| 2024 |
Richard J. Pollack |
President and CEO, American Hospital Association (AHA), Washington, DC
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| 2023 |
Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA
|
21st U.S. Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
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| 2022 |
Scott Gottlieb, MD |
23rd Commissioner, United States Food and Drug Administration; Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC |
| 2021 |
Anthony S. Fauci, MD |
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Bethesda, MD |
| 2020 |
Victor J. Dzau, M.D. |
President, National Academy of Medicine (NAM), Washington, D.C. |
| 2019 |
Arjun Srinivasan, M.D. |
CAPT, U.S. Public Health Service and Associate Director for Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Programs, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| 2018 |
Brock A. Slabach, M.P.H., FACHE |
Senior Vice President for Member Services, National Rural Health Association |
| 2015 |
Christine K. Cassel, M.D., MACP |
President and CEO, National Quality Forum |
| 2014 |
Jerod M. Loeb, Ph.D. |
Executive Vice President, Healthcare Quality Evaluation, The Joint Commission |
| 2013 |
Judy L. Smetzer, RN, BSN |
Vice President, Institute for Safe Medication Practices |
| 2012 |
June L. Dahl, Ph.D. |
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health |
| 2011 |
Charles R. Denham, M.D. |
Chief Executive Officer, HCC Corporation |
| 2010 |
Joseph W. Cranston, Jr. Ph.D. |
Retired Director, Division of Science, Research and Technology, American Medical Association |
| 2009 |
Carolyn Clancy, M.D. |
Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |
| 2008 |
Thomas H. Connor, Ph.D. |
Research Biologist, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health |
| 2008 |
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D. |
Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSF |
| 2007 |
Janet M. Corrigan, Ph.D., M.B.A. |
President and Chief Executive Officer, National Quality Forum |
| 2007 |
William E. Evans, Pharm.D. |
Chief Executive Officer, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
| 2006 |
David W. Bates, M.D., M.Sc. |
Chief, General Medicine Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| 2005 |
Donald M. Berwick, M.D., MPP |
President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement |
| 2004 |
Dennis S. O'Leary, M.D. |
President, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations |
| 2004 |
RADM Arthur J. Lawrence, Ph.D., R.Ph. |
Assistant Surgeon and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, DHHS/Office of the Secretary/OPHS |
| 2003 |
Ron J. Anderson, M.D. |
President and Chief Executive Officer, Parkland Health and Hospital System |
| 2003 |
Kevin Roberg |
Delphi Ventures |
| 2002 |
Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., M.Ph. |
President and CEO, National Quality Forum |
| 2001 |
Lucian L. Leape, M.D. |
Harvard School of Public Health |
| 2001 |
Marvin Samson |
Chief Executive Officer, Samson Medical Technologies |
| 1999 |
Richard E. Surface |
Director of Professional Relations, Roxane Laboratories |
| 1999 |
Daniel Nona |
Executive Director, American Council on Pharmaceutical Education |
| 1998 |
Gerald C. Wojta |
President, Roxane Laboratories |
| 1994 |
Kevin E. Lofton |
Chief Executive Officer, University of Alabama Hospital |
| 1989 |
VADM C. Everett Koop, M.D. |
former Surgeon General of the United States |
| 1988 |
Charles A. LeMaistre, M.D. |
President, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, University of Texas |
| 1981 |
Dan Kushner, Editor |
American Druggist |
| 1976 |
Donald C. Carner |
Executive Vice President, Memorial Hospital Medical Center |
| 1973 |
Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D. |
Vice President of Health Sciences, State University of New York, Stonybrook |
| 1971 |
John D. Porterfield, M.D. |
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, Chicago |
| 1969 |
James L. Goddard, M.D. |
Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration, Washington, D.C. |
| 1966 |
Ray E. Brown |
Executive Vice President, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center, Chicago |