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.

2019

William (Bill) Nichols-AΩA Treasurer, 34 years

2018

Harold L. May, MD, MPH - Harvard Medical School

2016

Owen White, MBBS - Royal Melbourne Hospital

2014

John K. Iglehart–Founding Editor, Health Affairs, Bethesda
Ignacio Sánchez Díaz, MD–Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

2013

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

2012

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

2011

Thomas Cech, PhD—Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
Martin George Tauber, MD—IFIK, Bern, Switzerland

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2006

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

2005

Giuseppe Bianchi, MD
Lars Lidgren, MD, PhD, FRCS (Hon)
Owen St. Clair Morgan, MA, MD
Roberto Tapia-Conyer, MD, MPH, MSc, DrSc

2004

Peter Michael Brooks, MD
Michel Chrétien, MD, PhD
Renée C. Fox, PhD
Barry Trevor Jackson, MS
Geoffrey Ian Taylor, MB, BS

2003

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

2002

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

2001

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

2000

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

1998

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

1997

Claude J.M. Lenfant, MD

1996

Colin Blakemore, PhD, ScD, DSc
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, MD

1995

Michael O’Donnell, MB, BChir
John Terblanche, MBChB, ChM
Alejandro Zaffaroni, PhD

1995

James Dewey Watson, PhD

1993

Sydney Brenner, MSc, MB, BCh, DPhil
Renato Dulbecco, MD
George Palade, MD

1992

Paul Berg, PhD
Torsten N. Wiesel, MD

1991

Joseph E. Murray, MD

1990

Sheila Sherlock, MBChB, MD, DBE

1989

Eli Ginzberg, PhD
Maxine F. Singer, PhD
Rosemary A. Stevens, PhD
John Robert Vane, DPhil, DSc

1988

Walter Bodmer, PhD, FRS
Daniel E. Koshland, PhD
David John Weatherall, MBChB, MD, FRS

1987

David Baltimore, PhD
Thomas S. Reeve, MB, BS
Margaret Turner Warwick, MD, PhD

1986

Daniel J. Du Plessis, BChB, ChM
Gustav J.V. Nossal, MB, PhD, FRS

1985

Richard Doll, MD, FRS
Salvador E. Luria, MD

1984

Margaret E. Mahoney, LLD
Frank Press, PhD

1983

John Brotherston, MBChB, MD

1982

Archibald S. Duncan, MBChB
Joshua Lederberg, PhD

1981

Luther Christman, PhD
Joseph Fletcher, STB
John Lister, MBChB

1980

Frederick Seitz, PhD

1979

Harold P. Himsworth, MD, FRS

1978

Benno C. Schmidt, LLB
John Z. Young, MA, FRS, FBA

1976

John Ellis, MBE, MD, FRCP

Updated on October 28, 2019.