Honorary membership in AΩA is conferred on physicians or scientists who have made distinguished contributions to medicine and have received widespread recognition for their work.
Nominations may be made by any member of the society. Nominees may not be members of the faculty of a medical school with an active chapter or be graduates a medical school with an active chapter.
The Board of Directors of AΩA elects honorary members from a slate of nominees at its annual meeting. A list of honorary members selected in past years follows.
- William (Bill) Nichols-AΩA Assistant Treasurer, 34 years
- Harold L. May, MD, MPH – Harvard Medical School
- Owen White, MBBS – Royal Melbourne Hospital
- John K. Iglehart–Founding Editor, Health Affairs, Bethesda
- Ignacio Sánchez Díaz, MD–Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Shotai Kobayashi, MD–Shimane University, Japan
- Mats Ludström, MD, PhD–EyeNet, Sweden
- Boris C. Malyugin, MD, PhD–S. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution, Moscow, Russia
- John Hemsley Pearn, AO, RFD, MD, PhD, MPhil–Royal Children’s Hospital, Herston, Australia
- A. G. Prentice, MBChB–The Royal College of Pathologists, London, England
- Slawomir Majewski, MD—Department of Dermatology and Venereology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
- Giovanni Romeo, MD—U.O. Genetica Medical University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- Thomas Cech, PhD—Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Martin George Tauber, MD—IFIK, Bern, Switzerland
- Wahid Ali Said Al-Kharusi, MD—Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
- Daniel M. Fox, PhD—President Emeritus Milbank Memorial Fund
- Osvaldo Hubscher, MD, MACR—CEMIC, Argentina
- Robert M. Klein, PhD—University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas
- Martha N. Hill, BSN, MSN, PhD—Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland
- Albert R. Jonsen, PhD—University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
- Gerd Plewig, Prof. Dr. Med—Ludwig-Maximillians University, Munich, Germany
- Lihadh Al-Gazali, MBChB, MRCP, FRCP, FRCPCH
- Rodolfo A. Armas-Merino, MD, MACP
- Kai-Ming Chan, MBBS, FRCS (Edin.), FRCPS (Glas.), FHKCOS, FACS
- Ronald F. Dorfman, MBBCh, FRCPath
- Ogabara K. Doumbo, MD, PhD
- Torello Lotti, MD
- Thomas Ruzicka, Prof. Dr. Med. Dr. H.C.
- K. V. Thiruvengadam, BSc, MD, FRCP, FAMS, DSc, FCCP (USA), FCAI
- Nuria M. Greefield Tortosa, MD
- René Amalberti, MD, PhD
- Étienne-Émile Baulieu
- H. Barrie Fairley, MB, BS
- Richard S. Fraser, MD
- Victor R. Fuchs, PhD
- Loïc Guillevin, MD
- Joseph K. Shija MBChB (EA), FRCS (ED)
- John B. West, MD, PhD, DSc
- Giuseppe Bianchi, MD
- Lars Lidgren, MD, PhD, FRCS (Hon)
- Owen St. Clair Morgan, MA, MD
- Roberto Tapia-Conyer, MD, MPH, MSc, DrSc
- Peter Michael Brooks, MD
- Michel Chrétien, MD, PhD
- Renée C. Fox, PhD
- Barry Trevor Jackson, MS
- Geoffrey Ian Taylor, MB, BS
- Carol M. Black MBChB, MD, FRCP, CBE
- James Burrows Edwards, DMD
- Peter J. Ell, MD, PhD
- Shigeaki Hinohara, MD, PhD
- James Orbinski, MD
- Haralampie Momir
- Polenakovic, MD, DSc
- Heonir de Jesus Pereira da Rocha, MD
- Faith Wallis, MA, PhD
- Solomon R. Benatar, MD
- Aldo R. Castaneda, MD, PhD
- Steffen Gay, MD
- Clicerio González Villalpando, MD
- Paul Greengard, PhD
- Deirdre Joan Hine, MD
- Fernando Ortiz Monasterio, MD
- Hans Gosta Ringertz, MD
- Leslie Turnberg, MD
- Karl Georg Blume, MD
- Christopher Charles Booth, MD
- Karen Davis, PhD
- Raymond (Bill) Hoffenberg, MD, PhD
- Ruth Watson Lubic, PhD
- David Keith Peters, MB, BCh
- Eric M. Shooter, ScD
- David Alan Warrell, DSc
- John Vivian Dacie, MD, MRCP, FRCP, FRS
- Loretta C. Ford, BS, MS, EdD
- Attilio Maseri, MD
- James Quigg Newton, Jr., BA, JD
- Paul Maxime Nurse, BSc, PhD, FRS
- Cicely Saunders, OM, MD, DBE
- Richard I. S. Bayliss, KCVO, MD, FRCP
- Suzanne Cory, PhD, FAA, FRS
- Kay E. Davies, DPhil, FRCPath, CBE
- Donald Metcalf, MD, FRCPA, FRACP, FRS
- Martin Roth, MD, FRCP, FRS, KBE
- Claude J.M. Lenfant, MD
- Colin Blakemore, PhD, ScD, DSc
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, MD
- Michael O’Donnell, MB, BChir
- John Terblanche, MBChB, ChM
- Alejandro Zaffaroni, PhD
- James Dewey Watson, PhD
- Sydney Brenner, MSc, MB, BCh, DPhil
- Renato Dulbecco, MD
- George Palade, MD
- Paul Berg, PhD
- Torsten N. Wiesel, MD
- Joseph E. Murray, MD
- Sheila Sherlock, MBChB, MD, DBE
- Eli Ginzberg, PhD
- Maxine F. Singer, PhD
- Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD
- John Robert Vane, DPhil, DSc
- Walter Bodmer, PhD, FRS
- Daniel E. Koshland, PhD
- David John Weatherall, MBChB, MD, FRS
- David Baltimore, PhD
- Thomas S. Reeve, MB, BS
- Margaret Turner Warwick, MD, PhD
- Daniel J. Du Plessis, BChB, ChM
- Gustav J.V. Nossal, MB, PhD, FRS
- Richard Doll, MD, FRS
- Salvador E. Luria, MD
- Margaret E. Mahoney, LLD
- Frank Press, PhD
- John Brotherston, MBChB, MD
- Archibald S. Duncan, MBChB
- Joshua Lederberg, PhD
- Luther Christman, PhD
- Joseph Fletcher, STB
- John Lister, MBChB
- Frederick Seitz, PhD
- Harold P. Himsworth, MD, FRS
- Benno C. Schmidt, LLB
- John Z. Young, MA, FRS, FBA
- John Ellis, MBE, MD, FRCP
