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AMA award recipients

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
1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1998 2003 2006	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
Top of page Distinguished Service Award
1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007	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
Top of page Citation For Distinguished Service
1948 1952 1957 1958 1963 1966 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2001 2004 2006	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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1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 2000 2001 2002	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
Top of page Benjamin Rush Award For Citizenship And Community Service
1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2003 2005 2006	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
Top of page President's Citation For Service To The Public
1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1995 1996 1998 1999 2006	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
Top of page Joseph B. Goldberger Award In Clinical Nutrition
1949 1951 1952 1953 1954 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 2000 2001 2004	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
Top of page Dr. William Beaumont Award In Medicine
1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1985 1986 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1995 1996 2002 2005 2006 2007	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
Top of page AMA Foundation Award For Health Education
1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1997 1998 1999 2000 2006 2007	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
Top of page Isaac Hays, MD and John Bell, MD Award For Leadership In Medical Ethics And Professionalism
1998 1999 2004 2005 2006 2007	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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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
2006 2007	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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