In Honor of the Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell’s 200th Birthday in 2021, AMWA launched a special exhibition –

Celebrating the AMWA Blackwell Award Recipients

In 1949, Dr. Elise Esperance established the AMWA Blackwell Award as a lasting tribute to the first woman awarded an M.D. degree from an American medical school. This award, the Blackwell Medal, is granted every year to a woman physician who has made the most outstanding contributions to the cause of women in the field of medicine. View the video and the biographies of these luminary women in the exhibit below, celebrating the past 70+ years. Support our efforts through a donation to honor Dr. Blackwell’s legacy. Donors who gift more than $200 will receive a free, signed copy of the NewYork Times bestselling book, The Doctors Blackwell by Janice Nimura.

About the Award

Learn more about these luminary women…

: Nancy D. Spector, MD
2023

: Julie K. Silver, MD
2022

: Susan Hingle, MD

: Darilyn V. Moyer, MD
2020

: Alma Littles, MD
2019

: Michele Barry, MD
2018

: Marjorie R. Jenkins, MD, MEdHP
2017

: Padmini Murthy, MD, MPH
2016

: Mae Jemison, MD
2015

: Mary Guinan, Ph.D., M.D.
2014

: Kimberly Templeton, MD
2013

: Luanne Thorndyke, MD
2012

: Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD
2011

: Linda Hawes Clever, MD
2010

: Nancy Nielson, MD
2009

: Elinor Christiansen, MD
2008

: Debra R. Judelson, MD
2007

: Patricia Joy Numann, MD
2006

: Sarah S. Donaldson, MD
2005

: Mary Jane England, MD
2004

: Joanne Lynn, MD
2003

: Olga Jonasson, MD
2002

: Nanette Kass Wenger, MD
2000

: Jeanne Spurlock, MD
2000

: Lila Stein Kroser, MD
1999

: Leah J. Dickstein, MD
1998

: Tina Strobos, MD
1998

: LeClair Bissel, MD
1997

: Elizabeth W. Karlin, MD
1996

: Vivian W. Pinn, MD
1995

: Anne H. Flitcraft, MD
1994

: Yoshiye Togasaki, MD
1993

: Jane E. Hodgson, MD
1992

: Roselyn Payne Epps, MD
1992

: Anne L. Barlow, MD
1991

: Lila A. Wallis, MD
1990

: Helen O. Dickens, MD
1989

: Claudine M. Gay, MD
1988

: A. Lois Scully, MD
1987

: Luella Klein, MD
1986

: Carol C. Nadelson, MD
1985

: Helen M. Caldicott, MD
1984

: Charlotte H. Kerr, MD
1984

: Clara Raven, MD
1983

: Helen B. Taussig, MD
1982

: Mathilda R. Vaschak, MD
1981

: Ann P. D. Manton, MD
1980

: Bernice C. Sachs, MD
1979

: Minerva S. Buerk, MD
1978

: Eva F. Dodge, MD
1977

: Edith P. Brown, MD
1977

: Claire F. Ryder, MD
1976

: Ruth Hartgraves, MD
1975

: Laura E. Morrow, MD
1974

: Alice Drew Chenoweth, MD
1973

: Alma Dea Morani, MD
1972

: Frieda Baumann, MD
1971

: Rosa Lee Nemir, MD
1970

: Katharine W. Wright, MD
1969

: Margaret Schneider, MD
1968

: Amey Chappell, MD
1967

: Esther C. Marting, MD
1966

: Camille Mermod, MD
1965

: Helena T. Ratterman, MD
1964

: Elizabeth S. Waugh, MD
1963

: Judith Emmelia Ahlem, MD
1962

: Elizabeth Kittredge, MD
1961

: Nelle Sparks Noble, MD
1960

: Helen F. Schrack, MD
1959

: Ada Chree Reid, MD
1958

: Esther Pohl Lovejoy, MD
1957

: Evangeline S. Stenhouse, MD
1956

: Elise S. L’Esperance, MD
1955

: Mabel E. Gardner, MD
1954

: Elizabeth Bass, MD
1953

: Catharine MacFarlane, MD
1952

: Esther Pohl Lovejoy, MD
1951

: Bertha Van Hoosen, MD
1950

: Mary Riggs Noble, MD
1949