2023 Nomination Deadline
To be considered for the 2023 SKMC Alumni Association Awards, nominations must be received by Friday, March 3, 2023.
Nomination Instructions
To submit a nomination for one of these awards, please include a curriculum vitae, résumé or biography, along with a letter of nomination explaining the nominee’s professional achievements and contributions to their field.
Nominations and supporting materials should be submitted by the above deadline to alumni@jefferson.edu.
Materials may also be sent by mail or delivered in person to:
Office of Alumni Relations
Attn: SKMC Alumni Awards
Thomas Jefferson University
Pinizzotto-Ammon Alumni Center
1020 Locust Street, Suite 210
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Nominate a Candidate
All members of the Jefferson community are invited to participate in the Alumni Awards process by nominating exceptional medical college alumni for consideration by the Alumni Awards Committee for the below awards. Instructions for submitting a nomination and associated deadlines are found on the left.
SKMC Alumni Awards
SKMC Alumni Achievement Award
The Alumni Achievement Award was established in 1964 to recognize the outstanding and distinguished professional achievements of medical college alumni. The award is presented each year during Alumni Weekend.
Past Recipients
1964: Louis H. Clerf, MD '12
1964: Henry L. Bockus, MD '17
1965: Percival E. Foerderer
1966: Harold Stewart, MD '26
1967: Francis J. Braceland, MD '30
1968: Victor Heiser, MD 1897
1968: Abraham C. Cantarow, MD '24
1969: Leroy A. Schall, MD '17
1969: George C. Griffith, MD '26
1970: John H. Gibbon, Jr., MD '27
1970: Alexander J. Orenstein, MD '05
1970: Thaddeus L. Montgomery, MD '20
1971: Baldwin L. Keyes, MD '17
1972: George J. Willauer, MD '23
1973: William W. L. Glenn, MD '38
1974: Daniel Baker, Jr., MD '33
1975: Anthony F. DePalma, MD '29
1976: Jo Ono, MD '28
1977: J. Edward Berk, MD '36
1978: George M. Norwood
1978: Benjamin F. Haskell, MD '23
1979: John B. Montgomery, MD '26
1980: Warren W. Nichols, MD '54, PhD
1981: John Y. Templeton III, MD '41
1981: William F. Kellow, MD
1982: Joe Henry Coley, MD '34
1983: Frank J. Sweeney, Jr., MD '51
1984: Abraham E. Rakoff, MD '37
1985: Charley J. Smyth, MD '35
1986: Gerald D. Dodd, Jr., MD '47
1987: William R. Fair, MD '60
1988: Sheldon Gilgore, MD '56
1989: John J. Gartland, MD '44
1990: John H. Hodges, MD '39
1990: Frederick B. Wagner, Jr., MD '41
1991: J. Wallace Davis, MD '42
1992: Leonard Apt, MD '45
1993: John H. Harris, Jr., MD '53
1994: Gerald J. Marks, MD '49
1994: Herbert A. Saltzman, MD '52
1995: Marjorie A. Bowman, MD '76
1995: Murray N. Silverstein, MD '54
1996: Barbara F. Atkinson, MD '74
1997: Herbert A. Luscombe, MD '40
1997: Bernard J. Miller, MD '43
1997: William A. Staas Jr., MD '62
1998: Joseph C. Flanagan, MD '63
1998: Robert C. Gallo, MD '63
1998: Jay A. Nadel, MD '53
1999: John Henry Bauer, MD '69
1999: Anthony R. C. Dobell, MD SURG '56
1999: Joseph T. English, MD '58
2000: William L. Drew, MD '62
2000: Richard A. Insel, MD '69
2001: Benjamin Bacharach, MD '56
2001: Charles B. Higgins, MD '67
2002: Charles K. Francis, MD '65
2003: Richard P. Wenzel, MD '65
2004: James D. Heckman, MD '69
2004: Paul M. Weinberg, MD '69
2005: James P. Bagian, MD ‘77
2006: Monica Morrow, MD ‘76
2007: Phillip J. Marone, MD ’57
2008: Bruce E. Jarrell, MD ‘73
2009: Bartley P. Griffith, MD ‘74
2010: Thomas J. Nasca, MD ‘75
2011: Amilu Stewart, MD ‘65
2011: Carol Miller, MD ‘65
2012: Joseph M. Giordano, MD ‘67
2013: Peter C. Amadio, MD ‘73
2014: Alfred P. Spivack, MD ‘54
2015: Peter V. Scoles, MD ‘70
2016: Gerard T. Berry, MD ‘75
2016: Jay S. Skyler, MD ‘69
2017: Elliot J. Rayfield, MD '67
2018: Joseph R. Berger, MD ‘74
2019: Neal Flomenberg, MD '76
2020: Ronald J. Wapner, MD '72
2021: Sarah Sundborg Long, MD '70
2022: Col. Dean L. Winslow, MD '76
SKMC Distinguished Alumni Award
The Distinguished Alumni Award was created in 2017 to recognize alumni posthumously for a lifetime of distinguished and outstanding achievements and contributions to their profession and/or field of interest, and for contributions benefitting their community and humanity.
Past Recipients
2017: Sumner W. Jackson, MD 1914 (1891-1948)
2018: Donald Liu, MD ‘90 (1962-2012)
2019: Jonathan Letterman, MD 1849 (1824-1872)
2021: Rodger J. Winn, MD '63, Residency '66 (1938-2007)
2022: Joseph W. Sokolowski, Jr., MD '62 (1936-2017)
SKMC Early Career Alumni Award
The Early Career Alumni Award was established in 2020 to recognize medical college alumni, who are 10-20 years out from graduation, for their outstanding early career achievements and demonstrated strong potential to be future leaders in their chosen specialty.
Past Recipients
2020: Rachna Trivedi Shroff, MD '04
2021: Kenneth E. Remy, MD '04, MDSc, MSCI, FCCM
2022: Nicholas J. Ruggiero, II, MD '01, Residency '08