Nominations for the MAA's annual awards are accepted from MAA members, and recipients are selected by the MAA Board's Awards and Nominations Committee.
Nominations may be made at any time. Individuals may be honored as recipients only once in each award category, and awards are presented to living nominees only.
- Distinguished Achievement Award
Honors an alumna/us or house staff alumna/us who has distinguished him/herself in the profession of medicine - Distinguished Faculty Award
Honors a current or former faculty member for outstanding contributions to the Medical Center - Distinguished Service Award
Honors an alumna/us or non-alumna/us for outstanding contributions to the Medical Center - Student Excellence Award
Honors a graduating student whose peers believe best demonstrates the qualities needed to become the model of a complete physician—knowledge, compassion and dedication.
2020 Award Recipients
Distinguished Achievement
Bruce L. Flamm, MD '79
Distinguished Faculty
William R. Hazzard, MD
Distinguished Service
Hal M. Stuart, MD '56
MAA Student Excellence
Luke P. Hedrick, MD '20
Ivory J. Shelton, MD '20
Past recipients of the MAA Distinguished Awards
William H. Admirand, MD ’60 *
Wilbur S. Avant Jr., MD ’67
George C. Barrett, MD ’52 *
José Biller, MD, FHO ’81
Richard E. Bird, MD ‘65
H. Worth Boyce Jr., MD ’55 *
Byron G. Brogdon, MD, FHO ’56 *
Haywood L. Brown, MD ’78
William T. Carpenter Jr., MD ’62
M. Robert Cooper, MD ’62 *
William Cowan, MD '57, FHO ' 62 *
John M. Driscoll Jr., MD ’62
David M. Drylie, MD ’56 *
James C. Eisenach, MD, FHO ’86
Carolyn R. Ferree, MD ’70
James S. Forrester Sr., MD ’62 *
Gloria F. Graham, MD ’61 and James H. Graham, MD *
Paul P. Griffin, MD ’53 *
E. Garland Herndon Jr., MD ’46 *
William N.P. Herbert, MD ’72
David Lowell Heymann, MD ’70
David P. Huston, MD ’73
Wayne B. Jonas, MD ’81
James G. Jones, MD ’59
Joseph J. Mamlin, MD ’62
Thomas H. Marshburn, MD ’89
C. Douglas Maynard, MD ’59
David L. McCullough, MD ’64
William M. McKinney, MD *
J. Wayne Meredith, MD ’78, House Staff ’84
Godfrey P. Oakley, MD ’65
W. Harold Newman, MD‘56
John A. Oates Jr., MD ’56 *
S. Scott Obenshain, MD ’62
Richard B. Odom, MD ’63
J. Kiffin Penry, MD ’55 *
George Podgorny, MD ’62 *
Robert H. Shackelford, MD ’47 *
Roger E. Stevenson, MD ‘66
John M. Tew Jr., MD ’61
Spencer P. Thornton, MD ’54 *
Daniel L. Tolan, MD ’85
J.E. "Betsy" Tuttle, MD '88
Paul D. Webster III, MD ’56
Louis Weinstein, MD '72
Joseph E. Whitley, MD ’55 *
* Indicates that the individual is deceased.
Jon S. Abramson, MD ‘76
Patricia L. Adams, MD ’74
Eben Alexander Jr., MD *
Louis C. Argenta, MD, FACS
Walter E. Bo, PhD *
M. Robert Cooper, MD ’62 *
A. Robert Cordell, MD, FHO ’56 *
Julia Margarita Cruz, MD, FHO ’81
Marcus M. Gulley, MD ‘51
Robert N. Headley, MD, FHO ’58
Francis M. James III, MD
Joseph L. Jorizzo, MD
David L. Kelly Jr., MD, FHO ’65
Brenda Latham-Sadler, MD ’82
Douglas Maynard, MD ’59
Charles E. McCall, MD ’61
Charles E. McCreight, PhD *
William Frederick McGuirt Sr., MD ’68
Jesse H. Meredith, MD, FHO ’58
Isadore Meschan, MD *
Emery C. Miller Jr., MD, FHO ’54 *
Henry S. Miller Jr., MD ’54
Robert P. Morehead, MD *
Richard T. Myers, MD, FHO ’49 *
Lewis H. Nelson III, MD ’70
K. Patrick Ober, MD, FHO ’79
Richard B. Patterson, MD ’55, House Staff ’61 *
P. Samuel Pegram Jr., MD ’70
Timothy C. Pennell, MD ’60 *
Patricia H. Petrozza, MD
Gary Poehling, MD
John Reed, MD '62 *
Jimmy L. Simon, MD *
Charles L. Spurr, MD *
M. Madison Slusher, MD *
James F. Toole, MD
Charles S. Turner, MD ‘70
L. Earl Watts, MD ’57 *
Richard G. Weaver Sr., MD, FHO ’54 *
Ernest H. Yount Jr., MD *
* Indicates that the individual is deceased.
William B. Applegate, MD, MPH, MACP
Jean Bailey Brooks, MD ’44 *
Herbert Benner *
Steve Block, MBBCh, FAAP
Albert L. Butler Jr. *
Coy C. Carpenter, MD *
Dorothy M. Carpenter *
Class of 1958
Katherine Davis * Thomas H. Davis Sr. *
Howard G. Dawkins Jr., MD ’68
Sister Dennis Eileen *
Caryl J. Guth, MD ’62
Ann S. Hanes
Thomas K. Hearn Jr., PhD *
Thomas M. Holder, MD ’52
W. Claude Hollingsworth, MD ’59
R. Merrill Hunter, MD ’78
Richard Janeway, MD, FHO ’66 *
James W. Johnston
Petro Kulynych *
W. Hampton Lefler Jr., MD ’63
Thomas D. Long, MD ‘52
Claude A. McNeill, MD ’43 *
Manson Meads, MD *
Joel B. Miller, MD ’74
Neill H. Musselwhite III, MD ’75
Joseph R. Overby, Jr., MD ‘71
Thomas J. Pulliam, MD ’84
Fred T. Robinette *
J. Ralph Scales, PhD *
Louis deSchweinitz Shaffner, MD, FHO ’51 *
Richard D. Snyder, MD ’58
M. Frank Sohmer, MD ’52 *
Dixie Lee Boney Soo, MD ’59
J. Paul Sticht *
Samuel A. Sue, MD ‘56*
Mary Ann Hampton Taylor, MD ’60 *
James N. Thompson, MD
Allen H. Van Dyke, MD ’71
Robert L. Vann, MD ’45 *
Howard S. Wainer, MD ’54 *
Max Wainer *
D.E. Ward Jr., MD ’45 *
John F. Watlington Jr. *
Velma Gibson Watts, PhD
Terri M. Welfare
John C. Whitaker Jr.
A. Tab Williams Jr. *
Joe H. Woody, MD ’58
Kyle A. Young, MD ’69
* Indicates that the individual is deceased.
Margarita Arakelyn-Peters Berwick, MD '19
Gwenyth Davis Day, MD '18
Cameron J. Oswalt, MD '18