AMA Award Recipients

1990 - James M. Betts, MD, Oakland, California
1992 - John Richard Laramore, BS, Houston, Texas
1994 - Michael E. Carey, MD
          Betty Jeanne Oseid, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
1995 - Lorraine M. Giordano, MD, Jamaica, New York
1996 - Oklahoma County Medical Society
1998 - Paul A. Matera, MD, Annapolis, Maryland
2003 - David A. Tarantino, Jr., MD, Alexandria, Virginia
2006 - David C. Rutstein, MD, Silver Spring, Maryland

1938 - Rudolph Matas, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
1939 - James B. Herrick, MD, Chicago, Illinois
1940 - Chevalier Jackson, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1941 - James Ewing, MD, New York, New York
1942 - Ludvig Hektoen, MD, Chicago, Illinois
1943 - Elliott P. Joslin, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1944 - George Dock, MD, Pasadena, California
1945 - George R. Minot, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1946 - Anton J. Carlson, PhD, Chicago, Illinois
1947 - Henry A. Christian, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1948 - Isaac A. Abt, MD, Chicago, Illinois
1949 - Seale Harris, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
1950 - Evarts A. Graham, MD, St. Louis, Missouri
1951 - Allen C. Whipple, MD, New York, New York
1952 - Paul Dudley White, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1953 - Alfred Blalock, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
1954 - W. Wayne Bobcock, MD, Philadelphia
1955 - Donald C. Balfour, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
1956 - Walter L. Bierring, MD, Des Moines, Iowa
1957 - Tom Douglas Spies, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
1958 - Frank H. Krusen, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
1959 - Michael E. DeBakey, MD, Houston, Texas
1960 - Charles Doan, MD, Columbus, Ohio
1961 - Walter H. Judd, MD, Washington, DC/Minneapolis, Minnesota
1962 - Russell L. Cecil, MD, New York, New York
1963 - Lester R. Dragstedt, MD, Gainesville, Florida
1964 - Irvine H. Page, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
1965 - Tinsley R. Harrison, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
1966 - Warren H. Cole, MD, Chicago, Illinois
1967 - E.W. Alton Ochsner, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
1968 - Owen H. Wangesteen, MD, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1969 - Jay Arnold Bargen, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1970 - Henry L. Bockus, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1971 - George R. Herrmann, MD, Galveston, Texas
1972 - Milton Helpern, MD, New York, New York
1973 - George Hoyt Whipple, MD, Rochester, New York
1974 - William Fouts House, MD, Los Angeles, California
1975 - William R. Willard, MD, Moundville, Alabama
1976 - Claude E. Welch, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1977 - Franz J. Ingelfinger, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1978 - William P. Longmire, Jr., MD, Los Angeles, California
1979 - William A. Sodeman, Sr., MD, Toledo, Ohio
1980 - Frank H. Mayfield, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio
1981 - John W. Kirklin, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
1982 - J. Englebert Dunphy, MD, San Francisco, California
1983 - Merrill O. Hines, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
1984 - William D. Holden, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
1985 - George Valter Brindley, Jr., MD, Temple, Texas
1986 - Kenneth M. Brinkhous, MD, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1987 - Raymond T. Holden, MD, Washington, District of Columbia
1988 - M.T. "Pepper" Jenkins, MD, Dallas, Texas
1989 - Eben Alexander, Jr., MD, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1990 - Clarence S. Livingood, MD, Detroit, Michigan   John M. Smith, Jr., MD, San Antonio, Texas
1991 - W. Montague Cobb, MD, Washington, District of Columbia   John Henry Burkhart, MD, Knoxville, Tennessee
1992 - John W. Eckstein, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
1993 - John J. Conley, MD, New York, New York   Seymour F. Ochsner, MD, Metairie, Louisiana
1994 - Henry P. Pendergrass, MD, Nashville, Tennessee
1995 - Charles A. LeMaistre, MD, Bellaire, Texas   Theodore Englas Woodward, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
1996 - William R. Felts, MD, Washington, District of Columbia
1997 - David B. Carmichael, MD, LaJolla, California   Denton A. Cooley, MD, Houston, Texas
1998 - Jack Perry Strong, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
1999 - Luther W. Brady, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 - Edwin Lawrence Kendig, MD, Richmond, Virginia
2001 - John G. Wiegenstein, MD, Okemos, Michigan
2002 - David W. Furnas, MD, Orange, California
2003 - Frank A. Riddick, Jr., MD, FACP, New Orleans, Louisiana
          F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD, Lexington, Kentucky
2004 - John E. Chapman, MD, Nashville, Tennessee
2005 - Dennis S. O'Leary, MD, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois
2006 - RADM William Craig Vanderwagen, MD, Columbia, Maryland
2007 - Richard Allen, MD, Portland, Oregon
2008 - James F. Arens, MD, Bayfield, Colorado

1948 - Reverend Alphonse M. Schwitalla, SJ
1952 - Howard W. Blakeslee
1957 - Henry Viscardi
1958 - Gobind Behari Lal   Charles W. Sewall
1963 - M. Lowell Edwards
1966 - Danny Thomas
1969 - John D. Rockefeller, III
1970 - John S. Millis, PhD
1971 - J. Raymond Knighton   Malcolm P. Aldrich
1972 - Mac F. Cahal
1973 - Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope
1974 - Nathan Stark
1975 - Harry Schwartz   Charles Lindbergh (special award, posthumously)
1976 - Honorable Paul Rogers
1977 - Reverend Edward J. Moffett, MM
1978 - J. Ed McConnell   J. Alexander McMahon
1979 - Ann Landers
1980 - Howard Hassard
1981 - Foster G. McGaw   William C. Stronach (posthumously)
1982 - Claron L. Oakley   Joe D. Miller
1983 - Mrs. Don D. (Sybil) Harrington
1984 - Bernice M. Hemphill   William R. Ramsey
1985 - Mr. and Mrs. Cecil H. Green
1986 - Bill Cosby, EdD
          C. Lincoln Williston and
          Philip R. Overton
1987 - Earl R. Thayer, Madison, Wisconsin
1988 - Ralph R. Marshall, Albuquerque, New Mexico
          C. Joseph Stetler, Potomac, Maryland
          Edward A. Eckenhoff, Washington, District of Columbia
1989 - Betty Ford, Rancho Mirage, California
          Jerry Lewis, New York, New York
          Hart F. Page, Worthington, Ohio
          John F. Rineman, Lemoyne, Pennsylvania
1990 - Brereton C. Jones, Midway, Kentucky
          Harold W. Brunn, St. Paul, Minnesota
          Howard E. Cartwright, Lake Forest, Illinois
1991 - Robert J. Keeshan, New York, New York
1992 - Alfred S. Ercolano, Alexandria, Virginia
          Lew R. Wasserman, New York, New York
1993 - M.E. Ensminger, PhD
          Audrey H. Ensminger, MS, Clovis, California
          William D. Nelligan, Damascus, Maryland
1994 - Frederick Downs, Jr., Washington, District of Columbia
          Zachary Fisher, New York, New York
1995 - Fred Rogers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
          L. Hadley Williams, Nashville, Tennessee
1996 - Chrissie W. Collins, Turlock, California
          Don F. Foy, St. Augustine, Florida
1997 - David Bickham, Edmond, Oklahoma
          Robert G. Cox, Louisiana, Kentucky
          Eldon E. Huston, Des Moines, Iowa
          Otha W. Linton, Potomac, Maryland
          Robert G. Mickey, Austin, Texas
1998 - Robert H. Elsner, San Francisco, California
          Nicholas M. Griffin, Chicago, Illinois
1999 - Jim Murray, Rosemont, Pennsylvania
2001 - Larry Gelbart, Beverly Hills, California
2004-  Richard Verville, JD, Washington, DC
2006 - Joanne A. Zeis, Uxbridge, Massachusetts

1962 - Donald D. Van Slyke, PhD, Upton, New York
1963 - John F. Enders, Phd, Boston, Massachusetts
1964 - Rene J. Dubos, PhD, New York, New York
1965 - Edward C. Kendall, PhD, Princeton, New Jersey
1966 - Wendell M. Stanley, PhD, Berkeley, California
1967 - Gregory Pincus, ScD, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
1968 - Arthur Kornberg, MD, Palo Alto, California
1969 - Philip Handler, PhD, Durham, North Carolina
1970 - Choh Hao Li, Phd, Berkley, California
1971 - Robert B. Woodward, MD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1972 - William Bennett Kouwenhoven, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
1973 - Edith Hinkley Quimby, ScD, Palo Alto, California
1974 - Philip Abelson, PhD, Washington, District of Columbia
1975 - Rosalyn Yalow, PhD, Bronx, New York
          Solomon A. Berson, MD (posthumously)
1976 - Harry Goldblatt, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
1977 - Helen B. Taussig, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
1978 - F. Mason Sones, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
1979 - Orvan W. Hess, MD, New Haven, Connecticut
1980 - Harold E. Kleinert, MD, Louisville, Kentucky
1981 - Hans von Leden, MD, Los Angeles, California
1982 - Willem J. Kolff, PhD, Salt Lake City, Utah
1983 - Maurice R. Hillerman, PhD, West Point, Pennsylvania
1984 - Maurice J. Jurkiewicz, MD, Atlanta, Georgia
1985 - Solomon H. Snyder, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
1986 - George Edward Burch, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
1987 - Norman E. Shumway, MD, Stanford, California
1988 - Harriet P. Dustan, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
1989 - John G. Morrison, MD, Piedmont, California
1990 - Arthur C. Guyton, MD, Jackson, Mississippi
1991 - Henry Nicholas Wagner, Jr., MD, Baltimore, Maryland
1992 - Byrl J. "B.J." Kennedy, MD, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1993 - Juan A. del Regato, MD, Tampa, Florida
1994 - William H. Beierwaltes, MD, Grosse Point Park, Michigan
1995 - Carl R. Hartrampf, Jr., MD, Atlanta, Georgia
          Frank G. Moody, MD, Houston, Texas
1996 - Alfred B. Swanson, MD, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1997 - E. Harvey Estes, MD, Raleigh, North Carolina
1998 - Charles S. Lieber, MD, Bronx, New York
2000 - Tom Maniatis, MD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2001 - Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, Bethesda, Maryland
2002 - David Baltimore, PhD, Pasadena, California

1973 - Honorable Otis R. Bowen, MD, Governor of Indiana
1974 - Charles E. Robert Parker, MD, Montgomery, Alabama
1975 - Francis E. West, Md, San Diego, California
1976 - Mario E. Ramirez, MD, Rio Grande City, Texas
1977 - Luis Martin Perez, MD, Sanford, Florida
1978 - Honorable Tim Lee Carter, MD, Congressman from Kentucky
1980 - Robert E. Rice, MD, Greenville, Michigan
1981 - Jean B.J. Perdue, MD, Miami Beach, Florida
          Charles B. Wheeler, Jr., MD, Kansas City, Missouri
1982 - Roger O. Egeberg, MD, Miami Beach, Florida
1983 - Richard S. Hodes, MD, Tampa, Florida
          Samuel R. Sherman, MD, San Francisco, California
1984 - George H. Mills, MD, Honolulu, Hawaii
1985 - Henrietta Herbolsheimer, MD, Chicago, Illinois
1986 - Joseph T. Ainsworth, MD, Houston, Texas
1987 - Mason Cooke Andrews, MD, Norfolk, Virginia
1988 - Armand Hammer, MD, Los Angeles, California
1989 - Theodore J. Castele, MD, Fairview Park, Ohio
1990 - Ralph Crawshaw, MD, Portland, Oregon
1991 - George S. Malouf, MD, Hyattsville, Maryland
1992 - Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Bethesda, Maryland
1993 - James A. Kaufmann, MD, Atlanta, Georgia
          Gerold Ludwig Schiebler, MD, Gainesville, Florida
1994 - Representative J. Roy Rowland, MD, Dublin, Georgia
1995 - William O. Robertson, MD, Seattle, Washington
1996 - Clarence A. Holland, MD, Virginia Berach, Virginia
1997 - Ronald H. Levine, MD. Raleigh, North Carolina
1998 - Calvin C. Sia, MD, Honolulu, Hawaii
1999 - William F. Sprague, MD, Grand Rapids, Michigan
2000 - Phil H. Berry, Jr., MD, Dallas, Texas
2003 - Kermit L. Newcomer, MD, La Crosse, Wisconsin
2005 - John A. (Tony) Herring, MD, Dallas, Texas
2006 - David F. Der, MD, Oakland, California

1988 - Kentucky Medical Association
1989 - American Academy of Ophthalmology
1990 - Forsythe-Stokes-Davie County Medical Society
1991 - Sociedad Medica Del Sur, Ponce, Puerto Rico
1993 - Massachusetts Medical Society and Massachusetts Medical Society Alliance
1994 - American College of Radiology
1995 - American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
1996 - Minnesota Medical Association
1998 - Riverside County Medical Association, Riverside, California
          Sacramento-El Dorado Medical Society, Sacramento, California
1999 - Jefferson County Medical Society, Louisville, Kentucky
2006 - Harris County Medical Society, Houston, Texas

1949 - Randolph West, MD, New York, New York
1951 - Fuller Albright, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1952 - W. Henry Sebrell, Jr., MD, New York, New York
1953 - James S. McLester, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
1954 - Russell M. Wilder, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
1957 - Paul Gyorgy, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1958 - Virgil P. Sydenstricker, MD, Augusta, Georgia
1959 - Cael V. Moore, MD, St. Louis, Missouri
1960 - Richard W. Vilter, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio
1961 - Frederick J. Stare, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1962 - Edward A. Park, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
1963 - John B. Youmans, MD, New York, New York
1964 - William J. Darby, MD, Nashville, Tennessee
1965 - Grace A. Goldsmith, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
1966 - William B. Castle, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1967 - Cicely D. Williams, MD, London, England
1968 - Emmett Holt, Jr., MD, New York, New York
1969 - Kevin S. Scrimshaw, MD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1970 - Jonathan E. Rhoads, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Stanley J. Dudrick, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1971 - John E. Canham, MD, Denver, Colorado Robert E. Hodges, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
1972 - George G. Graham, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
1973 - Clement A. Finch, MD, Seattle, Washington
1974 - Robert E. Olson, MD, St. Louis, Missouri
1975 - Ananda S. Prasad, MD, Detroit, Michigan
1976 - Charles E. Butterworth, Jr., MD, Birmingham, Alabama
1977 - George F. Cahill, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1978 - Lloyd J. Filer, Jr., MD, Iowa City, Iowa
1979 - Robert W. Wissler, MD, Chicago, Illinois
1980 - Russell B. Scobie, MD, Newburgh, New York
1981 - Hilde Bruch, MD, Houston, Texas
1982 - Roy M. Pitkin, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
1983 - Maurice E. Shils, MD, New York, New York
1984 - Lewis A. Barness, MD, Tampa, Florida
1985 - Theodore B. Van Itallie, MD, New York, New York
1986 - Albert J. Stunkard, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1987 - Daphne A. Roe, MD, Ithaca, New York
1988 - Edwin L. Bierman, MD, Seattle, Washington
1989 - Joel Yager, MD, Los Angeles, California
1990 - Elaine Bossak Feldman, MD, Brooklyn, New York
1991 - Charles D. Davidson, MD. Truro, Massachusetts
1992 - Charles H. Halsted, MD, Davis, California
1993 - Laurence Finberg, MD, Brooklyn, New York
1994 - George A. Bray, MD, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
          David B. Herzog, MD, West Newton, Massachusetts
1995 - Jules Hirsch, MD, New York, New York
1996 - Hans Steiner, MD, Stanford, California
1997 - Michael M. Meguid, MD, Syracuse, New York
1998 - George L. Blackburn, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
2000 - M. Molly McMahon, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
2001 - Philip M. Farrell, MD, PhD, Madison, Wisconsin
2004 - Bruce R. Bistrian, MD, PhD, Boston, Massachusetts

1973 - Lawrence L. Weed, MD, Vermont
1974 - Thomas E. Starzl, MD, Colorado
1975 - Stanley J. Dudrick, MD, Texas
1976 - Alton I. Sutnick, MD, Pennsylvania
1977 - Theodore Cooper, MD, District of Columbia
1978 - H. Belton P. Meyer, MD, Arizona
1979 - H. William Strauss, MD, Massachusetts
1980 - John B. McCraw, MD, Virginia
1981 - Howard Schatz, MD, California
1982 - David R. Challoner, MD, Missouri
1983 - William H. Foege, MD, Georgia
1985 - F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD, California
1986 - Bergein Frederick Overhold, MD, Tennessee
1988 - Peter O. Kohler, MD, Texas
1989 - Anthony S. Faucii, MD, Maryland
1990 - Anthonio Damasio, MD, Iowa
1991 - John C. Morrison, MD, Mississippi
1993 - John R. Delfs, MD, Massachusetts
1994 - Allen D. Elster, MD, North Carolina
1995 - Steven Edward Harms, Texas
1996 - Jeffrey M. Isner, MD, Massachusetts
2002 - Eric J. Topol, MD, Ohio
2005 - Daniel J. Sucato, MD, Dallas, Texas
2006 - Boris D. Lushniak, MD, Rockville, Maryland
2007 - Kristin Melissa Bell, MD, Encinitas, California

1986 - Donald M. Keith, MD, Seattle, Washington C.
          Douglas Talbott, MD, Smyrna, Georgia
1987 - C. Everett Koop, MD, Rockville, Maryland
1988 - Julius B. Richmond, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 - Paul Volberding, MD, San Francisco, California
1990 - Michael Rosenbluth, MD, New York, New York
1991 - Sam A. Nixon, MD, Houston, Texas
1992 - Bobby Q. Lanier, MD, Fort Worth, Texas
1993 - Jerome P. Kassirer, MD, Weston, Massachusetts
1994 - Robert (Bobby) Brown, MD, Fort Worth, Texas
1995 - Duncan William Clark, MD, Brooklyn, New York
1997 - David C. Lewis, MD, Providence, Rhode Island
1998 - Stephen L. Hansen, MD, San Luis Obispo, California
1999 - Elaine J. Alpert, MD, Newton, Massachusetts
2000 - Ronald A. Arky, MD, Wellesley, Massachusetts
2006 - Alice A. Tolbert Coombs, MD, Sharon, Massachusetts
2007 - Dileep Bal, MD, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii

1998 - Fred Rosner, MD, Jamaica, New York
1999 - Robert D. Orr, MD, Loma Linda, California
2004 - Jay A. Jacobson, MD, Salt Lake City, Utah
2005 - Donald E. Saunders, Jr., MD, Columbia, South Carolina
2006 - Frederick R. Abrams, MD, Cherry Hills Village, Colorado
2007 - Paul Stuart Appelbaum, MD, New York, New York

1997 - Melvin Sabshin, MD, Washington, District of Columbia
          Jerome C. Goldstein, MD, Washington, District of Columbia
1998 - Stanford Leonidas (Lon) Conner, MPA, Montgomery, Alabama
          Charles L. Matthews, Jackson, Mississippi
          James F. Callahan, DPA, Chevy Chase, Maryland
          Robert W. Seligson, Raleigh, North Carolina
1999 - Bradford W. Claxton, M.Ed, CAE, Schaumburg, Illinois
          William E. Madigan and Kevin A. Kelly, East Lansing, Michigan
          Virginia Q. Anthony, BA, Washington, District of Columbia
          Robert Dernedde, CAE and
          James Kronenberg, CAE, Portland, Oregon
2000 - Marie Zinninger, RN, BS, MSN, Reston, Virginia
          William F. Mahon, Columbia, South Carolina
2001 - Donald C. Jones, Jacksonville, Florida
          Roger F. Mecum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
2002 - John J. Curry, Reston, Virginia
          Gordon Ronald Garrett, EdD, CAE, Saint Louis, Missouri
2003 - Gary A. Gatza, JD, New York, New York
2004 - Thomas J. Curry, Portland Oregon
          Thomas R. Russell, MD, FACS, Chicago, Illinois
2005 - Dolores L. Green, Riverside, California
          Jon Hornaday, Austin, Texas
          H. Dunbar Hoskins, Jr., MD, San Francisco, California
          Timothy B. Norbeck, New Haven, Connecticut
          C. C. "Cork" Swarens, Jefferson City, Missouri

2006 - Jerry Slaughter, Topeka, Kansas
2007 - William T. Applegate, Louisville, Kentucky
          Richard R. King, Indianapolis, Indiana
          Robert K. Seehusen, Boise, Idaho

2006 - Evan H. Jenkins, Charleston, West Virginia
          Sandra B. Mortham, Tallahassee, Florida
          Dave L. Tarver, Prairieville, Louisiana
2007 - Arthur R. Ellenberger, Verona, New Jersey
          Scott Hunt, Washington, DC

1999 - T. Reginald Harris, MD, Shelby, North Carolina (Posthumous)