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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.