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Past Honorary Awardees

Distinguished Clinician Award
Distinguished Layperson Award
Distinguished Scientist Award
Distinguished Service Award
Mentorship Award
Special Recognition Award
Lifetime Contribution to the AAAAI and A/I Specialty Award
Allied Health Professionals Recognition Award
Practice Champion of the Year Award
RSLAAIS Leadership Award
Honorary Fellow Award
Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award


Member Nominated Awards

Distinguished Clinician Award
2025 - Aleena Banerji, MD, FAAAAI
2024 - David B. K. Golden, MD, FAAAAI
2024 - Scott H. Sicherer, MD, FAAAAI
2023 - Arthur F. Gelb, MD, FAAAAI
2023 - Robert A. Wood, MD, FAAAAI
2022 - Sandra C. Christiansen, MD, FAAAAI and Dennis R. Ownby, MD, FAAAAI
2020 - Helen A. Brough, MD PhD FAAAAI and Jacqueline A. Pongracic, MD FAAAAI
2019 - Jonathan A. Bernstein, MD, FAAAAI and David I. Bernstein, MD, FAAAAI
2018 - Mariana C. Castells, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2018 - Vincent R. Bonagura, MD, FAAAAI
2017 - David A. Khan, MD, FAAAAI
2017 - Bruce L. Zuraw, MD
2016 - Paul A. Greenberger, MD, FAAAAI
2015 - Dennis K. Ledford, MD, FAAAAI
2015 - Michael Schatz, MD, FAAAAI
2014 - Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2013 - Mark Boguniewicz, MD, FAAAAI
2012 - F. Estelle R. Simons, MD, FAAAAI
2011 - Andrea J. Apter, MD, MS,c FAAAAI
2010 - N. Franklin Adkinson, Jr., MD, FAAAAI
2009 - Phillip E. Korenblat, MD, FAAAAI
2009 - Stanley J. Szefler, MD, FAAAAI
2008 - Richard F. Lockey, MD, FAAAAI
2007 - William Franklin, MD, FAAAAI
2006 - Richard Evans III, MD, MPH, FAAAAI
2006 - Michael A Kaliner, MD, FAAAAI
2005 - Raymond G Slavin, MD MS FAAAAI
2004 - John Condemi, MD, FAAAAI
2004 - Albert L. Sheffer, MD, FAAAAI
2003 - Robert E. Reisman, MD, FAAAAI
2002 - Phillip L. Lieberman, MD, FAAAAI
2002 - Eli O. Meltzer, MD, FAAAAI
2001 - John W. Yunginger, MD, FAAAAI
2001 - Robert S. Zeiger, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2000 - Louis Mendelson, MD, FAAAAI
2000 - Donald D. Stevenson, MD, FAAAAI
1999 - David S. Pearlman, MD, FAAAAI
1999 - Howard J. Schwartz, MD
1998 - Hal Richerson, MD
1998 - Robert Townley, MD, FAAAAI
1997 - Jerry Dolovich, MD
1997 - Charles E. Reed, MD, FAAAAI
1996 - C. Warren Bierman, MD
1996 - Harold S Nelson, MD, FAAAAI
1995 - Abba I Terr, MD
1994 - Lloyd Crawford, MD (posthumously)
1993 - Elliot Ellis, MD, FAAAAI
1993 - John Toogood, MD
1992 - Paul M. Seebohm, MD, FAAAAI
1992 - Sheldon C. Siegel, MD, FAAAAI
1991 - Sam Bukantz, MD
1991 - Max Samter, MD
1990 - George I. Blumstein, MD (posthumously)
1990 - Susan C. Dees, MD
1990 - Bram Rose, MD
1990 - Roland Scott, MD

Distinguished Layperson Award
2025 - Not presented
2024 - Emily Brown
2023 - Mary Jo Strobel
2022 - Lawrence J. Vapniarek Jr., MBA
2020 - Fallon Schultz, MSW LCSW CAM
2019 - Ellyn Kodroff
2018 - Not presented
2017 - Not presented
2016 - Not presented
2015 - Fred and Vicki Modell (Modell Fdn)
2014 - Not Presented
2013 - State Senator Cynthia Stone Creem
2013 - Ming Tsai
2012 - Mr. and Mrs. David (Denise) Bunning
2011 - Not presented
2010 - Kay Whalen, MBA, CAE (EDI)
2009 - US Hereditary Angioedema Association
2008 - Terence Furlong (FAAN)
2007 - Nancy T. Hopper (JACI)
2007 - Ernestine T. Smartt (NHLBI)
2006 - Francene J. Lifson (LA, AAFA)
2005 - Elliott and Roslyn Jaffe (Jaffe Foundation)
2004 - Virginia Taggart (NHLBI)
2003 - Marcia Boyle (IDF)
2002 - Greg Lund (Aventis)
2001 - Rick Iber (EDI)
2000 - Anne Munoz-Furlong (FAAN)
1999 - Associates to the AAAAI
1998 - Doris Stoll RN, PhD (ACGME)
1997 - Lynn des Prez (ABAI)
1996 - Richard Dempster (AAFA)
1995 - Mary Worstell (AAFA)
1994 - Cedric Grigg (Fisons Corporation)
1993 - George Behrakis (CEO, Muro Pharmaceutical, Inc.)
1992 - Nancy Sanders (Mothers of Asthmatics)
1991 - David Branson (AAFA)
1990 - Senator Lowell Weicker
1989 - Charles M. Clark (Schering)
1988 - John Wynne (AAFA)
1987 - Donald L. McNeil (EDI)
1983 - Robert W. Parsons, Jr., PhD (AAFA)
1980 - Congressman George M. O'Brien
1979 - Barbara Layman

Distinguished Scientist Award
2025 - Robert P. Schleimer, PhD, FAAAAI
2024 - Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2023 - Marc E. Rothenberg, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2022 - James E. Gern, MD, FAAAAI
2020 - Kari C. Nadeau, MD PhD FAAAAI
2019 - Jordan S. Orange MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2018 - Philip W. Askenase, MD, FAAAAI
2018 - Donald Y. M. Leung, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2017 - Luigi D. Notarangelo, MD
2016 - Gideon Lack, MD
2015 - Lawrence B. Schwartz, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2014 - Hugh A. Sampson, MD, FAAAAI
2013 - Dean D. Metcalfe, MD, FAAAAI
2012 - Robert R. Rich, MD, FAAAAI

Distinguished Service Award
2025 - Zuhair K. Ballas, MD, FAAAAI
2024 - Theodore M. Freeman, MD, FAAAAI
2022 - Marshall Paul Grodofsky, MD
2019 - Stanley J. Szefler, MD, FAAAAI
2018 - Lanny J. Rosenwasser, MD, FAAAAI
2017 - Kimberly A. Risma, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2016 - Thomas B. Casale, MD, FAAAAI
2016 - George R. Green, MD, FAAAAI
2015 - Not Presented
2014 - Sheldon L. Spector, MD, FAAAAI
2013 - Thomas Fleisher, MD, FAAAAI
2012 - Donald Y. M. Leung, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2011 - Arnold I. Levinson, MD, FAAAAI
2010 - Michael Schatz, MD, MS, FAAAAI
2009 - F. Estelle R. Simons, MD, FAAAAI
2008 - Gail G. Shapiro, MD, FAAAAI (posthumous)
2007 - Richard A. Nicklas, MD, FAAAAI
2006 - Paul A Greenberger, MD, FAAAAI
2005 - Harold S Nelson, MD, FAAAAI
2004 - Stephen Wasserman, MD, FAAAAI
2003 - Clifton Furukawa, MD, FAAAAI
2002 - Gary S Rachelefsky, MD, FAAAAI
2001 - William T. Shearer, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2000 - Burton Zweiman, MD, FAAAAI
1999 - Richard F. Lockey, MD, FAAAAI
1998 - John Anderson, MD
1998 - Harriet A. Burge, PhD
1997 - Donald Aaronson, MD
1996 - Rebecca H. Buckley, MD, FAAAAI
1996 - Samuel M. Feinberg, MD
1995 - Raymond G. Slavin, MD, FAAAAI
1994 - Jordan N. Fink, MD, FAAAAI
1993 - Albert L. Sheffer, MD, FAAAAI
1992 - Robert E. Reisman, MD, FAAAAI
1991 - Elliott Middleton, MD
1990 - Charles E. Reed, MD, FAAAAI
1989 - Murray Dworetzky, MD
1988 - William A. Solomon, MD
1987 - Macy I. Levine, MD
1986 - Thomas E. Van Metre, Jr. MD
1985 - Philip S. Norman, MD
1984 - John E. Salvaggio, MD
1983 - Sheldon C. Siegel, MD, FAAAAI
1982 - Roy Patterson, MD
1981 - Alec Sehon, PhD DSc
1980 - Leoni N. Claman, MD
1979 - Sidney Friedlaender, MD
1978 - Carl E. Arbesman, MD
1977 - Francis C. Lowell, MD
1976 - Kenneth P. Mathews, MD
1975 - Stanley F. Hampton, MD
1974 - Paul M. Seebohm, MD
1972 - Murray M. Albert, MD
1972 - Katherine Bowman
1972 - Monroe Coleman, MD
1972 - Harold Friedman, MD
1972 - Eloise Kailin, MD
1972 - Bernard Siegel, MD
1972 - David Stein, MD
1972 - Eugene Walzer, MD
1971 - Sheldon G. Cohen, MD
1970 - George I. Blumstein, MD
1969 - Merrill W. Chase, PhD
1968 - George Piness, MD
1968 - Matthew Walzer, MD
1967 - Dan H. Campbell, PhD
1965 - William B. Sherman, MD
1964 - Howard Osgood, MD
1963 - Mr. Oren C. Durham

Mentorship Award
2025 - Edward M. Zoratti, MD, FAAAAI
2024 - Stephen J. McGeady, MD, FAAAAI
2024 - Wanda Phipatanakul, MD, MS, FAAAAI
2023 - Stacie M. Jones, MD, FAAAAI
2023 - H. James Wedner, MD, FAAAAI
2022 - Andrea J. Apter, MD, MA, MSc, FAAAAI
2022 - Hugh A. Sampson, MD, FAAAAI
2020 - Joshua A. Boyce, MD, FAAAAI
2019 - Bruce S. Bochner, MD, FAAAAI
2018 - Phillip L. Lieberman, MD, FAAAAI
2017 - Dean D. Metcalfe, MD, FAAAAI
2016 - David H. Broide, MBChB, FAAAAI
2015 - E. Richard Stiehm, MD, FAAAAI
2014 - Thomas A.E. Platts-Mills, MD, PhD, FAAAAI, FRS
2013 - K. Frank Austen, MD, FAAAAI
2013 - Albert L. Sheffer, MD, FAAAAI

Special Recognition Award
2025 - David I. Bernstein, MD, FAAAAI
2025 - Jonathan A. Bernstein, MD, FAAAAI
2025 - I. Leonard Bernstein, MD, FAAAAI (deceased)
2025 - J. Andrew Grant, Jr., MD, FAAAAI
2024 - Yoseph A. Mekori, MD, FAAAAI
2023 - Yehia M. El-Gamal, MD, PhD, FAAAAI
2022 - Pudupakkam K. Vedanthan, MD, FAAAAI
2020 - Richard A. Nicklas, MD, FAAAAI and Stephen I. Wasserman, MD, FAAAAI
2019 - Joseph D. Diaz, MD
2018 - Marshall Plaut, MD, FAAAAI
2017 - Mary Beth Fasano, MD, FAAAAI
2016 - Not presented
2015 - Not presented
2014 - Robert G. Hamilton, PhD, FAAAAI
2013 - Thanai Pongdee, MD, FAAAAI
2012 - Joshua A. Boyce, MD, FAAAAI
2011 - Jean Bousquet, MD
2010 - John W. Yunginger, MD, FAAAAI
2009 - E. Richard Stiehm, MD, FAAAAI
2008 - Harold S. Nelson, MD, FAAAAI (JACI)
2007 - Mark Ballow, MD, FAAAAI
2007 - William W. Busse, MD, FAAAAI
2006 - Richard deShazo, MD, FAAAAI
2005 - Burton Zweiman, MD, FAAAAI
2004 - Thomas Fischer, MD, FAAAAI (MKSAP)
2004 - Rebecca S. Gruchalla, MD, PhD, FAAAAI (MKSAP)
2004 - James Li, MD, FAAAAI (Primer)
2004 - William T Shearer, MD, PhD, FAAAAI  (Primer)
2003 - Not presented
2002 - Sheldon G. Cohen, MD
2002 - Murray Dworetzky, MD, FAAAAI
2002 - Jordan N. Fink, MD FAAAAI
2002 - Charles E. Reed, MD, FAAAAI
2002 - Sheldon C. Siegel, MD, FAAAAI
2001 - Scott Carroll, MD
2001 - William J. Davis, MD, FAAAAI
2001 - Linda B. Ford, MD, FAAAAI
2001 - Paul A. Greenberger, MD, FAAAAI
2001 - Michael J. Welch, MD, FAAAAI
2000 - Vincent Beltrani, MD
1999 - James Baker, MD, FAAAAI
1999 - John Condemi, MD, FAAAAI
1999 - Mark Dykewicz, MD, FAAAAI
1998 - Claude Lenfant, MD
1997 - David Marsh, PhD (posthumous)
1996 - Suzanne Hurd, PhD
1993 - Richard deShazo, MD (Primer Editor)
1993 - Jordan N. Fink, MD, FAAAAI (MKSAP Co-Editor)
1993 - Richard F. Lockey, MD, FAAAAI (MKSAP Co-Editor)
1993 - George Lundberg, MD (JAMA Editor)
1993 - Burton Zweiman, MD (JACI Editor)
1990 - Dorothy Sogn, MD
1989 - Sheldon G. Cohen, MD
1989 - Irving Tabachnik, MD (Schering Corporation)
1986 - Leo Criep, MD
1986 - Dorland Davis, MD

Lifetime Contribution to the AAAAI and A/I Specialty Award
2025 - Not presented
2024 - William W. Busse, MD, FAAAAI
2023 - Richard F. Lockey, MD, FAAAAI

Assembly Nominated Awards

Allied Health Professionals Recognition Award
2025 - Karen L. Gregory, DNP, APRN-BC, RRT, AE-C
2024 - Kim E. Mudd, RN, MSN, CCRP
2023 - Dee Mallam, RN, AE-C
2022 - Isabel J. Skypala, PhD, RD
2020 - Debra A. Sedlak, MSN, CPNP
2019 - Anne E. Borgemeyer DNP, RN, CPNP, AE-C
2018 - Pamela H. Steele, MSN, CPNP, AE-C
2017 - Berber Vlieg-Boerstra, PhD, RD
2016 - Maureen George, PhD, RN, AE-C
2015 - Marion E. Groetch, MS, RD
2014 - Jeanette L. Arnold, MSN, RN, C-FNP
2013 - Cheryl K. Bernstein, RN, BSN, CCRC
2012 - Mary Kay Bossard, BS, RRT, AE-C
2011 - Christine W. Wagner, CPNP, CFNP, AE-C
2010 - Jan L. Tippett, RN, AE-C
2009 - Kathleen A. Conboy-Ellis, NP, PhD, AE-C, FAAAAI
2008 - Sally A. Noone, RN, MSN, CCRC
2007 - Melissa T. Korenblat-Hanin, ACSW, LCSW
2006 - B. Gwen Carlton, RN, MSN, NP
2005 - Renee Theodorakis, MS
2004 - Mary Lou Hayden, RN, MS, FNP, AE-C
2003 - Carol A. Jones, RN
2002 - M. Colleen Lum Lung, RN, MSN, CPNP
2001 - Berri Mitchell, RN, MSN (posthumous)

Practice Champion of the Year Award
2025 - Barbara Stark Baxter, MD, FAAAAI
2024 - Alice E.W. Hoyt, MD, FAAAAI
2023 - John Kuryan, MD
2022 - Juanita Mora, MD
2021 - Jonathan L. Bayuk, DO, FAAAAI

RSLAAIS Leadership Award
2025 - Karen L. Gregory, DNP, APRN-BC, RRT, AE-C
2024 - Stuart L. Abramson, MD, PhD, AE-C, FAAAAI
2023 - Paul V. Williams, MD, FAAAAI
2022 - Denise A. DiPrimio-Kalman, DO, FAAAAI
2020 - Jeffrey G. Demain, MD, FAAAAI
2019 - Giselle Mosnaim, MD, MS, FAAAAI
2018 - Andrew W. Murphy, MD, FAAAAI
2017 - Robert N. Corriel, MD, FAAAAI
2016 - Sharon B. Markovics, MD, FAAAAI
2015 - Marshall Paul Grodofsky, MD, FAAAAI
2014 - Michael H. Clayton, MD, FAAAAI
2013 - James M. Tracy, DO, FAAAAI
2012 - Richard W. Honsinger, MD, MACP, FAAAAI
2011 - Daniel G. Steinberg, MD, FAAAAI
2010 - Louis Mendelson, MD, FAAAAI
2009 - Donald C. Fournier, MD, FAAAAI (presented posthumously)

Awards no Longer Offered

Honorary Fellow Award
2011 - Raif S. Geha, MD, FAAAAI
2010 - Paul M. O'Byrne, MD, FAAAAI
2009 - Erwin W. Gelfand, MD, FAAAAI
2008 - Jean-Pierre Kinet, MD
2007 - Tse Wen Chang, PhD
2006 - Jeffrey M. Drazen, MD
2005 - Allen P. Kaplan, MD, FAAAAI
2004 - A. Barry Kay, MD, FAAAAI
2003 - Claude Lenfant, MD, FAAAAI
2002 - Frederick E. Hargreave, MD
2001 - Stephen T. Holgate, MD, DSc, FAAAAI
2000 - John E. Salvaggio, MD, FAAAAI (posthumous)
1999 - Rebecca Buckley, MD
1998 - S.G.O. Johansson, MD
1997 - Roy Patterson, MD
1996 - Michael Frank, MD
1995 - Anthony S. Fauci, MD
1994 - William Paul, MD
1993 - Henry Metzger, MD
1992 - Gerald J. Gleich, MD
1991 - Henry N. Claman, MD
1990 - Hugh McDevitt, MD
1990 - Baruj Benacerraf, MD
1989 - K. Frank Austen, MD
1988 - David W. Talmage, MD
1987 - Lawrence M. Lichtenstein, MD, PhD
1986 - Thomas Waldmann, MD
1985 - Richard M. Krause, MD
1984 - Alain deWeck, MD
1983 - Charles W. Parker, MD
1982 - Elmer Becker, MD
1981 - Jack Pepys, MD
1980 - Herman N. Eisen, MD
1979 - Ray D. Owen, PhD, DSc
1978 - Michael Heidelberger, PhD
1977 - Henry G. Kunkel, MD
1976 - Kimishige Ishizaka, MD
1976 - Teruko Ishizaka, MD
1975 - Frank J. Dixon, MD
1974 - Sir MacFarlane Burnet, K.B.E.
1973 - Robert A. Good, MD
1970 - H. Sherwood Lawrence, MD
1969 - Daniel Bovet, DSc
1968 - Oscar Swineford, Jr., MD
1968 - Zoltan Ovary, MD
1967 - Dan H. Campbell, PhD
1967 - Elvin A. Kabat, PhD
1966 - Theodore L. Squier, MD
1962 - Mohammed Ali Maleki, MD
1961 - Keizo Nakamura, MD
1955 - Francis M. Rackemann, MD
1954 - Mauricio Rocha e Silva, MD
1953 - Werner Jadassohn, MD
1953 - Paul Bordet, MD
1953 - Robert J. S. McDowall, MD
1952 - Merrill W. Chase, PhD
1952 -Charles W. Loeffler, MD
1952 -Bernard N. Halpern, MD
1951 - Cesare Frugoni, MD, Leslie N. Gay, MD
1947 - Alfred Gilman, MD

Outstanding Volunteer Clinical Faculty Award
2020 - Stanley M. Fineman, MD, MBA, FAAAAI
2019 - Dr. Stanley P. Galant, MD, FAAAAI
2018 - William R. Lumry, MD, FAAAAI
2017 - Weily Soong, MD, FAAAAI
2016 - Roger H. Kobayashi, MD, FAAAAI
2015 - Vincent Beltrani, MD
2014 - Frank S. Virant, MD, FAAAAI
2013 - Theodore Freeman, MD, FAAAAI
2012 - Robert M. Biondi, MD, FAAAAI
2011 - John J. Condemi, MD, FAAAAI
2010 - Monroe King, DO, FAAAAI
2009 - Bernard L. Gold, MD, FAAAAI
2008 - Sandra C. Christiansen, MD, FAAAAI
2007 - Mary Jelks, MD, FAAAAI
2006 - Gary S Rachelefsky, MD, FAAAAI
2005 - Arnold Kirshenbaum, MD, FAAAAI
2004 - Gary Gross, MD, FAAAAI
2003 - Robert H Schwartz, MD, FAAAAI
2002 - Frank J. Twarog, MD PhD, FAAAAI
2001 - Lawrence C. Sweet, MD, FAAAAI
2000 - Stephen M. Murphey, MD, FAAAAI
1999 - Bernard Etra, MD
1998 - Robert Moore, MD
1998 - A. H. Redmon, Jr., MD
1997 - Allan S. Bock, MD
1996 - Macy I. Levine, MD
1996 - Jack Mazow, MD
1995 - Phillip E. Korenblat, MD, FAAAAI
1994 - Sheldon C. Siegel, MD, FAAAAI