Nominate a Candidate
All members of the Jefferson community are invited to participate in the Alumni Awards process by nominating exceptional medical college alumni for consideration by the Alumni Awards Committee for the below awards. Nominations for 2024 are now closed.
SKMC Alumni Awards
SKMC Alumni Achievement Award
To submit a nomination for the Alumni Achievement Award, please include a curriculum vitae, résumé or biography, along with a letter of nomination explaining the nominee’s professional achievements, including significant scientific, academic, professional, entrepreneurial or industry contributions to medicine or science. Please also highlight the impact of the nominee's career on the assurance of equitable healthcare within all communities while working to reduce disparity in the care provided. Please also highlight the impact of the nominee's career on the assurance of equitable healthcare within all communities while working to reduce disparity in the care provided.
Past Recipients
1964: Louis H. Clerf, MD '12
1964: Henry L. Bockus, MD '17
1965: Percival E. Foerderer
1966: Harold Stewart, MD '26
1967: Francis J. Braceland, MD '30
1968: Victor Heiser, MD 1897
1968: Abraham C. Cantarow, MD '24
1969: Leroy A. Schall, MD '17
1969: George C. Griffith, MD '26
1970: John H. Gibbon, Jr., MD '27
1970: Alexander J. Orenstein, MD '05
1970: Thaddeus L. Montgomery, MD '20
1971: Baldwin L. Keyes, MD '17
1972: George J. Willauer, MD '23
1973: William W. L. Glenn, MD '38
1974: Daniel Baker, Jr., MD '33
1975: Anthony F. DePalma, MD '29
1976: Jo Ono, MD '28
1977: J. Edward Berk, MD '36
1978: George M. Norwood
1978: Benjamin F. Haskell, MD '23
1979: John B. Montgomery, MD '26
1980: Warren W. Nichols, MD '54, PhD
1981: John Y. Templeton III, MD '41
1981: William F. Kellow, MD
1982: Joe Henry Coley, MD '34
1983: Frank J. Sweeney, Jr., MD '51
1984: Abraham E. Rakoff, MD '37
1985: Charley J. Smyth, MD '35
1986: Gerald D. Dodd, Jr., MD '47
1987: William R. Fair, MD '60
1988: Sheldon Gilgore, MD '56
1989: John J. Gartland, MD '44
1990: John H. Hodges, MD '39
1990: Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., MD '41
1991: J. Wallace Davis, MD '42
1992: Leonard Apt, MD '45
1993: John H. Harris, Jr., MD '53
1994: Gerald J. Marks, MD '49
1994: Herbert A. Saltzman, MD '52
1995: Marjorie A. Bowman, MD '76
1995: Murray N. Silverstein, MD '54
1996: Barbara F. Atkinson, MD '74
1997: Herbert A. Luscombe, MD '40
1997: Bernard J. Miller, MD '43
1997: William A. Staas Jr., MD '62
1998: Joseph C. Flanagan, MD '63
1998: Robert C. Gallo, MD '63
1998: Jay A. Nadel, MD '53
1999: John Henry Bauer, MD '69
1999: Anthony R. C. Dobell, MD SURG '56
1999: Joseph T. English, MD '58
2000: William L. Drew, MD '62
2000: Richard A. Insel, MD '69
2001: Benjamin Bacharach, MD '56
2001: Charles B. Higgins, MD '67
2002: Charles K. Francis, MD '65
2003: Richard P. Wenzel, MD '65
2004: James D. Heckman, MD '69
2004: Paul M. Weinberg, MD '69
2005: James P. Bagian, MD ‘77
2006: Monica Morrow, MD ‘76
2007: Phillip J. Marone, MD ’57
2008: Bruce E. Jarrell, MD ‘73
2009: Bartley P. Griffith, MD ‘74
2010: Thomas J. Nasca, MD ‘75
2011: Amilu Stewart, MD ‘65
2011: Carol Miller, MD ‘65
2012: Joseph M. Giordano, MD ‘67
2013: Peter C. Amadio, MD ‘73
2014: Alfred P. Spivack, MD ‘54
2015: Peter V. Scoles, MD ‘70
2016: Gerard T. Berry, MD ‘75
2016: Jay S. Skyler, MD ‘69
2017: Elliot J. Rayfield, MD '67
2018: Joseph R. Berger, MD ‘74
2019: Neal Flomenberg, MD '76
2020: Ronald J. Wapner, MD '72
2021: Sarah Sundborg Long, MD '70
2022: Col. Dean L. Winslow, MD '76
2023: David Louis Reich, MD '82
2024: Kevan C. Herold, MD '79
SKMC Distinguished Alumni Award
The Distinguished Alumni Award was created in 2017 to recognize alumni posthumously for a lifetime of distinguished and outstanding achievements and contributions to their profession and/or field of interest, and for contributions benefitting their community and humanity. Please also highlight the impact of the nominee's career on the assurance of equitable healthcare within all communities while working to reduce disparity in the care provided.
Past Recipients
2017: Sumner W. Jackson, MD 1914 (1891-1948)
2018: Donald Liu, MD ‘90 (1962-2012)
2019: Jonathan Letterman, MD 1849 (1824-1872)
2021: Rodger J. Winn, MD '63, Residency '66 (1938-2007)
2022: Joseph W. Sokolowski, Jr., MD '62 (1936-2017)
2023: Ernest L. (Gary), Rosato, MD '90
2024: Gonzalo E. Aponte, MD '52
SKMC Early Career Alumni Award
To submit a nomination for the Early Career Alumni Award, please include a curriculum vitae, résumé or biography, along with a letter of nomination explaining the nominee’s significant achievements in medicine and/or academics, including leadership, clinical excellence, publishing, teaching, mentoring, and/or volunteerism. Please also highlight the impact of the nominee's career on the assurance of equitable healthcare within all communities while working to reduce disparity in the care provided. Please also highlight the impact of the nominee's career on the assurance of equitable healthcare within all communities while working to reduce disparity in the care provided.
Past Recipients
2020: Rachna Trivedi Shroff, MD '04
2021: Kenneth E. Remy, MD '04, MDSc, MSCI, FCCM
2022: Nicholas J. Ruggiero, II, MD '01, Residency '08
2023: Stavropoula I. Tjoumakaris, MD '03, FAANS, FACS, FAHA
2024: Eric S. Schwenk, MD '08, FASA