Past Recipients of the Gustav O. Lienhard Award
2011
Jerold F. Lucey, M.D.
University Scholar and Distinguished Professor in Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
University of Vermont College of Medicine
for investigating and applying life-saving medical technologies and procedures to the care or premature infants
2010
Joseph A. Califano, Jr., LL.B.
Founder and Chairman
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
Columbia University
for his leadership in catalyzing federal action to curb smoking and his broader efforts to reduce the toll of addiction and substance abuse, as well as for his contributions to improving public health in general
2009
Thomas E. Starzl, M.D., Ph.D.
Distinguished Service Professor of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and
Director Emeritus
Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute
for his foundational role in pioneering and advancing transplantation science
2008
John E. Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H.
Peggy Y. Thomson Chair for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, and
Founder and Director Emeritus
Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
for his leading role in reshaping the U.S. health care system to focus on objective evidence and outcomes rather than physician preference as the basis for treatment decisions, and for his efforts to empower patients with greater input on decisions about their own care
2007
Howard H. Hiatt, M.D.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
for improving the performance of personal health services in the United States and around the world
2006
Aaron T. Beck, M.D.
University Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus
University of Pennsylvania, and
President
Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research
for developing the theory and practice of cognitive therapy that benefited nearly 5 million people in the United States and millions worldwide
2005
Robert H. Brook, M.D., Sc.D.
Vice President and Director
RAND Health, and
Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Center for Health Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
for his dedication and commitment to improving the effectiveness of health care services and shaping the discourse on health care policy
2004
Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., M.P.H.
President and CEO
The National Quality Forum
for his transformation of the veterans health care system to a model system of patient safety, innovation, and quality care
2003
B. Jaye Anno, Ph.D.
and
Bernard P. Harrison, J.D.
Co-founders
National Commission on Correctional Health Care
for profound improvements in the public health and humanity of the medical systems for the incarcerated
2002
Kathryn E. Barnard, Ph.D., R.N.
Director, Center on Infant Mental Health and Development
University of Washington
for developing evidence-based assessment and parent education protocols that are used worldwide and have revolutionized clinical practice with infants and their parents
and
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
President and Chairman
Brazelton Foundation, Inc.
for changing the understanding of infants, children, and child development during the last century, and the development of the Neonatal Behavior Assessment Scale
2001
Ruth Watson Lubic, R.N., C.N.M., Ed.D.
President and Co-CEO
The District of Columbia Developing Families Center
for pioneering work in the development of humane and innovative services for childbearing and childrearing families
2000
Philip R. Lee, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco
for his unequaled contributions to improving personal health services in the United States and abroad as practitioner, advocate, researcher, policymaker, administrator, and public leader
1999
Elma L. Holder, M.S.P.H.
Founding Member
National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
for bringing the needs of an underserved, often neglected and abused nursing home population to high national awareness
1998
H. Jack Geiger, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
City University of New York Medical School
for creating a model of the contemporary American community health center to serve the poor and disadvantaged, and for his contributions to the advancements of minority health
1997
Lester Breslow, M.D., M.P.H.
Dean Emeritus and Professor of Public Health
University of California, Los Angeles
for his contributions to the conceptual development and application of clinical preventive services in personal health care and to the development of personal health risk assessments
1996
Robert N. Butler, M.D.
Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
and
T. Franklin Williams, M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Emeritus
University of Rochester School of Medicine
for their contributions to the fields of geriatrics and gerontology
1995
Lawrence L. Weed, M.D.
Professor Emeritus
University of Vermont
for developing the problem-oriented medical record
1994
Byllye Y. Avery
Founder
National Black Women’s Health Project
for her pioneering effort to improve health care services for women
1993
David E. Rogers, M.D.
Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine
Cornell University Medical College
for leadership in advancing personal health care services
1992
C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D.
McInerney Professor of Surgery
Dartmouth Medical School
and
Faye G. Abdellah, Ed.D., Sc.D., R.N.
Chair, Nursing Task Force
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
for leadership in promoting health in the public arena
1991
Robert M. Ball, M.A.
Visiting Scholar
National Academy of Social Insurance
for his contribution in establishing Medicare as part of the social security system
1990
Henry K. Silver, M.D.
Associate Dean for Student Admissions
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
and
Loretta C. Ford, Ed.D., R.N.
Professor and Dean Emerita
School of Nursing, University of Rochester
for fostering the concept of the nurse practitioner
1989
Robert J. Haggerty, M.D.
President
William T. Grant Foundation
for carrying the concept of neighborhood health centers into the practice of “family medicine” as an indispensable aspect of primary care
1988
Marie-Louis Ansak
Executive Director
On Lok Senior Health Services
for pioneering work in nonprofit comprehensive care, as founder of On Lok Senior Health Services, a day-care center for the frail elderly
1987
Ernest W. Saward, M.D.
Professor of Social Medicine, Emeritus
University of Rochester Medical Center
for his leadership in the establishment of prepaid group health plans
1986
Julius B. Richmond, M.D.
Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus
Harvard University
for his role as architect of federal programs for Head Start and Neighborhood Health Centers in the 1960s and 1970s
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