Past Recipients of the Walsh McDermott Medal
2023
Edward H. Shortliffe
Chair Emeritus & Adjunct Professor of
Biomedical Informatics
Columbia University
2022
Michael M.E. Johns, MD
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Emeritus
Professor
Emory University
2021
Christine Cassel, MD
Visiting Professor
University of California, San Francisco
2020
David Relman, MD
Thomas C. and Joan M. Merigan Professor
Stanford University
2019
Cato Laurencin, MD, PhD
University Professor and Albert and Wilda Van Dusen Distinguished Endowed Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Connecticut
2018
Elaine L. Larson, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC
Anna C. Maxwell Professor of Nursing Research
Professor of Epidemiology
School of Nursing
Columbia University
2017
Barbara J. McNeil, MD, PhD
Ridley Watts Professor and Head
Department of Health Care Policy
Harvard Medical School Professor of Radiology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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2016
Lynn R. Goldman, MD, MS, MPH
Dean and Professor
Milken Institute School of Public Health
George Washington University
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2015
Alan Leshner
CEO Emeritus
American Association for the Advancement of Science
2014
Dan G. Blazer, MD, PhD
Gibbons Professor of Psychiatry
Duke University Medical Center
2013
Donald M. Berwick, MD
Former President and CEO
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
Former Administrator
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
2012
Haile T. Debas, MD
Director
University of California Global Health Institute
Senior Global Health Advisor
University of California, San Francisco
Founding Executive Director
Global Health Sciences
Former Chancellor and Dean Emeritus
University of California, San Francisco
2011
Robert B. Wallace, MD
Irene Ensminger Stecher Professor of Epidemiology and Internal Medicine
Department of Epidemiology
College of Public Health
The University of Iowa
2010
David R. Challoner, MD
Vice President for Health Affairs Emeritus
University of Florida
2009
Don E. Detmer, MD
Professor Emeritus and Professor of Medical Education
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Virginia School of Medicine
2008
Gilbert S. Omenn, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Genetics and Public Health
Center for Computational Medicine and Biology
University of Michigan Medical School
2007
Jack D. Barchas, MD
Barklie McKee Henry Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Psychiatrist-in-Chief
Weill Cornell Medical Center
2006
Elena O. Nightingale, MD, PhD
Scholar-in-Residence
Institute of Medicine
2005
Ada Sue Hinshaw, PhD, RN
Dean, School of Nursing
University of Michigan
2004
Floyd E. Bloom, MD
Chairman of the Department of Neuropharmacology
Scripps Research Institute
2003
Leon Eisenberg, MD
Professor of Social Medicine Emeritus
Harvard Medical School
2002
Enriqueta C. Bond, PhD
President
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
2001
Julius B. Richmond, MD
John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy Emeritus
Harvard University
2000
Mary Ellen Avery, MD
Thomas Morgan Rotch Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics Emerita
Harvard Medical School
Physician-in-Chief Emeritus
Children’s Hospital in Boston
