Past Alumni Association Award Recipients

This list is based on various historical records; not all awards are given every year, and some were discontinued.

WMC/MCP/MCPHU Distinguished Alumnus/a Award

Formerly the WMC/MCP Alumnae/i Achievement Award

1950 Jane Sands Robb, MD '18
1951 Mary Martin Sloop, MD '06
1952 Elizabeth Bass, MD '04
1953 Catherine Macfarlane, MD 1898
1954 Ellen Culver Potter, MD '03
1955 Margaret Castex Sturgis, MD '15
1956 Alice N. Pickett, MD '09
1957 Sophie Rabinoff, MD '13
1958 Rachel Ash, MD '26
1959 Annie V. Scott, MD '18
1960 Eleanor Taylor Calverley, MD '08
1961 Gulielma Fell Alsop, MD '08
1962 Stella Y. Botelho, MD '49
1963 Ann Gray Taylor, MD '18
1964 Alma Dea Morani, MD '31
1965 Rebecca M. Rhoads, MD '25
1966 Elizabeth Bucke Miller, MD '27 / Bethel Harris Fleming, MD '31
1967 Rita S. Finkler, MD '15
1968 Emily Van Loon, MD '22
1969 Anna M. Brady, MD '51
1970 Katherine Boucot Sturgis, MD '42
1971 Lucy Frank Squire, MD '40
1972 Edith F. Millican, MD '39
1973 Joyce D. Lashof, MD '50 / Harriet M. Felton, MD '37
1974 Mildred Mitchell-Bateman, MD '46
1975 Jean Gowing, MD '26 / Doris G. Bartuska, MD '54
1976 Eva F. Fox, MD '43 / Minerva S. Buerk, MD '46
1977 Frieda Baumann, MD '17
1978 June Klinghoffer, MD '45
1979 Margaret Gray Wood, MD '48
1980 Nina B. Woodside, MD '57
1981 Ida B. Scudder, MD '29
1982 Dorothea D. Glass, MD '54
1983 Mary B. Dratman, MD '45 / Elizabeth D. Labovitz, MD '63
1984 Eleanor Dino Montague, MD '50
1985 Ruth Bleier, MD '49 /Ann Barbara Catts, MD '56 / Mary Louise Buyse, MD '70
1988 Anna T. Meadows, MD '69
1989 Julie Madorsky, MD '69 / Joan Mary Roberts, MD '46
1990 Nancy Gary, MD '62
1991 Dorothea R. Johnson, MD '56
1992 Louise Schnaufer, MD '51
1993 M. Jane Matjasko, MD '68
1994 Henrietta Rosenberg, MD '70
1995 Carol Lake, MD '70
1996 Helen Horstmann, MD '72
1997 Stanley B. Fiel, MD '73
1998 Stephanie Gregory, MD '65
1999 Lynne Steinbach, MD '79
2000 Leigh Donowitz, MD '75
2001 Lila S. Kroser, MD '57
2002 Suzanne Margaret Smith, MD '74
2003 Mary A. Simmonds, MD '75
2004 Lucille Ann Papile, MD '69
2005 Antoinette Eaton, MD '56
2006 Linda Brodsky, MD '79
2007 Susan McLeer, MD '70
2008 Clifford A. Hudis, MD '83
2009 Donna Antonucci, MD '84
2010 Louis Rose, DDS, MD, MCP '72
2011 Susan Ellen Levy, MD, MCP '78
2012 Elyce Cardonick, MD, MCP '91
2013 Elizabeth E. Frauenhoffer, MD, MCP '83
2014 Rebecca Jaffe, MD, MCP '80
2015 Donald M. Yealy, MD, MCP '85
2016 David J. Shulkin, MD, MCP '86
2017 Theodore J. Corbin Jr., MD, MPP, MCPHU '97
2018 Sanjay Goel, MD, MCP '93
2019 Andrew W. Dahlke, MD, MCP '89
2020 Timothy Manzone, MD, MCP '89
2021 Daniel J. Rader, MD, MCP '84
2022 Nancy Stiles Curry, MD, WMC/MCP '72
2023 Antoinette C. Ripepi, MD, WMC ’61; JD

Boots Cooper, MD, Community Service Award

1993 Boots Cooper, MD '65 / Lillian Seitsive, MD '31
1994 Doris Bartuska, MD '54 / Antoniette Eaton, MD '56
1995 Sharon Kawai, MD '74
1996 Libby Wilson, MD '63
1997 Sucha Order Asbell, MD '66
1998 Janet Kramer, MD '68
2000 Kristen Ries, MD '67
2001 Ethel Platt, MD '41
2002 Agnes Gowdy, MD '35
2003 Dennis Saver, MD '77
2004 Vincent J. Zarro, MD, PhD '62, '65
2006 Robert Schoffstall, MD, HU '55
2007 Sandral Hullett, MD, MCP '76
2008 Mary Ann Cohen, MD, WMC '66
2009 Jean Elizabeth Sullivan, MD, WMC '54
2010 Donna Brooks, MD, WMC '65
2011 Mary-Theresa L. Baker, MD, MCP '88
2013 William N. Bernhard, MD, HU '57
2014 Joan M. Teno, MD, HU '82
2015 Priscilla J. Benner, MD, MCP '75
2019 Mark S. Codella, MD, MBA, HU '84
2020 Lourdes C. Corman, MD WMC '70
2021 J. Kenneth Brubaker, MD, HU '70
2022 Marylou Buyse, MD, MCP '70, and Loretta Christensen, MD, HU '84
2023 Kela Henry, MD, MCPHU ’99

HU Professional Attainment Award

25 Years: Alan G. Wassermann, MD '73 (awarded in 1998)
15 Years: Michael J. Fine, MD '83 (awarded in 1998)
Francis Rosato, MD '59 (awarded in 1999)

Sesquicentennial Recognition Award

Suzanne Zarro, MD '78 (awarded in 1998)

HU Alumnus of the Year Award

1953 Charles P. Bailey, MD '32
1954 Joseph W. Post, MD '09
1956 Herbert W. Kirby, MD '01
1959 John L. Redman, MD '96
1960 John A. Brooke, MD '96
1962 William Likoff, MD '38
1963 Carl C. Fischer, MD '28
1964 Charles M. Thompson, MD '31
1965 Charles B. Hollis, MD '12
1966 H. Russell Fisher, MD '28
1968 Lowell L. Lane, MD '28
1969 J. Stauffer Lehman, MD '31
1970 Warren H. Fake, MD '27
1971 William C. Hunsicker, MD '27
1972 Martin E. Swiecicki, MD '32
1973 Charles S. Cameron, MD '35
1976 Horst A. Agerty, MD '34 / Marvin Derezin, MD '62
1977 Willard P. Arentzen, MD '46
1979 Nicholas J. Pisacano, MD '51
1980 Anthony F. Daly Jr., MD '58
1981 Francis E. Rosato, MD '59
1982 Margaret Giannini, MD '45
1983 Stanley J. Yamulla, MD '44
1984 Leon Carp, MD '40
1985 Wilbur Oaks, MD '55
1986 Irving L. Lichtenstein, MD '44
1987 Hubert Rosomoff, MD '52
1988 Richard Kleppinger, MD '48
1989 Robert S. Litwak, MD '49
1990 David Owen Williams, MD '69
1991 Alan H. Wilde, MD '59
1992 Edward A. Brunner, MD '59
1993 Leonard S. Dreifus, MD '51
1994 Martin R. Eichelberger, MD '71
1995 John C. Hoak, MD '55
1996 Francis M. James, III, MD '61
1997 Robert L. Capizzi, MD '64
1998 Nathan Berger, MD '66
1999 H. Lawrence Karasic, MD '60
2000 Charles S. Greenberg, MD '76

HU Alumnus Distinguished Service Award

1969 Carl C. Fischer, MD '28 / Charles B. Hollis, MD '12 / Harry S. Weaver, MD '29
1975 Charles S. Cameron, MD '35
1978 William Likoff, MD '38 (Lectureship)
1980 Amedeo Bondi, PhD (Associate, '69)
1986 Mary P. Sterling, MD '53
1988 Stanley J. Yamulla, MD '44
1989 Joseph P. Marconis, MD '42
1992 Charles P. Bailey, MD '32
1993 Daniel Mason, MD '44
1994 Pasquale M. Procacci, MD '69
1995 Albert Cook, MD '54
1998 Wilbur W. Oaks, MD '55
1999 Vincent Zarro, MD, PhD '62, '65
2000 Bernard M. Wagner, MD '49

HU Distinguished Alumnus/a Award

1999 Vincent Zarro, MD, PhD '62, '65
2000 Bernard M. Wagner, MD '49
2001 Nicholas Rossi, MD '55
2002 Arthur J. Labovitz, MD '78
2003 Louis E. Samuels, MD '87
2004 Richard F. Corlin, MD '65
2005 Christopher. T. Olivia, MD '88
2006 Raymond Fabius, MD '77
2007 Loretta Finnegan, MD '64
2008 Richard M. Satava Jr., MD '68
2009 Lawrence C. Kurtzman, MD '81
2010 Theodore Yaeger, MD '81
2011 Frank S. Pettyjohn, MD '63
2012 John Donald Mahan, MD '77
2013 Michael Rhodes, MD '70
2014 John James Lukaszczyk, MD '84
2015 Mariell Jessup, MD '76
2017 Steven Gurland, MD, HU '67
2018 Ron Aryel, MD, HU '93
2019 Andrew D. Seidman, MD, HU '85
2020 Mary Siracusa Parisi, MD, HU '51
2021 Ana Pujols McKee, MD, HU '79
2022 Jeffrey Carson, MD, HU '77
2023 Craig Bradford Langman, MD, HMC ’77

Outstanding Alumni Awards

2007 Walter Lomax Jr. MD, HU '57
2007 Howard Miller, MD, HU '74
2008 Dennis H. Novack, MD, HU '72
2008 Margaret G. Stineman, MD, HU '83
2009 Joseph Boselli, MD, HU '82
2009 Meryle J. Melnicoff, PhD, MCP '88
2009 Daniel Rader, MD, MCP '84
2009 Lloyd E. Ratner, MD, HU '83
2010 Robert Figlin, MD, MCP '76
2010 Leonard Jacob, MD, PhD, MCP '78
2010 James D. Luketich, MD, MCP '86
2010 Ana Nunez, MD, HU '86
2010 Donald Yealy, MD, MCP '85
2011 Brian S. Alper, MD, HU '96
2011 Richard J. Hamilton, MD, HU '87
2011 Owen C. Montgomery, MD, HU '81
2011 Pasquelle M. Procacci, MD, HU '69
2012 Matthew J. Finnegan, MD, HU '88
2012 Ralph J. Riviello, MD, HU '94
2013 Lanny Edelsohn, MD, HU '67
2013 Michael Jonah Fine, MD, HU '83
2013 Arnold J. Smolen, PhD, MD, MS, HU '72
2014 J. Kenneth Brubaker, MD, HU '70
2014 John J. Goodill, MD, HU '82
2014 Michael Joseph Panella, MD, MCP '89 Posthumously
2015 Heather Bittner Fagan, MD, MCPHU '99
2015 Michael A. Levine, MD, HU '76
2015 Jan McBarron Liberatore, MD, HU '84
2015 Catherine Scott Manno, MD, HU '78
2015 Lisa Payne, PhD '09
2016 Kelly S. Eschbach, MD, HU '91
2017 Robert C. Ashton Jr., MD, MCP '92
2018 David Krah, PhD, HU '82
2019 Robert A. Ersek, MD, HU '66
2020 John Langell, PhD MCPHU '98, MD MCPHU '99 (Biomedical Sciences Graduate)
2020 Ian B. K. Martin, MD MCPHU '00 (Medical Graduate)
2021 Africa Stewart, MD, MCPHU '00, MBA (Medical Graduate)
2021 John S. Sundy, MD, PhD, HU '91 (Biomedical Sciences Graduate)
2022 Anthony J. Piraino, MS, HU '74, PhD, HU '76, MD, HU '84 (Biomedical Sciences Graduate)
2022 Ryan K. Lee, MD, MCPHU '00 (Medical Graduate)
2023 David W. Stepp, PhD, MCP ’94 (Biomedical Sciences Graduate)
2023 Katie Elizabeth McPeak, MD ’01 (Medical Graduate)

Graduate Citation Award

1991 Larry R. McLean, PhD '82
1992 Robert N. Daly, PhD '86
1993 Jim Winkler, PhD '87
1994 Paula Bram Amar, PhD '73
1995 Diane Claire Halstead, PhD '77
1996 Andrew Beasley, PhD '61
1997 Elinor H. Cantor, PhD '79
1999 Robert K. Dix, PhD '81
2001 Svetomir Markovic, MD, PhD '93
2002 William Neil Hait, MD, PhD '78
2003 Saul R. Powell, PhD '83
2004 Barbara J. Dalton, PhD '83
2005 Jacqueline G. Emrich, PhD '93
2007 Herman Friedman, PhD, HU '57
2008 G. John DiGregorio, MD, PhD, HU '78
2009 Steven DeArmond, MD, PhD, MCP '75, '72
2010 Peter S. Amenta, MD, PhD, HU '80, '84
2011 Jiang-Fan Chen, MD, PhD, MCP '93
2012 Kimberly L. Simpson PhD, MCPHU '96
2013 James M. Burns Jr., PhD, HU '89
2014 Angelo C. Lepore, PhD '06 (Early Career or Young Investigator)
2015 Jason Stumhofer, PhD '05 (Early Career or Young Investigator)
2017 Tom Caltagirone, PhD '03
2020 Sharrón L. Manuel, PhD '12, MD '13 (Early Career or Young Investigator)
2021 Megan Wright, PhD '08 (Early Career or Young Investigator)
2022 Vanessa S. Boyce, PhD '07, and Heather J. Painter, PhD '08 (Early Career or Young Investigator)
2023 Brielle Ferguson, PhD ’18 (Early Career or Young Investigator)

Biomedical Sciences Graduate Recognition Award

2022 Marian Baldini, MS, HU '77
2023 Jeffrey Nau, PhD; MS Medical Science ’02

Lifetime Achievement Award

2008 Wilber W. Oaks Jr. MD, HU '55
2009 Margaret Giannini, MD, HU '45
2011 Karen L. Roos, MD, HU '81
2012 Patricia K. Crumrine, MD, WMC '68
2013 Mark H. Wholey, MD, HU '53
2014 Karl B. Kern, MD, HU '80
2015 Barbara Schindler, MD, WMC '70
2016 Alfred M. Sadler Jr., MD, FACP, HU '66
2018 Clifford Hurdis, MD, MCP '83
2019 Anna Taback Meadows, MD, WMC '69
2020 Donald M. Yealy, MD, MCP '85
2021 Loretta Podolak Finnegan, MD, HU '64
2022 Frances Ruth Batzer, MD, WMC '72, MBE, and Helen Meeks Horstmann, MD, WMC/MCP '72
2023 Edward Anthony Nardell, MD, HMC ’72

Service to the Alumnae/i Association Award

1993 June F. Klinghoffer, MD '45
1994 Lila Stein Kroser, MD '57
1995 Doris Bartuska, MD '54
1996 Margaret Gray Wood, MD '48
1997 Barbara A. Schindler, MD '70
1998 Phyllis Marciano, MD '60
1999 Christie Huddleston, MD '78
2000 Rhoda S. Pomerantz, MD, MPH '63
2001 Elinor H. Cantor, PhD '79
2003 Barbara E. Chick, MD '59 / Theodore J. Matulewicz, MD '70
2004 Jonathan Gomberg, MD '82
2005 Alan M. Schindler, MD, PhD '77
2006 Theodore W. Uroskie, MD, HU '70
2008 Craig Q. Earl, PhD, MCP '83
2009 Mary Cote, MD, WMC '59
2012 Richard P. Malone, MD, HU '83 (Posthumously)
2014 Janet P. Kramer, MD, WMC '68
2015 Donald Girard, MD, HU '82

Alumni Association Special Recognition

2008 Barbara J. Williams, Archivist
2009 Mark B. Woodland, MS, MD
2010 Joseph R. DiPalma, MD, PhD
2011 Manuel N. Stamatakis, Hon. '05
2022 Howard Miller, MD, HU '74

Emerging Leader Award

2017 Heather Clauss, MD, FACP, MCPHU '02
2018 Melissa Pugliano-Mauro, MD '04
2019 Rhonda Graves Acholonu, MD, MCPHU '01
2020 Meghan Kathleen Berkenstock, MD ’11
2021 Elizabeth Malsin, MD '11, and Eliana Verghese Hempel, MD '12
2022 Rita Alvarez, MD '10, and Kraftin E. Schreyer, MD '13
2023 Austin Williams, MD ’13