ELIGIBILITY
This award was established in 1932 as a certificate of merit for members of the medical and allied professions who have rendered extraordinary service to the cause of rehabilitation. Candidates are nominated by members of the ACRM Board of Governors and the recipient chosen by the ACRM Awards Committee. This is the highest honor given by ACRM.
Candidates may be any medical professional who has demonstrated extraordinary service to the cause of rehabilitation.
The winner is required to be an ACRM member.
PAST RECIPIENTS
2023
J. Preston Harley, PhD, FACRM
2022
Philip A. Morse, PhD, FACRM
2021
Christine MacDonell, FACRM
2020
Michael L. Jones, PhD, FACRM
2019
John Whyte, MD, PhD, FACRM
2018
Harvey S. Levin, PhD, FACSM
2017
Gary R. Ulicny, PhD, FACRM
2016
Kenneth J. Ottenbacher, PhD, OTR, FACRM
2015
John Corrigan, PhD, FACRM
2014
Donald T. Stuss, PhD, C Psych, ABPP-CN, Order of Ontario, FRSC, FCAHS
2013
Ralph Nitkin, PhD
2012
Marcel Dijkers, PhD
2011
Wayne Gordon, PhD, ABPP/Cn, FACRM
2010
Ruth Brannon, MSPH, MA
2009
Gale Whitneck, PhD, FACRM
2008
Keith Cicerone, PhD, ABPP, FACRM
2007
Kristjan T. Ragnarsson, MD
2006
Marilyn Price Spivack
2005
Margaret G. Stineman, MD
2004
Donald E. Galvin, PhD
2003
Barbara de Lateur, MD
2002
Mitchell Rosenthal, PhD, FACRM
2001
Karen A. Hart, PhD, FACRM
2000
Katherine D. Seelman, PhD
1999
L. Don Lehmkuhl, PhD
1998
Gerben DeJong, PhD, FACRM
1997
Thomas P. Dixon, PhD
1996
Theodore M. Cole, MD, FACRM
Thomas E. Strax, MD
1995
Carmella Gonnella, PhD, PT
Irving K. Zola, PhD
1994
Lex Frieden, MA
Samuel L. Stover, MD
1993
Martin Grabois, MD
Roberta B. Trieschmann, PhD
1992
Sheldon Berrol, MD
Leonard Diller, PhD
Dale E. Eazell, MS
1991
Joel A. DeLisa, MD
Dorothy L. Gordon, DNSc
Don A. Olson, PhD
1990
Thomas P. Anderson, MD
J. Paul Thomas, PhD
John S. Young, MD
1989
Dorothea D. Glass, MD
1988
John L. Melvin, MD, FACRM
1987
Marcus J. Fuhrer, PhD
1986
Wilbert E. Fordyce, PhD
1985
James A. Cox Jr.
Paul Brent England
Gordon Martin, MD
1984
Henry B. Betts, MD, FACRM
June S. Rothberg, PhD, RN
1983
Creston C. Herold
1982
Ernst Gunther Marquardt, MD
1981
Herman J. Flax, MD
1980
Rene Cailliet, MD
1979
Richard E. Verville, LLB
1978
John W. Goldschmidt, MD
1977
John V. Basmajian, MD
1976
Representative John Brademas
Sir Ludwig Guttmann, MD
Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr.
1975
Harriet E. Gillette, MD
Mary Lasker
Mieczyslaw Peszczynski, MD
1974
Martha Taylor Sarno, MA
1973
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey
G. Keith Stillwell, MD, PhD
1972
William A. Spencer, MD
1971
Paul M. Ellwood Jr, MD
Justus F. Lehmann, MD
1970
Ernest W. Johnson, MD
Edward W. Lowman, MD
1969
Elizabeth Licht
Sidney Licht, MD
1968
Joseph G. Benton, MD, PhD
Edward E. Gordon
1967
Ernst Fischer, MD
W.T. Liberson, MD, PhD
1966
Arthur S. Abramson, MD
William J. Erdman II, MD
1965
Glenn Gullickson, Jr, MD
Paul A. Nelson, MD
1964
Thomas B. DeLorme, MD
Mary W. Switzer
1963
Louis B. Newman, MD
Eugene J. Taylor
1962
Donald A. Covalt, MD
A.B.C. Knudsen, MD
1961
Frederic J. Kottke, MD
1960
Philippe Bauwens, MD
1959
Fred B. Moor, MD
1958
Howard A. Rusk, MD
Arthur L. Watkins, MD
1957
Karl Harpuder, MD
William H. Schmidt, MD
1956
Miland E. Knapp, MD
1955
Robert L. Bennett, MD
Earl C. Elkins, MD
Walter M. Solomon, MD (posthumously)
1954
George Morris Piersol, MD
1953
George G. Deaver, MD
Henry H. Kessler, MD
1952
Basil O’Connor
1951
Howard A. Carter
Stafford L. Osborne
Winfred Overholser
1950
Svend Clemmesen, MD
Kristian G. Hansson, MD
Harry M. Hines, MD
1949
No award given this year
1948
Frank H. Ewerhardt, MD
Richard Kovacs, MD
1947
Lord Thomas J. Horder, MD
Andrew C. Ivy, MD
Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk
1946
Ralph Pemberton, MD
1945
No award given due to World War II
1944
Herman L. Kretschmer, MD
Frank H. Krusen, MD
1943
John S. Coulter, MD
1942
Sister Elizabeth Kenny
1941
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bernard M. Baruch
W.S.C. Copeman, MD
William Bierman, MD
1940
George Washington Crile, MD
Abraham R. Hollender, MD
Charles F. Kettering
Disraeli Kobak, MD
Malcolm T. MacEachern, MD
William F. Petersen, MD
Horatio B. Williams
1939
Joseph A. Riviere, MD
Edward C. Titus, MD
A. Bern Hirsh, MD
James B. Mennell, MD
1938
Henry C. Bazett
Albert Bessemans
Harry E. Mock, MD
1937
Kurl Huldschinsky, MD
Louis Edouard Lapicque, MD
1936
Edwin Beer, MD
Sir Henry Gauvain, MD
Professor Stefan Jellinek
Professor Joseph Plotnikow
1935
Friedrich Dessauer, MD
Joel Ernest Goldthwait, MD
Stephan Leduc, MD
A. Rollier, MD
Joseph W. Schereschewsky, MD
Willis R. Whitney, MD
1934
Oscar Bernhard, MD
Henry Bordier, MD
W.W. Coblentz, MD
LeRoy Watkins Hubbard, MD
Franz Nagelschmidt, MD
1933
Gustavus M. Blech, MD
Gustav Bucky, MD
Harvey Cushing, MD
Claudius Regaud, MD
Walter John Turrell, MD
1932
Jacques Arsene D’Arsonval
William L. Clark
Frederick de Kraft
F. Howard Humphris
Howard Kelly
Gustav Kolischer
Albert F. Tyler
