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Recipients of American Medical Association Awards

AMA Medal of Valor
Distinguished Service Award
Citation For Distinguished Service
Scientific Achievement Award
Benjamin Rush Award For Citizenship And Community Service
President's Citation For Service To The Public
Joseph B. Goldberger Award In Clinical Nutrition
Dr. William Beaumont Award In Medicine
AMA Foundation Award For Health Education
Isaac Hays, MD and John Bell, MD Award For Leadership In Medical Ethics And Professionalism
Medical Executive Achievement Award
Medical Executive Lifetime Achievement Award
Medical Executive Meritorious Achievement Award
Special Award For Meritorious Service

AMA Medal Of Valor

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James M. Betts, MD, Oakland, California
John Richard Laramore, BS, Houston, Texas
Michael E. Carey, MD
Betty Jeanne Oseid, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
Lorraine M. Giordano, MD, Jamaica, New York
Oklahoma County Medical Society
Paul A. Matera, MD, Annapolis, Maryland
David A. Tarantino, Jr., MD, Alexandria, Virginia
David C. Rutstein, MD, Silver Spring, Maryland
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Distinguished Service Award

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Rudolph Matas, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
James B. Herrick, MD, Chicago, Illinois
Chevalier Jackson, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
James Ewing, MD, New York, New York
Ludvig Hektoen, MD, Chicago, Illinois
Elliott P. Joslin, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
George Dock, MD, Pasadena, California
George R. Minot, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Anton J. Carlson, PhD, Chicago, Illinois
Henry A. Christian, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Isaac A. Abt, MD, Chicago, Illinois
Seale Harris, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
Evarts A. Graham, MD, St. Louis, Missouri
Allen C. Whipple, MD, New York, New York
Paul Dudley White, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Alfred Blalock, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
W. Wayne Bobcock, MD, Philadelphia
Donald C. Balfour, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
Walter L. Bierring, MD, Des Moines, Iowa
Tom Douglas Spies, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
Frank H. Krusen, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
Michael E. DeBakey, MD, Houston, Texas
Charles Doan, MD, Columbus, Ohio
Walter H. Judd, MD, Washington, DC/Minneapolis, Minnesota
Russell L. Cecil, MD, New York, New York
Lester R. Dragstedt, MD, Gainesville, Florida
Irvine H. Page, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
Tinsley R. Harrison, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
Warren H. Cole, MD, Chicago, Illinois
E.W. Alton Ochsner, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
Owen H. Wangesteen, MD, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jay Arnold Bargen, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Henry L. Bockus, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
George R. Herrmann, MD, Galveston, Texas
Milton Helpern, MD, New York, New York
George Hoyt Whipple, MD, Rochester, New York
William Fouts House, MD, Los Angeles, California
William R. Willard, MD, Moundville, Alabama
Claude E. Welch, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Franz J. Ingelfinger, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
William P. Longmire, Jr., MD, Los Angeles, California
William A. Sodeman, Sr., MD, Toledo, Ohio
Frank H. Mayfield, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio
John W. Kirklin, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
J. Englebert Dunphy, MD, San Francisco, California
Merrill O. Hines, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
William D. Holden, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
George Valter Brindley, Jr., MD, Temple, Texas
Kenneth M. Brinkhous, MD, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Raymond T. Holden, MD, Washington, District of Columbia
M.T. "Pepper" Jenkins, MD, Dallas, Texas
Eben Alexander, Jr., MD, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Clarence S. Livingood, MD, Detroit, Michigan
John M. Smith, Jr., MD, San Antonio, Texas
W. Montague Cobb, MD, Washington, District of Columbia
John Henry Burkhart, MD, Knoxville, Tennessee
John W. Eckstein, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
John J. Conley, MD, New York, New York
Seymour F. Ochsner, MD, Metairie, Louisiana
Henry P. Pendergrass, MD, Nashville, Tennessee
Charles A. LeMaistre, MD, Bellaire, Texas
Theodore Englas Woodward, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
William R. Felts, MD, Washington, District of Columbia
David B. Carmichael, MD, LaJolla, California
Denton A. Cooley, MD, Houston, Texas
Jack Perry Strong, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
Luther W. Brady, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Edwin Lawrence Kendig, MD, Richmond, Virginia
John G. Wiegenstein, MD, Okemos, Michigan
David W. Furnas, MD, Orange, California
Frank A. Riddick, Jr., MD, FACP, New Orleans, Louisiana
F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD, Lexington, Kentucky
John E. Chapman, MD, Nashville, Tennessee
Dennis S. O'Leary, MD, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois
RADM William Craig Vanderwagen, MD, Columbia, Maryland
Richard Allen, MD, Portland, Oregon
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Citation For Distinguished Service

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Reverend Alphonse M. Schwitalla, SJ
Howard W. Blakeslee
Henry Viscardi
Gobind Behari Lal
Charles W. Sewall
M. Lowell Edwards
Danny Thomas
John D. Rockefeller, III
John S. Millis, PhD
J. Raymond Knighton
Malcolm P. Aldrich
Mac F. Cahal
Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope
Nathan Stark
Harry Schwartz
Charles Lindbergh (special award, posthumously)
Honorable Paul Rogers
Reverend Edward J. Moffett, MM
J. Ed McConnell
J. Alexander McMahon
Ann Landers
Howard Hassard
Foster G. McGaw
William C. Stronach (posthumously)
Claron L. Oakley
Joe D. Miller
Mrs. Don D. (Sybil) Harrington
Bernice M. Hemphill
William R. Ramsey
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil H. Green
Bill Cosby, EdD
C. Lincoln Williston and Philip R. Overton
Earl R. Thayer, Madison, Wisconsin
Ralph R. Marshall, Albuquerque, New Mexico
C. Joseph Stetler, Potomac, Maryland
Edward A. Eckenhoff, Washington, District of Columbia
Betty Ford, Rancho Mirage, California
Jerry Lewis, New York, New York
Hart F. Page, Worthington, Ohio
John F. Rineman, Lemoyne, Pennsylvania
Brereton C. Jones, Midway, Kentucky
Harold W. Brunn, St. Paul, Minnesota
Howard E. Cartwright, Lake Forest, Illinois
Robert J. Keeshan, New York, New York
Alfred S. Ercolano, Alexandria, Virginia
Lew R. Wasserman, New York, New York
M.E. Ensminger, PhD
Audrey H. Ensminger, MS, Clovis, California
William D. Nelligan, Damascus, Maryland
Frederick Downs, Jr., Washington, District of Columbia
Zachary Fisher, New York, New York
Fred Rogers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
L. Hadley Williams, Nashville, Tennessee
Chrissie W. Collins, Turlock, California
Don F. Foy, St. Augustine, Florida
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
Robert H. Elsner, San Francisco, California
Nicholas M. Griffin, Chicago, Illinois
Jim Murray, Rosemont, Pennsylvania
Larry Gelbart, Beverly Hills, California
Richard Verville, JD, Washington, DC
Joanne A. Zeis, Uxbridge, Massachusetts
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Scientific Achievement Award

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Donald D. Van Slyke, PhD, Upton, New York
John F. Enders, Phd, Boston, Massachusetts
Rene J. Dubos, PhD, New York, New York
Edward C. Kendall, PhD, Princeton, New Jersey
Wendell M. Stanley, PhD, Berkeley, California
Gregory Pincus, ScD, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Arthur Kornberg, MD, Palo Alto, California
Philip Handler, PhD, Durham, North Carolina
Choh Hao Li, Phd, Berkley, California
Robert B. Woodward, MD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
William Bennett Kouwenhoven, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
Edith Hinkley Quimby, ScD, Palo Alto, California
Philip Abelson, PhD, Washington, District of Columbia
Rosalyn Yalow, PhD, Bronx, New York
Solomon A. Berson, MD (posthumously)
Harry Goldblatt, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
Helen B. Taussig, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
F. Mason Sones, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
Orvan W. Hess, MD, New Haven, Connecticut
Harold E. Kleinert, MD, Louisville, Kentucky
Hans von Leden, MD, Los Angeles, California
Willem J. Kolff, PhD, Salt Lake City, Utah
Maurice R. Hillerman, PhD, West Point, Pennsylvania
Maurice J. Jurkiewicz, MD, Atlanta, Georgia
Solomon H. Snyder, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
George Edward Burch, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
Norman E. Shumway, MD, Stanford, California
Harriet P. Dustan, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
John G. Morrison, MD, Piedmont, California
Arthur C. Guyton, MD, Jackson, Mississippi
Henry Nicholas Wagner, Jr., MD, Baltimore, Maryland
Byrl J. "B.J." Kennedy, MD, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Juan A. del Regato, MD, Tampa, Florida
William H. Beierwaltes, MD, Grosse Point Park, Michigan
Carl R. Hartrampf, Jr., MD, Atlanta, Georgia
Frank G. Moody, MD, Houston, Texas
Alfred B. Swanson, MD, Grand Rapids, Michigan
E. Harvey Estes, MD, Raleigh, North Carolina
Charles S. Lieber, MD, Bronx, New York
Tom Maniatis, MD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, Bethesda, Maryland
David Baltimore, PhD, Pasadena, California
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Benjamin Rush Award For Citizenship And Community Service

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Honorable Otis R. Bowen, MD, Governor of Indiana
Charles E. Robert Parker, MD, Montgomery, Alabama
Francis E. West, Md, San Diego, California
Mario E. Ramirez, MD, Rio Grande City, Texas
Luis Martin Perez, MD, Sanford, Florida
Honorable Tim Lee Carter, MD, Congressman from Kentucky
Robert E. Rice, MD, Greenville, Michigan
Jean B.J. Perdue, MD, Miami Beach, Florida
Charles B. Wheeler, Jr., MD, Kansas City, Missouri
Roger O. Egeberg, MD, Miami Beach, Florida
Richard S. Hodes, MD, Tampa, Florida
Samuel R. Sherman, MD, San Francisco, California
George H. Mills, MD, Honolulu, Hawaii
Henrietta Herbolsheimer, MD, Chicago, Illinois
Joseph T. Ainsworth, MD, Houston, Texas
Mason Cooke Andrews, MD, Norfolk, Virginia
Armand Hammer, MD, Los Angeles, California
Theodore J. Castele, MD, Fairview Park, Ohio
Ralph Crawshaw, MD, Portland, Oregon
George S. Malouf, MD, Hyattsville, Maryland
Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD, Bethesda, Maryland
James A. Kaufmann, MD, Atlanta, Georgia
Gerold Ludwig Schiebler, MD, Gainesville, Florida
Representative J. Roy Rowland, MD, Dublin, Georgia
William O. Robertson, MD, Seattle, Washington
Clarence A. Holland, MD, Virginia Berach, Virginia
Ronald H. Levine, MD. Raleigh, North Carolina
Calvin C. Sia, MD, Honolulu, Hawaii
William F. Sprague, MD, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Phil H. Berry, Jr., MD, Dallas, Texas
Kermit L. Newcomer, MD, La Crosse, Wisconsin
John A. (Tony) Herring, MD, Dallas, Texas
David F. Der, MD, Oakland, California
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President's Citation For Service To The Public

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Kentucky Medical Association
American Academy of Ophthalmology
Forsythe-Stokes-Davie County Medical Society
Sociedad Medica Del Sur, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Massachusetts Medical Society and
Massachusetts Medical Society Alliance
American College of Radiology
American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Minnesota Medical Association
Riverside County Medical Association, Riverside, California
Sacramento-El Dorado Medical Society, Sacramento, California
Jefferson County Medical Society, Louisville, Kentucky
Harris County Medical Society, Houston, Texas
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Joseph B. Goldberger Award In Clinical Nutrition

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Randolph West, MD, New York, New York
Fuller Albright, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
W. Henry Sebrell, Jr., MD, New York, New York
James S. McLester, MD, Birmingham, Alabama
Russell M. Wilder, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
Paul Gyorgy, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Virgil P. Sydenstricker, MD, Augusta, Georgia
Cael V. Moore, MD, St. Louis, Missouri
Richard W. Vilter, MD, Cincinnati, Ohio
Frederick J. Stare, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Edward A. Park, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
John B. Youmans, MD, New York, New York
William J. Darby, MD, Nashville, Tennessee
Grace A. Goldsmith, MD, New Orleans, Louisiana
William B. Castle, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Cicely D. Williams, MD, London, England
Emmett Holt, Jr., MD, New York, New York
Kevin S. Scrimshaw, MD, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jonathan E. Rhoads, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Stanley J. Dudrick, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
John E. Canham, MD, Denver, Colorado
Robert E. Hodges, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
George G. Graham, MD, Baltimore, Maryland
Clement A. Finch, MD, Seattle, Washington
Robert E. Olson, MD, St. Louis, Missouri
Ananda S. Prasad, MD, Detroit, Michigan
Charles E. Butterworth, Jr., MD, Birmingham, Alabama
George F. Cahill, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Lloyd J. Filer, Jr., MD, Iowa City, Iowa
Robert W. Wissler, MD, Chicago, Illinois
Russell B. Scobie, MD, Newburgh, New York
Hilde Bruch, MD, Houston, Texas
Roy M. Pitkin, MD, Iowa City, Iowa
Maurice E. Shils, MD, New York, New York
Lewis A. Barness, MD, Tampa, Florida
Theodore B. Van Itallie, MD, New York, New York
Albert J. Stunkard, MD, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Daphne A. Roe, MD, Ithaca, New York
Edwin L. Bierman, MD, Seattle, Washington
Joel Yager, MD, Los Angeles, California
Elaine Bossak Feldman, MD, Brooklyn, New York
Charles D. Davidson, MD. Truro, Massachusetts
Charles H. Halsted, MD, Davis, California
Laurence Finberg, MD, Brooklyn, New York
George A. Bray, MD, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
David B. Herzog, MD, West Newton, Massachusetts
Jules Hirsch, MD, New York, New York
Hans Steiner, MD, Stanford, California
Michael M. Meguid, MD, Syracuse, New York
George L. Blackburn, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
M. Molly McMahon, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
Philip M. Farrell, MD, PhD, Madison, Wisconsin
Bruce R. Bistrian, MD, PhD, Boston, Massachusetts
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Dr. William Beaumont Award In Medicine

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Lawrence L. Weed, MD, Vermont
Thomas E. Starzl, MD, Colorado
Stanley J. Dudrick, MD, Texas
Alton I. Sutnick, MD, Pennsylvania
Theodore Cooper, MD, District of Columbia
H. Belton P. Meyer, MD, Arizona
H. William Strauss, MD, Massachusetts
John B. McCraw, MD, Virginia
Howard Schatz, MD, California
David R. Challoner, MD, Missouri
William H. Foege, MD, Georgia
F. Douglas Scutchfield, MD, California
Bergein Frederick Overhold, MD, Tennessee
Peter O. Kohler, MD, Texas
Anthony S. Faucii, MD, Maryland
Anthonio Damasio, MD, Iowa
John C. Morrison, MD, Mississippi
John R. Delfs, MD, Massachusetts
Allen D. Elster, MD, North Carolina
Steven Edward Harms, Texas
Jeffrey M. Isner, MD, Massachusetts
Eric J. Topol, MD, Ohio
Daniel J. Sucato, MD, Dallas, Texas
Boris D. Lushniak, MD, Rockville, Maryland
Kristin Melissa Bell, MD, Encinitas, California
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AMA Foundation Award For Health Education

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Donald M. Keith, MD, Seattle, Washington
C. Douglas Talbott, MD, Smyrna, Georgia
C. Everett Koop, MD, Rockville, Maryland
Julius B. Richmond, MD, Boston, Massachusetts
Paul Volberding, MD, San Francisco, California
Michael Rosenbluth, MD, New York, New York
Sam A. Nixon, MD, Houston, Texas
Bobby Q. Lanier, MD, Fort Worth, Texas
Jerome P. Kassirer, MD, Weston, Massachusetts
Robert (Bobby) Brown, MD, Fort Worth, Texas
Duncan William Clark, MD, Brooklyn, New York
David C. Lewis, MD, Providence, Rhode Island
Stephen L. Hansen, MD, San Luis Obispo, California
Elaine J. Alpert, MD, Newton, Massachusetts
Ronald A. Arky, MD, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Alice A. Tolbert Coombs, MD, Sharon, Massachusetts
Dileep Bal, MD, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii
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Isaac Hays, MD and John Bell, MD Award For Leadership In Medical Ethics And Professionalism

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

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Medical Executive Achievement Award

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

Medical Executive Lifetime Achievement Award

2006 Jerry Slaughter, Topeka, Kansas

2007

William T. Applegate, Louisville, Kentucky
Richard R. King, Indianapolis, Indiana
Robert K. Seehusen, Boise, Idaho

Medical Executive Meritorious Achievement Award

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

Special Award For Meritorious Service

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