Adam Yarmolinsky Medal
The Adam Yarmolinsky Medal is awarded to a member of the National Academy of Medicine from a discipline outside the health and medical sciences — for example, from fields such as the social and behavioral sciences, law, public policy, and administration. It recognizes distinguished service by a member who, over a significant period of time, has contributed in multiple ways to the mission of the NAM. The Adam Yarmolinsky Medal was not conferred in 2010, 2011 and 2014.
2019 Recipient
Gail Wilensky, PhD
Economist and Senior Fellow
Project HOPE
For more information, contact Donna Duncan, Membership Officer, at dduncan@nas.edu
Previous Recipients - 2018
2018
Nicholas A. Peppas, ScD
Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering
Professor of Chemical Engineering
McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Previous Recipients - 2017
2017
Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Berman Center for Bioethics
Johns Hopkins University
Previous Recipients - 2016
Previous Recipients - 2015
2015
Susan Scrimshaw
President
The Sage Colleges
Previous Recipients - 2013
2013
R. Alta Charo
Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics
School of Law and Department of Medical History and Bioethics
School of Medicine and Public Health
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Previous Recipients - 2012
2012
Gail L. Warden
President Emeritus
Henry Ford Health System
Previous Recipients - 2009
2009
Joseph P. Newhouse, Ph.D.
John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management
Harvard University
Previous Recipients - 2008
2008
David Mechanic, Ph.D.
Director
Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Previous Recipients - 2007
2007
Karen Davis, Ph.D.
President
The Commonwealth Fund
Previous Recipients - 2006
2006
Lawrence O. Gostin, J.D.
Associate Dean for Research and Academic Programs
Professor of Law
Georgetown University
Professor of Public Health
Johns Hopkins University
Director of the Center on Law and the Public’s Health
Georgetown University Law Center
Previous Recipients - 2005
2005
Henry W. Riecken, Ph.D.
Professor of Behavioral Sciences Emeritus
University of Pennsylvania
Previous Recipients - 2004
2004
Lawrence S. Lewin, M.B.A
Founder of Lewin and Associates, Inc. (now The Lewin Group)
Executive Consultant in the Washington metropolitan area
Previous Recipients - 2003
2003
Paul G. Rogers, J.D.
Partner, Hogan & Hartson
Previous Recipients - 2002
2002
Richard J. Bonnie, J.D.
John S. Battle Professor of Law
Director
Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Previous Recipients - 2001
2001
Walter J. McNerney, M.H.A.
Herman Smith Professor Emeritus of Health Policy
Kellogg Graduate School of Medicine
Northwestern University
Previous Recipients - 2000
2000
Rashi Fein, Ph.D., LL.D. (honorary)
Professor of the Economics of Medicine, Emeritus
Harvard Medical School