, MD (1997)
Wayne Biddle (1996)
Brian P. McDonough, MD (1995)
Wendy Borow (1994)
John Stone, MD (1993)
Ralph D. Feigin, MD (1992)
Peter P. Morgan, MD (1991)
Norman Cousins (1990)
Donald A.B. Lindberg, MD, ScD (1989)
Arthur L. Ulene, MD (1988)
Jane E. Brody (1987)
Elizabeth M. Whelan, ScD (1986)
G. Timothy Johnson, MD (1985)
Lester S. King, MD (1984)
Jean Mayer, PhD (1983)
Louis Jolyon West, MD (1982)

 

Fellowships

2025 Fellowship Recipients
Rona Grunspan, MD CPI

Haifa Kassis, MD

Thomas Schindler, PhD

2024 Fellowship Recipients
Melissa Bogen, BA

Kimberly Jochman, PhD

Kimberly Korwek, PhD

2023 Fellowship Recipients
Shawn Watson, PharmD, PhD, BCPS, RPh, BSPharm
Barbara O. Lightfoot, BS
Anita Misra-Press, PhD

2022 Fellowship Recipients
Loretta Bohn, ELS
Erica Goodoff, ELS(D)
Gail Flores, PhD

2021 Fellowship Recipients

Jennifer Bridgers, MS, MWC

Michelle Sauer Gehring, PhD, ELS

Theresa Singleton, PhD

 

2020 Fellowship Recipients

Katrina R. Burton, BS

Jennifer Minarcik, MS

Qing Zhou, PhD, ELS, CMPP

2019 Fellowship Recipients
Elise Eller, PhD

Naomi Ruff, PhD

Ann Winter-Vann, PhD

2018 Fellowship Recipients

Andrea R. Gwosdow, PhD

Marjorie G. Winters

 

2017 Fellowship Recipients
Noelle H. Demas, MSTC
Vicki Foerster, MD, MSc
Julie Phelan, MD, MBA

 

2016 Fellowship Recipients
Hilary Graham, MA
Cynthia L. Kryder, MS, CCC-Sp
Barbara T. Zimmerman, PhD

2015 Fellowship Recipients
Catherine Magill, PhD
Kathy Spiegel, PhD
Kristina Wasson-Blader, PhD, ELS

2014 Fellowship Recipients
Lori De Milto, MJ
Joanne McAndrews, PhD
Deborah Whippen
Justina Molzon, JD (Honorary Fellow)

2013 Fellowship Recipients
Jennifer Grodberg, PhD, RAC
Jude Richard, ELS
Anne Marie Weber-Main, PhD

2012 Fellowship Recipients
Tamara Ball, MD
Faith Reidenbach, ELS
Christine Wogan, MS
 
2011 Fellowship Recipients
MaryAlice Ditzler
Sharon L. Nancekivell, MA
Stephen N. Palmer, PhD, ELS
    
      
Past Recipients (1952-present in alphabetical order)
William A. Abruzzi, MD (1967)
Lanie M. Adamson, MS (1998)
Alexander Adler (1972)
Susan E. Aiello, DVM, ELS (2005)
Alyce B. Albrecht (1980)
Lori Alexander, MTPW, ELS (2010)
Lynn M. Alperin (1995)
Jessica Ancker, ELS, PhD (2009)
Elizabeth B. Anderson, MS (1961)
W.A.D. Anderson, MD, FACP (1958)
Boris Rajka Anzlowar, MD (1971)
Lottie B. Applewhite (1979)
Leonard Apt, MD (1979)
Elizabeth A. Ashraf, PhD (1984)
Suren H. Babington, MD (1956)
Lawrence L. Bachorik, PhD (1984)
Lois J. Baker, MS (2008)
Tamara Ball, MD (2012)
David R. Barglow, MD (1955)
Roger W. Barnes, MD, FACS (1958)
R de Rohan Barondes, MD (1953)
Norbert C. Barwasser, MD (1966)
Brian Bass (2001)
W.W. Bauer, MD (1954)
William B. Bean, MD, FACP (1958)
Estelle Beaumont (1982)
Katherine True Becker (1970)
Herman Beerman, MD, FACP (1958)
Joseph Edward Bellas, MD, FACS (1953)
Carroll J. Bellis, MD, PhD (1956)
Tibor Benedek, MD (1966)
Robert J. Benford, MD (1955)
Harriet Benson, PhD (1978)
Linda R. Benson (2003)
Conrad Berens, MD (1958)
Theodore Berland, BS, AM (1976)
Lt. Col. Leonard Berlow (1967)
Susan J. Berman, MA (2003)
Abraham Bernstein, MD (1960)
Arthur Bernstein, MD (1960)
George Hugh Berryman, MD, PhD (1958)
Johnnie R. Betson, Jr, MD (1966)
Saul M. Bien, DDS (1962)
Celso Bilbao, MD (1967)
Joseph H. Bloom, BS, MS (1991)
Edward Robert Bloomquist, MD (1959)
Melissa Bogen, BA (2024)
Loretta Bohn, ELS (2022)
Ann Bolster (1999)
Robert J. Bonk, PhD (2009)
Shirley Bonnem (1981)
Frederick F. Boyce, MD (1957)
Joyce B. Boylen, PhD (1986)
Edward R. Brace (1967)
Donald W. Branham, MD (1958)
Richard Duane Brasfield, MD, FACS (1959)
Louis W. Breck, MD (1962)
Jennifer Bridgers, MS, MWC (2021)
Paul R. Briggs, MD, FICS (1960)
Ethan Allan Brown, MRCS, LRCP (1958)
Michael F. Bruckner, MA (1989)
James E. Bryan (1964)
Eleanor E. Buckley (1958)
Paul V. Buday, PhD (1967)
Edgar Burns, MD (1963)
Louis G. Buttell (1976)
Mac Fullerton Cahal, JD (1959)
John J. Calabro, MD (1967)
J. Sean Callan, MD (1984)
Homer N. Calver (1958)
Alfred J. Cantor, MD (1953)
Meyer O. Cantor, MD, FACS (1958)
Walter Carroll, MD (1967)
William R. Carson, MD (1965)
Leo J. Cass, MD (1965)
Russell L. Cecil, MD, FACP (1958)
Frank W. Chappell, Jr (1967)
Herman Charache, MD (1956)
Elliott Churchill, MS, MA (2008)
Marilyn Citron (1999)
Col. John Boyd Coates, Jr, MC, MD (1958)
Betty JB Cohen, PhD (1986)
Susan R. Cohen (1978)
Frank Cole, MD (1967)
Donald C. Collins, MD, FACS (1952)
Florence A. Cooksley, MA (1961)
Donald Cooley (1964)
Beaumont S. Cornell, MD, FACP (1955)
Patricia L. Cornett, PhD (1985)
Bert H. Cotton, MD (1955)
Sylvia S. Covet (1957)
George W. Covey, MD, FACP (1955)
Barbara G. Cox (1976)
James R. Cozzarin, ELS (2002)
Wallis L. Craddock, MA, MD (1954)
Paul E. Craig, MD (1954)
Oscar Creech, Jr, MD (1966)
Allan B. Crunden, Jr, MD, FACS (1959)
Theodore J. Curphey, MD (1958)
Simon Dack, MD (1964)
Martha Dana, MSJ (1963)
Charles G. Darlington, MD (1958)
Edwina B. Davis (1981)
Ethel H. Davis (1959)
Selma Martha De Bakey (1958)
Dominic De Bellis, PhD (2002)
Paul De Haen (1971)
Russell De Jong, MD (1960)
Lori De Milto, MJ (2014)
Lois DeBakey (1958)
Michael E. DeBakey, MD (1963)
Noelle H. Demas, MSTC (2017)
Richard Del Torto (1971)
Pandurang L. Deshmukh, MB, MD (1954)
MaryAlice Ditzler (2011)
Jeanne Fitzgerald Dolak (formerly Tashian Fitzgerald) (1982)
Wilfred Dorfman, MD, FACP (1956)
Bruce Lee Douglas, DDS, MA (1959)
Vincent F. Downing (1970)
Peggy J. Drake (1986)
Trudy Drucker, PhD (1963)
Robert Everett Dunbar (1972)
Donald J. Dunham (1966)
Jerry D. Eastman (1997)
Susan Eastwood, ELS(D) (1984)
Sally A. Edwards, ELS (1985)
Virginia T. Eicholtz (1974)
J. Russell Elkington, MD (1965)
Elise Eller, PhD (2019)
Bernice Engle, MA (1960)
Bernice Ennis (1977)
Cathryn D. Evans (1979)
Elwyn Evans, MD, FACP (1960)
J. Alfred Fabro (1980)
Richard Feinberg, OD, PhD (1975)
Jean S. Felton, MD (1952)
John Bruce Ferguson (1993)
Joaquin J. Fermoselle-Bacardi, MD (1959)
Bernard J. Ficarra, MD (1952)
Morris Fishbein, MD, DPharm (1954)
Jennifer Ann Fissekis, MA, ELS (2007)
Doris E. Fletcher (1976)
Gail Flores, PhD (2022)
Kevin P. Flynn, MA (2004)
Vicki Foerster, MD, MSc (2017)
MaryAnn Foote, PhD (1994)
Jonathan Forman, MD (1957)
Tod F. Forman, MD (1990)
Paul Donald Foster, MD (1953)
J. DeWitt Fox, MD (1954)
I. Phillips Frohman, MD (1955)
Lois Gaeta (1999)
William G. Gamble, Jr, MD (1965)
Alvin F. Gardner, DDS, PhD (1960)
Joseph Garland, MD, ScD (1958)
Barbara Gastel, MD, MPH (1991)
Thomas P. Gegeny, MS, ELS (2004)
Michelle Sauer Gehring, PhD, ELS (2021)
Louis G. Gelber, MD (1955)
Art Gertel (1994)
Paul L. Getzoff, MD, FACS (1960)
Lloyd Arion Gittelson, MS, MD (1953)
Alexander G.F. Gode, PhD (1963)
Charles W. Goff, MD (1958)
Barbara C. Good, PhD (1992)
Ruth Good (1965)
Erica Goodoff, ELS(D) (2022)
Samuel W. Gordon, MS, PhD (1958)
William H. Gordon, MD, FACP (1955)
Ralph L. Gorrell, MD (1952)
Hilary Graham, MA (2016)
Jacques P. Gray, MD, MPH (1957)
James Roland Gray, MD, FACS (1958)
Tinker Gray, MA, ELS (2006)
Leonard D. Grayson, MD (1965)
Jennifer Grodberg, PhD, RAC (2013)
Mayer A. Green, MD (1966)
Larry Greenfield (1981)
J.P. Greenhill, MD, FACS (1959)
Norman Grossblatt, ELS(D) (1988)
Sarah R. Gustafson, PhD (1964)
Andrea R. Gwosdow, PhD (2018)
Cindy W. Hamilton, PharmD, ELS (2005)
William Hammond, MD (1963)
Robert P. Hand, MSc (2000)
Douglas Haneline, PhD (1992)
William B. Harrell, MD (1960)
Jerome J. Harris, PhD (1966)
M. Coleman Harris, MD (1971)
Herbert L. Hartley, MD (1963)
Bart J. Harvey, MD, PhD (2009)
Wilfred Haughey, MD (1960)
Katherine Haworth (1980)
Brian Hayes (1985)
Raymond Headlee, MD (1962)
Norris J. Heckel, MD, FACS (1957)
Arthur A. Hellbaum, Phd, MD (1958)
Bernice Heller (1987)
John Henderson, MD, FACS (1958)
William E. Hendrickson, MD (1957)
Kay E. Hermes, BS (1991)
Richard Minor Hewitt, MA, MD (1954)
William F. Hewitt, PhD (1973)
Helen E. Hodgson, PhD (1990)
Jane E. Hodgson, MD (1995)
Elmer Hoffman, MD (1961)
Elizabeth Mason Hohl, MD (1952)
Dwight H. Hotchkiss (1956)
Sara Jane Houtz, MS (1960)
Archibald L. Hoyne, MD, FACP (1958)
Archibald P. Hudgins, MD (1955)
Jim Hudson (2007)
Sue Hudson (2004)
Edward J. Huth, MD (1967)
Robert L. Iles (1982)
Franz J. Ingelfinger, MD (1969)
Judy Ingram (1974)
Nancy Swanberg Isaacs (1963)
Robert H. Ivy, MD (1964)
Arnold Stevens Jackson, MD, FACS (1959)
Nathan B. Jaffe, MD (1954)
Mary Jenkins (1991)
Julius Jensen, LRCP, PhD (1953)
Kimberly Jochman, PhD (2024)
Anne Hudson Jones, PhD (1990)
Michael L. Jones, MS (2000)
Sara M. Jordan, MD, FACP (1958)
Lou Joseph (1975)
Eduardo I. Juliet, MD (1964)
M. Martin Kafka, MD, FICS (1957)
Ada P. Kahn, MPH, PhD (1975)
Walter Kahoe, PhD (1963)
Morris A. Kaplan, MS, MD (1958)
William Kauffman, PhD, MD (1954)
Harold A. Kazman, MD (1963)
John Lemuel Keeley, MD, FACS (1953)
Frances O. Kelsey, MD, PhD (1977)
Lester King, MD (1969)
E. Roseland Klein (1993)
Karen Potvin Klein, MA, ELS (2006)
Milton V. Kline, EdD (1962)
Karin E. Klink, MFA, MS (1996)
Mary E. Knatterud, PhD (2000)
Judith Kohn (1979)
Amos R. Koontz, MD, FACS (1959)
Kimberly Korwek, PhD (2024)
Jane M. Krauhs, PhD, ELS(D) (1995)
Frank Hammond Krusen, MD, FACP (1958)
Cynthia L. Kryder, MS, CCC-Sp (2016)
Patricia F. Kyllonen (1983)
Cynthia J. Laitman (1984)
Timothy A. Lamphier, MD, FACS (1959)
Thomas A. Lang, MA (1993)
Harold Laufman, MD, PhD (1962)
Carl B. Lechner, MD (1963)
Brian Lees, MRCS (1960)
Lester I. Leonard, MD (1965)
Charles U. Letourneau, MD, BCL (1959)
Leo L. Leveridge, MD (1964)
Victor E. Levine, MD, PhD (1956)
Samuel A. Levinson, MD (1963)
Alvina Rich Lewis, MA (1963)
Kenneth Lewis, MD (1957)
Leslie L. Lewis (1964)
Daniel Liberthson, PhD (1993)
Lawrence Eugene Liberti, RPh, RAC (2000)
Dean McAllister Lierle, MD, FACS (1958)
Barbara O. Lightfoot, BS (2023)
Shirley Linde, PhD (1965)
Edmund F Lindner, DSc (1964)
Mae M. Link, PhD (1964)
Judy Linn, MS (1978)
Otha W Linton (1979)
Sol J. London, MD (1965)
Maxim J. Losi, PhD (1984)
Charles E. Lyght, MD, FACP (1955)
Harold D. Lynch, MD (1964)
Don Chalmers Lyons, DDS, PhD (1954)
Mildred Hoerr Lysle, MS (1960)
Gustav Machol, MD (1966)
Leo R. Maestripieri (1989)
Harry Maeth, DDS (1956)
Catherine Magill, PhD (2015)
Rolland J. Main, PhD (1956)
Marianne Mallia, ELS (1996)
Benjamin Manchester, MD, FACP (1953)
James Andrew Mannsmann, MD (1960)
Doris Margolis (1992)
Charles D. Marple, MD (1954)
Wallace Marshall, MD (1952)
Felix Marti-Ibanez, MD (1955)
Eric W. Martin, PhD (1962)
Edwin Matlin, MD (1962)
Charles D. May, MD (1959)
Roland G. Mayer, MD (1953)
Joanne McAndrews, PhD (2014)
Jean McCann (1983)
James L. McCartney, MD, FACP (1956)
Elizabeth M. McFeteridge, MA (1955)
E. Dalton McGlamery (1981)
John P. McGovern, MD (1967)
Gerald McKee (1973)
Alphonse McMahon, MD, FACP (1955)
Arnold Melnick, DO (1969)
Jeanetta L. Menninger (1957)
Karl A Menninger, MD (1957)
Donna L. Miceli, BS (2007)
Robert S. Miller, PhD (1972)
Jennifer Minarcik, MS (2020)
John Miner, ScD (1952)
Phyllis Minick (1987)
Stanley D. Miroyiannis, MA, PhD (1959)
Anita Misra-Press, PhD (2023)
Constance Mitchell (1979)
Justina Molzon, JD (Honorary Fellow) (2014)
Woodrow S. Monica, DMD (1961)
Joseph F. Montague, MD, FACS (1955)
Lewis J. Moorman, MD, FACP (1954)
Leonard Samuel Morvay, DDS (1959)
N. Henry Moss, MD (1960)
Della J. Mundy (1988)
Jay Arthur Myers, MD, PhD (1958)
Sharon L. Nancekivell, MA (2011)
Udyavar B. Narayanrao, MD (1955)
Helen Neff (1972)
William D. Nelligan (1973)
Marianna Nelson (1992)
David H. Neustadt, MD (1960)
Ben H. Nicholson, MD (1958)
Joan N. Nilson (1996)
William B. Ober, MD (1964)
Alton Ochsner, MD (1963)
Robert P. Odenwald, MD (1953)
Cynthia L. Orenburg (1984)
F. Michael O'Rourke (1974)
Richard Howard Orr, MD (1958)
Robert F. Orsetti, MA (1973)
C. Kelly Osborn (1983)
Harold F. Osborne (1978)
Sandra B. Pace, BA (1988)
Stephen N. Palmer, PhD, ELS (2011)
Eleanor Paulson, BA (1987)
Camen R. Paynter, MD (1960)
Maurice S. Peizer (1975)
Judith M. Pepin, PhD (2010)
Robert A. Peterman, MD (1960)
Frank R. Peterson, MD, FACS (1958)
Julie Phelan, MD, MBA (2017)
John F. Pick, MD (1954)
Edward Robert Pinckney, MD, MPH (1958)
Judith M. Pinney (1979)
Cindy M. Pitcairn (1988)
Aaron Plachta, MD (1962)
Raymond C. Pogge, MD (1957)
Mary T. Politano (1973)
Frances H. Porcher (1990)
Robert D. Potter (1963)
Donald A. Price, DVM (1962)
John F. Prichard, DDS (1961)
Roland I. Pritkin, MD, FACS (1953)
Sandra J. Purrenhage (1994)
Donald Radcliffe (1979)
Alice Raefsky (1985)
Bernard H Raginsky, MD, CM (1959)
Frank B. Ramsey, MD, FACS (1958)
Clara Raven, MD (1982)
Faith Reidenbach, ELS (2012)
Jacob Reichert, MD (1962)
Edward Conrad Reifenstein, Jr, MD (1959)
Ralph A. Reis, MD (1959)
Jacob Edward Reish, MD (1953)
Barbara H. Reschke (1987)
Jonathan E. Rhoads, MD (1958)
Frank E. Rice, PhD (1961)
Jude Richard, ELS (2013)
William O. Robertson, MD (1969)
Pat Robie (1986)
Peggy Robinson, BSc, ELS (2006)
Elyse M. Rogers (1980)
Charles G. Roland, MD (1967)
Jacqueline D. Rose (1983)
Edward C. Rosenow, Jr, MD (1963)
C. Howard Ross, MD (1961)
Melanie Fridl Ross, MSJ, ELS (2008)
Ahbrohm X. Rossein, MD (1953)
Emery Andrew Rovenstine, MD, DSc (1958)
Mary G. Royer, MS, ELS (2001)
Abe Rubin, DSC (1966)
Naomi Ruff, PhD (2019)
Henry S. Ruth, MD (1954)
Harry Saltzskin (1974)
Earl S. Sanborn, MD, FACS (1960)
Ronald J. Sanchez (1989)
Lawrence Saunders, BS (1958)
Kenneth C. Sawyer, MD (1966)
H. Kenneth Scatliff (1967)
Mark M. Schapiro, MD, MS (1958)
Justus J. Schifferes, PhD (1963)
M.J. Schiffrin, PhD (1972)
Karon Schindler (1998)
Anne M. Schmid (1977)
Jerome M. Schneck, MD (1958)
Kenneth H. Schnepp, MD, FACS (1955)
Keith W. Schnert, MD (1966)
Edith Schwager (1975)
Lila N. Schwartz, BA, JD (1991)
Byron T. Scott, PhD (1973)
Louis Seigel (1981)
Thomas L. Seldon (1975)
Joel L. Shapiro (1973)
John I. Shaw, BA (1960)
David AE Shepard, MD (1976)
David A. Shephard, MD (1976)
Harry C. Shirkey, MD (1966)
Jill M. Shuman, MS, ELS (2003)
Susan E. Siefert, ELS, CBC (2002)
Hirsch L. Silverman, PhD (1964)
Theresa Singleton, PhD (2021)
Beverly LeBov Sloane (1984)
Dean Franklin Smiley, MD (1953)
Austin Smith, MD, LLD (1954)
Elizabeth Craig Smith (1966)
Elizabeth L. Smith (1988)
Howard M. Smith, MA (1985)
Richard Bell Smith (1995)
William D. Snively, Jr, MD (1956)
Barbara R. Snyder, MA (2005)
Alfred Soffer, MD (1966)
Perry A. Sperber, MD (1962)
Kathy Spiegel, PhD (2015)
Elvira Stahl (1966)
S. Sigmund Stahl, MD (1955)
Wallace H. Steffensen, MD (1959)
Irvin Stein, MD (1963)
Julian Sterling, MD, DSc (1957)
Edith Stern (1958)
George G. Stilwell, MD (1955)
Elizabeth Seton Stone (1989)
Lyon P. Strean, DDS, PhD (1960)
Orion Harry Stuteville, DDS, MD (1958)
Harold Swanberg, MD, FACP (1952)
Wilson A. Swanker, MD (1952)
William B. Swarts, MD (1960)
Harry A. Sweeney (1984)
Eleanor A. Sweezey (1990)
Martha M. Tacker, PhD, ELS(D) (1977)
John H. Talbott, MD (1963)
Maurice S. Tarshis, MS, PhD (1956)
Joel H. Tau, MA (1992)
Nancy D Taylor, PhD, ELS (2000)
E. Clinton Texter, Jr, MD (1965)
Hilah B. Thomas (1980)
Phebe K. Thompson, MD, CM (1958)
W.O. Thompson, MD, FACP (1952)
Paul Tower, MD (1954)
Florence A. Wey Tracy, MA (1953)
Harold A. Tucker, MD (1962)
Jackie Turner (1995)
Robert Turrell, MD (1952)
Lee D. Van Antwerp (1953)
T.R. Van Dellen, MD, FACP (1953)
Arkell M. Vaughn, MD, FACS (1953)
Michele Vivirito (1993)
Alan J. Wachter (1977)
S.O. Waife, MD, FACP (1960)
Kristina Wasson-Blader, PhD, ELS (2015)
Shawn Watson, PharmD, PhD, BCPS, RPh, BSPharm (2023)
Virginia Watson, MS (1963)
Harry M. Weaver, MS, PhD (1959)
Anne Marie Weber-Main, PhD (2013)
Sue E. Wehner (1978)
William H Wehrmachter, MD (1965)
Charles J. Weigel, MD (1967)
Jacob J. Weinstein, MD (1956)
Carrol H. Weiss, BA (1963)
Daniel Weiss, MA (1965)
Jerome Weiss, MD (1964)
Samuel Weiss, MD, DSc (1957)
Benjamin Baxter Wells, MD, PhD (1957)
Elizabeth A. Whalen, MA, ELS (1997)
Deborah Whippen (2014)
Lester R Whitaker, MD, FACS (1957)
J. Eugene White (1989)
Victoria J. White, MA, ELS (2010)
William H. White, MS (1965)
Guy Whitehead, PhD (1983)
Alfred H. Whittaker, MD (1966)
Jack Wickstrom, MD (1964)
Harry M. Wiener, MD (1960)
Kelley Williams (1983)
Vincent T Williams, MD, FACS (1957)
Marjorie G. Winters (2018)
Ann Winter-Vann (2019)
Florence M. Witte, PhD, ELS (1998)
Neal Woens, MD, FACS (1958)
Christine Wogan, MS (2012)
Stewart Wolf, BA, MD (1955)
Leo Wollman, MD (1966)
Cathy J. Yarbrough (1985)
Norman G. Young (1982)
Michael James Yuen (1986)
Qing Zhou, PhD, ELS, CMPP (2020)
Barbara T. Zimmerman, PhD (2016)
Hans Zinsser (1974)

 

McGovern Award

2025 Recipient
Scott Ratzan, MD, MPA

Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives

 

2024 Recipient
Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD
Director, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

 

2023 Recipients
Jessica B. Steier, DrPH, PMP and Andrea C. Love, PhD
Hosts,  The Unbiased Science Podcast

 

2022 Recipient
Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD
Physician-Scientist and Global Health Advocate, Baylor College of Medicine

2021 Recipient
Stacy L. Christiansen, MA
Managing Editor, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)

 

2020 Recipient
Lisa Sanders, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine

Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine

 

2019 Recipient
Paul A. Offit, MD
Director, Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

 

2018 Recipient

Stacy Robison, MPH, MCHES

President and Co-Founder, CommunicateHealth, Inc.

 

2017 Recipients

Lisa Schwartz, MD, MS

Steven Woloshin, MD, MS

 

2016 Recipient

Kevin Pho, MD

2015 Recipient
Ivan Oransky, MD
Vice President and Global Editorial Director of MedPage Today
Co-founder of Retraction Watch

2014 Recipient
Gary Schwitzer
Publisher HealthNewsReview.org
Adjunct Associate Professor at the University Of Minnesota School Of Public Health 

2013 Recipient
Cynthia Baur, PhD
Senior Advisor for Health Literacy, Office of the Associate Director for Communication,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

2012 Recipient
Neal Baer, MD
Television Writer and Producer

2011 Recipient
Francince Ratner Kaufman, MD
Chief Medical Officer and Vice President
Global Medical, Clinical and Health Affairs, Medtronic Diabetes
Northridge, CA
 

 
Past Recipients
Thomas P. Stossel, MD (2010)
Annette Flanagin, RN, MA (2009)
Kerri S. Remmel, MD, PhD (2008)
Julie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH (2007)
A. John Rush Jr, MD (2006)
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD (2005)
Cheryl Iverson (2004)
Jerome Groopman, MD (2003)
Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, FACS (2002)
Richard I. Cook, MD (2001)
Andrew Skolnick (2000)
Alfred G. Knudson, Jr., MD, PhD (1999)
Arthur L. Caplan, PhD (1998)
Anthony S. Fauci, MD (1997)
Marilyn W. Edmunds, PhD (1996)
Susan J. Blumenthal, MD (1995)
John K. Iglehart (1994)
Ernlé W.D. Young, PhD (1993)
Stephen A. Brunton, MD (1992)
Bruce B. Dan, MD (1991)
Charles Bazerman, PhD (1990)
T. Barry Brazelton, MD (1989)
Baruch S. Blumberg, MD (1988)
George D. Lundberg, MD (1987)
Malcolm S. Watts, MD (1986)
Robert S. Eliot, MD (1985)

President's Award

2025 Recipient
Theresa E. Singleton, PhD

 

2024 Recipient
Barbara Gastel, MD, MPH

 

2023 Recipient
Don Harting, MA, MS, ELS, CHCP

 

2022 Recipient
J. Kelly Byram, MS, MBA, ELS

2021 Recipient
Dikran Toroser, PhD, CMPP

 

2020 Recipient
Joan Affleck, MBA, ELS

2019 Recipient
Joanne McAndrews, PhD

2018 Recipient

Larry Lynam, MA, DSc

 

2017 Recipient

Eleanor Mayfield, ELS

 

2016 Recipient
Jude Richard, MA, ELS

2015 Recipient
Bart Harvey, MD, PhD

2014 Recipient
Naomi Ruff, PhD

2013 Recipient
Elaine Crabtree, MA, ELS
 
2012 Recipient
Barbara T. Zimmerman, PhD
 
2011 Recipient
Lori De Milto, MJ
 
2010 Recipient
Christine F. Wogan, MS, ELS
 
2009 Recipient
Lori Alexander, MTPW, ELS
 
2008 Recipient
Lanie Adamson, MS
 
2007 Recipient
Peggy Robinson, BSc, ELS
 
2006 Recipient
Jim Hudson
 
2005 Recipient
Daniel Liberthson, PhD
 
2004 Recipient
Tinker Gray

2003 Recipient
Barbara R. Snyder, MA
 
2002 Recipient
Mary E. Knatterud, PhD
 
2001 Recipient
Loraine F. Schacher
 
2000 Recipients
Mary G. Royer, MS, ELS
Ellen K. Weil, ELS, RPh
 
1999 Recipient
Lois Gaeta
 
1998 Recipient
Robert P. Hand, MSc
 
1997 Recipient
Patricia W. Evers
 
1996 Recipient
Edie Stern
 
1995 Recipient
Joseph H. Bloom

1994 Recipients
Tod F. Forman, MD
Richard B. Smith
 
1993 Recipient
Pamela P. Powell
 
1992 Recipient
Thomas A. Lang, MA
 
1991 Recipient
Anne Hudson Jones, PhD
 
1990 Recipient
Art Gertel
 
1989 Recipients
Joyce B. Boylen, PhD
Susan Eastwood, ELS(D)
 
1988 Recipients
Betty J.B. Cohen, PhD
Peggy J. Drake
 
1987 Recipient
Norman Grossblatt, ELS(D)
 
1986 Recipient
Guy Whitehead, PhD
 
1985 Recipient
Alyce B. Albrecht
 
1984 Recipient
Marilyn A. Thompson
 
1983 Recipient
Lottie B. Applewhite
 
1982 Recipients
Edward J. Heinz
 Ada P. Kahn, MPh, PhD
Constance Mitchell
 
1981 Recipients
Alex Adler
Maurice S. Peizer
Edie Schwager

Swanberg Award

2025 Recipient
Robin Whitsell, BA, BPh

2023 Recipient
Joan Affleck, MBA

2022 Recipient
Julia Forjanic-Klapproth, PhD

2021 Recipient
Lori L. Alexander, MTPW, ELS, MWC

2019 Recipient
David Clemow, PhD, MWC

2018 Recipient
Bart Harvey, MD, PhD

2017 Recipient
Brian Bass, MWC

2016 Recipient
Flo Witte, PhD, ELS

2015 Recipient
Helen E. Hodgson, PhD

2014 Recipient
J. Patrick Barron

2013 Recipient
Cindy Hamilton, PharmD, ELS

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 award presented

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 Recipients
William B. Bean, MD
Frank Netter, MD

1968 Recipient
No award presented

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.

 

Golden Apple Award

2025 Recipient
Andrea Gwosdow, PhD

 

2024 Recipient
Kathy Spiegel, PhD, MWC

 

2023 Recipient
Hope Lafferty, AM, ELS

 

2022 Recipient
Brian Bass, MWC

2021 Recipient
Aaron Bernstein, PhD

 

2019 Recipient
Michael L. Schneir, PhD

2018 Recipient

Art Gertel

 

2017 Recipient

Dominic De Bellis, PhD

 

2016 Recipient
Jill Shuman, MS, ELS

2015 Recipient
No award presented

2014 Recipient
Thomas Gegeny, MS, ELS

 

2013 Recipient
Lanie Adamson, MS

2012 Recipient
Peggy Boe, RN

2011 Recipient
Cindy W. Hamilton, PharmD, ELS

2010 Recipient
Mary E. Knatterud, PhD

2009 Recipient
Larry Liberti, RPh, RAC

2008 Recipient
Sharon Nancekivell, MA

2007 Recipient
Mary Ann Foote, PhD

2006 Recipient
Bart Harvey, MD, PhD

2005 Recipient
Susan Aiello, DVM, ELS

2004 Recipient
Elliott Churchill, MS, MA

2003 Recipient
Jessica Ancker, ELS, MPH

2002 Recipient
No award presented

2001 Recipient
Nancy D. Taylor, PhD, ELS

2000 Recipient
Joel H. Tau

1999 Recipient
Flo Witte, MA, ELS 

1998 Recipient
Marianne Mallia, ELS

1997 Recipient
Helen E. Hodgson, PhD

1996 Recipient
Joan N. Nilson

1995 Recipient
No award presented

1994 Recipient
Thomas A. Lang, MA

1993 Recipient
Barbara Gastel, MD, MPH

1992 Recipient
Cathryn D. Evans

1991 Recipient
Michael F. Bruckner, MA

1990 Recipient
C. Kelley Williams

1989 Recipient
Guy Whitehead, PhD

1989 Recipient
Edith Schwager

1988 Recipient
Martha M. Tacker, PhD

1987 Recipient
Howard M. Smith, MA

1986 Recipient
Donald Radcliffe