David Rall Medal
The David Rall Medal is awarded to a member of the National Academy of Medicine who has demonstrated particularly distinguished leadership as a chair of a study committee or other such activities in a manner that was particularly exemplary, demonstrating a commitment substantially above and beyond the usual expectations of a committee chair.
2018 Recipient
Hedvig Hricak, M.D., Ph.D. Chair, Department of Radiology Carroll and Milton Petrie Chair Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
For more information, contact Donna Duncan, Membership Officer, at dduncan@nas.edu
Past Recipients - 2017
2017
Richard O. Hynes, Ph.D., FRS
Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Daniel K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research
Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Past Recipients - 2016
Past Recipients - 2015
2015
Jonathan Samet
Distinguished Professor
Flora L. Thornton Chair
Department of Preventive Medicine
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California (USC)
Director
USC Institute for Global Health
Past Recipients - 2014
2014
Richard B. Johnston, Jr., M.D.
Associate Dean for Research Development
Professor of Pediatrics
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Past Recipients - 2013
2013
Ellen Wright Clayton, J.D., M.D.
Craig Weaver Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Law
Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
Vanderbilt University
Past Recipients - 2012
2012
Linda Rosenstock, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Medicine, Health Policy & Management
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences
Dean Emeritus
University of California, Los Angeles
School of Public Health
Past Recipients - 2011
2011
Virginia A. Stallings, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Past Recipients - 2010
2010
Nancy E. Adler, Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Psychology
Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Director, Center for Health and Community
University of California, San Francisco
Past Recipients - 2009
2009
Bernard Guyer, M.D., M.P.H.
Zanvyl Kreiger Professor of Children’s Health
Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Past Recipients - 2008
2008
Sheila P. Burke
Faculty Research Fellow
Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Past Recipients - 2007
2007
William C. Richardson, Ph.D.
President Emeritus
Johns Hopkins University
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Past Recipients - 2006
2006
Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D.
Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy
Department of Health Policy
The George Washington University
Past Recipients - 2005
2005
Torsten N. Wiesel, M.D.
President Emeritus
The Rockefeller University
Past Recipients - 2004
2004
Marie C. McCormick, M.D., Sc.D.
Summer and Esther Feldberg Professor of Maternal and Child Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Past Recipients - 2003
2003
Daniel D. Federman, M.D.
Senior Dean for Alumni Relations and Clinical Teaching
Harvard Medical School
Past Recipients - 2002
2002
Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D.
Sackler Foundation Scholar
The Rockefeller University
Past Recipients - 2001
2001
Dorothy P. Rice, Sc.D. (Hon)
Professor Emeritus
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Institute for Health & Aging
University of California, San Francisco
Past Recipients - 2000
2000
Stuart Bondurant, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Dean Emeritus
School of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill