John Phillips Memorial Award for Outstanding Work in Clinical Medicine
Established: 1929
In honor of: The late Dr. John Phillips, former Governor and Regent of the College.
This award is bestowed for outstanding work in clinical medicine. Clinical medicine shall be interpreted to include all phases of clinical research or practice of medicine. The recipient shall hold a medical degree.
Nominating and supporting letters should address:
- What are the significant contributions of the nominee to clinical medicine?
- Have the nominee’s contributions been sustained over time? In which ways?
Recipients
1932 Oswalt T. Avery, New York, New York
1933 William B. Castle, Brookline, Massachusetts
1935 Leo Loeb, St. Louis, Missouri
1936 Eugene Markley Landis, Boston, Massachusetts
1937 Richard E. Shope, Princeton, New Jersey
1938 Harry Goldblatt, Cleveland, Ohio
1939 Tom Douglas Spies, Birmingham, Alabama
1940 Rene J. Dubos, New York, New York
1941 William Christopher Stadie, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1942 John R. Paul, New Haven, Connecticut
1942 James D. Trask, New Haven, Connecticut
1946 Edwin Joseph Cohn, Boston, Massachusetts
1947 Fuller Albright, Boston, Massachusetts
1948 Ernest W. Goodpasture, Nashville, Tennessee
1949 Edwin B. Astwood, Hamilton, Bermuda
1950 Edward C. Kendall, Rochester, Minnesota
1952 Andre F. Cournand, New York, New York
1953 Charles H. Best, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1954 Donald Dexter Van Slyke, Upton, New York
1955 George Widmer Thorn, Boston, Massachusetts
1956 Linus Pauling, Pasadena, California
1957 Cecil James Watson, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1958 Amos Christie, Nashville, Tennessee
1959 C. Sidney Burwell, Boston, Massachusetts
1960 Dickinson W. Richards, New York, New York
1961 Armand J. Quick, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1962 Irvine H. Page, Cleveland, Ohio
1963 John A. Luetscher Jr., Palo Alto, California
1964 Jesse L. Bollman, Rochester, Minnesota
1965 Jerome W. Conn, Ann Arbor, Michigan
1966 Helen B. Taussig, Baltimore, Maryland
1967 Maxwell M. Wintrobe, Salt Lake City, Utah
1968 Sol Sherry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1969 James A. Shannon, Washington, District of Columbia
1970 Carl V. Moore, St. Louis, Missouri
1971 Maxwell Finland, Boston, Massachusetts
1972 Victor A. McKusick, Baltimore, Maryland
1973 Willem J. Kolff, Salt Lake City, Utah
1973 Belding H. Scribner, Seattle, Washington
1974 Oscar D. Ratnoff, Cleveland, Ohio
1975 Leon O. Jacobson, Chicago, Illinois
1976 Paul B. Beeson, Seattle, Washington
1977 Grant W. Liddle, Nashville, Tennessee
1978 Walter L. Palmer, Chicago, Illinois
1979 William N. Valentine, Los Angeles, California
1980 James B. Wyngaarden, Durham, North Carolina
1981 Hans Popper, New York, New York
1982 Frederic C. Bartter, San Antonio, Texas
1983 Earl Howard Wood, Rochester, Minnesota
1984 Joseph B. Kirsner, Chicago, Illinois
1985 Arnold S. Relman, Boston, Massachusetts
1986 Lloyd H. Smith Jr., San Francisco, California
1987 Sheldon M. Wolff, Boston, Massachusetts
1988 Robert S. Schwartz, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 Kurt J. Isselbacher, Boston, Massachusetts
1990 William N. Kelley, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1991 Eugene Braunwald, Boston, Massachusetts
1992 Robert W. Shrier, Denver, Colorado
1993 J. Claude Bennett, Birmingham, Alabama
1994 Harriet P. Dustan, Essex, Vermont
1995 Arthur H. Rubenstein, Chicago, Illinois
1996 Samuel I. Rappaport, San Diego, California
1997 Anthony S. Fauci, Washington, District of Columbia
1998 Philip W. Brickner, Bronx, New York
1998 Jerome P. Kassirer, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 Michael O. Thorner, Charlottesville, Virginia
2000 John A. Benson Jr., Portland, Oregon
2001 Marvin H. Sleisenger, San Francisco, California
2001 Samuel O. Thier, Boston, Massachusetts
2002 David H. Solomon, Los Angeles, California
2003 John C. Beck, Pacific Palisades, California
2004 Halsted R. Holman, Palo Alto, California
2005 John P. Phair, Chicago, Illinois
2006 Myron L. Weisfeldt, Ruxton, Maryland
2007 Lee Goldman, Bel Tiburon, California
2008 Brian L. Strom, Penn Valley, Pennsylvania
2009 Robert O. Bonow, Chicago, Illinois
2010 Garret FitzGerald, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2011 Henry Masur, Bethsda, Maryland
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