Awards Grants & Recognition
Over the past 150 years, women physicians have blazed new trails, opened closed minds, lifted downcast spirits, and profoundly impacted medicine in countless ways. Through our awards and recognition programs, AMWA celebrates the contributions and accomplishments of these remarkable American Medical Women.
AMWA honors the pioneering medical women of yesterday-
From Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive an M.D. degree from an American medical school, to Bertha Van Hoosen, founder and first president of the American Medical Women's Association.
AMWA champions the determined and talented medical women of today-
From Antonia Novello, the first woman, and the first Hispanic, to become Surgeon General of the United States, to Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, the first woman, and the first African American, to be president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
AMWA encourages the promising young medical women of tomorrow-
From Megan Cooper, Ohio State University College of Medicine student, and 2002 winner of the Carol L. Birch Award for exceptional research paper, to Gillian Baty, third-year medical student at University of Utah School of Medicine, and 2003 winner of the Wilhelm-Frankowski Community Service Scholarship Award.
