Dr. Nathan Davis Awards

The Dr. Nathan Davis Awards are presented annually by the American Medical Association (AMA) and awarded to elected and career public servants in national, state, and local governments for outstanding government service. These awards are named for the founder of the American Medical Association, Nathan Smith Davis.[1]

The first Dr. Nathan Davis Awards were presented in 1989. Since then a number of prominent individuals have received a Dr. Nathan Davis Award for outstanding government service.[2]

United States Senator

United States Representative

Member of the Executive Branch by Presidential Appointment
  • 1989 C. Everett Koop, MD, Surgeon General of the United States
  • 1990 Louis W. Sullivan, MD, Secretary of Health and Human Services
  • 1991 Margaret M. Heckler, former Secretary of Health and Human Services
  • 1992 Antonia C. Novello, MD, Surgeon General of the United States
  • 1993 Philip R. Lee, MD, Assistant Secretary for Health, Health and Human Services
  • 1994 J. Jarrett Clinton, MD, MPH, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Regional Health Administrator, Region V, Georgia
  • 1996 David Satcher, MD, PhD, Director, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • 1997 Donna Shalala, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • 1998 Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH, Under Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • 1999 Ricardo Martinez, MD, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • 2000 John M. Eisenberg, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • 2001 Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • 2002 William H. Foege, MD, MPH, Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • 2003 Tommy Thompson, Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
  • 2004 Mark B. McClellan, MD, PhD, Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration
  • 2005 William Winkenwerder, Jr., MD, MBA, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs
  • 2006 Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  • 2007 Margaret J. Giannini, MD, FAAP, Director, Office on Disability, US Department of Health and Human Services
  • 2009 Jeffrey William Runge, MD, FACEP, President, Biologue, Inc.
  • 2010 Vice Admiral John Mateczun, M.D., Commander, Joint Task Force, National Capital Region Medical
  • 2011 R. Gil Kerlikowske, Commander, Director, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
  • 2013 Donald Berwick, M.D., former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  • 2015 Bruce G. Gellin, MD, MPH Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Director, National Vaccine Program Office, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • 2017 Andrew M. Slavitt, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Member of the Executive Branch in Career Public Service
  • 1989 Donald A. B. Lindberg, MD, Director, Library of Medicine, NIH, Ruth L. Kirschstein, MD, Director, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH
  • 1991 William F. Raub, PhD, former Deputy Director, NIH
  • 1992 Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Director, Office of AIDS Research
  • 1993 Samuel Broder, MD, Director, National Cancer Institute, NIH
  • 1994 Donald L. Custis, MD, former Surgeon General of the Navy, former Chief Medical Director of Department of Veterans Affairs
  • 1995 Kenneth P. Moritsugu, MD, Assistant Surgeon General and Medical Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons
  • 1996 Edgar R. Anderson, Jr., MD, former Surgeon General of the U.S. Air Force
  • 1997 Kevin R. Kerrigan, MD, Naval Hospital, North Charleston, South Carolina
  • 1998 Claude J.M. Lenfant, MD, Director, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute National Institutes of Health
  • 1999 Rear Admiral Michael L. Cowan, Deputy Director for Medical Readiness, The Joint Staff, Janet Woodcock, MD, Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
  • 2000 Marilyn H. Gaston, MD, Assistant Surgeon General, Associate Administrator Bureau of Primary Health, U.S. Public Health Service, Gerald David Fischbach, MD, Director, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
  • 2001 James P. Bagian, MD, Director, VA National Center for Patient Safety Department of Veterans Affairs
  • 2002 Joseph F. Fraumeni, Jr., MD, Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics National Cancer Institute
  • 2003 Judith Elaine Fradkin, MD, Director, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
  • 2004 Duane F. Alexander, MD, Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development National Institutes of Health
  • 2005 Vice Admiral James A. Zimble, MD (USN Ret.), President Emeritus, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • 2006 Christopher Allan Percy, MD, Medical Officer and Director of Community Health Services, Northern Navajo Medical Center
  • 2007 Douglas R. Lowy, MD, Chief, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, John T. Schiller, PhD, Principal Investigator, Neoplastic Disease Section, Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
  • 2008 W. Marston Linehan, MD, Chief, Urologic Oncology Branch Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute
  • 2009 D. Joe Boone, PhD, Associate Director for Science, Division of Laboratory Systems National Center for Preparedness, Detection and Control of Infectious Diseases Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • 2010 Ira Pastan, MD, Chief of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, National Institute of Health’s Center for Cancer Research
  • 2011 William A. Gahl, MD, PhD, Clinical Director, National Human Genome Research Institute, Director, intramural program of the National Institutes of Health Office of Rare Diseases, Director, National Institutes of Health Undiagnosed Diseases Program
  • 2012 Leon Esterowitz, PhD, Program Director, Biophotonics Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation
  • 2013 Thomas R. Insel, M.D., Director, National Institute of Mental Health, Member of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government in Career Military Service
  • 2000 Lieutenant General Ronald R. Blanck, DO, USA, Surgeon General of the Army, Rear Admiral Joyce Johnson, DO, MA, Director of Health and Safety, United States Coast Guard
  • 2002 Lieutenant General Paul K. Carlton, Jr., MC, CFS, Surgeon General, United States Air Force, Captain Daniel Carucci, MD, Director, Malaria Program, Naval Medical Research Center, United States Navy
  • 2003 Captain Daniel Carucci, MD, Director, Malaria Program, Naval Medical Research Center, United States Navy
  • 2011 Vice Admiral Adam M. Robinson, Jr., MD, Surgeon General, United States Navy
  • 2012 Lieutenant General Eric B. Schoomaker, MD, PhD, Surgeon General and Command General, USA MEDCOM, United States Army
  • 2013 Major General Kimberly Siniscalchi, Assistant Surgeon General, Air Force
  • 2014 Paul K. Carlton, Jr., MD, Lt. Gen., United States Air Force (Ret.)
  • 2015 Dale P. Sandler, PhD, Senior Investigator, Epidemiology Branch/Chronic Disease Epidemiology Group, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences
  • 2016 Karen Midthun, MD, Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
  • 2017 Janine Austin Clayton, MD, Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health and Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health, National Institutes of Health; and Patrick Conway, MD, MSc, Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality and Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Governor or Statewide Elected Official

See also

References
  1. "Dr. Nathan Davis Awards for Outstanding Government Service". American Medical Association. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  2. "Past Recipients of the Nathan Davis Awards" (PDF). American Medical Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-05. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
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