Presidential Recognition Award

Awarded by the incumbent national AMWA President for excellence that may be in any of the following categories: Science, Medicine, Clinical Practice, Leadership, Humanitarianism, or Philanthropy.

2023 Award Recipient

Janine Clayton, MD

Previous Recipients

2022

C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD
Khawaja Shams

2021

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (posthumous)
Uché Blackstock, MD
Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (Feb 8, 1831 – March 9, 1895)
Barbara Ross-Lee, DO, FACOFP

2020
Jennifer Hunt, MD

2019
Sandra O. Gold, MS, EdD
Jessica Posner Odede
TIME’S UP Healthcare

2018
Judge Rosemarie E. Aquilina
Students Activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

2017
Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH
Londa Schiebinger, PhD
Laura L. Helfman, MD

2016
Norma Jo Waxman, MD
Farzanna Haffizulla, MD, FACP, FAMWA
Molly Carnes, MD, MS
Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

2015
VADM Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA
Dr. Cecelia Richards
Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl Wu
Laurel Bellows
Dr. Deborah German

2014
Arianna Huffington
Patricia Allen, MD
Gayatri Devi, MD

2013
Michelle Bachelet, MD

2012

Eliza Chin, MD, MPH
Gayatri Devi, MD

2011
Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA, Surgeon General, Vice Admiral USPHS
Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., Commissioner of Food and Drugs